Released Date:
1996-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
74 min
IMDB Ratings:
(189 Reviews)
Director:
John L'EcuyerJim Carroll (story)
John L'Ecuyer
This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become paranoid, thinking that his wife's mother has cast evil spells on him. He meets his friend Jim and asks him for help in counteracting her black magic. Jim tries to reason with his friend, but when that fails, he decides to play along and make him a talisman. Drawing a snake on a scrap of paper and mumbling an incantation, Jim gives him this charm. This immediately solves Curtis's problems...or does it?
Released Date:
1996-10-11
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (2223 Reviews)
Director:
Bruce McDonaldNoel S. Baker (screenwriter)
Michael Turner (book)
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
Released Date:
2001-08-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (689 Reviews)
Director:
Lynne StopkewichGenres:
DramaLaura Kasischke (novel)
Lynne Stopkewich
A young, married motel receptionist in a small town sells her body to motel guests, but not just for money. This dangerous other life leads her to a male version of herself, who takes her to the extreme edge, the same place her mother had been before but did not survive.
Released Date:
2004-10-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (483 Reviews)
Director:
Keith BehrmanGenres:
DramaGarnet, 8 years old, has a father who has difficulty showing him love, since Garnet's mother died during his birth. Only getting affection by his 16 year old sister Flower, the situation changes when she leaves when she gets pregnant.
Released Date:
2005-04-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, France
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (914 Reviews)
Director:
Scott SmithGenres:
DramaEsta Spalding
Barbara Gowdy (novel)
The wickedly funny story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of the 60's, free love, the Cold War, LSD and the dawn of feminism. Affectionately dubbed "Little Women on acid", this is a story about the destructive effects of secrecy and the bonds of duty between parents and their children.
Released Date:
2005-09-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (254 Reviews)
Director:
Sean GarritySean Garrity
Jonas Chernick
Thirty-two year old Winnipeger Joel Rothman's personal life falls apart after his wife, Mari, catches him cheating. Following, he can't sleep which affects the parenting of his adolescent daughter Jenny. A therapist, he dismisses the work of counseling his patients. Because of his poor work, his Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), his employer, wants to transfer him to the small town of Gimli, which he doesn't want both for his own sake and Jenny's. As such, he begins to do whatever he can for his three remaining patients - Victor Koblinsky, Chandra Mergulhao and Sophie Winters - who he counsels in group therapy. Although each of the three has a different issue with which they are dealing, each does suffer from delusional thoughts the result of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Joel is under pressure from the HMO to certify all three, despite his assurance that all three are getting better. Ultimately, Victor, Chandra and Sophie have to convince him of what is reality and what is delusion.
Released Date:
2006-09-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, UK
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (10216 Reviews)
Director:
Marc EvansAlex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex's vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne's mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a highly functional autistic woman who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.
Released Date:
2015-07-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Australia, Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (8981 Reviews)
Director:
Jean-Pierre JeunetJean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay)
Guillaume Laurant (screenplay)
Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)
Reif Larsen (novel)
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 10 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. There is also Layton, twin brother of T.S., who died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened.
Released Date:
2015-03-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (644 Reviews)
Director:
Ruba NaddaA doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.
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