Canadian Movies I've Seen
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1. The Incredible Journey (1963)
G | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Two dogs and a cat set off on a treacherous 200-mile journey towards home.
Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott
Votes: 5,218
2. Act of the Heart (1970)
GP | 103 min | Drama
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker
Votes: 241
3. Goin' Down the Road (1970)
R | 90 min | Drama
Two friends leave the picturesque yet rural province of Nova Scotia for the nightlife and culture of Toronto. They soon end up wistful and nostalgic about Nova Scotia though after finding out that Toronto isn't as fun as they'd hoped.
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood, Cayle Chernin
Votes: 979
4. Cannibal Girls (1973)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
A young couple spend the night in an old farmhouse owned by a reverend, only to find out that it is also lived in by beautiful women who hunger after human flesh.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Ronald Ulrich, Randall Carpenter
Votes: 1,376
5. The Pyx (1973)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective uncovers a sinister occult explanation behind the mysterious death of a heroin-addicted prostitute.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux
Votes: 973
6. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid
Votes: 2,697 | Gross: $0.85M
7. Black Christmas (1974)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Votes: 48,343 | Gross: $4.05M
8. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Sweeney, a divorced man, is willing to do anything, even kidnapping, to win back his wife. He stands a fair chance as the ex-mates continue to sleep together, despite the fact that she's ... See full summary »
Director: John Trent | Stars: Anthony Newley, Stefanie Powers, Isaac Hayes, Lloyd Bochner
Votes: 394
9. Journey Into Fear (1975)
R | 100 min | Thriller
An American geologist accidentally discovers oil in Turkey. Several assassins are sent to eliminate him, but they all fail. He eventually boards a passenger boat to try to escape. However, one of the passengers is an undercover assassin.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe
Votes: 299
10. 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: 583
11. Shivers (1975)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman
Votes: 23,576
12. The Clown Murders (1976)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Four men kidnap an old girlfriend on Halloween night as a joke to ruin a real estate deal, only to have a very real clown-masked killer stalk them seeking revenge.
Director: Martyn Burke | Stars: Stephen Young, Susan Keller, Lawrence Dane, John Candy
Votes: 479
13. Find the Lady (1976)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
Three kidnapping plots simultaneously target the same young woman.
Director: John Trent | Stars: Lawrence Dane, John Candy, Ed McNamara, Robert McHeady
Votes: 398
14. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman
Votes: 18,082
15. Love at First Sight (1977)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman named Shirley befriends a lonely blind man named Roy. Together, they find love - even though Shirley's father opposes the relationship.
Director: Rex Bromfield | Stars: Mary Ann McDonald, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Mallett, George Murray
Votes: 162
16. Outrageous! (1977)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.
Director: Richard Benner | Stars: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley, Allan Moyle
Votes: 1,027
17. Rabid (1977)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Terry Schonblum, Joe Silver
Votes: 21,382
18. Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
100 min | Drama, Comedy
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who ... See full summary »
Director: Allan King | Stars: Brian Painchaud, Douglas Junor, Patricia Hamilton, Gordon Pinsent
Votes: 161
19. Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke
Votes: 484
20. Angela (1977)
91 min | Drama
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, John Huston
Votes: 212
21. Cathy's Curse (1977)
R | 82 min | Horror
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died as a child in a car accident. Soon, people around her begin to mysteriously die off.
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Alan Scarfe, Beverly Murray, Randi Allen, Dorothy Davis
Votes: 1,226
22. Blood & Guts (1978)
PG | 94 min | Action, Drama
A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: William Smith, Micheline Lanctôt, Henry Beckman, Brian Patrick Clarke
Votes: 84
23. High-Ballin' (1978)
PG | 97 min | Action, Drama
Two truck drivers fight off thugs who have been hired to drive them out of business.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins
Votes: 800
24. The Silent Partner (1978)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.
Directors: Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson | Stars: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Céline Lomez
Votes: 7,737
25. 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: 34,303
26. City on Fire (1979)
R | 106 min | Action, Drama
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen
Votes: 1,592
27. Meatballs (1979)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Russ Banham
Votes: 23,862 | Gross: $43.05M
28. 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: 6,594
29. Running (1979)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Sport
American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Lawrence Dane, Eugene Levy
Votes: 831
30. The Agency (1980)
R | 94 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A millionaire is suspected of buying an ad agency to use it as a way of brainwashing the public for his political ends.
