Canadian Film Watch List (Non-Documentary)
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1. Tit Coq (1953)
104 min | Drama, Romance, War
After returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
Directors: René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | Stars: Fred Barry, Monique Miller, Denise Pelletier, Clément Latour
Votes: 176
2. The Bitter Ash (1963)
80 min | Drama
Des works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Kent | Stars: Alan Scarfe, Lynn Stewart, Philip Brown, Diane Griffith
Votes: 57
3. Take It All (1963)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Claude Jutra, Johanne Harelle, Victor Désy, Tania Fédor
Votes: 383
4. Stop (1971)
85 min | Drama
A professional race car driver's obsession with winning races causes communication problems between him and his wife that threaten to separate them.
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Raymond Bouchard, Danielle Naud, Marie Tifo
Votes: 6
5. The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
115 min | Drama
A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon, Pauline Julien
Votes: 329
6. I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Young Priest Mark Brian is sent as a vicar to a native American village in British Columbia. There, he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley, Marianne Jones
Votes: 232
7. Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
96 min | Crime, Drama
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon, Therese Cadorette
Votes: 407
8. Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
PG | 102 min | Drama
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Director: Ján Kadár | Stars: Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeff Lynas
Votes: 587
9. Shadow of the Hawk (1976)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Horror
The Westernized grandson of a shaman returns to the wilderness to learn more about his Native American heritage. When he encounters powerful evil spirits, he enlists the aid of his lover and a local chief to stop the spirits.
Directors: George McCowan, Daryl Duke | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Marilyn Hassett, Chief Dan George, Pia Shandel
Votes: 644
10. The Brood (1979)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman
Votes: 34,341
11. In the Labyrinth (1967)
21 min | Animation, Short
A multi-image large-format film retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and symbolizing the life of a modern man; each one in a personal labyrinth that must find their own path to triumph.
Directors: Roman Kroitor, Colin Low, Hugh O'Connor
Votes: 115
12. Murder by Decree (1979)
PG | 124 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark
Votes: 6,603
13. Good Riddance (1980)
120 min | Drama
A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Louise Marleau
Votes: 772
14. Cordélia (1980)
116 min | Drama
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Louise Portal, Gaston Lepage, Raymond Cloutier, Gilbert Sicotte
Votes: 88
15. Quest for Fire (1981)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong
Votes: 24,141 | Gross: $20.96M
16. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
PG | 108 min | Drama
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 872
17. A War Story (1981)
82 min | Drama, War
A Canadian doctor interned at a Japanese POW Camp during WWII must tend to his fellow British prisoners who are being worked to death in a mine.
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Donald Sutherland, David Edney, Frank C. Turner, Doug Kier
Votes: 66
18. The Grey Fox (1982)
PG | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson
Votes: 2,496
19. Mario (1984)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy
Two very close brothers, one autistic, spend their days living in fantasy together until a girl inevitably comes between them.
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Xavier Norman Petermann, Francis Reddy, Nathalie Chalifour, Jacques Godin
Votes: 209
20. Crime Wave (1985)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy
A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Paizs | Stars: Eva Kovacs, John Paizs, Darrell Baran, Jeffrey Owen Madden
Votes: 726
21. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi
Votes: 8,698 | Gross: $1.90M
22. Loyalties (1986)
R | 98 min | Drama
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Kenneth Welsh, Tantoo Cardinal, Susan Wooldridge, Vera Martin
Votes: 131
23. Dead Ringers (1988)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon
Votes: 53,633 | Gross: $9.13M
24. Jesus of Montreal (1989)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard
Votes: 7,553 | Gross: $1.60M
25. Roadkill (1989)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Valerie Buhagiar, Gerry Quigley, Larry Hudson, Bruce McDonald
Votes: 733
26. Speaking Parts (1989)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, Tony Nardi
Votes: 1,571
27. Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
96 min | Drama
A young Native Canadian (First Nations person) fights to keep her culture and identity when she is abducted to a residential school.
Director: Bruce Pittman | Stars: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon
Votes: 293
28. The Adjuster (1991)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose
Votes: 3,763 | Gross: $0.40M
29. Conspiracy of Silence (1991– )
240 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a young Canadian Aboriginal girl is murdered in 1971, it takes 20 years of inaction and prejudice before the police finally find the real killers. Meanwhile the killers have to live with their own guilt and fear of being caught.
