Ruth Lawrence Movies

A young man struggles to explain the cultural nuance of saying "I love you" in Spanish to his English-speaking lovers.

When Tommy is fired twice in the same week and finds out his brilliant best friend and lifeline, Costa, is leaving the country for a better job, he...

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.

Didi and Max are the most competitive best friends in the fourth grade. But their friendship hangs in the balance when Principal Jack announces a...

A hit man performs a morning job and an afternoon job then that evening he goes out on a blind date (on line date). Is this another hit or just a...

A father strives to give his daughter a perfect life full of happy memories, in spite of a troubling diagnosis and a partner overseas.

An 11 year old boy pays a farewell visit to his estranged father. What ensues is a strained and inappropriate, but heartfelt exchange between a...

A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors...

The biggest snowstorm of 1988 leaves Tom stranded in a tiny basement apartment with his worst nightmare.

Claudia Guillermo, a Cuban graduate student in a foreign city, and is having a very, very bad day. A wallet left at home is getting in the way of...

A novelist becomes trapped in an elevator with two of her biggest critics.

While out blueberry picking in rural Newfoundland, a young woman finds herself mysteriously lost in the company of a stranger.

In discovering the secret past of an old St. John's neighborhood, a family learns that love can lead down an uncharted road that is best followed...

A graduate of an elite training school is determined to discover the identity of her lost father. She begins a dangerous journey, meeting an array of...

An incisive nuanced look at a family crumbling after their father returns from a war. Before the war showcases Tamara's love and understanding of the...

The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win...

Margaret Moores, a novelist, gets herself cloned so the clone can pump out pages and do the housework while she spends time with her family. The...

Between Two Walls is a political thriller about an aspiring politician whose bid to secure top office is threatened when a dark secret from his past...

After 30 years of salt beef and baloney, the instinctively vegan Isabel hops a bay bus to the city supermarket. But a nosy stock boy, a cashier with...

The Cut of It is a unique exploration of the decisions real women made when they were diagnosed with cancer.