Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Nominees and Winners
by kingwilson | created - 28 Apr 2011 | updated - 29 Apr 2011 | PublicThe Genies are the major Canadian film awards.
I'm surprised this list doesn't exist yet! It'll be a good way to find good-quality Canadian films.
1980-present.
I list the winner first, followed by the other nominees. If you like this list, you'll love my others. :)
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1. Murder by Decree (1979)
PG | 124 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark
Votes: 6,603
1st Genie Awards Winner
2. Klondike Fever (1979)
PG | 119 min | Adventure
This movie chronicled Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Lorne Greene
Votes: 233
3. A Scream from Silence (1979)
96 min | Drama
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
Director: Anne Claire Poirier | Stars: Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie, Monique Miller
Votes: 196
4. Fish Hawk (1979)
G | 94 min | Drama
An embittered, hard-drinking Indian finds himself befriending a young white farmboy, and together they determine to help him end his drinking problems and return to his former life.
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Will Sampson, Don Francks, Charles Fields, Mary Pirie
Votes: 121
5. Wild Horse Hank (1979)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A teenage girl (Hank) tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dogmeat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Linda Blair, Richard Crenna, Helen Hughes, Lloyd Berry
Votes: 186
6. Good Riddance (1980)
120 min | Drama
A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Louise Marleau
Votes: 772
2nd Genie Awards Winner
7. Tribute (1980)
PG | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Robby Benson, Lee Remick, Colleen Dewhurst
Votes: 840
8. Hounds of Notre Dame (1980)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
It's the winter of 1940. Father Athol Murray - "Pere" to most that know him - is an opinionated, chain-smoking, hard drinking parish priest at Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. ... See full summary »
Director: Zale Dalen | Stars: Thomas Peacocke, Frances Hyland, Barry Morse, David Ferry
Votes: 36
9. The Coffin Affair (1980)
107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.
Director: Jean-Claude Labrecque | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, August Schellenberg, Thomas Donohue, Yvon Dufour
Votes: 51
10. The Handyman (1980)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Le film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l'histoire d'un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d'un autre âge sont à l'origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout ... See full summary »
Director: Micheline Lanctôt | Stars: Jocelyn Bérubé, Andrée Pelletier, Janette Bertrand, Madeleine Guérin
Votes: 108
11. The Plouffe Family (1981)
227 min | Drama
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Rémi Laurent, Pierre Curzi, Juliette Huot
Votes: 484
3rd Genie Awards Winner
12. Scanners (1981)
R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 61,801 | Gross: $14.23M
13. Silence of the North (1981)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in ... See full summary »
Director: Allan King | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney
Votes: 268 | Gross: $1.62M
14. Heartaches (1981)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young wife becomes pregnant, but the child's father is not her husband. Afraid to tell him, she leaves home, and meets an outgoing, free-spirited woman on a bus. Although the two are ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Margot Kidder, Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Winston Rekert
Votes: 205
15. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
PG | 108 min | Drama
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 872
16. 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: 2,496
4th Genie Awards Winner
17. Melanie (1982)
PG | 104 min | Drama
A young woman battles to regain custody of her son.