Stars: Michael Mahonen, Ian Tracey, Jonathan Potts, Diego Chambers
Votes: 236
30. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,713 | Gross: $2.54M
31. Leolo (1992)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 7,337 | Gross: $0.61M
32. Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (1992)
93 min | Crime, Drama
The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
Director: Robert Morin | Stars: Gildor Roy, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Brigitte Paquette, Sabrina Boudot
Votes: 450
33. Calendar (1993)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan, Michelle Bellerose
Votes: 2,361
34. Misery Loves Company (II) (1993)
60 min | Fantasy, Mystery
A distorted vision of trees and dreams.
Director: Carl Brown
Votes: 51
35. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Votes: 3,918 | Gross: $1.57M
36. Exotica (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, David Hemblen
Votes: 21,106 | Gross: $4.18M
37. Eldorado (1995)
104 min | Drama
It's summer and it's hot in Montreal, and we meet many people: Rita, the nice homeless girl, who moves to Roxan's house; Henriette, who falls in love with her neighbour, Lloyd, the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Robert Brouillette, James Hyndman, Macha Limonchik
Votes: 335 | Gross: $0.55M
38. Net Worth (1995 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama, Sport
The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Aidan Devine, Kevin Conway, Robin Gammell, Carl Marotte
Votes: 257
39. Cosmos (1996)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Immigrant cabbie connects nervous filmmaker, lawyer, mystery man, possibly HIV+ gay man. Comedy and tragedy mingle, awash in philosophy.
Directors: Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Pascal Contamine, France Castel, Marie-France Lambert
Votes: 954
40. Le polygraphe (1996)
92 min | Crime
Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Patrick Goyette, Marie Brassard, Peter Stormare, Maria de Medeiros
Votes: 467 | Gross: $0.06M
41. Behind the Lines (1997)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce
Votes: 2,500 | Gross: $0.02M
42. August 32nd on Earth (1998)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
After surviving a car wreck virtually unscathed, a young model compels her best friend to impregnate her at the salt flats in Utah.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Alexis Martin, Serge Thériault, Ivan Smith
Votes: 3,557
43. Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (1998)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.
Director: Robert Morin | Stars: Jacqueline Bousquet, Marcel Chouinard, Manuel Freitas, Robert Morin
Votes: 223
44. The Sleep Room (1998)
193 min | Biography, Drama
Based on a true story, this production relates the tale of two American lawyers who try to bring the U.S. government to its knees. In the early 1950s, the CIA funds a Montreal psychiatric ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Leon Pownall, Macha Grenon, Nicola Cavendish, Gabrielle Rose
Votes: 127
45. The Life Before This (1999)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea
Votes: 566
46. Riders (2000)
130 min | Drama, Crime
After an unpleasant run-in with a group of bikers, a young convenience store robber (Marc) gets approached by the same bikers to help out with a picnic. After the picnic, seeing he has guts... See full summary »
Director: Michel Jetté | Stars: Dominic Darceuil, David Boutin, Ronald Houle, Jean-Nicolas Verreault
Votes: 529 | Gross: $0.38M
47. Maelstrom (2000)
R | 87 min | Drama
After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau
Votes: 7,318 | Gross: $0.03M
48. Possible Worlds (2000)
93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Crime
A man lives in parallel worlds, falling in love with the same woman, while the police hunt down a serial killer who steals brains.
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon
Votes: 2,154
49. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
R | 172 min | Drama
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Votes: 6,862 | Gross: $3.79M
50. February 15, 1839 (2001)
120 min | Drama, History
French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.
Director: Pierre Falardeau | Stars: Luc Picard, Sylvie Drapeau, Frédéric Gilles, Pierre Rivard
Votes: 851 | Gross: $0.25M
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51. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,039 | Gross: $3.43M
52. The Far Side of the Moon (2003)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marco Poulin, Céline Bonnier
Votes: 1,979 | Gross: $0.01M
53. The Snow Walker (2003)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 11,376
54. It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A famous DJ in the Ibiza club scene finds the alcohol and drug-fueled party that is his life threatened by the progressive loss of his hearing.
Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, Mike Wilmot
Votes: 20,673 | Gross: $0.12M
55. Mémoires affectives (2004)
100 min | Drama
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Director: Francis Leclerc | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Guy Thauvette, Rosa Zacharie, Maka Kotto
Votes: 780
56. Lucid (2005)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Canadian therapist has one last chance to keep his own personal life afloat by avoiding a job transfer to Gimli and working to help three patients suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder.
