Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

January 8, 1979 · 47 years old

Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stan…

Known For

23 titles
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Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

2004 · 1h 41m · Movie

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

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Mr. Nobody

Mr. Nobody

2009 · 2h 21m · Movie

A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.

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eXistenZ

eXistenZ

1999 · 1h 37m · Movie

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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4
Splice

Splice

2010 · 1h 44m · Movie

Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

5.8
5
Go

Go

1999 · 1h 42m · Movie

The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1988 · 2h 6m · Movie

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.

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7
Women Talking

Women Talking

2022 · 1h 44m · Movie

Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

7.5
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Alias Grace

Alias Grace

2017 · 4h 27m · TV Show

Grace, an Irish immigrant in 19th-century Canada, is convicted of the murder of her employer. However, things take a different turn when a psychiatrist arrives to analyze her mental state.

7.6
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John Adams

John Adams

2008 · 31m · TV Show

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

8.4
10
The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter

1997 · 1h 52m · Movie

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.

7.4
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Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz

2011 · 1h 56m · Movie

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

6.5
12
My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003 · 1h 46m · Movie

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

7.4
13
Exotica

Exotica

1994 · 1h 43m · Movie

A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.

7.0
14
Beowulf & Grendel

Beowulf & Grendel

2005 · 1h 43m · Movie

In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.

5.8
15
Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell

2012 · 1h 48m · Movie

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

7.5
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The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words

2005 · 1h 55m · Movie

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

7.4
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Last Night

Last Night

1998 · 1h 35m · Movie

A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.

7.1
18
The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water

2001 · 1h 54m · Movie

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.

5.8
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Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

2005 · 2h 2m · Movie

An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.

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The Claim

The Claim

2000 · 2h 0m · Movie

A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.

6.3
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One Magic Christmas

One Magic Christmas

1985 · 1h 29m · Movie

An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about too.

6.4
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Guinevere

Guinevere

1999 · 1h 44m · Movie

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

5.9
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Trigger

Trigger

2010 · 1h 23m · Movie

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

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