Robert Lantos Filmography

Real Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel, Jayne Eastwood, Lucy Filippone, Jeff Pustil

Synopsis: Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel star in writer/director Randall Cole's comedic drama detailing the unique relationship between a compulsive gambler, and the coolly detached hit man assigned the task of taking him out. Andy (Baruchel) is an excitable gambler who has incurred one debt too many. When Read More

Adoration

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arsinée Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Devon Bostick, Kenneth Welsh, Noam Blanchard

Synopsis: Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon (Devon Bostick) who reinvents his life on the internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions from around the globe. Rachel Blanchard Read More

Eastern Promises

Crew: Producer

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack

Synopsis: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into Read More

Where the Truth Lies

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard, David Hayman

Synopsis: A reporter unexpectedly gets a personal perspective on a legendary show-business story in this adaptation of Rupert Holmes' novel, scripted and directed by noted Canadian independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In the mid-'50s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly Read More

Being Julia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful Read More

amazinGross: The Life and Times of Paul Gross

The Statement

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, John Neville, William Hutt

Synopsis: A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers on both sides of the law in this drama, based on the novel by Brian Moore and inspired by a true story. After France fell to German occupation during World War II, the Read More

Ararat

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Alpay, Charles Aznavour, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Marie-Josée Croze

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan explores his Armenian heritage, and how the country's tragic history has touched several generations of the nation's expatriates, in this ambitious drama. Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about Read More

Picture Claire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Juliette Lewis, Gina Gershon, Callum Keith Rennie, Kelly Harms, Camilla Rutherford

Synopsis: Canadian cult director Bruce McDonald spins this slick noir-thriller about an innocent outsider caught up in the gritty underworld of Toronto. After narrowly escaping her East End Montréal apartment getting torched by a sadistic motorcycle gang, Claire (Juliette Lewis) flees for Toronto where she Read More

Stardom

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd, Charles Berling, Thomas Gibson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: French Canadian director Denys Arcand pushes the boundaries of the mockumentary with Stardom, the tale of a fictional neophyte supermodel (Jessica Pare) told entirely through clips of her appearances on talk shows, television interviews, and documentaries. Originally titled 15 Moments Read More

Sunshine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker

Synopsis: The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles. The story begins in the late 18th century, as Aaron and Josefa Sonnenschein (the name means "Sunshine" in German) Read More

All I Wanna Do

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Gaby Hoffmann, Kirsten Dunst, Monica Keena, Merritt Wever

Synopsis: Sarah Kernochan wrote and directed this nostalgic coming-of-age comedy-drama with some autobiographical touches. In 1963, budgetary problems at the East Coast boarding school Miss Godard's School for Girls, prompt a merger with a boy's academy. The girls are stunned at the prospect of going co-ed Read More

Felicia's Journey

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia's Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural Ireland. She has fallen in love with a boy named Read More

eXistenZ

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human beings who believe they are its masters, is in familiar territory with eXistenZ, a futuristic thriller which combines elements of science fiction, horror and Read More

At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Wendy Crewson won the Canadian Gemini award for her towering performance as the title character in this made-for-TV biopic. Terminally ill with cancer, Sue Rodriguez wants to exercise the option of ending her own life, primarily to spare her family the trouble and expense of caring for her in her Read More

Shot Through the Heart

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Vincent Perez, Linus Roache, Lia Williams, Lothaire Bluteau, Adam Kotz

Synopsis: This provocative and potent fact-based drama, an HBO Original Movie, tells the tale of two Yugoslavian men. Best friends since childhood, the two find themselves on opposite sides when civil war tears their country apart. The moment of truth in their relationship occurs when they find themselves Read More

Da Vinci's Inquest [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: One of the most successful Canadian drama series of the late 1990s, Da Vinci's Inquest was also one of the CBC's slickest efforts -- not to mention one of the most realistic. Nicholas Campbell starred as Dominic Da Vinci, a former cop who worked as a police coroner in Vancouver. Like Quincy before Read More

The Sweet Hereafter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured Read More

Northern Lights

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Adapted by John Robert Hoffman from his own play, the made-for-TV Northern Lights stars Diane Keaton as Roberta Blumstein, a high-strung New Yorker whose well-ordered lifestyle is set on its ear with the arrival of a child. No, not Roberta's child, but the son of her recently deceased brother Read More

Fast Track

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Produced in Canada for a Canadian and U.S. viewership, the weekly, hour-long drama series Fast Track starred Keith Carradine as Richard Beckett. A former racecar driver, Beckett had become a doctor, working almost exclusively along the speedway circuit and tending to the injuries of his fellow Read More

Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Williams, Timothy Webber, Rob Lee, Wayne Robson, Mitchell Kosterman

Synopsis: The true story of fabled Canadian truck driver Diana Kilmury is vividly realized in this made-for-TV drama. Barbara Williams stars as Kilmury, a tough-talking, chain-smoking tyro who, as the first female vice-president of the Canadian Teamsters, fearlessly spearheads a movement to expunge the Read More

Gridlock

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Kathy Ireland, Miguel Fernandes, Götz Otto, Tony de Santis

Synopsis: As the star of Knight Rider, you've seen him fight crime from behind the wheel of one of the most advanced automobiles ever, and as the leader of the Baywatch team, you've watched him rescue countless innocent souls from being swept out to sea -- now join television superstar David Hasselhoff in Read More