Director: Rex Bromfield | Stars: Glynnis O'Connor, Paul Sorvino, Burton Cummings, Trudy Young
Votes: 287
18. Les fleurs sauvages (1982)
152 min | Drama
Three generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Marthe Nadeau, Michèle Magny, Pierre Curzi, Claudia Aubin
Votes: 46
19. Une journée en taxi (1982)
84 min | Drama
Director: Robert Ménard | Stars: Gilles Renaud, Jean Yanne, Yvon Dufour, Muriel Dutil
Votes: 14
20. If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
PG | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Marc Singer, R.H. Thomson, Sarah Torgov, Shari Belafonte
Votes: 939 | Gross: $8.69M
21. A Christmas Story (1983)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 168,647 | Gross: $20.61M
5th Genie Awards Winner (tie)
22. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 103,077 | Gross: $2.12M
5th Genie Awards Winner (tie)
23. Lucien Brouillard (1983)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Montreal provides a backdrop for this intriguing, fast-paced political drama about the later, dangerous interactions of two boys who first became best friends during their years at an ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Carrière | Stars: Pierre Curzi, Roger Blay, Marie Tifo, Paul Savoie
Votes: 25
24. Deserters (1983)
91 min | Drama
Louis is a 27-year-old reservist and patriot, as is his childhood friend and longtime rival Bastien, who sees the war, like everything else, as an opportunity. One night, as their unit ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Darcus | Stars: Jon Bryden, Noel Burton, Ty Haller, Barbara March
Votes: 10
25. Au clair de la lune (1983)
92 min | Drama, Comedy
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Guy L'Ecuyer, Michel Côté, Pierre Giard, Marcel Fournier
Votes: 160
26. Just a Game (1983)
89 min | Drama
A family on vacation must deal with its long-held dark secret when the traumatized eldest daughter tries to break the silence and make her father stop sexually abusing her. Unfortunately, that may prove to be next to impossible.
Director: Brigitte Sauriol | Stars: Madeleine Arsenault, Lothaire Bluteau, Jimmy Bond, Raymond Cloutier
Votes: 29
27. Sonatine (1984)
91 min | Drama
Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.
Director: Micheline Lanctôt | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre F. Fauteux, Kliment Denchev
Votes: 277
6th Genie Awards Winner
28. Next of Kin (1984)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
Unhappy living with his loveless parents, a young man convinces a family of Armenian immigrants that he's their long-lost son and moves in with them, improving all of their lives in the process.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Patrick Tierney, Berj Fazlian, Sirvart Fazlian, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 1,047
29. Le jour S... (1984)
88 min | Drama
A middle-aged man haunted by feelings and memories takes a day off work for reflection and recollection of his past love affairs.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Pierre Curzi, Michel Daigle, Violaine Estérez, Marcel Sabourin
Votes: 8
30. Unfinished Business (1984)
99 min | Drama
Seventeen year old Isabelle Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life directionless. Isabelle becomes involved with an anti-nuclear group that her boyfriend Jessie ... See full summary »
Director: Don Owen | Stars: Isabelle Mejias, Peter Spence, Leslie Toth, Julie Biggs
Votes: 43
31. La femme de l'hôtel (1984)
89 min | Drama
Making a film in her native town, a director finds inspiration in a woman, Estelle David, seen wandering through a hotel.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Paule Baillargeon, Louise Marleau, Marthe Turgeon, Serge Dupire
Votes: 80
32. My American Cousin (1985)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ... See full summary »
Director: Sandy Wilson | Stars: Margaret Langrick, John Wildman, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee
Votes: 683
7th Genie Awards Winner
33. Le matou (1985)
141 min | Drama
Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Serge Dupire, Monique Spaziani, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 316
34. La dame en couleurs (1985)
112 min | Drama
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Paule Baillargeon, Ginette Boivin, Claude Desjardins, Lisette Dufour
Votes: 114
35. Joshua Then and Now (1985)
R | 178 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, Michael Sarrazin
Votes: 615 | Gross: $0.54M
36. 90 Days (1985)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
90 Days is a tongue-in-cheek look at the misadventures of two modern men in search of romantic bliss: macho Alex, who receives the offer of a lifetime from a mysterious woman, and sincere ... See full summary »
Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Stefan Wodoslawsky, Christine Pak, Sam Grana, Fernanda Tavares
Votes: 84 | Gross: $0.01M
37. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi
Votes: 8,699 | Gross: $1.90M
8th Genie Awards Winner
38. Dancing in the Dark (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
The present unfolds along with scenes from the past in this intense psychological drama about Edna, a woman in the hospital who each day writes down her memories.
