Sarah Polley
Actor
- Road to Avonlea (TV Series) (1990)
- Dir. Paul Shapiro, Dick Benner
Feat. Colleen Dewhurst, Frank Converse, Sarah Polley
- A must see for those who appreciated ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, this is another enchanting country tale of childhood intrigue and mischief.
- Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Ian Holm, Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley
- A piercingly intelligent adaptation of Russell Banks' novel about a lawyer's earnest meddling in the aftermath of a school bus tragedy in…
- Last Night (1998)
- Dir. Don McKellar
Feat. Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh…
- Ingeniously crafted drama from actor Don McKellar, who stars here too, as one of six people spending the last six hours before the end of the world…
- Existenz (1998)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm…
- Dir. David Cronenberg bestows his customary intelligence on the 'Virtual Reality' genre, yet this time complements his visceral obsessions and mad…
- Go (1999)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr…
- The director of SWINGERS switches focus to the reckless chic of LA's twentysomething rave scene, brandishing a slew of racy taboos, an impossibly…
- Life Before This, The (1999)
- Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Joe Pantoliano…
- Based loosely on a real–life shootout in Toronto, this ambitious drama postulates life as a mosaic of interconnected actions, where often…
- Claim, The (2000)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley…
- On the mountainous frontier of the 1860s California goldrush, dir. Winterbottom (JUDE, WONDERLAND) reimagines Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Mayor of…
- Weight of Water, The (2000)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn…
- Time–twist thriller, that intercuts a gothic murder–mystery of the late 19th century with present–day marital intrigue.
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- Guinevere (2001)
- Dir. Audrey Wells
Feat. Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea
- Sarah Polley (GO) headlines in this Sundance–winning indie, as a directionless Harvard graduate who falls under the spell of…
- My Life Without Me (2003)
- Dir. Isabel Coixet
Feat. Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Deborah Harry…
- This award–winning vignette concerns a young woman (Polley), told by her doctor she has only a short time to live, who strives to secretly…
- Event, The (2003)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…
- The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
- I Inside, The (2003)
- Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo…
- Head–scratching psychological thriller centred on an amnesiac (Phillippe) who cannot recall the last two years of his life and begins to travel…
- Dawn of the Dead (2004)
- Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers, Mekhi Phifer…
- Tight–edged remake of George Romero's original zombie–fest, again reprising a tense battle between a small posse of post–apocalypse…
- Don't Come Knocking (2005)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth…
- Desultry tale of a washed–out actor who goes missing from a film production and, with the insurance company on his tail, ends up uncovering…
- Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
- Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Feat. Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley
- A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo–Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly…
- Secret Life of Words, The (2005)
- Dir. Isabel Coixet
Feat. Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Julie Christie
- Intense character–driven drama set on an isolated oil rig that explores the relationship between a hearing–impaired factory worker…
- John Adams (2008)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Sarah Polley…
- Acclaimed miniseries on the life of America's second president and founding father John Adams. Simultaneously epic and intimate this is compulsory…
- Splice (2009)
- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley
- The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…