Directed by Atom Egoyan

Directed by Atom Egoyan

14 Episodes

The formally adventurous and psychologically intricate films of ever-fascinating Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan unfold according to complex, time-scrambling structures that heighten their searing emotional impact. Exploring issues of identity (including his own Armenian heritage), loss, alienation, and technology, Egoyan’s films frequently revolve around people struggling to make sense of their own shattered sense of self in the wake of profound personal tragedies. His provocative themes and elliptical style are on display in early critical triumphs like FAMILY VIEWING and SPEAKING PARTS and reach new heights of virtuosity in the riveting psychological dramas FELICIA’S JOURNEY, EXOTICA, and THE SWEET HEREAFTER, the last of which has been hailed as one of the greatest Canadian films of all time.

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Directed by Atom Egoyan
  • Atom Egoyan Interview

    Episode 1

    This new piece with writer-director Atom Egoyan was recorded in 2020.

  • Chloe

    Episode 2

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2009 • United States, Canada, France
    Starring Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson

    In director Atom Egoyan’s sexy, stylish thriller about jealousy and desire, successful doctor Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) grows increasingly convinced that her husband, Dav...

  • Felicia’s Journey

    Episode 3

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1999 • Canada, United Kingdom
    Starring Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian

    Atom Egoyan’s haunting adaptation of the novel by William Trevor is a Hitchcockian psychological thriller that swirls around the filmmaker’s signature themes of fate and loss. Felicia (...

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Episode 4

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2005 • United Kingdom, Canada
    Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman

    In 1957, a young woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hotel room of a superstar, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis–esque comedy team. Now, fifteen years later, journalist Kare...

  • Family Viewing

    Episode 5

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1987 • Canada
    Starring David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose

    The fractured family of Atom Egoyan’s darkly comic second feature consists of Stan (David Hemblen), a mild sexual sadist; Sandra (Gabrielle Rose), his live-in mistress and video bondage partner; and his...

  • Next of Kin

    Episode 6

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1984 • Canada
    Starring Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian

    Atom Egoyan’s striking debut finds the director already working through the themes of technology, isolation, and identity that recur obsessively throughout his work. Peter (Patrick Tierney) is cataton...

  • Speaking Parts

    Episode 7

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1989 • Canada
    Starring Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose

    Haunting images and obsessive sexuality merge in this postmodern thriller about loss, love, power, and the distance that modern technology puts between us. The story of four people—an actor/gigolo ...

  • Calendar

    Episode 8

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1993 • Canada
    Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan

    Atom Egoyan’s at once witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory, and displacement stars the director as a Canadian photographer who, while on an assignment shooting churches in Armenia, fi...

  • The Sweet Hereafter

    Episode 9

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1997 • Canada
    Starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood

    Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Atom Egoyan’s masterful adaptation of a novel by Russell Banks traces the aftermath of a school bus accident in a small Canadian town that leaves fourteen children dead. W...

  • Exotica

    Episode 10

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1994 • Canada
    Starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas

    One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan’s mesmerizing international breakthrough EXOTICA takes the conventions of the psychological thriller into bold new territory—unsettling, dr...

  • The Adjuster

    Episode 11

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
    Starring Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin

    Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is an insurance claims adjuster who attends to his clients’ every need—including their sexual ones. His wife, Hera (Arsinée Khanjian), is a government censor who spends her d...

  • Artaud Double Bill

    Episode 12

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 2007 • France
    Starring Antonin Artaud, Maury Chaykin

    ARTAUD DOUBLE BILL is a short Atom Egoyan made for the 2007 anthology film CHACUN SON CINÉMA, commissioned for the sixtieth edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

  • En passant

    Episode 13

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1991 • Canada
    Starring Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin

    In 1991, six of Canada’s most talented directors collaborated on MONTRÉAL VU PAR . . ., a cinematic tribute to the city of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th birthday. Atom Egoyan’s contribution, EN PASSANT, conj...

  • Peep Show

    Episode 14

    Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1981 • Canada
    Starring John Ball

    Atom Egoyan made the short film PEEP SHOW in 1981, during his studies at the University of Toronto.