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Don Francks

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Don Harvey Francks (February 28, 1932 – April 3, 2016), also known by his stage name Iron Buffalo, was a Canadian actor, musician and singer.

28-02-1932

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Don Harvey Francks, Iron Buffalo

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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Portrait of Snow

Portrait of Snow

A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.
0.0

Year:

2016

He Never Died

He Never Died

Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
6.2

Year:

2015

I'm Not There

I'm Not There

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
6.5

Year:

2007

Lie with Me

Lie with Me

Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
5.2

Year:

2006

My Name Is Tanino

My Name Is Tanino

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...
6.3

Year:

2003

Summer of the Monkeys

Summer of the Monkeys

One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
5.8

Year:

1998

The Minion

The Minion

New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templar - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses her body like a parasite and host!
4.6

Year:

1998

Mr. Music

Mr. Music

A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.
0.0

Year:

1998

Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince

Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince

Artoo, Threepio and a broken down android are traded into the hands of young miner Jann Tosh. The android turns out to be an alien with amnesia and a price on his head. It is in fact Mon Julpa, prince of Tammuz-an, who has been put in this predicament by the power hungry vizier Zatec-Cha. Jann, the droids, and a female freight pilot named Jessica Meade help Julpa claim his throne, battle the Pirates of Tarnoonga and settle a dispute with Tammuz-an clan leader Lord Toda. Written by Il Tesoro
6.3

Year:

1997

Dinner at Fred's

Dinner at Fred's

A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday with a very different kind of family.
6.0

Year:

1997

A Prayer in the Dark

A Prayer in the Dark

The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy Flood to protect him from his abusive father. Though one of Emily's grown daughters, Janet feels she did not belong in the quiet, devoutly religious community and left the Quakers, Emily believed that her family ties stayed strong. Real trouble comes to the family when Jimmy Flood returns to the house after busting out of prison with the help of Digby and Lester, and he takes Emily's family hostage in exchange for $4 million. If Emily fails to secure the money in time, her entire family will lose their lives. Determined to resolve the potentially deadly conflict in a peaceful manner, Emily calls an emergency meeting of the town friends to work out a solution and save her family.
3.0

Year:

1997

Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods

Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods

Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
5.7

Year:

1997

Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village

Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village

Morag the Tulga Witch seeks revenge on her old enemy Logray, shaman of the Ewoks, who holds the magic Sunstar while she possesses it's darker half, the Shadowstone.
5.2

Year:

1997

The Toy Shop

The Toy Shop

Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a nightmare when Master Jack, the evil jack-in-the-box casts a spell and shrinks Katherine to the size of a doll.
0.0

Year:

1996

Bogus

Bogus

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
5.8

Year:

1996

Jungle Boy

Jungle Boy

Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".
0.0

Year:

1996

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, discover and explore the center of the Earth, a mysterious place full of dangerous electrical storms, prehistoric reptiles and swamp monsters. Based on author Jules Verne's fantasy novel, this animated adventure follows the explorers' struggles to survive and prove their findings to the rest of the world.
5.0

Year:

1996

Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy

When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
6.0

Year:

1996

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is court. Will she win?
5.0

Year:

1996

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
3.2

Year:

1996

The Deliverance of Elaine

The Deliverance of Elaine

A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.
4.5

Year:

1996

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

In this animated take on the timeless family adventure, the Robinsons wash ashore of a remote tropical island after their boat capsizes. Though they never lose hope of being rescued, their remarkable tale of survival is one that the entire family will enjoy. 
0.0

Year:

1996

The Conspiracy of Fear

The Conspiracy of Fear

The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychopath, and the CIA. He teams up with a beautiful but rough petty thief to uncover why he has become the hunted. Together, they discover that a valuable piece of information his father left behind is worth killing for-they just have to stay alive to find it.
10.0

Year:

1996

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

A story of friendship between a lonely little boy who braves Alaskan blizzards in search of gold and his loyal companion Buck, the courageous and faithful German Shepherd. (Animation)
4.0

Year:

1996

Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
5.8

Year:

1995

The Possession of Michael D.

