Vlasta VranaFilmography

Wicker Park

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne, Jessica Paré

Synopsis: Directed by Paul McGuigan, Wicker Park follows Chicago businessman Matthew's (Josh Hartnett) return to Windy City life after having dedicated two years of his life to mourning his long lost love Lisa (Diane Kruger), who'd mysteriously vanished from his life. Things are finally looking up again for Read More

Secret Window

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: From writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection Four Past Midnight. Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his Read More

Baby for Sale

Actors: Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Bruce Ramsay, Romano Orzari, Elizabeth Marleau

Synopsis: A woman sets out to stamp out unscrupulous baby brokers in this made-for-cable drama. Nathalie Johnson (Dana Delany) is a woman edging into middle age who has an eight-year-old stepdaughter with her husband Steve (Hart Bochner). Nathalie would like to have a baby of her own, but after discovering Read More

The Human Stain

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

Synopsis: For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins Read More

Fidel

Actors: Vlasta Vrana

Synopsis: Fidel Castro is one of the world's best known and most recognizable political leaders, but he is also among the most mysterious. While Castro became a household name after overthrowing the rule of Fulgenico Batista and became the head of Cuba's new socialist government, little is known of his Read More

Obsessed

Actors: Jenna Elfman, Kate Burton, Sam Robards, Mark Camacho, Charles Powell

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Obsessed begins when Ellena Roberts (Jenna Elfman), a highly successful medical writer, is yanked out of her apartment and arrested on a charge of harrassment. It seems that Roberts has been dogging the trail of famous neurosurgeon Dr. David Stillman (Sam Robards), whom she Read More

Scent of Danger

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Costas Mandylor

Synopsis: Also known as Scent of Murder, this made-for-TV thriller stars Sherilyn Fenn as Brenna Shaw, professional dog trainer and search-and-rescue expert. While exploring a wooded area with her faithful K-9 dog team, Brenna witnesses the latest crime of a vicious serial kidnapper-murderer (James Read More

Memories of Earth

Actors: Vlasta Vrana

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within

Synopsis: The long-running CBS drama series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was briefly resurrected in this made-for-TV feature film. Jane Seymour again stars as feisty 19th century doctor Michaela "Mike" Quinn, with Joe Lando as her sweetheart Sully. After a few minor crises in their frontier home town, Mike and Read More

Protection

Synopsis: When former mob heavy Sal (Stephen Baldwin) traded his sordid past for the safety of the witness protection program, he quickly learns that all is far from forgiven in this action entry from genre specialist John Flynn (Rolling Thunder, Lock Up). He may have a new life, a new job, and a new friend Read More

Where the Money Is

Actors: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Robert Brewster, Susan Barnes, Michael Brockman, Anne Pitoniak, Bill Corday

Synopsis: An ailing criminal and his excitement-starved nurse decide to knock over a bank for fun and profit in this comic suspense story. Legendary bank robber Henry Manning (Paul Newman) pushes his luck too far and ends up in prison, where he suffers a massive stroke. He is transferred to a nursing home Read More

Eye of the Beholder

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. lang, Jason Priestley

Synopsis: Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor's first feature film following his mainstream breakthrough performance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an agent of the British Secret Service, equipped with the Read More

Grey Owl

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Nathaniel Arcand, Vlasta Vrana, David Fox, Stewart Bick

Synopsis: Archibald Belaney was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture -- so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and lived in the wild as a North American Indian trapper. He eventually became an Read More

Fallen Angel

Actors: Alexandra Paul, Vlasta Vrana, Anthony Michael Hall, Michelle Johnson

Synopsis: "Never trust a man after midnight," mutters Vicky Mayerson (Michelle Johnson) in a bit of untimely advice she offers to her victims just before their life drains out entirely. The young serial killer is determined to murder each and every man who had assaulted her during her high school career Read More

Kayla

Actors: Tod Fennell, Henry Czerny, Meredith Henderson, Bronwen Booth, Brian Dooley

Synopsis: This Canadian movie about a boy and his dog during the early 1920s is set in the countryside southeast of Montreal. Twelve-year-old Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell) is the son of an Arctic explorer who vanished in the tundra. His mother Althea (Bronwen Booth) has remarried, but Sam isn't as close to Read More

Stranger in the House

Actors: Michele Greene, Steve Railsback, Bruce Dinsmore, Kathleen Kinmont, Vlasta Vrana

Synopsis: In this thriller, a jewel thief's mistake during a diamond robbery forces him to stash the loot at the crime scene where he left a female executive for dead. In order to finish the heist, however, the crook must avoid an insurance adjuster and an enraged husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Assignment

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri, Celine Bonnier, Liliana Komorowska

