Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Nominees and Winners
The Genies are the major Canadian film awards.
I'm surprised this list doesn't exist yet! It'll be a good way to find good-quality Canadian films.
1980-present.
I list the winner first, followed by the other nominees. If you like this list, you'll love my others. :)
I'm surprised this list doesn't exist yet! It'll be a good way to find good-quality Canadian films.
1980-present.
I list the winner first, followed by the other nominees. If you like this list, you'll love my others. :)
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- DirectorBob ClarkStarsChristopher PlummerJames MasonDavid HemmingsSherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.1st Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorPeter CarterStarsJeff EastRod SteigerAngie DickinsonThis movie chronicled Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsJulie VincentGermain HoudePaul SavoieA director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsWill SampsonDon FrancksCharles FieldsAn embittered, hard-drinking Indian finds himself befriending a young white farmboy, and together they determine to help him end his drinking problems and return to his former life.
- DirectorEric TillStarsLinda BlairRichard CrennaHelen HughesA teenage girl (Hank) tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dogmeat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range. Based on the novel "The Wild Horse Killers".
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsCharlotte LaurierMarie TifoGermain HoudeA 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.2nd Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsJack LemmonRobby BensonLee RemickA shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
- DirectorZale DalenStarsThomas PeacockeFrances HylandBarry MorseIt's the winter of 1940. Father Athol Murray - "Pere" to most that know him - is an opinionated, chain-smoking, hard drinking parish priest at Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. His strong opinions include his disdain for socialism as epitomized by the CCF party in Saskatchewan and the current war which has claimed too many lives including those of former students, needing to raise money to operate the College by whatever means, and not wanting others to emulate his vices - especially not wanting the students and women to smoke - while he blissfully enjoys those vices himself. Despite these views, he is beloved by most that know him, although he often is the cause for consternation of the area's bishop, Bishop Williams. Pere may face backlash in the form of Ron Fryer, a new student to the College. Despite needing to "triumph over adversity" - his unofficial motto - every day in operating the College on a shoestring, a hockey game between the College's team, the Hounds, against the Moose Jaw Canucks, and the events immediately following may test Pere's resolve in dealing with adversity, and how it affects his students, including Fryer.
- DirectorJean-Claude LabrecqueStarsGabriel ArcandAugust SchellenbergThomas DonohueIn 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsJocelyn BérubéAndrée PelletierJanette BertrandLe film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l'histoire d'un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d'un autre âge sont à l'origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout particulièrement lorsqu'il s'amourache d'une belle bourgeoise dont il est l'homme à tout faire.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGabriel ArcandRémi LaurentPierre CurziThe lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.3rd Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohanA scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsEllen BurstynTom SkerrittGordon PinsentBased on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 1900's through to the Depression.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsMargot KidderAnnie PottsRobert CarradineA young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are polar opposites, the wife moves in with the young woman, and finds out that they have much more in common than she realized.
- DirectorRalph L. ThomasStarsNick MancusoSaul RubinekMeg FosterDavid 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 David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
- DirectorPhillip BorsosStarsRichard FarnsworthJackie BurroughsKen PogueWhen an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.4th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorRex BromfieldStarsGlynnis O'ConnorPaul SorvinoBurton CummingsA young woman battles to regain custody of her son.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsMarthe NadeauMichèle MagnyPierre CurziThree generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
- DirectorRobert MénardStarsGilles RenaudJean YanneYvon Dufour
- DirectorEric TillStarsMarc SingerR.H. ThomsonSarah TorgovA light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsPeter BillingsleyMelinda DillonDarren McGavinIn the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.5th Genie Awards Winner (tie)
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.5th Genie Awards Winner (tie)
- DirectorBruno CarrièreStarsPierre CurziRoger BlayMarie TifoMontreal provides a backdrop for this intriguing, fast-paced political drama about the later, dangerous interactions of two boys who first became best friends during their years at an orphanage. Once the boys leave the orphanage to continue their separate ways as adults, they keep in touch with each other even though they disagree on almost all the major issues in life.
- DirectorJack DarcusStarsJon BrydenNoel BurtonTy HallerLouis is a 27-year-old reservist and patriot, as is his childhood friend and longtime rival Bastien, who sees the war, like everything else, as an opportunity. One night, as their unit sleeps near the front, they're bombed. Louis and his comrades fall back in disarray and in the general panic lose their regiment. When they locate it again a few hours later, their general accuses them of desertion.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsGuy L'EcuyerMichel CôtéPierre GiardA friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
- DirectorBrigitte SauriolStarsMadeleine ArsenaultLothaire BluteauJimmy BondA family on vacation must deal with its long-held dark secret when the traumatized eldest daughter tries to break the silence and make her father stop sexually abusing her. Unfortunately, that may prove to be next to impossible.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsPascale BussièresMarcia PilotePierre F. FauteuxTwo teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.6th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsPatrick TierneyBerj FazlianSirvart FazlianUnhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
- DirectorJean Pierre LefebvreStarsPierre CurziMichel DaigleViolaine EstérezA middle-aged man haunted by feelings and memories takes a day off work for reflection and recollection of his past love affairs.
