Released Date:
1997-04-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
78 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2990 Reviews)
Director:
Lynne StopkewichGenres:
DramaAngus Fraser (screenplay)
Lynne Stopkewich (screenplay)
Barbara Gowdy (based upon an original story "We So Seldom Look on Love" by)
Sandra Larson has always been fascinated by the entire sensory experience surrounding death: its touch, smell and look. As a child, she would search out dead animals and perform ritualistic burials. As a young woman, Sandra gets a job at Wallis Funeral Home, first as a general assistant, then progressing to study to become an embalmer. At the funeral home, she begins to take her fascination with death to the next level by becoming a necrophiliac. But she also begins her first ever relationship with Matt, a medical student, with who she is totally open about her necrophilia. He finds this aspect of her compelling. He becomes all consumed with her as she is consumed with dead people. The questions become how far he will take this fascination with her to understand fully what is going through her emotional being, how far she will allow him to go, and how far can her feelings for him extend as a live being.
Released Date:
1999-12-03
Languages:
French, English, Italian
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (2777 Reviews)
Director:
Jeremy PodeswaInterconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
Released Date:
2000-01-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3518 Reviews)
Director:
Michael WinterbottomGenres:
DramaThere's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend?
Released Date:
2000-01-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3524 Reviews)
Director:
Michael WinterbottomGenres:
DramaThere's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend?
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:
2001-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (3916 Reviews)
Director:
Wayne WangWayne Wang (story)
Miranda July (story)
Paul Auster (story)
Siri Hustvedt (story)
Ellen Benjamin Wong (screenplay)
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions: four hours per night of erotic play, and no penetration. During the days in Vegas, they get to know each other, have fun, meet a friend of hers; at night, at least after the first night, things seem to get complicated. Is mutual attraction stirring? Will they play by their rules? Can it be about more than money?
Released Date:
2002-11-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (3579 Reviews)
Director:
Paul GrossPaul Gross (story)
John Krizanc (story)
Paul Quarrington (story)
Paul Gross (screenplay)
John Krizanc (screenplay)
Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from a small Canadian town. This offbeat comedy follows the team as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach.
Released Date:
2003-06-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
Hungary, Canada, UK
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (6133 Reviews)
Director:
Menno MeyjesMunich, 1918. German-Jew Max Rothman has returned to much of his pre-war life which includes to his wife Nina and their two children, to his mistress Liselore von Peltz, and to his work as an art dealer. He has however not returned to being an aspiring painter as he lost his dominant right arm during the war. He is approached by an aspiring painter, a thirty-year old Austrian war veteran named Adolf Hitler, who wants him to show his works. Although he doesn't think the paintings are all that original and he doesn't really like Hitler as a person, Rothman takes Hitler under his wings if only because of their camaraderie of being war veterans, and knowing that Hitler had nothing and no one to come back to after the war unlike himself. Rothman believes that Hitler has promise if only he can find his original artistic point of view. In part out of need for money, Hitler, on the urging of Captain Karl Mayr, agrees to work for the army as a political spokesman in anti-Semitic propaganda. Slowly, Hitler's view becomes a holistic one of a new world, where he begins to meld his art and politics. Rothman becomes excited about Hitler's artistic viewpoint, despite its anti-Semitic bent. The question becomes if the sentiments behind the view will take over its artistic merit.
Released Date:
2003-07-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1332 Reviews)
Director:
Sturla GunnarssonEdward Riche (novel)
Edward Riche (screenplay)
Dave is down. His wife lives in Washington, D.C.; his restaurant, the Auk, in an out-of-the-way Newfoundland inlet, is a bust; a drink is rarely out of reach. An odd-duck of a neighbor, Phonce, who has found ten kilos of cocaine and wants Dave's help selling it, contrives to keep Dave in town by faking and reporting the sighting of a rare bird. Soon birders descend from everywhere, and the restaurant is a success. Dave is snorting the cocaine and falling for a young visitor who helps him out at the Auk, Phonce is launching his recreational submarine, and various men who don't look like birders are poking about. When the chickens come home to roost, will Dave and Phonse have a Plan B?
Released Date:
2003-05-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(2121 Reviews)
Director:
Gillies MacKinnonGenres:
DramaFollowing the death of her husband, 10-year-old Paul's mother Mel comes to rely on an old friend, Lenny, who is also a pimp and dealer. Soon Paul must take care of both his mother and his younger brother. When Mel's friend and fellow user dies, Paul must confront the fear that has been gathering in the pit of his stomach: having lost his father, his mother too may abandon him. Even with his limitations as a child, he takes action to stop this from happening.
Released Date:
2003-04-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(1133 Reviews)
Director:
Wiebke von CarolsfeldGenres:
DramaDaniel MacIvor (play)
Daniel MacIvor
Agnes returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia to reunite with her estranged sisters and care for her dying mother. As they tend to their mother, family secrets emerge and disrupt the sisters' fragile dynamic.
Released Date:
2006-03-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (1195 Reviews)
Director:
Lewin WebbCHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart...
Released Date:
2012-05-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
82 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (205 Reviews)
Director:
Ryan RedfordRachel Ingalls (short story "Veterans")
Ryan Redford (screenplay)
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on - to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a reliably safe and quiet rural town. Upon arriving, Sherman seems at first a harmless if awkward shell of a man. But as he inserts himself further into the Pages' life, he reveals himself to be an angry, unstable individual prone to great jealousy and deep resentment. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (567 Reviews)
Director:
Nisha GanatraPeter McKay (story)
Peter McKay (teleplay)
Gregg Rossen (teleplay)
Brian Sawyer (teleplay)
An overlooked middle child finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he realizes his family's terrible Christmas day keeps repeating. As the only one experiencing the day over and over, he decides to use his unique gift to give the holidays a makeover and his family a Christmas they will never forget.
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