Director: Leon Marr | Stars: Martha Henry, Neil Munro, Anne Butler, Vince Metcalfe
Votes: 100
39. Blind Trust (1986)
PG-13 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Marie Tifo, Pierre Curzi, Jacques Godin, Robert Gravel
Votes: 272
40. Sitting in Limbo (1986)
96 min | Drama
Four teenagers in Montréal deal with issues like poverty, teenage pregnancy, and the importance of having a community.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Gaston Belanger, Sally Bochner, André A. Bélanger, Lance Jerome Clarke
Votes: 33
41. Loyalties (1986)
R | 98 min | Drama
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Kenneth Welsh, Tantoo Cardinal, Susan Wooldridge, Vera Martin
Votes: 131
42. Night Zoo (1987)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Gilles Maheu, Roger Lebel, Corrado Mastropasqua, Lorne Brass
Votes: 774
9th Genie Awards Winner
43. Family Viewing (1987)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is ... See full summary »
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 1,456
44. Marie s'en va-t-en ville (1987)
80 min | Drama
Mary, a 13-year old runaway going through an identity crisis, lands in Montreal and meets a fortyish prostitute who will become a maternal role model for the teenager.
Director: Marquise Lepage | Stars: Frédérique Collin, Genevieve Lenoir, Denis Levasseur, Robert Boivin
Votes: 35
45. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Richard Monette
Votes: 1,915 | Gross: $1.41M
46. Train of Dreams (1987)
88 min | Drama
At 16, Tony is an English-speaking high-school drop-out in Montreal. In trouble with the law and at odds with his struggling single parent mother, Tony is sent to Juvie where he realizes ... See full summary »
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Jason St. Amour, Marcella Santa Maria, Christopher Neil, Fred Ward
Votes: 34
47. Dead Ringers (1988)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon
Votes: 53,623 | Gross: $9.13M
10th Genie Awards Winner
48. Malarek (1988)
R | 100 min | Action, Biography
Based on Victor Malarek's best-selling autobiography, this is the true story of a streetwise kid who emerges from a violent and unjust background to become one of journalism's top reporters.
Director: Roger Cardinal | Stars: Elias Koteas, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman, Daniel Pilon
Votes: 193
49. A Winter Tan (1987)
91 min | Drama
Maryse Holden, a professor, feminist activist spent the last months before her murder in Mexico on "a break from feminism" that became a sexually iconic story reflect in her posthumous book... See full summary »
Directors: Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Frizzell, John Walker, Aerlyn Weissman | Stars: Jackie Burroughs, Hernando Gonzáles, Anita Olanick, Diane D'Aquila
Votes: 152
50. Les portes tournantes (1988)
101 min | Drama, Music
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Monique Spaziani, Gabriel Arcand, Miou-Miou, François Méthé
Votes: 198
51. Cowboys Don't Cry (1988)
103 min | Drama
As long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Ron White, Zachary Ansley, Janet-Laine Green, Valerie Pearson
Votes: 122
52. Jesus of Montreal (1989)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard
Votes: 7,553 | Gross: $1.60M
11th Genie Awards Winner
53. Les matins infidèles (1989)
90 min | Drama
Two men deal with the ups and downs of the creative process and passing the age of thirty.
Directors: Jean Beaudry, François Bouvier | Stars: Jean Beaudry, Denis Bouchard, Laurent Faubert-Bouvier, Violaine Forest
Votes: 68
54. Speaking Parts (1989)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, Tony Nardi
Votes: 1,571
55. Welcome to Canada (1989)
89 min | Drama
Newfoundlanders share their food, culture, and homes with a group of Tamil refugees found off the coast.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Noreen Power, Brendan Foley, Kasivisanathan Karthigasoo, Kumaraselvy Karthigasoo
Votes: 24
56. Bye Bye Blues (1989)
PG | 117 min | Drama, Romance, Music
Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when... See full summary »
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Rebecca Jenkins, Luke Reilly, Michael Ontkean, Chad Krowchuk
Votes: 319 | Gross: $0.16M
57. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,669 | Gross: $8.21M
12th Genie Awards Winner
58. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)
115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore
Votes: 414
59. The Adjuster (1991)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose
Votes: 3,763 | Gross: $0.40M
60. Une histoire inventée (1990)
100 min | Drama
An irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Jean Lapointe, Louise Marleau, Charlotte Laurier, Marc Messier
Votes: 159
61. H (1990)
94 min | Drama
Two junkies lock themselves in an underground apartment in a desperate attempt to wean themselves off heroin.