- DirectorDon OwenStarsIsabelle MejiasPeter SpenceLeslie TothSeventeen year old Isabelle Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life directionless. Isabelle becomes involved with an anti-nuclear group that her boyfriend Jessie 'Fixit' is connected with and is arrested at a demonstration.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsPaule BaillargeonLouise MarleauMarthe TurgeonMaking a film in her native town, a director finds inspiration in a woman, Estelle David, seen wandering through a hotel.
- DirectorSandy WilsonStarsMargaret LangrickJohn WildmanRichard DonatAdding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another long summer of cherry picking when suddenly her older, James Dean-cool cousin Butch (John Wildman) arrives unexpectedly from California in a red Cadillac convertible. Sandy and her pre-teen friends fall madly for Butch's rock 'n' roll swagger, but he's more interested in making time with the local girls and getting in fistfights than in playing chauffeur to Sandy. Both have a lot to learn about life and each other, but united under the strict parental rule of Sandy's dad, they vow to make this summer a truly unforgettable experience. Capturing the restlessness of youth with a fresh and funny perspective, Wilson's genuinely charming period piece is forever reaching for lost innocence as it playfully contrasts Canadian and American attitudes. My American Cousin has remained a consistent favourite for Canadians and non-Canadians.7th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsSerge DupireMonique SpazianiJean CarmetFlorent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsPaule BaillargeonGinette BoivinClaude DesjardinsIn Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsJames WoodsGabrielle LazureAlan ArkinThe story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
- DirectorGiles WalkerStarsStefan WodoslawskyChristine PakSam Grana90 Days is a tongue-in-cheek look at the misadventures of two modern men in search of romantic bliss: macho Alex, who receives the offer of a lifetime from a mysterious woman, and sincere Blue, who goes to extravagant lengths to find the perfect bride. A classic example of the philandering husband, Alex is caught in a bind. Wife and girlfriend abandon him simultaneously. One suitcase and his golf clubs bear silent witness. But, as if by magic, a new woman appears in Alex's life. Lacking the bravado of Alex, Blue has discovered a new approach to happiness - the written word. In his relentless search for the perfect woman, he has resorted to the Cherry Blossoms catologue for a mail-order bride from Korea. He has 90 days to make up his mind before her visa expires.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.8th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorLeon MarrStarsMartha HenryNeil MunroAnne ButlerThe present unfolds along with scenes from the past in this intense psychological drama about Edna, a woman in the hospital who each day writes down her memories.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsMarie TifoPierre CurziJacques GodinA government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
- DirectorJohn N. SmithStarsGaston BelangerSally BochnerAndré A. BélangerFour teenagers in Montréal deal with issues like poverty, teenage pregnancy, and the importance of having a community.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsKenneth WelshTantoo CardinalSusan WooldridgeLily 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 conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsGilles MaheuRoger LebelCorrado MastropasquaMarcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess...9th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsDavid HemblenAidan TierneyGabrielle RoseVan's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.
- DirectorMarquise LepageStarsFrédérique CollinGenevieve LenoirDenis LevasseurMary, a 13-year old runaway going through an identity crisis, lands in Montreal and meets a fortyish prostitute who will become a maternal role model for the teenager.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsSheila McCarthyPaule BaillargeonAnn-Marie MacDonaldScatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- DirectorJohn N. SmithStarsJason St. AmourMarcella Santa MariaChristopher NeilAt 16, Tony is an English-speaking high-school drop-out in Montreal. In trouble with the law and at odds with his struggling single parent mother, Tony is sent to Juvie where he realizes that he's neither as tough or as disadvantaged as he thought. Then he comes home on a weekend pass only to find his younger brother following in his footsteps.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsGeneviève BujoldHeidi von PalleskeTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.10th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorRoger CardinalStarsElias KoteasKerrie KeaneAl WaxmanBased on Victor Malarek's best-selling autobiography, this is the true story of a streetwise kid who emerges from a violent and unjust background to become one of journalism's top reporters.
- DirectorJackie BurroughsLouise ClarkJohn FrizzellStarsJackie BurroughsHernando GonzálesAnita OlanickMaryse Holden, a professor, feminist activist spent the last months before her murder in Mexico on "a break from feminism" that became a sexually iconic story reflect in her posthumous book "Give Sorrow Words". The film portrays this period of her life bluntly and brilliantly by Jackie Burroughs.
- DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsMonique SpazianiGabriel ArcandMiou-MiouA quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsRon WhiteZachary AnsleyJanet-Laine GreenAs long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are shattered when a traffic accident kills his mother, and his father takes so badly to drink that Shane becomes the de facto head of the household. When his grandfather dies, leaving Shane a small ranch in his will, he hopes that his dream might come true at last. But how can a 14-year-old boy turn the run-down place around and keep the banker from seizing it, while attending school and looking after a father who is usually in the liability column?
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA 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.11th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorJean BeaudryFrançois BouvierStarsJean BeaudryDenis BouchardLaurent Faubert-BouvierTwo men deal with the ups and downs of the creative process and passing the age of thirty.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsMichael McManusArsinée KhanjianGabrielle RoseA 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.
- DirectorJohn N. SmithStarsNoreen PowerBrendan FoleyKasivisanathan KarthigasooNewfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsRebecca JenkinsLuke ReillyMichael OntkeanStory about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsLothaire BluteauAden YoungSandrine HoltIn the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.12th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorPhillip BorsosStarsDonald SutherlandHelen MirrenHelen ShaverCanadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsElias KoteasArsinée KhanjianMaury ChaykinA family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsJean LapointeLouise MarleauCharlotte LaurierAn irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur staging Othello with the money of his father mafioso, lover of Florence's daughter. A pianist woman in love with the baseman who as a Baptist refused to have sex before there mariage. An alcoolic detective lover of a prude ex-nun. There's some of the characters in this story turning around the vengeance of a jealous girl with the only man loved by her mother.
- DirectorDarrell WasykStarsMartin NeufeldPascale MontpetitIngrid VeningerTwo junkies lock themselves in an underground apartment in a desperate attempt to wean themselves off heroin.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter 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.13th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorJean BeaudinStarsRoy DupuisJacques GodinJean-François PichetteIt's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead character to make those around him understand the reason for his crime.
- DirectorEli CohenStarsR.H. ThomsonSaul RubinekMerlee ShapiroMontreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsGildor RoyJean-Guy BouchardBrigitte PaquetteThe last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsColm FeoreDerek KeurvorstKatya LadanA collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.14th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorPaule BaillargeonStarsMarianne Coquelicot MercierDenis MercierTobie PelletierCamille don't like the man her mother is seeing. She still dreams about her father, who's living in New York. One day, she sees her mother arguing with a woman for some time. Camille recognizes in this woman her father, who has had a sex change. Not accepting his transformation, Camille will try to convince him to become her father again.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsArsinée KhanjianAshot AdamyanAtom EgoyanA woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
- DirectorGeorge MihalkaStarsRémy GirardPauline LapointeYvan CanuelTired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
- DirectorSandy WilsonStarsHoyt AxtonConstance BarnesLisa BrokopGraham Braithwaite is a violinist in a B.C. symphony. Unfortunately the symphony folds and much to his horror and disdain, he's forced to get a gig with a country band as the bassist. He has to leave the city and his girlfriend, Jane, to tour the B.C. interior with Frank Hay and his band. At first he has a hard time fitting in, but he realizes that Debbie, one of the backup singers and Frank's daughter, has a great voice and asks Frank if he can work with her. She slowly begins to get more of the set time and he feels more at home in the band. Problems arise between Frank and Debbie and Graham and Jane because of the supposed relationship between Graham and Debbie.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsBruce GreenwoodElias KoteasDon McKellarA man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.15th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsFrançois CluzetSarah-Jeanne SalvyFrance CastelOn the eve of her 18th birthday, Lea is dumped by her boxer boyfriend Reo. She turns to her mother, Lizette (France Castel), for comfort, only to discover that mom has run off with her sweetheart. Untouched by the family scandal, at least at first, is Lea's vastly overweight sister.
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsPascale BussièresPascale ParoissienFrançois DelisleDeux soeurs qui ne se connaissent pas, apprennent, devenues adultes, à s'accepter. Parallèlement, les deux actrices qui jouent le rôle de cette fiction dans le film parlent des personnages qu'elles interprètent, se racontent, inventant de troubles correspondances entre leur vie réelle et fictive.
- DirectorRichard J. LewisStarsMaury ChaykinCynthia PrestonPaul GrossShot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsValérie KapriskyJean-François PichetteJolianne L'Allier-MatteauDuring the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
- DirectorMina ShumStarsSandra OhStephen ChangClaudette CarracedoEast clashes with West and generations collide as a young Chinese woman struggles to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsLothaire BluteauPatrick GoyetteJean-Louis MilletteThe year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1994, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) has returned to Québec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc (Patrick Goyette), who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Québec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.16th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsPascale BussièresRobert BrouilletteJames HyndmanIt'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 sexual-obsessed radio host, and a young couple, Marc and Loulou, whose relationship is in danger because of Loulou's affair with Lloyd, and many more, as the summer becomes hotter and hotter...
- DirectorMort RansenStarsHelena Bonham CarterKate NelliganClive RussellMargaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéGeneviève BrouilletteSylvie BourqueA judge is caught with a prostitute. She provides a list of her clients which includes several high-profile judges and politicians. This triggers a series of disturbing events creating an atmosphere of danger and intrigue.
- DirectorClement VirgoStarsMaurice Dean WintRachael CrawfordClark JohnsonThis is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged in gay-bashing ; and 'The General', a drug dealer turned artist.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames SpaderHolly HunterElias KoteasAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.17th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsChris PennDominic ZamprognaStuart StoneIn Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
- DirectorJohn GreysonStarsIan D. ClarkMarcel SabourinAubert PallascioWhen a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
- DirectorRobert LepageStarsPatrick GoyetteMarie BrassardPeter StormareLucie 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 suspect in the continuing investigation and is unsure of his own innocence although he has an alibi from his previous girlfriend, Claude. Francois' polygraph (lie detector) test proves inconclusive and while he awaits his second test, Lucie's film is completed with its own ideas on who killed Marie-Claire.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsHugh DillonCallum Keith RennieJohn Pyper-FergusonA group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsIan HolmSarah PolleyCaerthan BanksA bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.18th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorThom FitzgeraldStarsChris LeavinsKerry FoxIan ParsonsWilliam, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsRobin AubertGeneviève BrouilletteIsabel RicherMontreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to search for his first love Paula Paul, the Countess of the title: the loveliest bearded lady ever to grace a circus sideshow. To win her love he takes on the job of Human Cannonball; wins her and loses her tragically, then tries to commit their love story to film. An exploration of self-image and memory, and the glamour (used in the sense of a magic spell or illusory reality) which the movie camera can weave.
- DirectorGabriel PelletierStarsIsabelle CyrRobert BrouilletteYves PelletierIn Transylvania, the 140 year-old vampire Karmina flees from the castle of her father on her wedding day arranged by her parents with Vlad. She travels to Montreal to meet her aunt Esmeralda, who is an ancient and powerful vampire that has broken her relationship with the Baron and the Baronne. Soon she learns that Esmeralda has developed a potion that temporarily transform vampires in human again and she imposes that Karmina must use the potion if she wants to stay in Canada with her. Karmina uses the potion and falls in love with the organist Phillipe, who loves Bach. Meanwhile, the Baron asks Vlad to travel to Canada and bring Karmina back, and he turns the costumer officer Ghislain Chabot into a vampire to help him.
- DirectorLynne StopkewichStarsMolly ParkerPeter OuterbridgeJay BrazeauOver the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsCarlo CecchiJean-Luc BideauChristoph KonczA red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.19th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorSturla GunnarssonStarsRoshan SethSoni RazdanOm PuriCirca 1971, Gustad Noble lives in a one bedroom hall rented apartment in Byculla, Bombay. He travels to work everyday by Central Railway to Victoria Terminus and walks to Flora Fountain to his place of employment, namely the Central Bank of India. He has three children, Sohrab - who has finished his college studies and is now being admitted, much to his dislike, to Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.); while Darius, his second son, and daughter, Roshan, are school-going; his wife, Dilnavaz, looks after the children and the household. Their neighborhood is filthy, people urinate and defecate near the wall which encloses their building. Gustad asks a pavement artist to move near his building, draw pictures of religious Gods and Goddesses depicting the four main religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism. The Artist agrees, and soon the place is transformed into a huge temple where people of all religions come to pay their respects. It is only a handful of people who know that Gustad is involved with a rebel RAW Agent, Major Jimmy Billimoria, who is actively involved with an extremist organization in East Pakistan, Awami League, aiding them financially and with manpower to overcome the Pakistani Government. The question remains what will Gustad's plight be when the news gets out of his involvement in this activity, especially when he receives 10 lakh rupees to be deposited in small installments in his Bank, in the midst of sentiments running high, war being declared between Pakistan and India, emergency blackout conditions and air raid sirens.
- DirectorDon McKellarStarsDon McKellarSandra OhRoberta MaxwellA group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsJonathan PryceJames WilbyJonny Lee MillerBased 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.
- DirectorJonathan TammuzStarsSamuel WestIan TraceyGeorge WendtTwo estranged stepbrothers travel to their father's funeral.
- DirectorJeremy PodeswaStarsMolly ParkerGabrielle RoseElize Frances StolkInterconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.20th Genie Awards Winner
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsGabriel ArcandSylvie MoreauHélène LoiselleA mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsBob HoskinsArsinée KhanjianElaine CassidyA young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.