Acting
Victor Cowie
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Acting credits
4.6A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.
Trucks
1997
5.8When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
Fear X
2003
4.8A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
Tornado Warning
2002
8.0Morag 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
3.0A 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
5.7After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive son, Wendell, also grows attached to Emma, threatening to tear apart the family's already hostile relationship.
Woman Wanted
1999
5.8The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Lost in the Barrens
1990
6.2The extraordinary true story of Candice DeLong, the FBIs first female profiler who rose above the bureau's sexism to take on the most terrifying and personal case of her career – a serial killer who targets mothers (infertile women who turn to adoption) and after attacking her close friend, chooses her as his next victim.
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
2003
6.9In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
The Saddest Music in the World
2003
6.8Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
We Were the Mulvaneys
2002
7.3Based 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
6.0The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.
Careful
1992
4.8A young woman on the run from a murderous rogue government agent hooks up with a pony-tailed taxi driver who reluctantly agrees to help her.
Black Ice
1992
7.3An archaeological expedition journeys to Manitoba, Canada, in search of a legendary crucifix supposedly buried in an ancient Viking grave.
Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking Grave
1992
3.7FBI Agent Jason Chandler has devoted his life to enforcing the law. But on the trail of a series of mysterious murders surrounding some of society's deadliest serial killers, Agent Chandler is forced down a path where no one can be trusted. Only this time, sociopathic killers are being meticulously murdered one by one in grisly circumstances - and it's no coincidence. Now, to search for justice, he must uncover the truth. And the life he must protect will be his own.
Red Team
1999
3.5An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
Desire
2000
4.6After the death of his estranged mother, a misogynistic womanizer returns home to find that his ex-girlfriend had been his mother's secret lesbian lover.
A Woman's a Helluva Thing
2001
5.5At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.
Archangel
1990
7.5Twenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to the family farm and must accept the changes that happened after his departure.
Harvest for the Heart
1994
6.1When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Cowards Bend the Knee
2003
8.0Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.
Mistress Madeleine
1986
6.5A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.
Smoked Lizard Lips
1991
Behind the camera
A university student makes several attempts to win the heart of a female student he has fallen in love with.
And No Birds Sing
1969
A university student makes several attempts to win the heart of a female student he has fallen in love with.
And No Birds Sing
1969