Director: Darrell Wasyk | Stars: Martin Neufeld, Pascale Montpetit, Ingrid Veninger, Bruce Beaton
Votes: 171
62. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,705 | Gross: $2.54M
13th Genie Awards Winner
63. Being at Home with Claude (1992)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
It's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette, Gaston Lepage
Votes: 658 | Gross: $0.60M
64. The Quarrel (1991)
PG-13 | 85 min | Drama
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old ... See full summary »
Director: Eli Cohen | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Saul Rubinek, Merlee Shapiro, Arthur Grosser
Votes: 268 | Gross: $0.26M
65. Leolo (1992)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 7,336 | Gross: $0.61M
66. Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (1992)
93 min | Crime, Drama
The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
Director: Robert Morin | Stars: Gildor Roy, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Brigitte Paquette, Sabrina Boudot
Votes: 450
67. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Votes: 3,918 | Gross: $1.57M
14th Genie Awards Winner
68. Le sexe des étoiles (1993)
104 min | Drama
Camille don't like the man her mother is seeing. She still dreams about her father, who's living in New York. One day, she sees her mother arguing with a woman for some time. Camille ... See full summary »
Director: Paule Baillargeon | Stars: Marianne Coquelicot Mercier, Denis Mercier, Tobie Pelletier, Sylvie Drapeau
Votes: 241
69. Calendar (1993)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan, Michelle Bellerose
Votes: 2,361
70. La Florida (1993)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy
Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading... See full summary »
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Rémy Girard, Pauline Lapointe, Yvan Canuel, Jason Blicker
Votes: 527 | Gross: $1.60M
71. 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
72. Exotica (1994)
R | 103 min | Drama
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar, David Hemblen
Votes: 21,106 | Gross: $4.18M
15th Genie Awards Winner
73. A Wind from Wyoming (1994)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
On the eve of her 18th birthday, Lea is dumped by her boxer boyfriend Reo. She turns to her mother, Lizette (France Castel), for comfort, only to discover that mom has run off with her ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: François Cluzet, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, France Castel, Michel Côté
Votes: 197 | Gross: $0.17M
74. Deux actrices (1993)
95 min | Drama
Deux soeurs qui ne se connaissent pas, apprennent, devenues adultes, à s'accepter. Parallèlement, les deux actrices qui jouent le rôle de cette fiction dans le film parlent des personnages ... See full summary »
Director: Micheline Lanctôt | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Pascale Paroissien, François Delisle, Suzanne Garceau
Votes: 52
75. Whale Music (1994)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a... See full summary »
Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Maury Chaykin, Cynthia Preston, Paul Gross, Jennifer Dale
Votes: 587 | Gross: $0.04M
76. Mouvements du désir (1994)
93 min | Drama, Romance
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Valérie Kaprisky, Jean-François Pichette, Jolianne L'Allier-Matteau, William Jacques
Votes: 162 | Gross: $0.10M
77. Double Happiness (1994)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Romance
East clashes with West and generations collide as a young Chinese woman struggles to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams.
