Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "british-columbia-canada"

1. 2012 (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet

Votes: 398,267 | Gross: $166.11M

2. Ava (IV) (2020)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis

Votes: 62,938 | Gross: $0.50M

3. Vixen! (1968)

X | 70 min | Drama

While a naive bush pilot flies tourists to the wilderness of Northwest Canada, his nympho wife gets lonely--or does she? A Mountie, a married couple, and her biker brother drop by while hubby's away.

Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page, Jon Evans

Votes: 3,119 | Gross: $6.00M

4. What Is a Woman? (2022)

95 min | Documentary

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, anti-transgender bigotry, and what it means to be a woman.

Director: Justin Folk | Stars: Matt Walsh, Gert Comfrey, Marci Bowers, Don Sucher

Votes: 42,114

5. Star 80 (1983)

R | 103 min | Biography, Drama

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.

Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker

Votes: 8,147 | Gross: $6.47M

6. Seagrass (2023)

115 min | Drama

A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a retreat. When her relationship with her husband begins to affect the children's emotional security, the family is changed forever.

Director: Meredith Hama-Brown | Stars: Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Nyha Huang Breitkreuz, Remy Marthaller

Votes: 231

7. Light of My Life (I) (2019)

R | 119 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A father and his child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As the father struggles to protect his child from, their bond and the character of humanity are tested.

Director: Casey Affleck | Stars: Anna Pniowsky, Casey Affleck, Tom Bower, Elisabeth Moss

Votes: 15,470

8. Shoot to Kill (1988)

R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown

Votes: 14,965 | Gross: $29.30M

9. Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

Director: Louie Schwartzberg | Stars: Brie Larson, Andrew Weil, Giuliana Furci, Paul Stamets

Votes: 11,572

10. The Bear (1988)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace

Votes: 19,103 | Gross: $31.75M

11. Zero Hour! (1957)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WWII fighter pilot (Dana Andrews) to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch

Votes: 2,300

12. The Calling (I) (2014)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

Director: Jason Stone | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace

Votes: 9,214

13. Walk All Over Me (2007)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills.

Director: Robert Cuffley | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer, Lothaire Bluteau, Jacob Tierney

Votes: 2,508

14. One Week (I) (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama

Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe

Votes: 12,046

15. Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

In this romantic comedy set in the rugged wilderness of Northern British Columbia in 1940, three very spirited, very different young adults struggle to carve out their independence and the world's largest cattle ranch.

Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Chad Willett, Ted Atherton, Falconer Abraham, Zachary Bennett

Votes: 401

16. The Trap (1966)

106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Barbara Chilcott

Votes: 2,295

17. Magic in the Water (1995)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Two siblings find out about a mythical aquatic monster and try to a save a remote Canadian lake from being used as a dump site for toxic waste.

Director: Rick Stevenson | Stars: Mark Harmon, Harley Jane Kozak, Joshua Jackson, Sarah Wayne

Votes: 2,119 | Gross: $2.64M

18. The Orchard (2016)

103 min | Comedy, Drama

His life changes when Los Angeles talent agent Max Roth inherits an orchard in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley and finds that there's more to the real estate than its selling price.

Director: Kate Twa | Stars: Matt Angel, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Chris McNally, Sean MacLean

Votes: 110

19. The Cariboo Trail (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Western

Montanans Jim Redfern and Mike Evans head into Canada's British Columbia via the Cariboo Trail intent to raise cattle and dig for gold but find trouble instead.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Bill Williams, Karin Booth

Votes: 891

20. The Grasshopper (1970)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's odyssey from innocence to decadence. Hopeful for a career in show business, Christine Adams leaves British Columbia with her boyfriend at age 19. But a detour to Las Vegas leads her into a life that no one would envy.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica

Votes: 609

21. The Unseen (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.

Director: Geoff Redknap | Stars: Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton

Votes: 1,453

22. The Grey Fox (1982)

PG | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson

Votes: 2,499

23. Life After the Navigator (2020)

91 min | Documentary

A documentary that not only celebrates the classic film Flight of the Navigator (1986), but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer.

Director: Lisa Downs | Stars: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Howard Hesseman

Votes: 527

24. Hard Core Logo (1996)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.

Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Hugh Dillon, Callum Keith Rennie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Bernie Coulson

Votes: 2,824 | Gross: $0.02M

25. Hit! (1973)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles

Votes: 867 | Gross: $0.08M

26. Highway of Tears (2015)

79 min | Documentary

"Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases had been solved since 1969, until ... See full summary »

Director: Matt Smiley | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Terry Teegee, Mavis Erickson, Mary Teegee

Votes: 135

27. The Terry Fox Story (1983 TV Movie)

96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.

Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Eric Fryer, Robert Duvall, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao

Votes: 718

28. The Guard (2008–2009)

60 min | Drama

Drama series portraying the professional and personal lives of several Canadian Coast Guard workers specializing in search and rescue operations in the Pacific Ocean.

Stars: Steve Bacic, Jeremy Guilbaut, Zoie Palmer, Gordon Michael Woolvett

Votes: 285

29. Cole (2009)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.

Director: Carl Bessai | Stars: Richard de Klerk, Kandyse McClure, Sonja Bennett, Chad Willett

Votes: 345

30. Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998–1999)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

During World War II, former New York City stockbroker Richmond Hobson Jr. has traded in his business attire for cowboy duds in trying to build the largest cattle ranch in the world in ... See full summary »

Stars: Yannick Bisson, Ted Atherton, Kimberley Warnat, Sarah Chalke

Votes: 218

31. The Whale (2011)

G | 85 min | Documentary

The true story of Luna, a young, wild killer whale who tries to befriend people on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island.

