Cast: Gordon Pinsent

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gordon Pinsent. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Pillars of the Earth (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 480 min. · Canada

Direction Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

Cast Eddie Redmayne · Hayley Atwell · Matthew Macfadyen · Ian McShane

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2010). 8 Episodes. The Pillars of the Earth is a sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty. This sensuous, spirited and passionate story is set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and...

7.0

19K votes

7.0

19K votes

Away From Her

2006 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada

Direction Sarah Polley

Cast Julie Christie · Gordon Pinsent · Olympia Dukakis · Wendy Crewson

Synopsis Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) have been married for decades. They have been through rough patches, but their lives are inextricably connected and their relationship seems idyllic: they share a private language and obvious affection for one another....

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Saint Ralph

2005 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada

Direction Michael McGowan

Cast Adam Butcher · Campbell Scott · Jennifer Tilly · Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis 14-year old Ralph fears life as an orphan if his mother doesn’t emerge from a coma. Desperate to believe a miracle is the answer to his mother’s recovery, Ralph sets out to actualize the miracle by running the 1954 Boston...

6.8

217 votes

6.8

217 votes

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Eric Braeden · William Schallert · Susan Clark · Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis Dr Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) activates his creation, the super-computer Colossus, which has been designed to take control of all US military installations. Once activated it is sealed into an impenetrable bunker. Moments later the Russians announce the existence of...

6.2

625 votes

6.2

625 votes

The Grand Seduction

2013 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada

Direction Don McKellar

Cast Brendan Gleeson · Taylor Kitsch · Gordon Pinsent · Liane Balaban

Synopsis In order to secure a vital factory contract, the residents of a small Newfoundland fishing village conspire to charm a big-city doctor into becoming the town’s full-time physician, in this sparkling comedy from director Don McKellar (Last Night) and screenwriter...

6.1

3K votes

6.1

3K votes

Nothing

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · Canada

Direction Vincenzo Natali

Cast David Hewlett · Andrew Miller · Marie-Josée Croze · Elana Shilling

Synopsis David and Andrew have been friends since childhood and live together in Andrew's house, which is located between two Toronto freeways. Life has not gone as either intended - David's plans to be a rock star having amounted to nothing...

6.0

925 votes

6.0

925 votes

The Shipping News

2001 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Lasse Hallström

Cast Kevin Spacey · Julianne Moore · Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett

Synopsis Based on the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Prouix, Kevin Spacey plays an emotionally beaten man who moves himself and his two daughters back to his hometown in Newfoundland. His adulterous wife’s (Blanchett) death in car accident is...

6.0

6K votes

6.0

6K votes

Two Lovers and a Bear

2016 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada

Direction Kim Nguyen

Cast Tatiana Maslany · Dane DeHaan · Gordon Pinsent · John Ralston

Synopsis Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman (DeHaan) and Lucy (Maslany), two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

5.2

177 votes

5.2

177 votes

Due South (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Paul Haggis · George Bloomfield · David Warry-Smith · Steve DiMarco

Cast Paul Gross · David Marciano · Beau Starr · Catherine Bruhier

Synopsis Due South is a Canadian television police comedy-drama from the 1990s. It was created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications. The show first aired in 1994, and ran until 1999. It followed the adventures of fictional Royal Canadian...

4.9

140 votes

4.9

140 votes

Angela's Eyes (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Dan McDermott · Chris Grismer · Michael W. Watkins · Mike Rohl

Cast Abigail Spencer · Lyriq Bent · Joe Cobden · Rick Roberts

Synopsis Angela Henson (Abigail Spencer) is a straight As student with a loving family, and dreams of becoming a doctor. Then at age fourteen, Angela finds out that her parents are revealed to be CIA agents, suspected of treason for selling...

4.6

50 votes

4.6

50 votes

Blacula

1972 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Crain

Cast William Marshall · Vonetta McGee · Denise Nicholas · Thalmus Rasulala

Synopsis Cultivated and articulate African Prince Mamuwalde is bitten by Count Dracula as is his destiny. He develops the requisite insatiable hunger for blood and must do all that he can to satisfy the craving. Two centuries later, the princely ghoul...

4.6

734 votes

4.6

734 votes

The Good Shepherd

2004 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada

Direction Lewin Webb

Cast Christian Slater · Molly Parker · Stephen Rea · Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis Christian Slater plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist,...

4.2

284 votes

4.2

284 votes

Fallen Angel (TV)

2003 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Switzer

Cast Gary Sinise · Joely Richardson · Gordon Pinsent · Jordy Benattar

Synopsis When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinise) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited...

4.1

32 votes

4.1

32 votes

Direction Kathy Bates

Cast Kathy Bates · Robin Thomas · Gordon Pinsent · Sean McCann

Synopsis The food writers Jane and Michael Stern have been married for thirty-three years, they love each other, but Jane is feeling insecure, depressed and with phobia, while Michael has been sober for three years.

4.0

21 votes

4.0

21 votes

Flight of the Butterflies

2012 · Documentary · 40 min. · Canada

Direction Mike Slee

Cast Gordon Pinsent · Patricia Phillips · Shaun Benson · Stephen Bogaert

Synopsis A film of hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries and along their migratory routes from Canada and across the U.S. to Mexico.

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Christmas in My Hometown (TV)

1996 · Movie · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Jerry London

Cast Tim Matheson · Melissa Gilbert · Michelle Trachtenberg · Jayne Eastwood

Synopsis Rising business executive Jake Peterson (Tim Matheson) is given a make-or-break assignment when he is sent to a small town for the purpose of severely downsizing the local tractor factory. Upon his arrival, Jake is mistaken by the townsfolk as...

Not rated

Not rated

Klondike Fever

1980 · Movie · 119 min. · Canada

Direction Peter Carter

Cast Jeff East · Rod Steiger · Angie Dickinson · Lorne Greene

Synopsis This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.

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Not rated

Bonds of Love (TV)

1993 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Larry Elikann

Cast Kelly McGillis · Treat Williams · Steve Railsback · Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

Not rated

Not rated

In the Eyes of a Stranger (TV)

1992 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Michael Toshiyuki Uno

Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Justine Bateman · Géza Kovács · Cynthia Dale

Synopsis An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently as he divulges the location of some stashed money to her- police place her in protective custody, only she is...

Not rated

Not rated

The Forest Rangers (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 30 min. · Canada

Direction George McCowan · George Gorman · Paul Almond · Don Haldane

Cast Ralph Endersby · Peter Tully · Graydon Gould · Michael Zenon

Synopsis The Forest Rangers was a 1960's Canadian television series that dealt with the adventures of junior forest rangers in the Canadian wilderness.

Not rated

Not rated