Russell Yuen
Toronto/Montreal-based Russell Yuen is one of Canada's busiest character actors. Like most actors Yuen spent his early career doing an assortment of jobs to make ends meet while he became established. Unlike most actors it wasn't waiting tables or serving drinks. A dedicated... Read full bio →
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The Apprentice
A young man took over his father's real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York, and got the helping hand of an infamous closeted gay lawyer who helped him turn this young man into a notorious legend. Based on true events.
Thanksgiving
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.
Crisis
Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, stories of an undercover cop, a professor and a grieving mother collide.
Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Midnight Sun
A young boy attempts to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother in northern Canada.
Corner Gas: The Movie
As the town of Dog River goes bankrupt, its residents must pack up and move out. However, our favourite citizens make one last-ditch effort to save Dog River.
The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice
After her partner's career-ending injury, a former figure skater shifts gears to become an instructor. Later, she finds the strength to return to competitive skating by partnering with an unconventional and notorious speed skater.
Wargames: The Dead Code
Computer hacker Will Farmer (Lanter) engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
Si j'étais toi
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
A Dennis the Menace Christmas
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit.
'Til Lies Do Us Part
Advertising executive Trey Mitchell regularly works late and dines with his ex. That makes his wife Leeza so suspicious she hires a P.I., ex-cop Ethan Woods. But he has a dark past and intends to eliminate Trey by any means and make Leeza his.
10.5: Apocalypse
A massive earthquake creates a chain of events that threaten two of the largest nuclear reactors.
Slow Burn
A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.
Left Behind III: World at War
The world falls into chaos as Nicolae Carpathia detonates nuclear devices across the globe and stages multiple devastating attacks against both the Tribulation Force and an international militia, led by U.S. President Gerald Fitzhugh.
When Angels Come to Town
The angel Max seems to have bungled his heavenly mission.
The Day After Tomorrow
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from an abrupt global climate shift. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age
Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong
A bumbling man finds adventure in the media world.
The Human Stain
When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking secret about his own life that he has kept secret for 50 years.
Shattered Glass
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George.
Owning Mahowny
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful.
Bulletproof Monk
A mysterious Kung Fu master, guardian of the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a young petty thief in modern-day L.A. to follow in his footsteps.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.
Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534
Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, received with disdain by the well-connected commander.
Possible Worlds
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
The Bone Collector
Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.
Eye of the Beholder
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.
Le violon rouge
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Hollow Point
Livingston is trying to merge Russian, Chinese and Italian gangsters into a single group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA agent Max are trying to stop them.
Hawk's Vengeance
Eric Hawke a British Marine, attends the funeral of his policeman brother who he discovers has been attempting to investigate the mysterious kidnappings and murders of a local Asian street gang.
Scanners II: The New Order
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
Mindfield
When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.