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Browse 65 movies from Canadian Film Centre
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
A family's daily lives are affected by a recent event.
Dec 2016
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
It's 1972 and Maeve works at a financial firm while climbing her way up the rungs of a radical new spiritual movement called Kismet. Led by an inspirational and sometimes controversial leader, Kismet helps people work through their trauma and reinvent their life. It's just what Maeve needs two years after the tragic death of her husband. But when Maeve gets pulled into a cover-up within the group, it begins to threaten the happiness she has worked so hard to rediscover.
Mar 2020
When a disgruntled Iranian-Canadian mama's boy and his dead-beat mom embark on a heist to alleviate family debts, tensions boil over between them mid-robbery.
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Marielle's family are African immigrants in Canada. Marielle has agreed to marry André only out of a sense of loyalty to the family and as gratitude for André's assistance. But in reality, she is in love with Zoe.....
Jan 2009
Unwilling to process a near-fatal car accident, an overworked director arrives late to the set of his horror film to find that most of the crew has left. Determined to complete the film, he and the remaining crew find out that his trauma from the accident refuses to let him go that easily.
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
Misha's only daughter, June, is very sick. After five days at home, June's school reports her absence to the state, prompting agents from the Bureau of Order and Safety to investigate the nature of June's illness.
Nov 2020
Playfully competing with Mom's new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.
Sep 2005
Nadia has to put up with her star co-worker, the friendly and perky Grace. Nadia isn’t like her and wants nothing to do with her, yet Grace is all she thinks about. This resentment starts to fester, making Nadia crave something… different. She begins to transform, and it’s starting to show. Can she overcome these changes she’s experiencing, or will she succumb to the rage and jealousy she harbours inside?
Aug 2023
After dying in a horrific car crash, two bullied teens reappear completely healed and must decide the fate of their paralyzed friend.
Sep 2014
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.
Set in the aching years of the 1960s, this dark comedy-drama explores the prevailing gender attitudes through the eyes of an eight-year-old misfit. Schoolyard taunts and the sexually charged battles of Mom and Dad capture the confusion and magic of childhood with irony and insight.
Jan 1994
A queer teenage boy takes his little sister on an adventure through the city for her birthday, but their celebration comes at a cost.
Sep 2019
When a storm traps divorced parents Ron and Gina overnight in their daughter’s home, awkwardness turns to intimacy.
May 2021
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
A visit to a secluded family cottage takes a mysterious turn after three best friends discover a dying catfish by the hillside.
Oct 2020