Don McKellar

Don McKellar

August 17, 1963 · 63 years old

Don McKellar CM (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. He is known for directing and writing the film Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse a…

Known For

24 titles
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No Other Choice

No Other Choice

2025 · 2h 19m · Movie

After being fired, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

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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.

6.8
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Blindness

Blindness

2008 · 2h 1m · Movie

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

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Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future

2022 · 1h 47m · Movie

Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.

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The Red Violin

The Red Violin

1998 · 2h 10m · Movie

A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.

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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
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The Grand Seduction

The Grand Seduction

2014 · 1h 53m · Movie

To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.

7.0
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Where the Truth Lies

Where the Truth Lies

2005 · 1h 47m · Movie

Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.

6.4
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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
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The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer

2024 · TV Show

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.

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Most Wanted

Most Wanted

2020 · 2h 5m · Movie

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

6.2
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When Night Is Falling

When Night Is Falling

1995 · 1h 34m · Movie

An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival that comes to town.

6.5
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Clean

Clean

2004 · 1h 30m · Movie

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

6.8
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

1993 · 1h 38m · Movie

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

7.3
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The Adjuster

The Adjuster

1991 · 1h 42m · Movie

A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.

6.6
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Zoom

Zoom

2016 · 1h 36m · Movie

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

6.0
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

2020 · 1h 33m · Movie

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

5.1
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Blood Honey

Blood Honey

2017 · 1h 35m · Movie

Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare.

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Childstar

Childstar

2004 · 1h 38m · Movie

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

6.0
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The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021 · 1h 35m · Movie

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

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Manson, My Name Is Evil

Manson, My Name Is Evil

2009 · 1h 25m · Movie

Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.

4.6
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Treading Water

Treading Water

2013 · 1h 32m · Movie

Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one will be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.

6.0
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Window Horses

Window Horses

2017 · 1h 25m · Movie

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

6.8
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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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