The Possession of Michael D.

When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.
4.8

Year:

1995

Small Gifts

Small Gifts

Nora and Evan are a young married couple who find their finances are in serious trouble as Christmas draws near in this new take on O. Henry's classic story ""The Gift of the Magi.""
0.0

Year:

1994

Madonna: Innocence Lost

Madonna: Innocence Lost

Pop-singer and actress Madonna's rise to fame is chronicled in this made-for-television movie. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, who came to New York City in search of fame and fortune. Based on the book "Madonna: Unauthorized", the docudrama follows Miss Ciccone's rocky road from the streets of New York to the top of the charts in the 1980s.
6.6

Year:

1994

Paint Cans

Paint Cans

A Canadian take on The Player.
0.0

Year:

1994

The Diviners

The Diviners

Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
0.0

Year:

1993

Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell

Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
0.0

Year:

1992

Married to It

Married to It

While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
5.9

Year:

1991

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.
0.0

Year:

1990

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a bond with Buck. Thornton is murdered. Buck avenges him and must make a crucial decision.
0.0

Year:

1990

The Christmas Wife

The Christmas Wife

An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
5.3

Year:

1988

Hot Paint

Hot Paint

Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
0.0

Year:

1988

The Big Town

The Big Town

It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
5.4

Year:

1987

Oklahoma Smugglers

Oklahoma Smugglers

Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.
0.0

Year:

1987

Madballs: Escape from Orb!

Madballs: Escape from Orb!

The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break for it on Earth.
4.7

Year:

1986

Terminal Choice

Terminal Choice

A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
3.7

Year:

1985

Rock & Rule

Rock & Rule

A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.
5.9

Year:

1983

No More Hibakusha!

No More Hibakusha!

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.
0.0

Year:

1983

984: Prisoner of the Future

984: Prisoner of the Future

A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
4.0

Year:

1982

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
6.5

Year:

1981

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
6.5

Year:

1981

Fish Hawk

Fish Hawk

A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
6.5

Year:

1980

Summer's Children

Summer's Children

SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
3.7

Year:

1979

Fast Company

Fast Company

An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team.
5.1

Year:

1979

The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Star Wars Holiday Special

Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
3.3

Year:

1978

Drying Up the Streets

Drying Up the Streets

An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.
1.0

Year:

1978

The Overlanders

The Overlanders

The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one of them pregnant), and a young boy begin the odyssey which is to change all their lives. Through jungle-like forests, they look for a trail abandoned 10 years before by explorers and fur-traders. It runs out in a beautiful mountain trap, a box canyon with a waterfall. Left leaderless when death strikes, the vulnerable band must find another route. They decide to descend the mighty Fraser river by raft. Those who survive the great Grand Canyon rapids must continue on foot.
0.0

Year:

1974

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
7.1

Year:

1971

Finian's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow

An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a struggling farmer and an African American community facing persecution from a bigoted politician.
5.8

Year:

1968

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'

This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
0.0

Year:

1968

The Circle

The Circle

Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
0.0

Year:

1967

High Steel

High Steel

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indians from Kahnawake, near Montréal, famed for their skill in erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers. The film shows their nimble work, high above the pavement, but there are also glimpses of the quieter community life of the old Kahnawake Reserve.
7.0

Year:

1965

Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North

Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North

Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path outlined in Mackenzie's journal, the film depicts his arduous journey by canoe all the way to the salt water of the Arctic Ocean - one of the great epics of northern exploration.
0.0

Year:

1964

Toronto Jazz

Toronto Jazz

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau Trio, the Don Thompson Quintet and the Alf Jones Quartet. Their styles show creative self-expression, hard work, and improvisation.
6.0

Year:

1963

Drylanders

Drylanders

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.
6.0

Year:

1962