Crash

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of Read More

Turning April

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in Australia, this romantic drama chronicles the renewal and the vengeance of an abused child who grows up to become the troubled April, a young mother who is kidnapped during a robbery and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she later falls for a crook who is as physically scarred as she is Read More

Johnny Mnemonic

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Henry Rollins, Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order Read More

Never Talk to Strangers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: A beautiful but reserved criminal psychiatrist must deal with the obsessive stalking of a dangerous killer in this erotically charged thriller. The film's central tension emerges from the relationship between Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca DeMornay), a highly professional psychologist, and a handsome Read More

Whale Music

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maury Chaykin, Cyndy Preston, Jennifer Dale, Kenneth Welsh, Paul Gross

Synopsis: A Canadian production shot along the British Columbia coast, this is the story of a washed-up rock star who finds redemption. It was adapted for the screen by Paul Quarrington from his own award-winning novel. Desmond Howl (Maury Chaykin) is a faded music superstar who now lives a hermit's life in Read More

Family of Strangers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Melissa Gilbert

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a woman's search for her birth parents. Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner stars as Julie, a woman about to undergo surgery. Confronted with questions about her medical history, Julie learns for the first time that she in fact was adopted as an Read More

Black Robe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: Adapted by Brian Moore from his own novel, The Black Robe is a sprawling recreation of a turbelent period in Canadian history. In 1634, Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue (Lothair Bluteau) arrives in the New World, hoping to convert the Huron Indian tribe to Catholicism-and, incidentally, to Read More

Separate Vacations

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Naughton, Jennifer Dale, Mark Keyloun, Laurie Holden, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: An unhappily married husband takes off to Mexico in hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic interlude, and scores nothing but zeros. Meanwhile, the wife and kids, who have been left at home, decide to go on their planned ski vacation anyway. Up on the slopes, the mom tries to resist the continual Read More

One Night Only

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lenore Zann, Helene Udy, Taborah Johnson, Judy Foster

Synopsis: This sex comedy centers on a group of college coeds who've hatched a scheme to seduce their favorite hockey team (yes, the whole team). One of the women gets the use of an aunt's house for the team's annual fun and games party, normally thrown by a local gangster. Since the coeds do not number Read More

Joshua Then and Now

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, Michael Sarrazin, Linda Sorenson

Synopsis: The early ups and later downs in the life of Joshua Shapiro (James Woods) more or less describe the trajectory of this semi-autobiographical film, adapted from the book by Mordecai Richler. Joshua is a Jewish Canadian writer who has returned from living in England for nearly three decades, only to Read More

Night Magic

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Frank Augustyn

Synopsis: In this fantasy-drama-romance, forbidden love between an angel (Carole Laure) and a singer (Nick Mancuso) is set against the singer's attempts to resuscitate a fading theater. During the period of one night, the singer is visited by three different guardian angels out to help him succeed in Read More

Heavenly Bodies

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cynthia Dale, Richard Rebiere, Walter George Alton, Laura Henry, Stuart Stone

Synopsis: In this frothy drama, the "heavenly bodies" belong to Samantha (Cynthia Dale), a woman determined to open a dance instruction school, and the people who come to learn dance there. Once the deserted warehouse-cum-dance-studio is refurbished, Cynthia's first class already has as much finesse as Fred Astaire Read More

Bedroom Eyes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dayle Haddon, Barbara Law, Jane Catling

Synopsis: Accidentally peering through a window while on his nightly jog, stockbroker Kenneth Gilman can't take his eyes off beautiful Barbara Law. He returns to the same neighborhood night after night, for the express purpose of sneaking a peek at Law and her lover in various states of sexual passion. When Read More

Paradis Pour Tous

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dutronc, Fanny Cottençon, Stéphane Audran, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film a suicidal salesman is saved when he encounters a scientist who is working on a revolutionary new antidepressant. The man becomes so peaceful of all around him, that he begins driving everyone around him crazy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Paradise

Crew: Producer

Actors: Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Richard Curnock, Tuvia Tavi, Neil Vipond

Synopsis: A "The Blue Lagoon" set in the Sahara Desert, this romantic adventure is set at the turn of century and chronicles the story of two beautiful teens who end up traveling alone from Bagdad to Damascus after their respective parents are killed by a the henchmen of a sheik who wants the girl for Read More

Agency

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: Agency tackles the question of the efficiency of media manipulation. An unscrupulous advertising agency, in league with equally untrustworthy political campaign manager Robert Mitchum, plants subliminal messages in its TV commercials. Just as Vance Packard warned in the 1950s expose The Hidden Read More

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Sexual obsession provides the basis of this taut thriller, an adaptation of a Romain Gary novel. The story centers upon a prominent financier who must fight to save his crumbling business empire and his rapidly fading manhood. The obsession begins when the impotent magnate begins dreaming that a Read More

Suzanne

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jennifer Dale, Winston Rekert, Gabriel Arcand, Ken Pogue, Michelle Rossignol

Synopsis: This drama is set in Montreal when in the mid-'50s a young woman is impregnated by a petty thief who is caught and given ten years in the slammer. In the meantime, the woman bears a son and marries another. The time passes quickly and the thief is eventually released. He immediately goes to her Read More

In Praise of Older Women

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg, Helen Shaver, Marilyn Lightstone

Synopsis: In Hungary, 12-year-old Andras Vadya supported himself during World War II by serving as a pimp for prostitutes. Once the war is over, he tries his hand at a number of different jobs, but has a sexual fixation on "older" women. Andras (Tom Berenger) tells the story of seven of his affairs. One Read More