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Browse 64 movies from Canadian Film Centre (CFC)
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
When a storm traps divorced parents Ron and Gina overnight in their daughter’s home, awkwardness turns to intimacy.
May 2021
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
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.
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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
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
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Mar 2018
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
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.
A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.
Oct 2017
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
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
A final encounter between an aging woman and her grandson reveals a surprising and intimate past.
Sep 1998
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
An indie-rock singer loses her voice on the precipice of her first world tour.
Sep 2013
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
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Dec 2018
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
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
Louis, a reclusive caretaker, who is kept up every night by wild sex in the apartment above him, is obsessed with making dioramas of ideal suburban scenes. His isolation is broken when Harry, his 10-year-old neighbour decides they must find him a wife. Renee, Louis' perfect match magically appears, and his lessons on how to talk to girls begins. When Louis is ready to take the plunge he musters up all his courage and follows Renee hoping to introduce himself. To his dismay, he realizes that Renee works at a Peep Show and is forced to battle his prejudices and fears in order to find the family he is longing for.
Aug 2004