The best Sarah Polley’s movies

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

08/01/1979 (44 años)
We present our ranking of the best Sarah Polley’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Sarah Polley.
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Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead
7.3/10
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Splice

Splice
5.8/10
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Mr. Nobody

Mr. Nobody
7.8/10
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

eXistenZ

eXistenZ
6.8/10
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.

Exotica

Exotica
7/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 30/11/1994
  • Character: Tracey Brown
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
7.1/10
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

The I Inside

The I Inside
6/10
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me
7.4/10
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Beowulf & Grendel

Beowulf & Grendel
5.8/10
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.

Go

Go
7.2/10
Grocery store clerk Simon occasionally sells drugs from his cash register at work, so when soap opera actors Adam and Zack come looking for Ecstasy on a quiet Christmas Eve, they are surprised to find Ronna covering his shift. Desperate for money, Ronna decides to become an impromptu drug dealer, unaware that Adam and Zack are secretly working for obsessed narcotics officer Burke.

The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/09/1997
  • Character: Nicole Burnell
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.

Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/05/2005
  • Character: Sky
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water
5.8/10
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.

Last Night

Last Night
7.1/10
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 12/10/2012
  • Character: Herself (uncredited)
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

One Magic Christmas

One Magic Christmas
6.4/10
  • Genre: FamilyFantasy
  • Release: 22/11/1985
  • Character: Molly Monaghan
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.

The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words
7.4/10
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.

The Claim

The Claim
6.3/10
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

The Hanging Garden

The Hanging Garden
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/09/1997
  • Character: Teen Rosemary
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.

The Big Town

The Big Town
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/09/1987
  • Character: Christy Donaldson
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.

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