Jerry Ciccoritti

Directing

Jerry Ciccoritti

Born

1956-08-05 (70)

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian filmmaker born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He is the co-founder of the theatre company Buddies In Bad Times.

Known for

The Hidden Room poster
6.0

The Hidden Room is an American drama-horror anthology television series. Geared mainly towards women, it aired on Lifetime for 33 episodes from 1991 to 1993. Each episode usually centered around a woman in hardship, but with a dark Twilight Zone-esque twist. Most episodes starred a well-known actress in the lead role.

The Hidden Room

1991

Hot Frosty poster
5.9

When a young widow's magic scarf brings a dashing snowman to life, can he help her rediscover romance, laughter and holiday cheer before he melts away?

Hot Frosty

2024

Lie Exposed poster
3.6

Melanie (Leslie Hope) has a good, solid life, but when she’s diagnosed with cancer, her world spirals out of control. Instead of confronting her disease, she leaves her husband (Bruce Greenwood) and heads out for a bender while searching for the meaning of life. During her trip she meets a mysterious, erotic photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to throw caution to the wind and pose for him. This opens up dangerous choices revealed in a surprising show that ignites passionate, provocative emotions and incendiary repercussions through not only her life, but her friends and family.

Lie Exposed

2020

TekWar: TekJustice poster
5.2

21st Century detective Jake Cardigan is arrested for murdering the husband of his ex-wife. It seems like a frame up, yet Cardigan refuses to let the authorities investigate further or even deny any involvement in the killing.

TekWar: TekJustice

1994

Angel Falls Christmas poster
5.3

A devoted doctor with little time for the Christmas spirit is in desperate need of an intervention from the unlikeliest of places.

Angel Falls Christmas

2021

Blood poster
5.6

After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other. Adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by Tom Walmsley.

Blood

2004

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Hot Frosty poster
5.9

When a young widow's magic scarf brings a dashing snowman to life, can he help her rediscover romance, laughter and holiday cheer before he melts away?

Hot Frosty

2024

Lie Exposed poster
3.6

Melanie (Leslie Hope) has a good, solid life, but when she’s diagnosed with cancer, her world spirals out of control. Instead of confronting her disease, she leaves her husband (Bruce Greenwood) and heads out for a bender while searching for the meaning of life. During her trip she meets a mysterious, erotic photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to throw caution to the wind and pose for him. This opens up dangerous choices revealed in a surprising show that ignites passionate, provocative emotions and incendiary repercussions through not only her life, but her friends and family.

Lie Exposed

2020

TekWar: TekJustice poster
5.2

21st Century detective Jake Cardigan is arrested for murdering the husband of his ex-wife. It seems like a frame up, yet Cardigan refuses to let the authorities investigate further or even deny any involvement in the killing.

TekWar: TekJustice

1994

Angel Falls Christmas poster
5.3

A devoted doctor with little time for the Christmas spirit is in desperate need of an intervention from the unlikeliest of places.

Angel Falls Christmas

2021

Blood poster
5.6

After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other. Adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by Tom Walmsley.

Blood

2004

Blood poster
5.6

After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other. Adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by Tom Walmsley.

Blood

2004

A Whisper to a Scream poster
4.3

A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related with crime.

A Whisper to a Scream

1989

A Whisper to a Scream poster
4.3

A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related with crime.

A Whisper to a Scream

1989

Love's Complicated poster
6.2

Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.

Love's Complicated

2016

Joy to the World poster
6.4

Lifestyle guru Joy Edwards - whose cookbooks feature her perfect home life and family - is horrified when a TV network decides to film Christmas dinner at her fabled, but fabricated, country home. Now, she must recruit her best friend Max to pose as her fake husband for the cameras - but they both discover something real along the way.

Joy to the World

2025

Turkey Drop poster
6.7

Lucy Jacobs, a freshman university student, returns home to her small town for Thanksgiving break and suspects she's about to get turkey dropped— aka dumped by her high school sweetheart. To avoid a Turkey Day travesty, Lucy gets out of her comfort zone, proving she's not the same play-it-safe girl she once was.

Turkey Drop

2019

Wisegal poster
5.6

A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.

Wisegal

2008

Two for the Win poster
6.5

A world champion ski racer and local ski instructor find romance on the slopes as he returns home and prepares for the biggest race of his life.

Two for the Win

2021

What If Christmas poster
NR

Erin has always supported her husband Adam, a heart surgeon, by organizing the hospitals' Christmas charity galas. However, when he moves to a new hospital, her help is no longer needed. Feeling lost and without a purpose back in New York City, her long-suppressed regrets over giving up her dream of pursuing fashion design start bubbling up. When Erin is given a peculiar heart-shaped Christmas ornament, she wakes up in an alternate reality where she's a world-famous fashion designer. As she "meets" and attends Christmas events with alternate-universe Adam, she realizes that while her fashion dreams came true, it's lonely at the top. While working on a way to bring more charity and heart to her fashion empire, she learns that her dream life and love were always right in front of her – if only she finds the heart and courage to ask.

What If Christmas

2026

Psycho Girls poster
4.1

A woman breaks out of an insane asylum, accompanied by two crazed inmates, to kill her sister.

Psycho Girls

1986

Psycho Girls poster
4.1

A woman breaks out of an insane asylum, accompanied by two crazed inmates, to kill her sister.

Psycho Girls

1986

Psycho Girls poster
4.1

A woman breaks out of an insane asylum, accompanied by two crazed inmates, to kill her sister.

Psycho Girls

1986

Holidaze poster
5.3

Melody, high powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate, is happy to spend the holidays jet-setting with her girlfriends. However, she's in for an unpleasant surprise when her boss sends her to her sleepy hometown to convince the reluctant townspeople to allow them to build a new discount store. Now, forced to reconnect with her family and her childhood sweetheart Carter, her task is not so simple, as all are vehemently opposed to everything Melody's company stands for. Desperate to get out of town and back to her real life, Melody takes a spill and wakes up in an alternate universe where she never left home and is married to Carter! Once determined to leave her small town life behind, Melody must make sense of her new life and decide if you truly can go home again. - Written by ABC

Holidaze

2014

No artwork available
6.5

A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.

John A.: Birth of a Country

2011

Net Worth poster
6.9

The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits and pensions. A dramatization based on the true story from the book of the same title.

Net Worth

1995

Skull: A Night of Terror! poster
4.8

A gang of escaped convicts take over a farmhouse and hold the woman living there hostage. It turns out that her husband is a cop, who among other things is in trouble because he has accidentally killed an innocent girl.

Skull: A Night of Terror!

1987

The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II poster
3.9

The macho Italian vampire Baisez appears on the set of a low-budget film about vampirism and billiards and seduces the cast and crew.

The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II

1988

The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II poster
3.9

The macho Italian vampire Baisez appears on the set of a low-budget film about vampirism and billiards and seduces the cast and crew.

The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II

1988

No artwork available
NR

What do Frida Kahlo and a “chilanga” living in Vancouver have in common? Nothing really, except that both were born in Mexico City. But for Honoria Delgado, Frida Kahlo represents everything that keeps her from finding happiness.

Every Girl Wants a Skirt Like Frida's

2009

Murder in the Hamptons poster
5.2

Based on the true events leading up to the murder of multimillionaire Ted Ammon found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate while in the midst of a combative divorce and custody battle from his mentally unstable wife, Generosa Rand.

Murder in the Hamptons

2005

A Prayer in the Dark poster
5.0

The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy Flood to protect him from his abusive father. Though one of Emily's grown daughters, Janet feels she did not belong in the quiet, devoutly religious community and left the Quakers, Emily believed that her family ties stayed strong. Real trouble comes to the family when Jimmy Flood returns to the house after busting out of prison with the help of Digby and Lester, and he takes Emily's family hostage in exchange for $4 million. If Emily fails to secure the money in time, her entire family will lose their lives. Determined to resolve the potentially deadly conflict in a peaceful manner, Emily calls an emergency meeting of the town friends to work out a solution and save her family.

A Prayer in the Dark

1997

Paris, France poster
4.6

A writer has torrid fantasy affairs with young men.

Paris, France

1994

The Terrorist Next Door poster
3.9

A dramatization inspired by the real-life events surrounding the recruitment and capture of Ahmed Ressam - aka the "Millennium Bomber". Ressam was convicted of smuggling a bomb into the United States as part of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve, 1999.

The Terrorist Next Door

2008

The Life Before This poster
5.0

Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.

The Life Before This

1999

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy poster
6.2

It is the Spring of 1943 and the Battle for the Atlantic rages as an Axis victory seems inevitable. The women of Vic Mu – Gladys, Lorna, Kate, Betty and Vera – band together in a tight bond of support and friendship.

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy

2014

Graveyard Shift poster
4.1

Night brings out the hunger in people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. When a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.

Graveyard Shift

1987

Graveyard Shift poster
4.1

Night brings out the hunger in people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. When a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.

Graveyard Shift

1987

Graveyard Shift poster
4.1

Night brings out the hunger in people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. When a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.

Graveyard Shift

1987

The Many Trials of One Jane Doe poster
8.0

Based on a true story about an extraordianry woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.

The Many Trials of One Jane Doe

2002

Victor poster
NR

VICTOR is the inspiring, true-life, story of a great Canadian hero - a working class kid who through sheer guts and determination overcomes both physical and psychological challenges to reach the pinnacle of his sport, becoming an Olympic gold medal champion and World Record holder.

Victor

2008

Killer Hair poster
7.8

A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.

Killer Hair

2009

The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton poster
6.0

A film based on the tragic death in 1985 of Nancy Eaton, department store heiress, brutally murdered by her childhood family friend.

The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton

2003

Boy Meets Girl poster
8.0

Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with. Angelina settles into a neighborhood in Toronto's Little Italy longing for true love. Mike is a jaded and cynical copywriter for romance novels but has lost his faith in romantic love. In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, an enigmatic and amorous couple named Il Magnifico and Mrs. Jones set the whole neighborhood ablaze with romantic passion. While everyone seems to be falling under the spell of Cupid's arrows, Angelina and Mike meet and just might find the true love that they've been searching for.

Boy Meets Girl

1998

Trudeau poster
8.2

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Trudeau

2002

Shania A Life in Eight Albums poster
5.3

Biopic of Canadian music sensation Shania Twain, exploring her childhood as a member of a poverty-stricken family, her teenage years spent performing in bars, and her eventual emergence as an award-winning country singer.

Shania A Life in Eight Albums

2005