Director: Sean Garrity | Stars: Jonas Chernick, Callum Keith Rennie, Michelle Nolden, Lindy Booth
Votes: 303
57. The Rocket (2005)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton, Philip Craig
Votes: 5,456
58. Continental, a Film Without Guns (2007)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur | Stars: Marie-Ginette Guay, Gilbert Sicotte, Fanny Mallette, Réal Bossé
Votes: 680
59. Days of Darkness (2007)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jean-Marc Leblanc (Labrèche), a desperate civil servant, escapes reality as we know it by imagining himself as the hero in imaginary adventures.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger, Sylvie Léonard, Caroline Néron
Votes: 3,209
60. Poor Boy's Game (2007)
R | 104 min | Drama
On his release from prison for the brutal beating of a black man, Donnie, a young white boxer, is coached by his victim's father, George for an upcoming fight against a talented and vengeful opponent, Ossie.
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Flex Alexander, Greg Bryk
Votes: 1,400
61. Contre toute espérance (2007)
89 min | Drama
Covered in blood, Réjeanne Poulin is in a near comatose state as she, a suspect, is being questioned by the police into the death of her husband, Gilles Dubuc, whose gunshot dead body was ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Émond | Stars: Guylaine Tremblay, Guy Jodoin, Gildor Roy, René-Daniel Dubois
Votes: 211
62. Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (2008)
PG | 102 min | Drama
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to ... See full summary »
Director: Benoit Pilon | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas, Paul-André Brasseur, Louise Marleau
Votes: 1,022
63. Toronto Stories (2008)
89 min | Drama
Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.
Directors: Sook-Yin Lee, Sudz Sutherland, David Weaver, Aaron Woodley | Stars: Gil Bellows, Sook-Yin Lee, K.C. Collins, Carly Pope
Votes: 357
64. Tout est parfait (2008)
R | 118 min | Drama
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas's dead body. Next, he discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Christian Fournier | Stars: Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Maxime Bessette, Jean-Noel Raymond-Jetté
Votes: 1,063
65. 1999 (2009)
111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Chronicling the trials and tribulations of three young Tamil men. A bright underachiever, the impressionable 23-year old Anpu, who lives with his no-nonsense disciplinarian father. Trapped ... See full summary »
Director: Lenin M. Sivam | Stars: Lucsy Ag, Madona T. Alphonse, Ketheeswaran Ampalavanar, K.S. Balachandran
Votes: 76
66. Je me souviens (I) (2009)
86 min | Drama
In Abitibi, in 1948, Richard Bombardier, a miner,dies tragically on Saint-Valentine's Day night. The entire mining community believes it was Mathilde his wife, who killed him, which is not ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Michel Barrette, Céline Bonnier, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, David Boutin
Votes: 161
67. Polytechnique (2009)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier
Votes: 19,038
68. Barney's Version (2010)
R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon
Votes: 26,256 | Gross: $7.50M
69. The Illusionist (2010)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil, Raymond Mearns
Votes: 36,525 | Gross: $2.23M
70. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 200,656 | Gross: $6.86M
71. Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (2010)
Biography, Drama, Sport
Chronicles the life of Don Cherry, from playing minor league hockey to coaching the NHL's Boston Bruins.
Stars: Jared Keeso, Sarah Manninen, Aidan Devine, Gord James
Votes: 376
72. Barrymore (2011)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III.
Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Christopher Plummer, John Plumpis
Votes: 406
73. Familiar Grounds (2011)
90 min | Drama
Benoit and Maryse: a brother and sister with seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences... and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur | Stars: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel
Votes: 542
74. L'affaire Dumont (2012)
121 min | Drama
Michel Dumont is a delivery boy for a grocery store. Divorced and father of two young children, is accused and condemned for a Sexual aggression that he refuses to acknowledge.
Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Marc-André Grondin, Marilyn Castonguay, Sarianne Cormier, Kathleen Fortin
Votes: 527
75. Camion (2012)
G | 95 min | Drama
Germain and his sons try to turn their family dynamic upside down so they will have hope for the future.
Director: Rafaël Ouellet | Stars: Julien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Maude Giguère, Jacob Tierney
Votes: 367
76. Mars and April (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Based on an acclaimed graphic novel, Mars & Avril is set in Montreal of the future, at the dawn of the first human landing on Mars, and tells the story of a musician who becomes obsessed with his muse.
Director: Martin Villeneuve | Stars: Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage
Votes: 872
77. Wrath of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II (2012)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
2 part miniseries on Don Cherry, following his days coaching in the AHL and his time spent on Hockey Night in Canada with Ron MacLean.
Stars: Jared Keeso, Sarah Manninen, Tyler Johnston, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 257
78. Jack (2013 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Drama
The life story of Jack Layton, the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party who passed away in 2011 only months after leading his party to a historic victory.
Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: Rick Roberts, Sook-Yin Lee, Zachary Bennett, Joel Keller
Votes: 116
79. La maison du pêcheur (2013)
97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story that traces the summer of the future Chénier FLQ cell, at Gaspé, one year before the October Crisis in 1970.
Director: Alain Chartrand | Stars: Mikhaïl Ahooja, Benoît Langlais, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Charles-Alexandre Dubé
Votes: 96
80. Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story (2013 TV Movie)
PG | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of 44.
Director: Andy Mikita | Stars: Michael Shanks, Kathleen Robertson, Martin Cummins, Dylan Playfair
Votes: 934
81. Triptych (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Triptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller, her sister Marie, a singer and actress, and Thomas, a German neurologist and Maries future husband.
Directors: Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires | Stars: Frédérike Bédard, Lise Castonguay, Hans Piesbergen, Rebecca Blankenship
Votes: 208
82. Whitewash (I) (2013)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Thomas Haden Church stars in this darkly comic thriller about a snowplow driver who, after accidentally killing a man, attempts to escape the cops by fleeing into the harsh Canadian wilderness.
Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Marc Labrèche, Anie Pascale, Sylvio Archambault
Votes: 1,789
83. Gaetan (2014)
52 min | Drama
The dark side of Montréal's South Central neighborhood. A documentary film crew follows Gaetan, a hitman, in his daily life.
Directors: Jules Falardeau, Naim Kasmi | Star: Gaetan Gordon
Votes: 40
84. L'ange gardien (2014)
95 min | Drama
Norman, a retired police officer, works as a night security guard in a building. One evening, he surprised Nathalie and Guylain committing a robbery and, after a chase in the building, they... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Sébastien Lord | Stars: Guy Nadon, Marilyn Castonguay, Patrick Hivon, Véronique Le Flaguais
Votes: 87
85. Sitting on the Edge of Marlene (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This darkly comic drama centers on mother/daughter con artists. Sammie lives with her pill-popping, alcoholic mom Marlene - this bittersweet journey leads us through their dysfunction, love & addiction, before an unusual deliverance.
Director: Ana Valine | Stars: Suzanne Clément, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Callum Keith Rennie, Dakota Daulby
Votes: 84
86. Eadweard (2015)
Unrated | 104 min | Biography, Drama
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge launches his pioneering movement studies while attempting to keep his marriage intact and staving off morality forces that view the images he captures as degenerate.
Director: Kyle Rideout | Stars: Michael Eklund, Sara Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Charlie Carrick
Votes: 659
87. Hello Destroyer (2016)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A young hockey player deals with the consequences of hockey violence after he critically injures another player during a game.
Director: Kevan Funk | Stars: Ian Tracey, Ben Cotton, Sara Canning, Darren Mann
Votes: 376
88. Seances (2016)
13 min | Short, Mystery
Pieces of film are randomly composited together via computer to create unique short films that can be seen once and never again.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Deena Aziz, Vasco Bailly-Gentaud, Jacques Bonnaffé
Votes: 158
89. Endorphine (2015)
PG | 84 min | Drama
Complex time shifting drama revolving about a violent senseless murder and young witness.
Director: André Turpin | Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Mylène Mackay, Lise Roy, Guy Thauvette
Votes: 706
90. Zigrail (1995)
78 min
André and Kim are a young couple living together in Montréal. André works with his family in Bungee jumping business while Kim must go to study in Turkey. André stays at home until he ... See full summary »
Director: André Turpin | Stars: André Charlebois, Dorothée Berryman, Ariane Cordeau, Sonia Vigneault
Votes: 73
91. Soft Shell Man (2001)
102 min | Drama, Romance
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Director: André Turpin | Stars: David La Haye, Isabelle Blais, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Chantal Giroux
Votes: 855
92. Treed Murray (2001)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.
Director: William Phillips | Stars: David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Clé Bennett, Kevin Duhaney
Votes: 1,594
93. Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school.
Director: Jeff Barnaby | Stars: Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould, Brandon Oakes, Roseanne Supernault
Votes: 1,470 | Gross: $0.00M
94. Searchers (2016)
94 min | Drama
Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
Directors: Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq | Stars: Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu, Jonah Qunaq, Apayata Kotierk
Votes: 226
95. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
112 min | Drama
A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.
Directors: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut, Natar Ungalaaq
Votes: 385
96. Latitude 55° (1982)
102 min
A snowstorm in Northern Canada strands a woman from the Department of Culture, near a trappers cabin. The two gradually become acquainted within the confines of the cabin. The denouement is poignant.
Director: John Juliani | Stars: Andrée Pelletier, August Schellenberg
Votes: 8
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