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Based in Santa Monica, California, Myriad Pictures is a leading independent entertainment company specializing in production, financing and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programming. President and CEO Kirk D’Amico opened the company in 1999 and has built a diverse library of art house and mainstream programming. Mr. D’Amico was named one of the Top 50 independent producers in the annual list published by The Hollywood Reporter, and is a member of the Board of Directors of IFTA.
In 2009 Myriad supported the Academy Award campaign for director Bruno Barreto’s Last Stop 174, which was Brazil’s Official Selection to the 2009 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Myriad’s library includes; Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett, Factory Girl, starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce, Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce, Serious Moonlight, starring Meg Ryan, Tim Hutton and Kristen Bell, Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, the Van Wilder trilogy and Jeepers Creepers 2.
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Inescapable (2013)
, 1h33Directed by Ruba Nadda
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson, Oded Fehr
Adib (Alexander Siddig), was an officer in the Syrian military police twenty-five years ago, when he suddenly defected to Canada under suspicious circumstances, abandoning his fiancee Fatima (Marisa Tomei). With his wife, two daughters, and a steady job in Toronto, Adib is confident he's put his past behind him. But when his daughter Muna suddenly disappears in Damascus, his past threatens to violently catch up to him. Adib teams up with a Canadian emissary (Joshua Jackson), Adib evades former colleagues that are pursuing him. Both a mystery drama and a spy thriller, Inescapable is an action-packed thriller driven by a father's selfless dedication to his daughter.
Freeloaders (2012)
, 1h17Directed by Dan Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Olivia Munn, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jane Seymour, Kevin Heffernan, Brit Morgan, Steve Lemme
Cinq hommes et une femme vivant dans la demeure luxueuse d'une rock star, voient leur style de vie menacé.
Alabama Moon (2011)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Jimmy Bennett, John Goodman, Gabriel Basso III, Uriah Shelton, Clint Howard, John McConnell
Good Neighbours (2011)
, 1h38Directed by Jacob Tierney
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Emily Hamilton, Scott Speedman, Xavier Dolan, Gary Farmer
Louise works as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal where she lives. She has become obsessed with the story of a recent spate of serial murders committed in the area, and scours newspapers for stories about each victim. The latest victim is a co-worker who last spoke of a blond, muscular man she met at the bar, and with whom she had a drink after she got off work at midnight. Louise's wheelchair-bound neighbour, Spencer, shares her interest to a point but values his privacy and solitude. When Victor, an awkward and talkative elementary school teacher, moves in to their apartment complex, he ingratiates himself into their lives and attempts to strike up a friendship, which they reluctantly accept. Louise, who prefers the company of her cats to humans, warms to Victor when he reveals that he is also a cat owner.
Elektra Luxx (2010)
, 1h44Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about pornography, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant, Adrianne Palicki, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Malin Åkerman
Pregnant porn star Elektra Luxx is trying to make a living teaching sex classes to housewives. But her life is thrown into disarray when a flight attendant with ties to Elektra's past approaches her for a favor. Chaos ensues as fiancées, private investigators, a twin sister and even the Virgin Mary force her to face up to an unexpected series of decisions and revelations in her life.
Main Street (2010)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth, Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn, Patricia Clarkson
Each of the colorful citizens of a close-knit North Carolina community—from a once-wealthy tobacco heiress to the city's mayor to a local police officer—will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
The Other Side (2010)
Origin USA
Actors Olivia Thirlby, Woody Harrelson, Anjelica Huston, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Kieran Culkin
Max Mackenzie (Olivia Thirlby), an over-achieving science student, receives a scholarship by Marston I and Marston II (Woody Harrelson) to study fish on the remote Destiny Island. On the island she meets an array of odd citizens leading her to discover a tragedy that happened on the island years prior. She also falls in love with Sean Splinter (Giovanni Ribisi), the mayor's son.
Women in Trouble (2009)
, 1h32Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornography
Actors Carla Gugino, Connie Britton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marley Shelton, Elizabeth Berkley, Cameron Richardsons
The film focuses on six women in Los Angeles as their lives become intertwined in the course of 24 hours.
Uncertainty (2009)
, 1h45Directed by Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Viola Lynn Collins, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Assumpta Serna, Olivia Thirlby, Jenn Colella
Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young couple who have been together ten months. Kate is 11 weeks pregnant. They can't make up their minds where to go on the Fourth of July, or whether to have the baby, so they decide to flip a coin. After Bobby flips the coin, they both run off Brooklyn Bridge in opposite directions. From that moment on two separate storylines are followed.
The Wild Stallion (2009)
, 1h25Directed by Craig Clyde
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Miranda Cosgrove, Danielle Chuchran, Connie Sellecca, Fred Ward, Robert Wagner, K.C. Clyde
The Wild Stallion is about an 11-year-old girl from Cleveland, Ohio named Hanna Mills (Miranda Cosgrove), who wants to photograph wild horses for a project and to try to help save them. After visiting a ranch during summer vacation and befriending another 11-year-old girl named CJ (Danielle Chuchran), the girl learns about illegal activities that might jeopardize the mustangs. Along the way she learns about the horses including the legend of the black stallion.
Birds of America (2008)
, 1h25Directed by Craig Lucas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Matthew Perry, Ben Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lauren Graham, Zoë Naelle Kravitz, Hilary Swank
All Morrie's wife wants is to start a family. But when Morrie's two siblings show up needing a place to stay will they be able to juggle the pressure, or will it all be too much?
Comeback Season (2006)
, 1h39Directed by Bruce McCulloch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Ray Liotta, Shaun Sipos, Glenne Headly, Rachel Blanchard, Brooke Nevin, Brendan Fehr
Walter Pearce, mari volage, tente l'impossible pour regagner le coeur de sa femme. Un ancien champion de football américain lui prête main forte.
Deeply (2000)
, 1h41Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Molly Dunsworth, Trent Ford, Brent Carver, Alberta Watson
Claire McKay (Julia Brendler)—having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an eccentric writer, Celia (Lynn Redgrave), who in flashbacks, relates her own story as a grief-stricken teenager in 1949. Celia—Silly (Kirsten Dunst) in the flashbacks—is the next chosen victim of a Viking curse which was placed on the island centuries ago when their longship sank in the bay.