In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...

The Sweet Hereafter

1997

English

7.4

♡ 20

98%

86%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Atom Egoyan Director

Bruce Greenwood as Billy

Alberta Watson as Risa

Tom McCamus as Sam Burnell

Maury Chaykin as Wendell

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

A Lobster Tale

2006

English

6.2

♡ 1

17%

Adam Massey Director

Joe Pingue as Bubba Jenkins

Alberta Watson as Martha Brewer

Graham Greene as Sheriff

Erik Knudsen as Timmy Brock

Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the school bully. While out collecting his lobster traps one day, Cody finds a strange green moss that holds magical powers. Once word gets out about the magical moss, the entire town suddenly becomes Cody's best friend, all hoping to get a piece of it. With the townspeople clamoring for some moss and the already delicate state of the Brewer family, Cody has a tough time figuring out exactly what to do.

Run Away Home

2004

English

6.1

♡ 3

Gail Harvey Director

Megan Park as Brenda Murphy

Alberta Watson as Liz Anderson

Peter MacNeill as Mr. Burns

Geraint Wyn Davies as Mr. Murphy

A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.

Tart

2001

English

4.7

♡ 9

31%

Christina Wayne Director

Melanie Griffith as Diane Milford

Alberta Watson as Lily Storm

Rafael Petardi as New Doorman

Myles Jeffrey as Pete Storm

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

The Soldier

1982

English

5.3

♡ 9

25%

Action

Adventure

central intelligence agency (cia)

James Glickenhaus Director

Jery Hewitt as Cowboy

Al Cerullo as Dauphin Pilot

Alberta Watson as Susan Goodman

Jeffrey Jones as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Zebrahead

1992

English

6.3

♡ 5

75%

69%

detroit, michigan

Drama

interracial relationship

Romance

Anthony Drazan Director

Alberta Watson as Phyliss

Ray Sharkey as Richard

Jon Seda as Vinnie

Michael Rapaport as Zack

A white, hip-hop loving teen falls in love with a black girl in Detroit.

Women of Valor

1986

English

5.7

♡ 9

62%

Buzz Kulik Director

Susan Sarandon as Col. Margaret Ann Jessup

Alberta Watson as Lt. Helen Prescott

Terry O'Quinn as Maj. Tom Patterson

John Philbin as Paraplegic soldier

A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.

Virus

1980

Japanese

6.2

♡ 6

55%

struggle for survival

Thriller

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Stuart Gillard as Dr. Ed Meyer

Shin'ichi Chiba as Dr. Yamauchi

Alberta Watson as Litha

Bo Svenson as Maj. Carter

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

Gotti

1996

English

7.2

♡ 18

60%

Robert Harmon Director

Al Waxman as Bruce Cutler

Tony Sirico as Joe Dimiglia

Joe Pingue as Second Man

Alberta Watson as Victoria Gotti

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.

Citizen Duane

2006

English

5.2

♡ 2

33%

38%

Comedy

Michael Mabbott Director

Alberta Watson as Bonnie Balfour

Devon Bostick as Maurie Balfour

Vivica A. Fox as Miss Houston

Joe Pingue as Vince Vaserelli

Duane Balfour is a teen-aged Don Quixote born into a family of spectacular failure. But, what starts as a simple schoolyard rivalry snowballs out of control when Duane decides to run for mayor of the tiny town of Ridgeway. If Duane is to succeed, he must not only overcome the powerful incumbents, but also his own inadequacies, public perception, and history itself.doers who dare to cross his path. But little does he know that his own attackers are highly connected to an underworld crime family who has close ties to corrupt police and, unbeknownst to him, are also looking for him!

Growing Op

2008

English

6.1

♡ 4

56%

Comedy

Drama

Michael Melski Director

Rachel Blanchard as Crystal

Rosanna Arquette as Diana

Alberta Watson as Marilla

Denis Theriault as Shaun

The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2001

English

7.7

♡ 21

92%

John Cameron Mitchell Director

Alberta Watson as Hansel's Mom

John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig

Michael Pitt as Tommy Gnosis

Miriam Shor as Yitzhak

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.

Away from Her

2006

English

7.5

♡ 9

94%

Sarah Polley Director

Alberta Watson as Dr. Fischer

Nina Dobrev as Monica

Grace Lynn Kung as Nurse Betty

Thomas Hauff as William Hart

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

The Hitman

1991

English

5.3

♡ 13

13%

Aaron Norris Director

Suleka Mathew as Attendant

Alberta Watson as Christine De Vera

Candus Churchill as Kate

Al Waxman as Marco Luganni

After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.

Stone Cold Dead

1979

English

5.2

♡ 15

50%

George Mendeluk Director

Paul Williams as Julius Kurtz

Alberta Watson as Olivia Page

Belinda Montgomery as Sandy MacAuley

Chuck Shamata as Sgt. Tony Colabre

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

The Keep

1983

English

5.7

♡ 14

42%

electronic music score

Fantasy

Horror

nazi

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

Michael Mann Director

Ian McKellen as Dr. Theodore Cuza

Alberta Watson as Eva Cuza

Scott Glenn as Glaeken

Sean Baker as Wehrmacht Soldier

Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

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The Sweet Hereafter

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Run Away Home

Tart

The Soldier

Zebrahead

Women of Valor

Virus

Gotti

Citizen Duane

Growing Op

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Away from Her

The Hitman

Stone Cold Dead

The Keep