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see all genres ›First making its mark principally in the realms of documentary, animation and short subjects, Canada has in recent decades produced a significant catalog of English- and French-language narrative features, as well as idiosyncratic directors like Guy Maddin, David Cronenberg and Bruce McDonald.
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Against the Odds
Of the thousands of men and women imprisoned under inhuman conditions behind the wires of the German concentration camps some found the strength to fight back. They collected evidence about German crimes in the camps, sabotaged equipment they were forced to manufacture, prepared uprisings and even tried to...Start your free trial to watch -
Among the Missing
Vietnam is often called “the war that won’t go away”, largely because of the continuing controversy of the POW/MIA (Prisoners of War/Missing in Action) issue. Families of those who were POW/MIA in Vietnam organized an activist movement which went on to pursue a question which still haunts America nearly...Start your free trial to watch -
Because Why
After five years of traveling abroad, Alex returns home. All he has with him is a back-pack, a skateboard and a slip of paper with an ex-girlfriend's address. When this address turns out to be a demolished building, Alex feels quite... well, lost. His long journey has ended on a pile of rubble. He moves into a neighborhood of...Start your free trial to watch
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Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch -
Carcasses
Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident early in his life, he took a retreat in collecting cars, wrecks and junk for the last 40 years. Living among tons and tons of debris, he quietly works each day on his unimaginable property, furnishing and dealing car parts to mechanics and other iron aficionados. One day,...Start your free trial to watch -
Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch
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Cowards Bend the Knee
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Guy Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made...Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Arc
From the director of the 90’s cult hit THE LAST BIG THING, comes a modern comedy noir about love, lust, art and the power of the image in today’s culture. DARK ARC tells the story of Viscount Laris, an eccentric modern-day dandy obsessed by the power of art and visual imagery to mold the behavior and psychology of the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to...Start your free trial to watch
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Edge Codes
While audiences often take little notice of the editing in a movie, fans and filmmakers know it is the editor who determines the pace and rhythm of a motion picture and that intelligent montage is essential to every great movie. But editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it’s an art form enabling the...Start your free trial to watch -
Edison and Leo
A magnetic, amoral and womanizing genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers that his father had an unwitting hand in both his mother's early death and his electrical ailment.Start your free trial to watch -
Falling Angels
Canadian filmmaker Scott Smith directs the black comedy FALLING ANGELS, based on the novel by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. Set in the late 1960s and filmed on-location in Saskatchewan, this dark family drama focuses on the three teenaged daughters of the Field household. Callum...Start your free trial to watch
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Fetching Cody
A classic “what-if” time travel romantic love story, in the tradition of BUTTERFLY EFFECT. FETCHING CODY tells the story of Art (Baruchel), a street hustling kid and the love of his life Cody (Lind). When she falls into a coma after an apparent drug overdose, Art suspends disbelief when he discovers a time machine, and...Start your free trial to watch -
The Five Cent War
In 1947, children launched an audacious chocolate bar revolt against candy manufacturers who raised the price of chocolate bars from five cents to eight cents. Though the dramatic uprising was sparked by only a few pennies, it caused a national sensation and drew fatal accusations of a communist conspiracy.Start your free trial to watch -
Flicker
This award-winning documentary about poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin, portrays the life and legacy of an artist who believed art could revolutionize human consciousness. FLICKER chronicles Gysin’s complex ideas, friendships and influence with some of the 20th century’s key counterculture figures, such as...Start your free trial to watch
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Good People Bad Things
Steve, an aspiring architect, returns home to find his neglected wife Angie in bed with another man. He leaves distraught and betrayed with a bottle of wine only to become embroiled in a web of lies and deceit when he hits and kills a pedestrian on his drunken drive. He leaves the scene not knowing that...Start your free trial to watch -
Hard Core Logo
The THIS IS SPINAL TAP of Canadian punk mockumentaries is about a legendary (but fictive) Canuck hardcore unit that reunites years after its acrimonious breakup to play a one-shot benefit and play such ramalama hits as "Something's Gonna Die Tonight," "Rock 'n' Roll is Fat and Ugly" and "Who the Hell You Think You Are?"...Start your free trial to watch -
Hard Core Logo II
Bruce McDonald, director of the rock doc about Hard Core Logo, has lived with the guilt of immortalizing lead singer Joe Dick's death on film. He is asked to interview Care Failure of the band Die Mannequin, who claims to be channeling Joe's spirit. Bruce is convinced Care is suffering from a case of...Start your free trial to watch




