Robert Lantos (Production)

Crimes of the Future

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Release Date:2022-05-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1111

Charlotte

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Release Date:2021-09-13

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:22

The Song of Names

A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Release Date:2019-12-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:158

Clara

An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.

Release Date:2018-11-30

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:208

Remember

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Release Date:2015-10-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:714

The Right Kind of Wrong

A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.

Release Date:2013-10-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:202

Barney's Version

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Release Date:2010-10-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:458

Adoration

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Release Date:2009-04-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:49

Eastern Promises

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Release Date:2007-09-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3386

Fugitive Pieces

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Release Date:2007-09-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:31

Indie Sex

Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.

Release Date:2007-08-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:19

Where the Truth Lies

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

Release Date:2005-10-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:295

Being Julia

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.

Release Date:2004-09-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:111

The Statement

The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...

Release Date:2003-12-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:74

Men with Brooms

A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fiancée, Julie Foley, at the altar. But when his former coach dies, Cutter returns home for the funeral and attempts to fulfill the man's last wishes. The team is reunited under Cutter's estranged dad, Gordon — himself a former curling star — for a final attempt at glory.

Release Date:2002-09-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:28

Ararat

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Release Date:2002-05-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:90

Picture Claire

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invites her to visit him in Toronto. She shows up on his doorstep after an arson attack leaves her homeless, but soon finds herself caught up in a case of murder and mistaken identity.

Release Date:2001-09-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:32

Stardom

A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.

Release Date:2000-10-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:25

Sunshine

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Release Date:1999-09-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:135

eXistenZ

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.

Release Date:1999-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1957

Shot Through the Heart

The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.

Release Date:1998-10-04

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:15

Strike!

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.

Release Date:1998-08-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:121

Northern Lights

A stranger's call informs Roberta that her estranged brother Frank has died in a small town under bizarre circumstances. Ben, his best friend from college, also gets the call. Arriving just in time for his funeral, it becomes quickly obvious to them that the little slice of small-town America in which they find themselves is like an episode of The Twilight Zone featuring Frank's eccentric friends, his amazing secrets and his stunning final request. Both Ben and Roberta are shocked to discover that Frank not only had a child, but that he has left them responsible for his son's care.

Release Date:1998-07-02

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:10

The Sweet Hereafter

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.

Release Date:1997-09-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:395

The Hunchback

Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

Release Date:1997-03-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:44

Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story

Real-life account of a Canadian hero, a determined female truck driver who took on the mob-controlled leadership of the International Teamsters Union.

Release Date:1996-10-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Crash

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Release Date:1996-07-17

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1143

Gridlock

After explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of New York, the authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organization. New York cop Jake Gorki, flying over the Federal Reserve Bank in his helicopter, suspects something else: a robbery.

Release Date:1996-01-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

Never Talk to Strangers

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

Release Date:1995-10-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:175

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.

Release Date:1995-05-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1379

When Night Is Falling

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college who is engaged to Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

Release Date:1995-02-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:79

Calendar

A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.

Release Date:1993-06-03

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:28

Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.

Release Date:1993-05-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Family of Strangers

Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape.

Release Date:1993-02-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

Black Robe

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.

Release Date:1991-10-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:99

Counterstrike

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

Release Date:1990-07-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:66

Vote Count:2

Bordertown

Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.

Release Date:1989-01-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:78

Vote Count:7

Mount Royal

Andre Valeur, a successful businessman, lives in an upscale Montreal neighborhood and Paris. Daughter Stephanie is a model, Danielle a reporter. Rob works for his father but prefers the nightlife. Wife Katherine is unhapoy just being a socialite.

Release Date:1988-01-03

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Separate Vacations

A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!

Release Date:1986-04-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:11

Perfect Timing

Perfect Timing is the story of Harry Crane, an infamous photographer whose sublime and evocative images single-handedly reshaped and rebuilt the boudoir and fitness industries. But, having made his mark, allowed the artist within to be released. Creatively and artistically, Harry has moved on; his work now consisting of portraits and interpreting rock wall fractals. Of course that meant leaving the professional schlock of commercial advertising behind him. Sounds good. Except there's that pesky issue of money. And Harry and his buds are quickly burning through large quantities of it. Bottom line - he's nearly broke and faces eviction.

Release Date:1986-02-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

Night Magic

Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.

Release Date:1985-12-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:3

The Execution of Raymond Graham

A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately seek a reprieve.

Release Date:1985-11-17

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:8

Bedroom Eyes

A young businessman, out jogging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window. He is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect.

Release Date:1984-11-30

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:10

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

Release Date:1984-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:26

Heavenly Bodies

A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.

Release Date:1984-02-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:15

A Matter of Cunning

An ambitious businesswoman will do whatever it takes to climb the corporate ladder.

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

Paradise

After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the unwholesome appetite of the Jackal, a sheik who wants Sarah for himself. However, the desert also holds temptation and love. David and Sarah hide out in an oasis and build a life for themselves, discovering each other in new ways.

Release Date:1982-03-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:119

Agency

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...

Release Date:1980-02-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:9

In Praise of Older Women

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

Release Date:1978-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

The Angel and the Woman

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.

Release Date:1977-04-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:9

Rise of the Raven

The rise of Janos Hunyadi and his battles in the wars against the Ottomans in 15th century Europe. The series follows Hunyadi’s adventures leading to the Siege of Belgrade in 1456, a pivotal battle in which Hunyadi led the Hungarian forces to successfully repel an invasion by the Ottoman Empire. Hunyadi’s bravery and military prowess earned him the nickname ‘The White Knight of Christendom.’ The show explores Hunyadi’s life, plagued by scandal, political power plays and conspiracies between noble families from Warsaw, Rome, Belgrade and Vienna. His strongest allies are the women in his life including his life partner Elizabeth Szilagyi. Produced by BETA Film in partnership with Hungarian National Film Institute. Due to premiere on October 22, 2024.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator