Screenplay: Barry Pearson

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Barry Pearson. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Iron Road (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Series · 180 min. · Canada

Direction David Wu

Cast Sun Li · Peter O'Toole · Sam Neill · Luke Macfarlane

Plot TV Miniseries (2008). 2 Episodes. A young Chinese girl with no money, disguised as a boy, manages to work on the construction of a railroad in the Rocky Mountains thanks...

5.5

275 votes

5.5

275 votes

Bloody Birthday

1981 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Ed Hunt

Cast Lori Lethin · Melinda Cordell · Julie Brown · Joe Penny

Plot In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten...

4.8

461 votes

4.8

461 votes

The Brain

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · Canada

Direction Ed Hunt

Cast Tom Bresnahan · Cynthia Preston · David Gale · George Buza

Plot Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the...

4.3

106 votes

4.3

106 votes

Plague (M-3: The Gemini Strain)

1978 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada

Direction Ed Hunt

Cast Daniel Pilon · Kate Reid · Céline Lomez · Michael J. Reynolds

Plot A research assistant carries out a forbidden experiment which creates a deadly bacteria that kills her. It then spreads throughout the city causing an agonising death on its victims...

Not rated

Not rated

Isaac Littlefeathers (Fighter Kid)

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada

Direction Les Rose

Cast Michelle Thrush · Scott Hylands · Lynda Mason Green · Lou Jacobi

Plot Story of a young half-breed boy, the son of a hockey player and an Indian woman, who is adopted by a Jewish shopkeeper, but finds himself torn between the different...

Not rated

Not rated

For the Record (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · Canada

Direction Peter Pearson · Don Haldane · Claude Jutra · Francis Mankiewicz

Cast Heath Lamberts · Mavor Moore · David Gardner · Kenneth Welsh

Plot A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially-relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most...

Not rated

Not rated

Firebird 2015 AD

1981 · Movie · 97 min. · Canada

Direction David M. Robertson

Cast Darren McGavin · Doug McClure · George Touliatos · Robert Wisden

Plot In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources...

Not rated

Not rated