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Browse 61 movies from Canadian Film Centre (CFC)
When a dually-pregnant lesbian couple loses one of the babies in utero, the grieving mothers break their surrogacy arrangement with their closest friends in order to keep the remaining baby.
Sep 2015
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Mar 2021
For aspiring comedian Natasha Marakova, grade school lunchroom politics is no laughing matter. Lunchbox Loser is a dark comedy about owning who you are and eating it with pride.
Jun 2013
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she falls for her attractive English teacher, Ben.
Jan 2013
A group of illegal immigrants are smuggled across the ocean in a shipping container; only to have their humanity tested as they run out of food, water and air.
Jun 2011
A young up-and-coming artist works hard to build a future for herself while a shadow from her past threatens to push her into madness.
Aug 2003
When his secret girlfriend falls ill, an undocumented worker living in Toronto must choose between getting caught and getting her the emergency medical attention she desperately needs.
Jan 2015
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
Sep 2004
Olivia and her maid Anna are in love, and stealing a secret moment together. But their moment of tranquility ends abruptly when Olivia’s husband, John, returns home early. As the women hide in the maid's quarters, they overhear a plan that changes everything.
Dec 2018
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Mar 2018
A young woman, being accused of stealing from her employer, falls in love with her lawyer while spending Christmas holidays with him and his family.
Sep 2002
The sounds of a cello played by a young woman herald the onslaught of puberty and its headaches for a precocious 13 year old boy when he is enrolled in a cello lesson.
Dec 2008
Mary Howell the Fourth is a chain-smoking promiscuous carpenter, famous in her small town for having recently and tragically dead parents. She's trying to hold it together for her two younger sisters, but grief is playing weird tricks on Mary. Those tricks are the three ghosts that share her name: her grandmother, great- grandmother, and great-great grandmother.
Mar 2020
Ben and Ellen use the elevator in their building when all of a sudden, Hank, the blood covered security man of the building rushes into the elevator, claiming that there is a dangerous alien-like creature in the building.
Sep 1996
Lena flees to her rural hometown after her 13-year-old daughter's overdose attracts the attention of child services. She reunites with her estranged mother, and is forced to face a past she has tried to ignore.
Nov 2013
Dr. Samantha Goodman is a beautiful, young psychiatrist. Burnt out, she drives to the family’s winter cottage to spend time with her husband and sister. A relaxing weekend is jarringly interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives. What follows is an extraordinary night of terror and evil mind games where escape is not an option.
Mar 2005
In a dystopian future where the air is unbreathable and all citizens must wear elaborate masks in order to live, one young scientist fights to win his lover by defying the state and seeing her face.
Jun 2006
After two years hiding out in his Grandfather's retirement residence, Stock Burton is forced back into his small town where he must come to terms with the troubled past that led to his early retirement.
Apr 2013
Red Velvet Girls is a darkly sensual coming of age story about love and rebellion. Julia is in love with the human she has grown up with and this has greatly influenced the way she feels about her own kind - Andalusian Vampires.
Aug 2005
A nine-year-old boy gets suspended from school and embarks on a journey through the streets of Toronto — before returning home to face his mother.
Sep 2019