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Browse 63 movies from Canadian Film Centre (CFC)
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
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
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
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
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Mar 2018
Long-term couple Steve and Elias are undergoing a relationship shift and discovering the complications of a non-monogamous arrangement. In the meanwhile, their daughter Nicoletta, has just brought home a potential suiter named Daniel, who may be closer in spirit to her fathers than she cares to know.
Sep 2002
An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
May 2009
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
Following reports of a mysterious crash, an aging farmer encounters a visitor determined on disrupting his quiet way of life.
Nov 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
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
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
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
Terminal cancer patient Annabelle H. learns from other women patients about the physically altering effects of chemotherapy and escapes the hospital for one last night of passion.
Sep 2003
A young arctic hunter's search for food takes her beyond a sacred boundary and leads to a strange and terrifying discovery.
Oct 2012
Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.
Jul 2022
An indie-rock singer loses her voice on the precipice of her first world tour.
Sep 2013
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
A 12 year old boy, fated to die on his thirteenth birthday, has to find a way to cheat death before the clock runs out.
Oct 2011
Two women and a child seek refuge in an ATM vestibule when pursued by an angry man who wants money — money they don't have.
Dec 2023