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1. Mon amie Max (1994)
106 min | Drama
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Marthe Keller, Johanne McKay, Marie Guillard
Votes: 215
2. Kamouraska (1973)
R | 124 min | Drama, History
Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe Léotard
Votes: 420
3. Act of the Heart (1970)
GP | 103 min | Drama
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Sharon Acker
Votes: 241
4. The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)
50 min | Drama
A poor bush worker refuses to sacrifice his dignity to provide his family with a better life.
Director: Peter Pearson | Stars: Chris Wiggins, Kate Reid, Margot Kidder, William Thourlby
Votes: 51
5. 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
6. The Clown at Midnight (1998)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
Director: Jean Pellerin | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sarah Lassez, James Duval
Votes: 2,371
7. The Planet of Junior Brown (1997)
R | 91 min | Drama
This is the story of an extremely obese, rather immature, yet very bright and talented young man, and of his world and the people in it... mostly homeless young adults... who refer to their... See full summary »
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Martin Villafana, Lynn Whitfield, Rainbow Sun Francks, Clark Johnson
Votes: 309
8. Crac (1980)
15 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The industrialization of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
Director: Frédéric Back
Votes: 1,638
9. 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
10. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,114
11. Continental, a Film Without Guns (2007)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest.
Director: Stéphane Lafleur | Stars: Marie-Ginette Guay, Gilbert Sicotte, Fanny Mallette, Réal Bossé
Votes: 680
12. The Big Snit (1985)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
Director: Richard Condie | Stars: Jay Brazeau, Ida Osler, Randy Woods, Bill Guest
Votes: 1,943
13. Orders (1974)
109 min | Drama, History
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost, Claude Gauthier
Votes: 1,150
14. Tout est parfait (2008)
R | 118 min | Drama
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas's dead body. Next, he discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Christian Fournier | Stars: Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Maxime Bessette, Jean-Noel Raymond-Jetté
Votes: 1,063
15. Bravery in the Field (1979)
29 min | Short, Drama
An aged World War II veteran and a young street punk violently meet and discover more in common than anticipated.
Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Les Rubie, Matt Craven, Kent Gallie, John Harold Cail
Votes: 43
16. Special Delivery (1979)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
Directors: Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon | Stars: Sandy Sanderson, Jean Marchand
Votes: 1,131
17. The Hard Part Begins (1973)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Jim King is a struggling country singer whose life if falling apart. His partner left him to pursue a solo career, his son is out of control and his ex-wife hates his guts and can't wait to see him fail. Life on the road is no fairytale.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Donnelly Rhodes, Nancy Belle Fuller, Paul Bradley, Linda Sorensen
Votes: 40
18. Getting Started (1979)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting any serious time done, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Condie | Stars: Richard Condie, Jay Brazeau
Votes: 250
19. Felix and Meira (2014)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
In Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
Director: Maxime Giroux | Stars: Martin Dubreuil, Hadas Yaron, Luzer Twersky, Melissa Weisz
Votes: 1,639 | Gross: $0.45M
20. Remember (I) (2015)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Kim Roberts, Amanda Smith, Martin Landau
Votes: 27,866 | Gross: $0.64M
21. Maïna (2013)
102 min | Drama
A Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Roseanne Supernault, Ipeelie Ootoova, Uapshkuss Thernish, Eric Schweig
Votes: 503
22. Searchers (2016)
94 min | Drama
Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
Directors: Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq | Stars: Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu, Jonah Qunaq, Apayata Kotierk
Votes: 226
23. Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz (1979)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A short illustrating a traditional Canadian folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility for her boyfriend, the log driver.
Director: John Weldon | Stars: Anna McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle
Votes: 481
24. Empire of Dirt (2013)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Three generations of First Nations women struggle to deal with the demons of their past.
Director: Peter Stebbings | Stars: Cara Gee, Shay Eyre, Barbara Gordon, Jean Yoon
Votes: 266
25. 10½ (2010)
108 min | Drama
Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor, Eugénie Beaudry, Blaise Tardif
Votes: 724
26. White Lie (I) (2019)
TV-MA | 96 min | Drama
A popular undergrad faking cancer struggles to maintain her secret.
