John Granik Movies

A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.

Genre: History

Cast: Gordon Pinsent

Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wendell Burton

A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Warner

Part of a Canadian educational series, this visual illustration of the poem ‘The Beggars of Dublin’ by renowned Canadian poet Alden...

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Cast: John Granik

"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Brian Dennehy

An unnamed man, simply called "The Man" is trapped in a cubical white room where anyone else can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Schaal

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen Black

Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of...

Genre: War

Cast: John Granik

A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Peter O'Toole

A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Pinsent

Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Murphy