Directors: Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Luna, Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm

Votes: 746

32. Starlight (1996)

100 min | Sci-Fi

Adrianna (Chong) is a beautiful alien woman who has come to Earth in search of a half alien man (Wirth). She needs him to help her defeat the evil alien Pallas, who himself is out to kill her.

Director: Jonathon Kay | Stars: Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Wirth, Willie Nelson, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 179

33. The Movie Out Here (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy

Adam, an uptight Toronto lawyer, goes back to his hometown of Fernie and tries to save his friend's business. It's a Western Canadian adventure, with Sasq sightings, bikini pillow fights, and of course, the Rangers.

Director: David Hicks | Stars: Robin Nielsen, Viv Leacock, James Wallis, Katharine Isabelle

Votes: 377

34. Curse of the Frozen Gold (2015– )

Adventure

Allegedly worth billions, 'Slumach's Gold' has tantalized prospectors for over a century, and now a team of experienced gold hunters takes up the hunt - and the curse that goes with it. ... See full summary »

Stars: Adam Palmer, Evan Howard, Daryl Friesen, Danny Gerak

Votes: 61

35. Archons (2018)

88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group half a decade after the release of their hit single, as they travel deep into the Canadian wilderness on a spirit journey.

Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj | Stars: Josh Collins, Rob Raco, Samantha Carly, Parmiss Sehat

Votes: 437

36. La Menace (1977)

117 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. ... See full summary »

Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Yves Montand, Carole Laure, Marie Dubois, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 897

37. Tail Lights Fade (1999)

R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A young woman relay races across Canada with her boyfriend and another couple to bail her brother out of a marijuana charge.

Director: Malcolm Ingram | Stars: Jaimz Woolvett, Breckin Meyer, Jake Busey, Elizabeth Berkley

Votes: 852

38. Missing Kenley (2022)

Documentary

This is the heartbreaking story of the 1992 missing Canadian college student, Kenley Matheson. He disappeared from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, without a trace. Years later, suspects emerge, stories surface, and the RCMP does nothing.

Stars: Erin Smith, Sandra Fraser, Kayrene Willis

Votes: 163

39. Luna: Spirit of the Whale (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Mike Maquinna returns to his home town of Gold River on Vancouver Island to attend the funeral of his father, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations Chief Ambrose Maquinna. With a troubled past ... See full summary »

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Adam Beach, Graham Greene, Jason Priestley, Tantoo Cardinal

Votes: 262

40. Never Steady, Never Still (2017)

TV-14 | 112 min | Drama

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.

Director: Kathleen Hepburn | Stars: Shirley Henderson, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway, Nicholas Campbell

Votes: 463

41. Harmony Cats (1992)

104 min | Comedy

Graham Braithwaite is a violinist in a B.C. symphony. Unfortunately the symphony folds and much to his horror and disdain, he's forced to get a gig with a country band as the bassist. He ... See full summary »

Director: Sandy Wilson | Stars: Hoyt Axton, Constance Barnes, Lisa Brokop, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 150

42. Matinee (1989)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A small, depressed Canadian town is about to relive its tragic past when a popular movie director comes back to town - but who is the killer?

Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Ron White, Gillian Barber, Jeff Schultz, Beatrice Boepple

Votes: 248

43. Carts of Darkness (2008)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary

This documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.

Director: Murray Siple | Star: Murray Siple

Votes: 676

44. Big Meat Eater (1982)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical

Strange events occur in a small town after a mild mannered butcher hires an unusual apprentice.

Director: Chris Windsor | Stars: Clarence 'Big' Miller, George Dawson, Andrew Gillies, Stephen Dimopoulos

Votes: 400

45. Great Bear Rainforest (2019)

Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short

Hidden from the outside world, the Great Bear Rain-forest is one of the wildest places left on earth. For the first time ever, experience this magical world in IMAX and giant screen theaters, and discover the land of the spirit bear.

Directors: Rebekah Jorgensen, Ian McAllister, Marc Griffith | Stars: James Cromwell, Ian McAllister, Ryan Reynolds

Votes: 127

46. Soufflé au Chocolat (2011)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Romance

A group of young Francophones visiting the west coast decide to stay on Galiano Island, where things turn out to be very different from back east.

Directors: Michel Duran, Fred Goldstein | Stars: Michel Duran, Emilie Gosselin, Mel Dion, Alex

Votes: 28

47. The Grocer's Wife (1991)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Mrs. Friendly, the grocer's wife, tries to seduce Tim Midley, who lives with his bossy mother, and works monitoring the pollution from a large smokestack. One night his mother is taken to ... See full summary »

Director: John Pozer | Stars: Simon Webb, Susinn McFarlen, Nicola Cavendish, Jay Brazeau

Votes: 34

48. Lunch with Charles (2001)

94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Tong and April are married, but have been estranged since she moved to Vancouver three years ago to pursue her career. Tong decides to go look for her because he thinks she's having an affair.

Director: Michael Parker | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Nicholas Lea, Theresa Lee, Bif Naked

Votes: 144

49. Heart of Gold (II)

80 min | Drama | Completed

In 1969, a deserter from the U.S. Army is sheltered by a Doukhobor family. Their stories are told through letters they are writing to each other but cannot send, because both are on the run.

Director: Patricia Gruben | Stars: Cesare Scarpone, Pascal Lamothe-Kipnes, Buck Delaney, Tariq Leslie

50. To a Safer Place (1987)

58 min | Documentary

A victim of child abuse visits her family to heal the trauma she and her siblings experienced at the hands of their abusive father.

Directors: Beverly Shaffer, Shirley Turcotte | Stars: Shirley Turcotte, Gloria Demers

Votes: 10