Director: George Kaczender | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Alexandra Stewart
Votes: 612
31. Atlantic City (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 18,291
32. The Changeling (1980)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Votes: 39,998
33. Death Ship (1980)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World War II Nazi torture vessel.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 5,689
34. Funeral Home (1980)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse, Dean Garbett
Votes: 1,607
"Funeral Home"
35. Prom Night (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At a high-school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 20,918 | Gross: $14.80M
36. Terror Train (1980)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Votes: 13,843
37. Double Negative (1980)
96 min | Thriller
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins, Howard Duff
Votes: 182
38. Klondike Fever (1979)
PG | 119 min | Adventure
This movie chronicled Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Lorne Greene
Votes: 232
39. Nothing Personal (1980)
PG | 97 min | Comedy
Suzanne Somers, an environmentally concerned lawyer, was hired by Donald Sutherland to halt the construction on a breeding ground of endangered species of seals. In HD.
Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 377
40. Alligator Shoes (1981)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
French-Canadian adult brothers Mike and Bin still live with their parents in the working class neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Toronto, their parents who largely support them. Mike works a ... See full summary »
Director: Clay Borris | Stars: Garry Borris, Ronalda Jones, Clay Borris, Rose Maltais-Borris
Votes: 49
41. Obsession (1981)
PG | 106 min | Drama
The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a sixty-year-old painter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Norma Dell'Agnese, Donann Cavin, Elan Ross Gibson
Votes: 691
42. Gas (1981)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people ... See full summary »
Director: Les Rose | Stars: Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Helen Shaver
Votes: 384
43. 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: 11,227
44. Heavy Metal (1981)
R | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.
Directors: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami, Barrie Nelson, Paul Sabella, Jack Stokes, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Harold Whitaker | Stars: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks
Votes: 38,148
45. The High Country (1981)
PG | 98 min | Adventure
Jim is a convicted marijuana dealer, who is being pressured by the system to turn State's Evidence. He is accidentally freed from custody by a car crash, is shot & on the run. Kathy is ... See full summary »
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl, George Sims, Bill Berry
Votes: 136
46. Improper Channels (1981)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple fights for justice to get their injured daughter out of a foster care center.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley, Monica Parker, Harry Ditson
Votes: 182
47. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight
Votes: 25,098 | Gross: $5.67M
48. The Pit (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
Director: Lew Lehman | Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth
Votes: 3,521
49. Porky's (1981)
R | 94 min | Comedy
In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson
Votes: 45,749 | Gross: $111.29M
50. 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: 24,121 | Gross: $20.96M
51. Scanners (1981)
R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A 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.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 61,739 | Gross: $14.23M
52. Silence of the North (1981)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Based 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Allan King | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney
Votes: 268 | Gross: $1.62M
53. Surfacing (1981)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
A young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Kathleen Beller, R.H. Thomson, Margaret Dragu
Votes: 162
54. Threshold (1981)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In this gripping sci-fi drama, a celebrated heart surgeon (Donald Sutherland, "The Hunger Games") collaborates with an offbeat scientist (Jeff Goldblum, "Jurassic Park") to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham
Votes: 533
55. 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
56. Tulips (1981)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Leland is suicidal, so he hires a hitman called Avocado to kill him. Code word for the hit will be "tulips". However, that's when Leland meets his suicidal soulmate Rutanya and changes his mind. Now they must try to stop Avocado.