Director: Mina Shum | Stars: Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Claudette Carracedo, Greg Chan
Votes: 1,245 | Gross: $0.76M
78. The Confessional (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 1,634 | Gross: $0.58M
16th Genie Awards Winner
79. Eldorado (1995)
104 min | Drama
It's summer and it's hot in Montreal, and we meet many people: Rita, the nice homeless girl, who moves to Roxan's house; Henriette, who falls in love with her neighbour, Lloyd, the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Robert Brouillette, James Hyndman, Macha Limonchik
Votes: 335 | Gross: $0.55M
80. Margaret's Museum (1995)
R | 114 min | Drama
Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.
Director: Mort Ransen | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan, Clive Russell, Craig Olejnik
Votes: 1,395 | Gross: $0.52M
81. Liste noire (1995)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A judge is caught with a prostitute. She provides a list of her clients which includes several high-profile judges and politicians. This triggers a series of disturbing events creating an atmosphere of danger and intrigue.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Michel Côté, Geneviève Brouillette, Sylvie Bourque, Raymond Cloutier
Votes: 588 | Gross: $1.77M
82. Rude (1995)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama
This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an ... See full summary »
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Maurice Dean Wint, Rachael Crawford, Clark Johnson, Richard Chevolleau
Votes: 236
83. Crash (1996)
NC-17 | 100 min | Drama
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 66,415 | Gross: $2.04M
17th Genie Awards Winner
84. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,345
85. Lilies (1996)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
Director: John Greyson | Stars: Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, Jason Cadieux
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.22M
86. Le polygraphe (1996)
92 min | Crime
Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Patrick Goyette, Marie Brassard, Peter Stormare, Maria de Medeiros
Votes: 467 | Gross: $0.06M
87. 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: 2,822 | Gross: $0.02M
88. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
R | 112 min | Drama
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks, Tom McCamus
Votes: 36,750 | Gross: $3.25M
18th Genie Awards Winner
89. The Hanging Garden (1997)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.
Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Ian Parsons, Peter MacNeill
Votes: 3,079 | Gross: $0.93M
90. The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Montreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to search for his first love Paula Paul, the Countess of the title: the loveliest bearded lady ever to grace a circus sideshow. To win ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Robin Aubert, Geneviève Brouillette, Isabel Richer, David Boutin
Votes: 152
91. Karmina (1996)
110 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
In Transylvania, the 140 year-old vampire Karmina flees from the castle of her father on her wedding day arranged by her parents with Vlad. She travels to Montreal to meet her aunt ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Pelletier | Stars: Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier, France Castel
Votes: 698 | Gross: $0.37M
92. Kissed (1996)
R | 78 min | Drama, Romance
Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.
Director: Lynne Stopkewich | Stars: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Natasha Morley
Votes: 3,995 | Gross: $0.47M
93. The Red Violin (1998)
R | 130 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Christoph Koncz, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 34,496 | Gross: $9.47M
19th Genie Awards Winner
94. Such a Long Journey (1998)
113 min | Drama
Circa 1971, Gustad Noble lives in a one bedroom hall rented apartment in Byculla, Bombay. He travels to work everyday by Central Railway to Victoria Terminus and walks to Flora Fountain to ... See full summary »
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 488 | Gross: $0.09M
95. Last Night (I) (1998)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.
Director: Don McKellar | Stars: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell
Votes: 10,146
96. Behind the Lines (1997)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce
Votes: 2,500 | Gross: $0.02M
97. Rupert's Land (1998)
93 min | Drama
Two estranged stepbrothers travel to their father's funeral.
Director: Jonathan Tammuz | Stars: Samuel West, Ian Tracey, George Wendt, Susan Hogan
Votes: 94
98. The Five Senses (1999)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Interconnected 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Elize Frances Stolk, Nadia Litz
Votes: 3,146 | Gross: $0.50M
20th Genie Awards Winner
99. Post Mortem (1999)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
Director: Louis Bélanger | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Moreau, Hélène Loiselle, Sarah Lecomte-Bergeron
Votes: 502
100. Felicia's Journey (1999)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid
Votes: 8,406 | Gross: $0.82M
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