Gordon Pinsent Movies

Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously...

The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her...

A Christmas special about an elderly man looking back at life during the turn of the century in Ontario. His family help him to overcome his need for...

'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between...

Years after surviving the Holocaust, Alex Koves sees Michael Barna, the man who killed his family, on the streets of Toronto. Barna is now an...

A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North...

The fiercely proud Cyrano may be the greatest swordsman in France - or the world - but he dares not reveal his love to the beautiful Roxanne.

A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully organized existence disrupted by her hot new...

A documentary retrospective on the prolific career of acclaimed Canadian actor, writer and director Gordon Pinsent.

Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang.

Nuts, Nothing and Nobody walk quietly through the forest, until Nothing falls in a hole.

The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned.

A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses...

A woman struggles with her husband.

A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years...

Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries...

When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.

A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.