Directors: Rex Bromfield, Mark Warren, Al Waxman | Stars: Gabe Kaplan, Bernadette Peters, Henry Gibson, Al Waxman
Votes: 64
57. Yesterday (1981)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young soldier maimed in Vietnam, allows his former girlfriend to believe he's dead to spare her the anguish.
Director: Larry Kent | Stars: Claire Pimparé, Vincent Van Patten, Eddie Albert, Nicholas Campbell
Votes: 185
58. By Design (1981)
R | 92 min | Drama
A lesbian couple working as fashion designers in Canada ask their photographer to be the father of their child.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Patty Duke, Sara Botsford, Saul Rubinek, Sonia Zimmer
Votes: 136
59. Class of 1984 (1982)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 13,251
60. Deadly Eyes (1982)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Contaminated grain breeds overgrown, killer rats in this Golden Harvest production.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Sam Groom, Sara Botsford, Scatman Crothers, Cec Linder
Votes: 1,574
61. 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: 2,491
62. Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (1982)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Western
A charming but unscrupulous train robber courts capture and hanging when he falls in love with the daughter of a judge.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael C. Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot
Votes: 440
63. Highpoint (1982)
PG | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia and C.I.A. operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed accountant Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money himself.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Beverly D'Angelo, Kate Reid
Votes: 288
64. Humongous (1982)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
"Humongous" tells the tale of when the monstrous offspring of a violent criminal grow up in seclusion on a remote island. Then year later, a boat-full of teens become shipwrecked on the island, unaware of what is lurking in the woods.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Janet Julian, David Wysocki, John Wildman, Janit Baldwin
Votes: 2,184
65. If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
PG | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Sarah Torgov, Shari Belafonte
Votes: 939 | Gross: $8.69M
66. The Incubus (1981)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small town's doctor takes matters into his own hands after a series of gruesome and bizarre rape crimes perplex the clueless authorities.
Director: John Hough | Stars: John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes
Votes: 2,953
67. Paradise (1982)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Romance
After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the appetite of the Jackal.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Tuvia Tavi, Richard Curnock
Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $5.59M
68. Visiting Hours (1982)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
Director: Jean-Claude Lord | Stars: Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner
Votes: 4,834 | Gross: $13.26M
69. All in Good Taste (1983)
85 min | Comedy
A filmmaker is upset to find out that his wholesome script about an orphan and his dog has been warped into a film about strippers.
Director: Anthony Kramreither | Stars: Jonathan Welsh, Harvey Atkin, Jack Creley, James B. Douglas
Votes: 525
70. A Christmas Story (1983)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
In 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.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 168,610 | Gross: $20.61M
71. Curtains (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Director: Richard Ciupka | Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn
Votes: 5,728
72. Going Berserk (1983)
R | 85 min | Comedy
A clumsy chauffeur is hypnotized by a cult to kill the father of his fiancée, a congressman who's suing the cult for fraud, and encounters several weird characters during the days leading up to his wedding.
Director: David Steinberg | Stars: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills
Votes: 2,028 | Gross: $0.23M
73. Losin' It (1982)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in 1965, four rowdy teenage guys travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of partying when they are joined by a heartbroken housewife who is in town seeking a quick divorce.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P. Navin Jr.
Votes: 5,228 | Gross: $1.25M
74. Of Unknown Origin (1983)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A man becomes destructively obsessed with killing a dangerous rat, which has taken residence in his recently renovated house.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh
Votes: 3,785 | Gross: $1.08M
75. Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)
R | 98 min | Comedy
The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson
Votes: 12,762 | Gross: $33.76M
76. Running Brave (1983)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of Billy Mills, the American Indian who came from obscurity to win the 10,000-meter long-distance foot-race in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken
Votes: 765 | Gross: $3.00M
77. Spasms (1983)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist must pursue the beast when it escapes and starts to kill innocent people.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,310
78. Strange Brew (1983)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
Directors: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas | Stars: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley
Votes: 18,666
79. The Terry Fox Story (1983 TV Movie)
96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Eric Fryer, Robert Duvall, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao
Votes: 718
*Released in Canadian Theaters*
80. Utilities (1983)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
Bob Hunt is a put upon social worker who has had enough of the bad service of public utilities. He decides to organize resitance to the phone, gas and water monopolies but also wants to impress policewoman Marion Edwards.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley, James Blendick
Votes: 91
81. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,953 | Gross: $2.12M
82. Screwballs (1983)
R | 80 min | Comedy
Frolicking youth comedy about zany high school students set in the 1960s.
Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Peter Keleghan, Kent Deuters, Linda Speciale, Alan Deveau
Votes: 3,664 | Gross: $2.08M
83. The Bay Boy (1984)
R | 107 min | Drama
A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 752 | Gross: $0.16M
84. Draw! (1984 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo, Graham Jarvis
Votes: 792
*Released in Canadian Theaters*
85. The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Paul McCrane, Beau Bridges
Votes: 9,114 | Gross: $5.10M
86. Oddballs (1984)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A Canadian sex comedy about saving a summer camp from becoming a shopping mall.
Director: Miklós Lente | Stars: Foster Brooks, Mike MacDonald, Konnie Krome, Milan Cheylov
Votes: 363
87. Breaking All the Rules (1985)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer. All the while outwitting three moronic would-be jewel thieves.
Director: James Orr | Stars: Carl Marotte, Thor Bishopric, Carolyn Dunn, Rachel Hayward
Votes: 741
88. My American Cousin (1985)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Adding 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sandy Wilson | Stars: Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee
Votes: 683
89. One Magic Christmas (1985)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy
An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about too.
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill
Votes: 4,453 | Gross: $13.68M
90. The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back.
Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Mathew Mackay, Siluck Saysanasy, Alison Darcy, Michael Hogan
Votes: 2,695
91. Porky's Revenge (1985)
R | 92 min | Comedy
As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.
Director: James Komack | Stars: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Tony Ganios, Mark Herrier
Votes: 9,216 | Gross: $20.52M
92. The Boy in Blue (1986)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A biography of the famous sculler Ned Hanlon who led a colorful life as a bootlegger at the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Cynthia Dale, Christopher Plummer, David Naughton
Votes: 1,413 | Gross: $0.28M
93. Bullies (1986)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The Morris family moves from the city in an attempt to make a new life in a small resort town, only to be confronted by a sadistic rural clan, the Cullens.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Jonathan Crombie, Janet-Laine Green, Stephen Hunter, Dehl Berti
Votes: 575 | Gross: $3.00M
94. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,857 | Gross: $40.46M
95. Iron Eagle (1986)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Thriller, War
A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Tim Thomerson
Votes: 16,003 | Gross: $24.16M
96. Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.
Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Sally Kellerman, Patrick Dempsey, Al Waxman, Isabelle Mejias
Votes: 2,611 | Gross: $2.15M
97. Killer Party (1986)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
In order to join a sorority, three friends go to a hazing party in an old house where a sadistic bloodthirsty demonic spirit is lying in wait.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Martin Hewitt, Ralph Seymour, Elaine Wilkes, Paul Bartel
Votes: 2,648 | Gross: $0.68M
98. American Gothic (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror
A group of travellers make emergency landing on an island in the Pacific Northwest after their seaplane malfunctioned, and stumble across an isolated and psychopathic family.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Sarah Torgov, Terence Kelly, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay
Votes: 4,538
99. Burglar (1987)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
A retired cop blackmails ex burglar Bernice into paying him $20,000 - thus burgling. Paid to get a dentist's jewelry back from her ex's apartment, someone murders the ex and Bernice is a suspect. She investigates.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren
Votes: 4,730 | Gross: $16.34M
100. Candy Mountain (1987)
R | 91 min | Drama
A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
Directors: Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer | Stars: Kevin J. O'Connor, Eric Mitchell, Mary Joy, Robert Joy
Votes: 402
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