Concrete Angels
1986 97 mins
CRTC#:P364 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: Joseph Dimambro, Luke McKeehan, Omie Craden and Dean Bosacki1

1964, the year of the Beatles. If these working class lads from the slums of Liverpool could make it, perhaps there was even hope for Bello, Ira, Sean and Jessie. Every city has its mean street, and Toronto in the sixties was no exception.This is the story of underdogs, trying to fight their way out of despair and hardship...while ever present in their lives was the temptations of crime and violence. A nostalgic look at yesterday's children and the dreams they tried so hard to realize in a harsh and, sometimes cruel world.

 

Thrillkill
1983 96 mins.
CRTC#:F5O2 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: Robin Ward, Gina Massey, Laura Robinson, Eugene Clark, Diana Reis, Kurt Reis and Frank Moore

In a North American city, a video game seems to lead those who play it into a waltz with death. The woman who invented it has been assassinated. Her sister Bobbie, who may be the only one capable of deciphering the game's secret code, is in danger. Thrillkill - advertised as a unique game in which: "You don't play it...Thrillkill plays you." The question is,do the players live long enough to get a second turn ?

 

 

American Nightmare
1981 86 mins
CRTC#:F264 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: Lawrence Day, Lora Stanley
and Lenore Zann

Every year girls move to the city determined to make their dreams come true...or die trying.This is a brutally realistic examination of the underbelly of urban degradation.Played out against the garish background of striptease , pornography, drug peddling and prostitution,it is the story of a young man's search for his sister. In the process, he unearths the truth surrounding a young girl's death,and lifts the lid on the American Nightmare.

 

Deadly Harvest
1977 90 mins
CRTC#:F28 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: Kim Cattrall,Clint Walker and Jim Henshaw

It is near future . Food is scarce. City people are raiding farms for food. Hunger is rampant and people are desperate. A ferocious and bloody battle ensues,ordinary people driven to find any means of keeping their family alive…at any cost.

 

 

Confidential
1985 95 mins
CRTC#: F691 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: August Shellenberg, Chapelle Jaffe, Neil Munro and Tom Butler

Confidential is a stylish suspense thriller in the tradition of hard-boiled detective dramas. Set in 1949, it begins with a reporter who works at a daily tabloid. He has an idea for a story, an update on an infamous axe-murder that took place forty years before. He wants to find out what happened to the woman charged with the bloody crime. She was young and sweet looking, caught in a suspended backwards look in the beautifully recreated "newsreel" that the reporter watches obsessively. His search takes the reporter deeper and deeper into the past. When he disappears, his wife hires a detective, Charles Rlpley, who begins to trace the reporter's trail. Used to the tamer but meaner jobs involving blackmail and divorce, Ripley finds himself in a web of mystery, incest and murder in a small town. If the elements sound familiar, it is because Confidential is a knowingly crafted pastiche of genre elements from those classic tales when Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe were on the case. But this is no post-modern spoof. The period is simply but lovingly rendered, and the tale is unraveled with a leisurely and moody flare, which plays with nuances of emotion and expectation.

 

White Light
199O 95 mins.
CRTC#:P9255 Beta SP
English
Drama/Action

Starring: Martha Henry, Martin Kove, Allison Hossack,Heidi Von Palleske, James Purcell,Bruce Boa,George Sperdakos, Raoul Trujillo, David Gardner and Heath Lamberts

Suppose we died and came back again.White Light is about that possibility. It's a love story. A thriller. A mystery. It's about our enduring fascination with life after death. White Light is the story of Craigs attempts to rescue the woman he met after his death.Craig finds himself in a hallucinatory country house with a beautiful woman named Rachel Rutledge. Rachel seems to know Craig very well, but Craig has never seen her before. Craig is transfixed by Rachel.They kiss.Suddenly, Rachel,crying for help, Is snatched away from Craig.The darkness descends again.Life returns to Craig while he is on the autopsy table.
He was declared dead four hours before. After his recovery, Craig is haunted by dreams of Rachel,is she real,or a figment of his imagination? Craig becomes obsessed with the search for the woman he loves, but does not even know if she exsists.With the help of Ella Wainwright,a cardiologist doing research into after-death experiences, he descends further into the mystery.

 

Mark Of Cain
1984 83 minutes
CRTC#: F533 Beta SP
English
Horror

Starring: Robin Ward,Wendy Crewson,August Shellenburg,Deborah Grover, Antony Parr and Cynthia Kereluke

Identical twins Sean and Michael O'Neil raised in a strictly religious household the teenagers rebelled by playing with Black Magic as a prank,they joked about sacrificing a young girl, but something went murderously wrong...one of the twins forgot it was a game.

 

 

 

 

 

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