Sarah Polley

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

Dir. Jaco Van Dormael · With Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Dir. Zack Snyder · With Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Dir. Terry Gilliam · With John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley

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.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.

Dir. Doug Liman · With Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie Holmes

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

Dir. Sarah Polley · With Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Michael Murphy

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Dir. Don McKellar · With Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Roberta Maxwell

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Dir. Kirk Ellis · With Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

Dir. Sarah Polley · With Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

Dir. Sarah Polley · With Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.

Dir. Sarah Polley · With Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.

Dir. Roland Suso Richter · With Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

Dir. Sarah Polley · With Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Dir. Wim Wenders · With Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman

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

Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley