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Sarah Polley

Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to A... more

Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, political activist and retired actress. She first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. This subsequently led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), No Such Thing (2001), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr. Nobody (2009).

Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her (2006), for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley's second film, Take This Waltz (2011), premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by her first documentary film, Stories We Tell (2012). She also wrote the miniseries Alias Grace, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. In 2022, Polley wrote and directed the film Women Talking, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Mr. Nobody
(2009)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
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.
Runtime:
141 min
Director:
Jaco Van Dormael
Cast:
Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, Sarah Polley, Rhys Ifans
7.9
64%
63
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Dawn of the Dead
(2004)
Action, Horror
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Zack Snyder
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell
7.3
76%
59
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Go
(1999)
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Doug Liman
Cast:
Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner
7.2
91%
72
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eXistenZ
(1999)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
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.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
David Cronenberg
Cast:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar
6.8
74%
68
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
(1988)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Runtime:
126 min
Director:
Terry Gilliam
Cast:
John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman
7.2
92%
69
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The Sweet Hereafter
(1997)
Drama
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 a...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Atom Egoyan
Cast:
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus
7.5
98%
91
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My Life Without Me
(2003)
Drama, Romance
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.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Isabel Coixet
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman, Leonor Watling, Debbie Harry
7.5
N/A
57
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Exotica
(1994)
Drama, Mystery
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...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Atom Egoyan
Cast:
Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, David Hemblen, Calvin Green
7.1
97%
71
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Splice
(2009)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
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...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Vincenzo Natali
Cast:
Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, David Hewlett, Abigail Chu
5.8
74%
66
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The Secret Life of Words
(2005)
Drama, Romance
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Isabel Coixet
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara, Eddie Marsan, Steven Mackintosh
7.4
69%
68
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Stories We Tell
(2012)
Documentary
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 changi...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Sarah Polley
Cast:
Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John Buchan, Mark Polley
7.6
95%
91
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Last Night
(1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Don McKellar
Cast:
Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell, Sarah Polley
7.2
84%
65
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Beowulf & Grendel
(2005)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Sturla Gunnarsson
Cast:
Hringur Ingvarsson, Spencer Wilding, Stellan Skarsgård, Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Tony Curran
5.8
49%
53
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The I Inside
(2004)
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Roland Suso Richter
Cast:
Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Robert Sean Leonard, Stephen Rea
6.1
43%
N/A
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Don't Come Knocking
(2005)
Drama
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...
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Wim Wenders, George Kennedy
Cast:
Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Sarah Polley, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann
6.6
43%
55
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The Weight of Water
(2000)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Cast:
Sean Penn, Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley, Josh Lucas
5.9
35%
45
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The Claim
(2000)
Drama, Romance, Western
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 railro...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
Cast:
Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
6.5
62%
62
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One Magic Christmas
(1985)
Family, Fantasy
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Phillip Borsos
Cast:
Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Elisabeth Harnois
6.5
47%
N/A
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No Such Thing
(2001)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Beatrice's fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by contacting a scientist who can destroy matter painlessly.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Hal Hartley
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Margrét Ákadóttir, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie
6.2
29%
36
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Guinevere
(1999)
Drama, Romance
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Audrey Wells
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon, Paul Dooley
6.0
86%
68
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Jerry and Tom
(1998)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
Runtime:
107 min
6.7
75%
N/A
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The Event
(2003)
Drama, Thriller
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the most recent case, a suspicious apparent suicide, and her interviews with friends and family of...
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Thom Fitzgerald
Cast:
Brent Carver, Olympia Dukakis, Jane Leeves, Parker Posey, Don McKellar
6.3
42%
42
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Babar: The Movie
(1989)
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.
Runtime:
70 min
Director:
Alan Bunce
Cast:
Gordon Pinsent, Elizabeth Hanna, Lisa Yamanaka, Marsha Moreau, Bobby Becken
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Siblings
(2004)
Comedy
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together a...
Runtime:
85 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Life Before This
(1999)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Jerry Ciccoritti
Cast:
Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Alison Pill
6.4
80%
N/A
White Lies
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White Lies
(1998)
How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM. Catherine, a first-year university student who feels alienated from the liberal campus, joins a hate group through the Internet and becomes their ...
Runtime:
92 min
Cast:
Sarah Polley, Tanya Allen, Jonathan Scarfe, Lynn Redgrave, Joseph Kell
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Trigger
(2010)
Drama, Music
Trigger is the story of two rock n' roll women who once shared a friendship, a band and a whole lot of chaos. Now a dozen years later they meet again, and over the course of one evening rediscover friendship, remember rock n'roll and reignite chaos.
Runtime:
78 min
Director:
Bruce McDonald
Cast:
Molly Parker, Tracy Wright, Don McKellar, Daniel MacIvor, Sarah Polley
6.3
80%
N/A
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Lantern Hill
(1989)
Drama, Family
In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the other girls tell her that her father, whom Jane believes to be dead, is actually alive. Soon af...
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Kevin Sullivan
Cast:
Mairon Bennett, Sam Waterston, Patricia Phillips, Zoe Caldwell, Sarah Polley
7.0
N/A
N/A
Wrath of Gods
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Wrath of Gods
(2007)
Documentary
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if the Norse gods were actually working against them.
Runtime:
72 min
8.3
N/A
N/A
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine
(1996)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Peter Wellington
Cast:
Eric Thal, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Waneta Storms, Sabrina Grdevich
6.3
N/A
N/A
Luck
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Luck
(2004)
Comedy
Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
Runtime:
91 min
Cast:
Luke Kirby, Sarah Polley, Noam Jenkins, Jed Rees, Sergio Di Zio
5.5
43%
N/A
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Blue Monkey
(1987)
Horror
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases...
Runtime:
96 min
4.5
N/A
N/A
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Pretty Kill
(1987)
Crime, Horror
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
George Kaczender
Cast:
Yaphet Kotto, Sarah Polley, David Birney, Season Hubley, Suzanne Snyder
2.0
N/A
N/A