Synopsis: In this drama, a naval officer named Annibal Ramirez (Aidan Quinn) is vacationing in Israel when he's arrested and questioned by Israeli agents, led by Amos (Ben Kingsley). Unknown to Annibal, he bears a striking resemblance to Carlos Sanchez (also played by Aidan Quinn), a famous and feared Read More

Highlander: The Final Dimension

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger, Mako, Martin Neufeld

Synopsis: Conner MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) returns in this, the third film in the Highlander series. MacLeod is an "Immortal," a 16th century Scottish soldier who has been both blessed and cursed with the gift of eternal life. After the death of his beloved wife (a common occurrence for him, but one Read More

Eye of the Wolf

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Sophie Duez, Lorne Brass, Patrice Bissonnette, Vlasta Vrana

Synopsis: In this outdoor adventure saga, a group of hunters are on the lookout for a half-wolf, half-dog who is believed to have killed a man. However, one naturalist (Jeff Fahey) is determined to find the animal before the hunters do, certain that the animal is not a killer, but a hero. Also screened as Read More

Due South: We are the Eggmen

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Tony Craig

Synopsis: Fraser (Paul Gross) gallantly saves the life of farmer Lyndon Buxley (Louis Del Grande)--only to be slapped with a gargantuan lawsuit by Buxley, who is sore that his precious eggs were destroyed during his rescue. It turns out that Buxley is secretly developing a new low-cholesterol egg, and it is Read More

Stalked

Actors: Maryam D'Abo, Jay Underwood, Tod Fennell, Lisa Blount, Karen Robinson

Synopsis: In this chilling drama, a beautiful widow's gratitude turns to naked fear when she learns that a good Samaritan has been stalking her after saving the life of her son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lifeforce Experiment

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland stars as a mad scientist in this made-for-television sci-fi thriller. CIA agent Jessica Saunders (Mimi Kuzyk) has been assigned to work in the lab of scientist Dr. Maclean (Sutherland) to gather information. Maclean is doing experiments that seem fascinating and harmless, but Read More

Warriors

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Paré

Synopsis: Gary Busey stars in this Canadian ultra-macho Rambo-knockoff in which a crazed blood-thirsty sociopath escapes from an asylum and sets out to kill his former commander. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Brainscan

Actors: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith, Amy Hargreaves, James Marsh, Victor Ertmanis

Synopsis: Unlike most teen horror movies, Brainscan relies more on atmosphere and plot than gore and bloodsoaked effects. Edward Furlong plays Michael, a 16-year-old horror movie fan, computer whiz, and misfit who responds to an ad for Brainscan, an CD-ROM virtual reality game that promises to "interface Read More

A Cry in the Night

Actors: Perry King, Carol Higgins Clark, James Rae

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the film explores the life of an art-gallery manager (Carol Higgins Clark) who marries a famous Canadian painter (Perry King). After moving her two young daughters to his mansion, she soon comes to the frightening realization that he is much more than the Read More

Twin Sisters

Actors: Stephanie Kramer, Susan Almgren, Frederic Forrest, James Brolin, Robert Morelli

Synopsis: After witnessing a murder, a prostitute runs and is thought to be killed in an explosion. Soon her housewife twin sister begins to search for her and decides to pose as the missing woman. Before long, she is the target of repeated attempts on her life, but escapes successfully only to find a big Read More

Angel Square

Actors: Ned Beatty

Synopsis: In writer/director Anne Wheeler's Bye Bye Blues, a blue-collar family finds all sorts of unorthodox means to confront the tribulations of World War II. In Angel Square, Wheeler deals with a more contemporary subject: random street crime. Ned Beatty stars as a standard-issue husband and father in a Read More

Scanners II: The New Order

Actors: David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton, Isabelle Mejias, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: Picking up where Scanners left off, this sequel has good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. Here, a "bad-guy" Read More

The Final Heist

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: Jan Michael Vincent is the hero-by-default in Final Heist. As indicated by the title, Vincent is David King, a master thief on the verge of retirement. Feeling unfulfilled until he can pull off one last job, King discovers that his partners in crime have their own agendae. Gabrielle Lazure is the Read More

Deadly Surveillance

Synopsis: A Canadian production from 1991, Deadly Surveillance concerns two police officers investigating a series of killings linked to drugs. The main suspect is the attractive lover of one of the cops, and the obvious tensions flare. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Falling Over Backwards

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Paul Soles, Helen Hughes, Carolyn Scott

Synopsis: Falling Over Backwards was filmed in Quebec through the good graces of the National Film Board of Canada. Saul Rubinek plays a high school teacher, currently in the doldrums over his divorce. Ignoring advice of Thomas Wolfe, Rubinek decides to "go home again" to forget his troubles. With his aged Read More

Hang Tough

Actors: Carl Marotte, Charlaine Woodard, Grand L. Bush, Lisa Langlois

The Phone Call

Synopsis: In this thriller, a businessman's private habit of calling a phone sex service nearly costs him his life and that of his family when the dream girl at the end of the line turns out to be a psychotic killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Red Earth, White Earth

