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1. I'm 14 and I Hate the World (2011)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Plucked from grandeur and plunked down in creepy squalor, a 14 year old girl learns that how she sees the world is not the only option.
Director: Kenneth J. Harvey | Stars: Emma Harvey, Jill Snowden, Paul O'Neill, Jordan Harvey
Votes: 6
2. Karsh Is History (2009 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
A portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through told through his breathtaking photography.
Director: Joseph Hillel | Stars: Geoffrey Batchen, Estrellita Karsh, Annie Leibovitz, Jessye Norman
Votes: 23
3. Life and Times (1996–2007)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Biographies of famous Canadians.
Stars: Ann-Marie MacDonald, June Callwood, Norman Jewison, Peter Gzowski
Votes: 52
4. The Sparky Book (2006)
14 min | Animation, Short
A goldfish recites to a dying dog the events of his life: a life charactarized by a meaningful relationship with a child suffering serious illness.
Director: Mary Lewis | Stars: Maggie Hickey, Joel Thomas Hynes, Leah Lewis, Tony Nappo
Votes: 9
5. Ice Breakers (2019)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Josh Crooks is an aspiring hockey player in Atlantic Canada. However, he faces one major obstacle in pursuing his hockey career; he is black in a sport where this is very much the exception.
Director: Sandi Rankaduwa | Star: Josh Crooks
Votes: 10
6. Rain, Drizzle, and Fog (1998)
49 min | Documentary, History
In this documentary, six locals, Mary Walsh, Andy Jones, Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Ed Riche, Des Walsh, writers and performers all, who walk through their home town and try to show what makes them love it so.
Director: Rosemary House | Stars: Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Andy Jones, Edward Riche
Votes: 22
7. Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (2004)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a thought-provoking ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Demers, Joseph Hillel
Votes: 48
8. Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & the Age of Beefcake (2006)
48 min | Documentary
A look at the homo-erotic photography of Alan B Stone.
Directors: Philip Lewis, Jean-François Monette | Stars: Gérald Desfossés, Ross Higgins, Gwyneth Jones, Gilles Léonard
Votes: 30
9. White Thunder (2002)
52 min | Documentary
A riveting account of the tragic adventure of filmmaker Varick Frissell and his filming of "The Viking" (1931) and the tragic events that befell that adventure into early film-making.
Director: Victoria King | Stars: Kevin Brownlow, Michael Jones, Victoria King, Terre Nash
Votes: 13
10. Familia (2005)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
This emotionally-charged story of mothers and daughters explores beauty, addiction, and family. It asks the question--is it possible to change your destiny? Canada. French w/Eng. subtitles. Winner - Toronto FF, Winner Canadian Oscars.
Director: Louise Archambault | Stars: Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Juliette Gosselin, Mylène St-Sauveur
Votes: 453
11. Tråder - Threads (2017)
TV-G | 8 min | Animation, Short
Academy Award-winning director Torill Kove explores the beauty and complexity of parental love, the bonds that we form over time, and the ways in which they stretch and shape us.
Director: Torill Kove
Votes: 54
12. Secret Nation (1992)
110 min | Drama, History
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Director: Michael Jones | Stars: Cathy Jones, Mary Walsh, Michael Wade, Rick Mercer
Votes: 86
13. Gerontophilia (2013)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man begins exploring his attraction to much much older men while working in a nursing home.
Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, Walter Borden, Katie Boland, Yardly Kavanagh
Votes: 2,732 | Gross: $0.00M
14. Origami (I) (2017)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Seeking to understand his power to move around in his own timeline, David must eventually confront the disassembled chronology of his own life.
Director: Patrick Demers | Stars: François Arnaud, Normand D'Amour, Milton Tanaka, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
Votes: 148
15. Camping sauvage (2004)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
A man falls for a woman while he is hiding among campers to elude his criminal pursuers.
Directors: André Ducharme, Guy A. Lepage, Sylvain Roy | Stars: Guy A. Lepage, Sylvie Moreau, Normand D'Amour, Benoît Girard
Votes: 671 | Gross: $3.81M
16. Democracy à la Maude (1998)
61 min | Documentary
A film about the life, career and causes of the Canadian social and political activist leader, Maude Barlow.
Director: Patricia Kearns | Stars: Maude Barlow, Geneviève Steele
Votes: 10
17. Luben and Elena: The Love of Art and the Art of love (2019)
75 min | Documentary
A modern-day love story about renowned artists Luben Boykov and Elena Popova, who escape repressive communist Bulgaria in the early 1990s. They find refuge on the island of Newfoundland and... See full summary »
Director: Ellie Yonova | Stars: Luben Boykov, Elena Popova
18. When Women Kill (1994)
48 min | Documentary
What would make an ordinary woman kill her husband? This powerful documentary is about three battered women who, after years of violence, kill their abusers. These women killed when they ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Doran
19. Hard Light (2011)
55 min | Documentary
This feature film uses Michael Crummey's seminal piece of Newfoundland literature to examine cultural change and modern relationships. As in Crummey's collection of poems and stories, there... See full summary »
Director: Justin Simms | Stars: Michael Crummey, Darryl Hopkins, Ruth Lawrence, Des Walsh
20. Angel Peacock (2019)
24 min | Documentary, Short
A 12 year old Yazidi refugee from Iraq tries to settle in Canada.
Director: Peter Svatek | Star: Dawod Haydar
22. The Mystery of the Secret Room (2016)
6 min | Animation, Short
Mystery of the Secret Room takes viewers on a spellbinding voyage between the real and the imaginary. An inspiring portrait of family, adversity, and resilience, this richly hued animated short tells the tale of 10-year-old Grace, who uses her creative superpowers to navigate the emotional landscape of her mother's depression.
Director: Wanda Nolan
24. Under the Knife: Personal Hystories (1995)
26 min | Documentary, Short
An experimental documentary in which nine women share their stories about hysterectomy and its impact on their lives.
Director: Pam Hall | Stars: Anne-Marie Anonsen, Anne Meredith Barry, Emma Butler, Joan Clark
25.
Life and Times (1996–2007)
Episode:
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Many Mauds
(1996)
Documentary, Biography
Stars: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Megan Follows, Lucy Maud Montgomery