
Acting
Patricia Collins
England, UK
Acting credits
6.8Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.
Pin : A Plastic Nightmare
1988
4.3A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Phobia
1980
5.3A woman that during the daytime is an insignificant librarian, at night becomes a fascinating mysterious dark lady. She uses the personal advertisements on the newspapers to obtain appointments with men then kills them. These murders last until the wife of one victim decides to investigate.
Personals
1990
6.1A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate
Bear Island
1979
6.0Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
Speaking Parts
1990
5.5Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
Nothing Personal
1980
6.0An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
The Adjuster
1991
4.8In Toronto, 15-year-old aspirant writer Sarah Norton meets 60-year-old painter Ashley St. Clair in a cafeteria while hiding from her stalker boyfriend. Ashley hasn't painted for ten years. He agrees to read Sarah's poems. They start seeing each other at his studio and Sarah falls in love with him, but Ashley does not reciprocate her feelings.
Circle of Two
1981
6.0While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
Lost and Found
1979
NRAnna, a young philosophy academic, arrives at a small Canadian university as a sessional lecturer. There she meets an older divorced professor, Ian MacGregor, and they quickly discover a mutual attraction. Senior faculty at the university notice her skill at teaching, but have no funds to keep her on past the term's end. She must decide whether to pursue her career or stay with MacGregor.
A Nest of Singing Birds
1987
6.2In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
Where the Spirit Lives
1990
6.4A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.
A Fan's Notes
1972
4.8Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention center overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration, she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.
What Kind of Mother Are You?
1996
8.0The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.
Clown White
1981
7.5An emotionally disturbed young woman who is obsessed with the death of her father delves into the mystery.
Deep Sleep
1990
Devon has been seriously injured, Rachel's sends out a request for help, with an astro-medic ship, with an alien spacecraft also requesting help. The astro-medics do not know which request to respond to first. Within one of the biosphere a power-hungry servant plots to take over the biosphere.
The Starlost: The Invasion
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8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Crowd Inside
1971
6.0Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
1990
7.2Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th 2003. The Short follows Doris Fairfeather, a female penguin who is framed for robbery by her boyfriend and sent to an all-girl prison.
Penguins Behind Bars
2003
8.3When the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion, and assassination all contribute to political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.
Stratford Festival: King John
2015
4.4SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
Summer's Children
1979
4.7Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
House
1995
7.0When Marta Wendell's institutionalized sister suddenly dies, she suspects foul play. To uncover the truth she gets the job as chief surgical nurse at the hospital.
When Angels Fly
1983
10.0Former coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck returns to Toronto after 21 years working at a clinic in the Congo. While he reunites with his family, he gets embroiled with the plight of a family of refugees from Guatemala.
Wojeck: Out of the Fire
1997