Acting

Doreen Brownstone

Born 1922-09-28 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

British born Canadian actress more popular in theatre.

Acting credits

Silent Night poster
5.2

As their small Midwestern town prepares for its annual Christmas Eve parade, a sheriff and his deputy discover that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as naughty.

Silent Night

2012

The Stone Angel poster
5.4

The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In both the past and the present, she is forced to come to terms with the pain and pleasure, the disappointments and the exhilarations of her life.

The Stone Angel

2007

What If God Were the Sun? poster
7.0

A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.

What If God Were the Sun?

2007

The Diviners poster
8.0

Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.

The Diviners

1993

Heads poster
3.0

A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.

Heads

1994

No artwork available
6.5

A runaway boy goes to live with his uncle, in a small village, trying to escape his parents' religious fanaticism. There, he finds love, but with the wrong girl. And his parents come after him.

Gentle Sinners

1985

High Life poster
6.0

It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.

High Life

2009

More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story poster
7.3

Based on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.

More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story

2003

Euphoria poster
2.0

Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.

Euphoria

2013

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Wake

1986

Laughter in My Soul poster
10.0

This short documentary profiles cartoonist, painter, humorist, publisher, iconographer, and teacher Jacob Maydanyk. Part of the first wave of Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1896-1914, Maydanyk was an imaginative artist who created the beloved comic strip character Shteef Tabachniuk, a hapless and endearing galoot who became a folk hero to Ukrainian immigrants. Laughter in My Soul is a tribute to the dignity and heroism of those early pioneers and to those whose spirit lives on, to those who had laughter in their souls.

Laughter in My Soul

1983

Violets are Blue poster
NR

Daniel moves into a Seniors' residence because he is lonely. There he meets Violet and they fall in love. However, Violet's daughter-in-law does not approve of her starting a new relationship and does everything in her power to keep them apart. How much autonomy are seniors given to make their own decisions? At what point do they cease to be capable of making personal choices?

Violets are Blue

The Pedlar poster
9.0

The Pedlar is a dramatic film based on the short story by W.D. Valgardson, A Place of One's Own. Tired of the rootless, lonely existence of a travelling merchant, a man searches for a place to settle down, and someone to share his life.

The Pedlar

1982