Carl Bessai

Carl Bessai

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Carl Bessai (born 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Bessai studied at OCAD University and at York University in Toronto graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree. He got his start directing documentary films before moving to Vancouver and directing his debut feature film Johnny in 1999. Bessai has made a career working on low-budget independent features but has worked with A-List actors Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger on his film Emile and Carrie-Anne Moss on his film Normal. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for the latter film. Bessai is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada, the Writer’s Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Film and Television Producer's Association. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Bessai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Carl Bessai
  • Popularity: 2.1
  • Known For: Directing
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Carl Bessai Movies

  • 2005
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    Severed

    Severed

    5.1 2005 HD

    A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

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  • 2005
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    Severed

    Severed

    5.1 2005 HD

    A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

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  • 1999
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    Johnny

    Johnny

    5 1999 HD

    Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous...

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  • 2006
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    Unnatural & Accidental

    Unnatural & Accidental

    4.1 2006 HD

    Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been...

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  • 2003
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    Émile

    Émile

    5.9 2003 HD

    In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.

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  • 2007
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    Normal

    Normal

    5.5 2007 HD

    A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

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  • 2009
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    Gloves of Stone

    Gloves of Stone

    4.2 2009 HD

    Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together...

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  • 2011
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    Repeaters

    Repeaters

    5.8 2011 HD

    A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the...

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  • 2009
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    Cole

    Cole

    6.5 2009 HD

    A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home...

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  • 2011
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    Sisters & Brothers

    Sisters & Brothers

    5.5 2011 HD

    Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?

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  • 2008
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    Mothers & Daughters

    Mothers & Daughters

    1 2008 HD

    Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

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  • 2014
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    No Clue

    No Clue

    5 2014 HD

    When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life...

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  • 2013
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    Embrace of the Vampire

    Embrace of the Vampire

    4.38 2013 HD

    Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university....

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  • 2014
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    Bad City

    Bad City

    3.5 2014 HD

    Bad City is on the edge of falling into the hands of a madman, you dig? A strange and funky new party drug is killing kids left and right and that...

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  • 2014
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    Mr. Miracle

    Mr. Miracle

    5.969 2014 HD

    Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after...

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  • 2015
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    Rehearsal

    Rehearsal

    3 2015 HD

    Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the...

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  • 2015
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    Rehearsal

    Rehearsal

    3 2015 HD

    Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the...

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  • 2015
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    Ungodly Acts

    Ungodly Acts

    4.3 2015 HD

    Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide. But...

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  • 2014
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    Bad City

    Bad City

    3.5 2014 HD

    Bad City is on the edge of falling into the hands of a madman, you dig? A strange and funky new party drug is killing kids left and right and that...

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  • 1999
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    Johnny

    Johnny

    5 1999 HD

    Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous...

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  • 2005
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    Floored by Love

    Floored by Love

    3.3 2005 HD

    A lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a family with a gay teen son taking in an unexpected visitor from the past find their lives not so far...

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  • 2001
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    Lola

    Lola

    4.6 2001 HD

    The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life...

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  • 2017
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    The Lears

    The Lears

    5.3 2017 HD

    A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.

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  • 2017
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    The Lears

    The Lears

    5.3 2017 HD

    A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.

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  • 2011
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    Sisters & Brothers

    Sisters & Brothers

    5.5 2011 HD

    Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?

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  • 2011
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    Sisters & Brothers

    Sisters & Brothers

    5.5 2011 HD

    Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?

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  • 2011
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    Sisters & Brothers

    Sisters & Brothers

    5.5 2011 HD

    Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?

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  • 2010
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    Fathers & Sons

    Fathers & Sons

    3.5 2010 HD

    Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

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  • 2010
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    Fathers & Sons

    Fathers & Sons

    3.5 2010 HD

    Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

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  • 2024
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    WAR TIMES

    WAR TIMES

    1 2024 HD

    An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.

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  • 2007
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    Normal

    Normal

    5.5 2007 HD

    A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

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  • 2014
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    No Clue

    No Clue

    5 2014 HD

    When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life...

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  • 2011
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    Repeaters

    Repeaters

    5.8 2011 HD

    A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the...

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  • 2018
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    Kreuzberg

    Kreuzberg

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2010
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    Fathers & Sons

    Fathers & Sons

    3.5 2010 HD

    Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

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  • 2010
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    Fathers & Sons

    Fathers & Sons

    3.5 2010 HD

    Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for...

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  • 2015
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    Rehearsal

    Rehearsal

    3 2015 HD

    Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the...

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  • 1999
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    Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan

    Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan

    1 1999 HD

    "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." -...

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  • 1970
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    4.8 1970 HD

    Millie Upton is a successful children's author who's prone to flying off the handle. Stan Dirko is Millie's less-than-qualified life-coach. Together,...

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