Women Talking (2022)
Drama
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw
Director: Sarah Polley
Exotica (1994)
Drama
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, Sarah Polley
Director: Atom Egoyan
Splice (2009)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac, Brandon McGibbon, Simona Maicanescu, David Hewlett
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Action | Horror | Thriller
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly
Director: Zack Snyder
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Nemo Nobody, a 118 year-old man, is the last mortal on Earth after the human race has achieved quasi-immortality. On his deathbed, Nemo shares his life story with a reporter and reviews the choices he made along the way. Yet even with his last breath, a pivotal decision awaits to conclude his destiny.
Starring: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, Rhys Ifans, Juno Temple
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Stories We Tell (2012)
Documentary
Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) makes her maiden voyage into documentary with this exploration of a family's secrets, and the varying narratives that each member has created to explain their tangled past.
Starring: Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler
Director: Sarah Polley
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Le avventure del Barone di Munchausen (1988)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
An extraordinary, fantasy filled masterpiece, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen highlights the amazing journeys of Baron Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms. In his travels, the Baron journeys to the moon, visits Venus and Vulcan, and lands in the belly of a giant sea monster and that's just the beginning!
Starring: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed
Director: Terry Gilliam
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Drama | Romance
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara, Danny Cunningham
Director: Isabel Coixet
The Claim / Kingdom Come / Rédemption (2000)
Drama | Romance | Western
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Starring: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Take This Waltz / Take This Waltz: Une histoire d'amour (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.
Starring: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman
Director: Sarah Polley
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Go (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Within one 24 hour period, three sets of friends in three dysfuctional situations will collide in the raucous Los Angeles underground party scene. It's Christmas Eve and Ronna and Claire are supermarket checkout girls desperate to score some quick rent money. It's a simple plan — all they need to do is acquire 20 hits of ecstasy from Simon and his drug dealing pal Todd and turn around and sell them for a small profit to Adam and Zack, two soap opera stars looking to hit the night club scene in style. But alas, nothing is so simple. Ronna will soon find herself at the center of a police sting, Claire will be taken hostage, Simon will be shot which will make Todd quite upset, and Zack and Adam will find themselves not only in hot water, but at one bizarre Christmas party.
Starring: Sarah Polley, Desmond Askew, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, William Fichtner, Scott Wolf
Director: Doug Liman
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Drama
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Starring: Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Director: Atom Egoyan