Synopsis: The ads for Red Earth, White Earth ballyhooed the soap-opera aspects of the made-for-TV film, particularly the fact that the young protagonist's (Tim Daly) best friend was shacking up with the boy's mother. Played down in the ads was the central crisis of the film: A battle between a white farm Read More

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

Actors: Michael Paré, Marina Orsini, Bernie Coulson, Michael Rhoades

Synopsis: This sequel to the rock & roll mystery Eddie and the Cruisers explains many of the questions concerning the mysterious death of 1960s rocker Eddie Wilson, who with his Cruisers was celebrating the success of their first album when he got in a terrible car wreck, from which his body was never Read More

Whispers

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Victoria Tennant

Synopsis: This bizarre adaptation of the superb horror novel by Dean Koontz details the mental collapse of writer Hillary Thomas (Victoria Tennant), who is relentlessly stalked by sadistic psycho Bruno Clavell (Jean Leclerc), whom she had once interviewed for her latest book. After he breaks into her Read More

Day One

Actors: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: This WW II-set drama follows the creation of the first atomic bomb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Hugh Grant, Megan Gallagher, Megan Follows, Georges Descrieres

Synopsis: Charles Heidseick's fight to introduce and popularize French bubbly in the 19th-century US provides the basis of this romantic made-for-TV biography. It was not an easy task as Champagne Charlie met with considerable resistance from American vintners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kiss

Actors: Nicholas Kilbertus, Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Priscilla Mouzakiotis

Synopsis: The Kiss, an erotic horror film dealing with ancient curses and the occult, is the story of a teenage girl whose world is destroyed by the arrival of her mysterious aunt and the death of her mother. Amy (Meredith Salenger) leads a normal, suburban existence until the mysterious death of her mother Read More

God Bless the Child

Actors: Grace Johnston

Synopsis: A young mother and her daughter end up on the streets in this grim made-for-television movie. Mare Winningham stars as Theresa Johnson, a young mother whose life falls apart when she finds herself suddenly single, unemployed and homeless. With nowhere to turn, Theresa and her daughter Hillary (Grace Johnston Read More

Obsessed

Actors: Kerrie Keane, Daniel Pilon, Saul Rubinek, Lynne Griffin, Mireille Deyglun

Synopsis: A grieving mother tries to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed her 12-year-old son in this well-performed drama. Dinah Middleton (Kerrie Keane) is divorced from husband Max (Daniel Pilon). The couple's skateboarding son Alex (Leif Anderson) is hit by Owen Hughes (Saul Rubinek), a New York Read More

April Morning

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Chad Lowe, Susan Blakely, Meredith Salenger

Synopsis: The morning invoked by the title of this made-for-TV drama is April 19, 1775. On that day, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Departing from known history, novelist Howard Fast (who wrote the book on which this film is based) proposes that Read More

Les Tisserands Du Pouvoir

Actors: Juliette Huot, Gratien Gelinas, Michel Forget, Aurélien Recoing, Paul Hebert, Anne Letourneau

Synopsis: Immigrants from Quebec travel to the Eastern United States to work for French industrialists in this historical drama. Gratien Gelinas plays a venerable Quebecois who recalls in 1988 the era from 1907 to 1920 in a series of flashbacks. He compares the modern computer age with the steadily growing Read More

C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf

Nowhere to Hide

Actors: Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Ironside, Robin Mac Eachern, John Colicos

Synopsis: In this exciting action thriller, an artistic widow fights to stay alive after her husband, a Marine who had discovered that the military was well aware that it was placing defective parts in its helicopters, is mysteriously murdered. Believing that the widow, a metal sculptress, has the damning Read More

Keeping Track

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Alan Scarfe, Ken Pogue, John Boylan

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller two strangers are suddenly thrown together in the strangest of circumstances when they witness a killing and a robbery and then find $5 million aboard a New York-bound train. Now they are forced to flee from the CIA, the Russians, and others while simultaneously trying Read More

Eternal Evil

Actors: Winston Rekert, Karen Black, John Novak, Andrew Bednarski, Patty Talbot

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, a television director's boring life is spiced up by his girl friend who reveals that she is involved with the black arts and then teaches him the art of astral-projection. He becomes adept at freeing his soul from his body and really enjoys the experience until he Read More

Ford: The Man and the Machine

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Hope Lange, R.H. Thomson, Heather Thomas, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Morning Man

Actors: Bruno Doyon, Kerrie Keane, Marc Strange, Rob Roy

Synopsis: The Morning Man is young Bruno Doyon, who despite his youth has been convicted of 22 separate robbery charges. After escaping from jail, the wounded Doyon is aided by a beautiful lady doctor (Kerrie Keane). Promising to reform, Doyon prevents his old cronies from committing a robbery. He then Read More

