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1. The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018)
R | 123 min | Drama
A decade after the death of an American television star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 7,747 | Gross: $0.13M
2. Richelieu (2023)
90 min | Drama
After a bad breakup, Ariane moves home and gets a job as an interpreter for seasonal migrant workers. Witnessing workplace abuses, Ariane must decide how far she is willing to go to speak out against injustice.
Director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Stars: Ariane Castellanos, Marc-André Grondin, Nelson Coronado, Marc Beaupré
Votes: 229
3. Heartbeats (2010)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Anne Dorval
Votes: 30,337 | Gross: $0.06M
4. Stories We Tell (2012)
PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley
Votes: 14,116 | Gross: $1.60M
5. 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: 30,037 | Gross: $3.43M
6. 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: 3,208
7. Laurence Anyways (2012)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Romance
A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 22,211
8. It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
During the summer of 1968, Leon, a 10-year-old boy, navigates the hardships of young love, his lunatic mother's whims, and his urges to vandalize the house of his neighbors.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Antoine L'Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 2,400
9. La moitié gauche du frigo (2000)
90 min | Comedy
Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Paul Ahmarani, Stéphane Demers, Geneviève Néron, Jules Philip
Votes: 566
10. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker
Votes: 11,233
11. My Uncle Antoine (1971)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault
Votes: 3,184
12. Joyeux Calvaire (1996)
89 min | Drama
In Montreal, the wanderings of two urban homeless, Marcel, an old timer and Joseph, who just landed in the big city. Both philosophers and resourceful nice bums roam the streets of the ... See full summary »
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lorne Brass, Gaston Lepage, Benoît Brière, André Melançon
Votes: 208 | Gross: $0.02M
13. In the Tall Grass (2019)
TV-MA | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Oklahoma but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr.
Votes: 64,681
14. 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
15. 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: 1,569
16. Canadian Reflections (1978– )
30 min | Short
Canada's longest running showcase of independent short film. For over thirty years, CBC Television's Canadian Reflections has given Canada's best and brightest filmmakers a national audience.
Stars: Lorne Cardinal, Rachel Wilson, M.E. Lewis, Karen Robinson
Votes: 15
17. The Shape of Rex (2013)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
THE SHAPE OF REX begins with Rose, a married woman in her late thirties, visiting her old, married boyfriend Rex for the first time in over twenty years to tell him, finally, that he is the... See full summary »
Directors: Layne Coleman, William Hominuke | Stars: Brett Donahue, Ryan Hollyman, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Monica Dottor
Votes: 21
18. Mysterious Ways (2000– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Declan Dunn is an anthropology professor who believes in miracles and other wonders. When he hears of a miraculous thing he goes out to find out if it's an actual miracle. Peggy Fowler is ... See full summary »
Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Rae Dawn Chong, Alisen Richmond-Peck, Beverley Elliott
Votes: 962
19. Sympathy for the Devil (2019)
100 min | War
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
Director: Guillaume de Fontenay | Stars: Niels Schneider, Vincent Rottiers, Ella Rumpf, Arieh Worthalter
Votes: 692
20. Creeped Out (2017–2019)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Creeped Out is a series of spellbinding, enchanting, intriguing tales. Each episode is a different story set in a different place and time, with different characters exploring their way through the unexplained.
Stars: Victoria Diamond, William Romain, Jaiden Cannatelli, Lukas Engel
Votes: 2,365
21. Invincible (II) (2022)
30 min | Short, Drama
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.
Director: Vincent René-Lortie | Stars: Léokim Beaumier-Lépine, Élia St-Pierre, Isabelle Blais, Pierre-Luc Brillant
Votes: 1,586
22. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.
Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 17,480
23. Republic of Doyle (2010–2014)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John's, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings - not all of them on the right side of the law.
Stars: Allan Hawco, Krystin Pellerin, Mark O'Brien, Marthe Bernard
Votes: 4,615
24. Murder Unveiled (2005 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Like the real life story, "Murder Unveiled" reveals the tragedy of a young Indo Canadian woman, who was inspired by love to pursue a new life in India, but ultimately was crushed by her family's driving ambitions.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Anita Majumdar, Chenier Hundal, Hassani Shapi, Lushin Dubey
Votes: 95
25. It's the Heart That Dies Last (2017)
103 min | Drama
Julien publishes an autobiography focusing on his childhood memories and his odd relationship with his long-estranged mother. His mother, who is unaware of the book's content, tries to reconnect with him and redeem the lost time.
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault | Stars: Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault, Sophie Lorain, Paul Doucet
Votes: 260
26. La vérité (2011)
93 min | Drama
In a small-town, two teenagers try to deal with the moral consequences of a homicide they committed after a night of partying. Inspired by a true story.
Director: Marc Bisaillon | Stars: Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Émile Mailhiot, Geneviève Rioux, Juliette Gosselin
Votes: 80
27. La lâcheté (2007)
Drama
Conrad, an unhappily married gravedigger, sinks slowly into anxiety when he learns that Madeleine, a prostitute with whom he is deeply in love, plans the kidnapping of a young girl from a ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Bisaillon | Stars: Denis Trudel, Hélène Florent, Geneviève Rioux, Stéphane Demers
Votes: 55
28. Corbo (2014)
119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A teenage Québecer in the 1960s evolves from pro-independence activist to radical terrorist, in this gripping chronicle of the origins of the FLQ in the decade preceding the 1970 October Crisis.
Director: Mathieu Denis | Stars: Anthony Therrien, Antoine L'Écuyer, Karelle Tremblay, Tony Nardi
Votes: 521
29. Anne with an E (2017–2019)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family
The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century. Follow Anne as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels.
Stars: Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Andrea Arruti
Votes: 66,432
30. Unité 9 (2012–2019)
60 min | Drama
Follows a French Canadian woman going to jail for 7 years for pushing her father down the stairs. As the story unfolds we get to see how this all came about and the reasons behind it. The ... See full summary »
Stars: Ève Landry, Guylaine Tremblay, François Papineau, Émilie Bibeau
Votes: 600
31. The Auction (2013)
111 min | Drama
When his grown daughter returns to the family farm in desperate need of money, solitary and stoic Gaby will be asked to sacrifice everything for those closest to him. WINNER - Cannes Film Festival
Director: Sébastien Pilote | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Gilles Renaud, Lucie Laurier, Sophie Desmarais
Votes: 763
32. Being at Home with Claude (1992)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
It'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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette, Gaston Lepage
Votes: 658 | Gross: $0.60M
33. Funny Boy (2020)
109 min | Drama
Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Agam Darshi, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Seema Biswas
Votes: 990
34. Lune (2021)
113 min
A daughter must navigate the impacts of her mom's bipolar disorder.
Directors: Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Arturo Pérez Torres | Stars: Alanna Bale, Vlad Alexis, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Atticus Mitchell
Votes: 22
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