The best Gerard Parkes’s drama movies

Gerard Parkes

Gerard Parkes

16/10/1924- 19/10/2014
Today we present the best Gerard Parkes’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gerard Parkes’s movies.

Mother Night

Mother Night
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/11/1996
  • Character: Father Patrick Keeley
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2
5.7/10
Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Speaking Parts

Speaking Parts
6.6/10
A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair. She becomes increasingly distraught as it becomes evident that the movie's producer is changing her story. Egoyan's trademark tangle of bizarre relationships surrounds the protagonists on their way to a mind-blowing conclusion.

The Adjuster

The Adjuster
6.6/10
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

Fight for Life

Fight for Life
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/03/1987
  • Character: Father Robert Hunt
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.

Isabel

Isabel
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 22/05/1968
  • Character: Uncle Matthew
Isabel takes place in a Canadian coastal village. Genevieve Bujold plays a girl, Isabel, whose flawlessly beautiful face masks the maelstrom swirling in her mind. She is haunted by the images of her family members, each of whom suffered a violent death. Believing herself the product of an incestuous relationship, Isabel enters into an affair with a young man who resembles her own brother.

Deeply

Deeply
5.9/10
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

This Time Forever

This Time Forever
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: Professor Saunders
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft.

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 17/10/2000
  • Character: Bruno Mettler
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.

A House Divided

A House Divided
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/07/2000
  • Character: Judge Stevens
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

The Last Winter

The Last Winter
6.4/10
Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

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