C.A.T. Squad

Synopsis: William Friedkin, a product of television, returned to the small screen to direct the made-for-TV feature C.A.T. Squad. The titular acronym stands for Counter Assault Tactical. The heroes and heroines are fitted out with state-of-the-art hardware and weaponry that would make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Read More

Choices

Synopsis: When a man learns that both his wife and his young, unmarried daughter are both pregnant, he is forced to rethink his opposition to abortion in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spearfield's Daughter

Synopsis: A Canadian-Australian coproducton which originally aired over Australia's 7 Network, the six-hour miniseries Spearfield's Daughter stars Kim Braden as the title character. The daughter of a prominent and powerful Australian politician (Chris Wiggins), Cleo Spearfield (Kim Braden) incurs her Read More

Secret Weapons

Synopsis: In this exploitation film, the KGB trains a sexy young spy-trainee to become an "all-American" temptress capable of seducing the secrets out of many US officials and businessmen. She will then use the resulting information to blackmail these men into serving her government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Breaking All the Rules

Actors: Carl Marotte, Thor Bishopric, Carolyn Dunn, Rachel Hayward

Synopsis: A lesser "teens on the loose" farce, Breaking All the Rules is set in a Canadian amusement park. The main characters are park worker Carl Marotte and his pal Thor Bishopic, who fancy themselves God's gift to women. The boys manage to impress the impressionable Carolyn Dunn and Rachel Hayward Read More

A Time to Live

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Jeffrey DeMunn, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: Adapted from Mary-Lou Weisman's book Intensive Care, this made-for-television movie stars Liza Minnelli (in her first TV appearance) as a woman who must remain strong and contend with her son's muscular dystrophy and all the problems within the family that accompany the illness. ~ Kristie Hassen Read More

The Surrogate

Actors: Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Shannon Tweed, Michael Ironside, Marilyn Lightstone

Synopsis: This low-grade thriller centers around Frank Waite (Art Hindle), a sports-car salesman who is suddenly mean-tempered when his wife Lee (Shannon Tweed) becomes turned off by sex, and Anouk Van Derlin, the sex therapist they decide to see (Carole Laure). As Anouk starts to bring out the suppressed Read More

Hey Babe!

Actors: Buddy Hackett, Yasmine Bleeth, Marushka Stankova, Vlasta Vrana, Denise Proulx

Synopsis: This musical centers upon the life of a precocious, orphan with show-business aspirations. To achieve her dream, the plucky 12-year old storms professional dance schools, breaks into TV studios and uses every possible underhanded means to become a star. She finally finds a mentor, an aging Read More

Illusions

Synopsis: Fashion designer Linda Dobbins (Karen Valentine) smells a rat when her salesman husband dies in a highly suspicous airplane explosion during a European business trip. To get some answers, Linda retraces her husband's sales route, only to discover that there was a lot she didn't know about her late Read More

Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More

Candy the Stripper

Synopsis: When a young woman decides to split from her small home town, she finds welcomed excitement in the city. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Hard Feelings

Actors: Carl Marotte, Grand L. Bush, Lisa Langlois

Synopsis: Set in 1963, this drama looks at the life of Barnie Margruder (Carl Marotte), a teenager dealing with school bullies, his bickering parents, his conflicting feelings about sex, and an often strained relationship with his girlfriend. Barnie's life begins to change when he makes friends with Winona (Charlaine Woodard Read More

Jig Saw

Actors: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this thriller starring Lino Ventura and Angie Dickinson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Birthday to Me

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Tracey E. Bregman, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Lawrence Z. Dane, Frances Hyland, Sharon Acker

Synopsis: Certainly the low point in Glenn Ford's acting career, this Canadian production is, nevertheless, one of the slickest-looking slasher films from that subgenre's early-'80s heyday. The plot (what one can make of it) involves an unseen killer stalking a group of college students at the prestigious Read More

Gas

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Sandee Currie

Synopsis: When the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackout

Actors: James Mitchum, Robert Carradine, Belinda Montgomery, June Allyson, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: In this above-average, exciting Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy Manhattan apartment building during the New York power blackout. They move from apartment to apartment, victimizing the occupants until stopped by the Read More

Rabid

Actors: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage

Synopsis: For his second commercial feature, following a pair of experimental films and 1977's Shivers, Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg continued to mine the themes of disease and mutation that were already becoming his perennial concerns. Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, an attractive young woman Read More

The New Avengers: Complex

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: The first of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada finds our dauntless trio of dogooders in Toronto, on the trail of an elusive Russian agent known as Scapina. Getting separated from her colleagues, Purdey (Joanna Lumley) finds herself trapped in a computerized building. Even worse: The Read More

Shivers

Actors: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Alan Migicovsky, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ transplants kills a young female resident of a Read More