Movies: Michael Riley

Domestic violence drama, with Gail O'Grady as a distraught young mother, finding herself stalked by her newly paroled ex and armed with a loaded gun, and Ami Pietz as a journalist volunteering at a crisis hotline to do an "inside" story....

When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective....

This spirited comedy poses the age old question: if dogs are man's best friends, what happens when a man trades places with one, and literally lives "a dog's life"?...

When 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe is brutally murdered at her home in her small home town, the authorities foolishly jump to conclusions that her 14-year-old brother Michael must be responsible. They completely ignore strong evidence that suggests ano...

African-American drama about a toymaker...

Paul Devereaux is a second officer with lots of experience with merchant ships. But this is World War II and the Royal Canadian Navy desperately needs experienced officers. Paul is thus given command of his own ship. However, in early 1940's, Canadia...

A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story....

Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a...

After five years of travelling abroad, Alex arrives back in Montreal. All he has with him are a back-pack and a slip of paper with an ex-girlfriend's address scrawled on it....

Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after her death. Prompted by his surroundings to sort through the idealized memories of his childhood, Matt...

A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold....

After getting lost the day his family travels 2,000 miles in preparation for a move to Australia, this clever, loyal, 'map reading' dog begins an amazing cross-country journey to find them....

A female Canadian diplomat goes on a mission to El Salvador to try smooth relations between their government and the people of a small town who risk the loss of their home....

Set against the majestic landscape of Canada’s Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in the world, Black Swan is a dark comedy that weaves the innocent world of childhood, against the adult world of love, betrayal and murder....

Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control....

This is the epic story of the Battle of Gettysburg presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and filmed at the massive 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. Additional locations include the White House of the Confederacy, the Lutheran Theologi...

Based on the novel by Mordechai Richler - Winner of the 1971 Governor General's Award - this is the story of Jake, a film director of modest success and a man in disgrace. His alter ego, his cousin Joey - Nazi-hunter, adventurer, hero of the Spanish ...

100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days....