Directors: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | Stars: Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson, Martin Donovan, Thomas Antony Olajide
Votes: 2,780
27. Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019)
75 min | Drama
A volatile young woman challenged by everyday social and professional encounters.
Director: Kazik Radwanski | Stars: Lisa Aitken, Pat Bianco, Tiffany Blom, Deragh Campbell
Votes: 690
28. The Grizzlies (2018)
R | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
Director: Miranda de Pencier | Stars: Jack Anawak, Fred Bailey, Seth Burke, Mary Buscemi
Votes: 2,682
29. Wild Life (2011)
TV-PG | 14 min | Animation, Short, Western
Calgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.
Directors: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby | Stars: Adam Blackwood, Luba Goy, Anthony Bekenn, Keith Dinicol
Votes: 885
30. Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963)
105 min | Documentary
At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
Directors: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey
Votes: 710
31. Wavelength (1967)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Drama
Claimed by some to be one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental, indeed.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd
Votes: 3,019
32. Neighbours (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Votes: 3,887
33. Underground (2020)
97 min | Drama
Maxime is a miner with a troubled past. After an explosion at his mine, Maxime attempts to find redemption by saving his fellow miners.
Director: Sophie Dupuis | Stars: Joakim Robillard, Jean-François Boudreau, Guillaume Cyr, Chantal Fontaine
Votes: 422
34. Scarborough (2021)
136 min | Drama
Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
Directors: Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Stars: Liam Diaz, Mekiya Fox, Anna Claire Beitel, Felix Jedi Ingram Isaac
Votes: 479
35. Seven Shades of Pale (1975)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about Black life in Nova Scotia.
Director: Les Rose
36. La gammick (1975)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Decided to 'make the States' a hit-man from Montreal accept a contract in New York to kill a mafioso boss, Frank Anastasia. Naturally the Americans don't accept what that 'stranger', that ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Godbout | Stars: Marc Legault, Dorothée Berryman, Gilbert Chénier, André Guy
Votes: 100
37. Older, Stronger, Wiser (1989)
27 min | Documentary, Short, History
Five Black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s. What emerges is a unique history of Canada's Black people and the legacy of their community ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Prieto | Star: Marva Jackson Lord
38. The Flying Sailor (2022)
8 min | Animation, Short
A sailor is sent hurtling into the sky by the Halifax Explosion.
Directors: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Votes: 2,213
39. Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman ... See full summary »
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 209
40. Bordertown Cafe (1992)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marlene is the owner of a nostalgic cafe on the border of Canada and the USA. Filled with quirky and charming characters, life at the cafe is exciting, entertaining and sometimes chaotic.
Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Susan Hogan, Janet Wright, Lora Schroeder, Victor Cowie
Votes: 43
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. 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
43. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978)
G | 81 min | Family, Fantasy
A six year old boy has a dream in which he is in jail.
Director: Theodore J. Flicker | Stars: Alex Karras, Stephen Rosenberg, Guy L'Ecuyer, Joy Coghill
Votes: 158
44. The Ballad of Crowfoot (1969)
10 min | Documentary, Short, History
A musical telling of the life of the Blackfoot Chief and the betrayal and fall of his tribe with the White conquest of the Canadian West.
Director: Willie Dunn
Votes: 92
45. Skip Tracer (1977)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
Director: Zale Dalen | Stars: David Petersen, John Lazarus, Rudy Szabo, Mike Grigg
Votes: 176
46. Asphalt Watches (2013)
94 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This hilarious, grotesque, and unique adult animated feature chronicles visual artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehmans trans-Canadian road trip as they encounter dull violence, rampant ... See full summary »
Directors: Shayne Ehman, Seth Scriver | Stars: Marc Bell, Mike Constable, Shayne Ehman, Gregor Gordon
Votes: 54
47. Honey Moccasin (1998)
47 min | Comedy
Investigates the authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
Director: Shelley Niro | Stars: Florence Belmore, Tantoo Cardinal, Ron Cook, Willie Dunn
Votes: 22
48. Scarborough (2021)
136 min | Drama
Scarborough is the film adaptation of the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. Over the course of a school year, 3 kids in a low-income neighbourhood find community and friendship at a drop-in reading program.
Directors: Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Stars: Liam Diaz, Mekiya Fox, Anna Claire Beitel, Felix Jedi Ingram Isaac
Votes: 479
49. Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
PG-13 | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In Canada's North during the 1930s, a young Inuit kills a White trader and is pursued by the police but his father is determined to protect his fugitive son at any cost.
Directors: Jacques Dorfmann, Pierre Magny | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshirô Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Votes: 1,057 | Gross: $1.45M
50. Bethune (1977 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, David Gardner, James Hong
Votes: 103
51. My Animal (2023)
R | 104 min | Horror, Romance
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather's growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
Director: Jacqueline Castel | Stars: Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 780
52. Montreal Main (1974)
88 min | Drama
A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
Director: Frank Vitale | Stars: John Sutherland, Peter Brawley, Dave Sutherland, Pam Marchant
Votes: 165
53. Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
100 min | Drama, Comedy
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who ... See full summary »
Director: Allan King | Stars: Brian Painchaud, Douglas Junor, Patricia Hamilton, Gordon Pinsent
Votes: 161
54. Million Dollar Babies (1994)
200 min | Drama
The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second in taking over the family. He helps to take ... See full summary »
Stars: Beau Bridges, Roy Dupuis, Céline Bonnier, Sean McCann
Votes: 334
55. Love and Human Remains (1993)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on ... See full summary »
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Cameron Bancroft, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 2,833 | Gross: $0.95M
56. Swann (1996)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Director: Anna Benson Gyles | Stars: Brenda Fricker, Miranda Richardson, Michael Ontkean, David Cubitt
Votes: 163
57. Setting Fires for Science (1958)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Fires are intentionally set in an abandoned Ontario town to learn what causes them.
Director: Donald Brittain | Star: Geoffrey Hogwood
58. Land of the Long Day (1952)
38 min | Documentary
Director: Douglas Wilkinson | Star: John Drainie
Votes: 6
59. Jours de plaine (1990)
6 min | Animation, Short, Musical
A musical celebration of the French Canadian heritage in the Canadian West.
Directors: Réal Bérard, André Leduc
Votes: 24
60. MacPherson (2012)
11 min | Animation, Short
This animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university ... See full summary »
Director: Martine Chartrand
Votes: 53
61. Tout écartillé (1972)
6 min | Short, Music
Director: André Leduc | Stars: Yves Rochon, Mona Sabbagh
63. Backyard Theatre (1973)
28 min | Documentary, Short
The influence of Michel Tremblay and André Brassard on Quebec Theater in the 1960's.
Stars: Michel Tremblay, André Brassard, Ève Gagnier, Amulette Garneau
64. Grierson (1973)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
Director: Roger Blais | Stars: Michael Kane, Monique Miller, John Amess, Edgar Anstey
Votes: 31
65. Indian Summer (1993)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Seven friends reunite for a week-long reunion at a summer camp in Ontario they used to attend as children which is now threatened with being closed down.
Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Alan Arkin, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Bill Paxton
Votes: 6,026 | Gross: $14.90M
66. Mask of Murder (1988)
89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In a Canadian village, women are being killed by a psychopath. Chief Superintendent Rich and Superintendent McLane have no leads in the case until McLane shoots a suspect. From that moment ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Rod Taylor, Valerie Perrine, Christopher Lee, Sam Cook
Votes: 339
67. House (1995)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
House centers around Victor and his short takes on the walking wounded that illustrate man's inhumanity to himself.
Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Anne Anglin, Ben Cardinal, Patricia Collins, Jerry Franken
Votes: 79
68. White Room (1990)
110 min | Drama
From the post-modern satire of its opening sequence to its tragic-euphoric double ending, Patricia Rozema's second feature WHITE ROOM, a harrowing fairy tale, is as much about the ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Kate Nelligan, Maurice Godin, Margot Kidder, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 284
69. Sleeping Dogs Lie (1998)
92 min | Drama
It's the post WWI era Toronto. Despite Prohibition, Daniel Small continues to operate Corman Distilleries, while his son, Ambrose Small, has just sold his chain of theaters for $1 million. ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Scaini | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Joel Keller, Leon Pownall, Shawn Doyle
Votes: 90
70. Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Two women attending a Women's Seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown ... See full summary »
Directors: Norma Bailey, Deepa Mehta, Danièle J. Suissa | Stars: Damir Andrei, Geneviève Appleton, Brenda Bazinet, Richard Blackburn
Votes: 61
71. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
Director: Jason Eisener | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey
Votes: 48,674 | Gross: $0.70M
72. The Mystical Brain (2006)
53 min | Documentary
A team from the University of Montreal seeks to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate.
Director: Isabelle Raynauld
Votes: 8
73. Ballet Adagio (1972)
10 min | Musical, Short
Two ballet dancers perform a dance in ghostly slow motion.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: David Holmes, Anna Marie Holmes
Votes: 254
74. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,766
76. Short and Suite (1959)
5 min | Animation, Short
The various moods in music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn are translated into moving patterns of colour and light. This lively short is composed of images hand-scratched and hand-painted directly onto the film strip.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 239
77. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,731
78. A Chairy Tale (1957)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Directors: Claude Jutra, Norman McLaren | Star: Claude Jutra
Votes: 1,190
79. The Blackbird (1958)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
Cut out animation set to the French-Canadian nonsense song 'Le merle' (The Blackbird)
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 539
80. Mosaic (I) (1966)
5 min | Animation, Short
A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren | Star: Norman McLaren
Votes: 387
81. Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (2004)
17 min | Animation, Short
In the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him... See full summary »
Directors: Carol Beecher, Kevin D.A. Kurytnik
Votes: 23
82. Synchromy (1971)
7 min | Animation, Short
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The ... See full summary »
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 565
83. Opening Speech (1960)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
Director: Norman McLaren | Star: Norman McLaren
Votes: 210
84. Narcissus (1983)
Not Rated | 22 min | Musical, Short
A balletic interpretation of the Greek myth in which dancers enact the tragedy of the beautiful youth who condemns himself to a trapped existence through excessive self-love.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Jean-Louis Morin, Sylvie Kinal, Sylvain Lafortune
Votes: 193
85. Blinkity Blank (1955)
5 min | Animation, Short
The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,104
86. Hell Unltd (1936)
19 min | Documentary, Short
A mixture of puppets, diagrams, animation and live action presents an anti-war message.
Directors: Helen Biggar, Norman McLaren
Votes: 79
87. A Phantasy (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short
Drawn in pastels, and scored with jazzy music, fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, launching five spheres in to space to create even more fantastical scenes.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 366
88. Barrier Device (2002)
TV-MA | 26 min | Short, Drama
A Korean-American researcher for a female condom study (Sandra Oh) loses all objectivity when she realizes that one of her subjects (Suzy Nakamura) is dating her ex and begins to pursue a friendship with the subject.
Director: Grace Lee | Stars: Sandra Oh, Suzy Nakamura, Melinda Peterson, Jonathan Liebhold
Votes: 94
89. How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (2015)
TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
When "town slut" turned sex columnist Cassie Cranston returns for her mother's funeral it spices things up in the small town of Beaver's Ridge when a group of eccentric town folk, each with their own motives, convince her to plan an orgy.
Director: Jeremy LaLonde | Stars: Jewel Staite, Ennis Esmer, Lauren Lee Smith, Katharine Isabelle
Votes: 3,599
90. Savage Justice (1967)
87 min | Drama
A Japanese girl arrives in a Canadian coastal town to avenge her father's internment-camp death during the war.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Yôko Tani, Paul Richards, Torin Thatcher, Verlie Cooter
Votes: 7
91. 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
92. Percé on the Rocks (1964)
10 min | Short
An ironical look at the little tourist town of Percé and its natural rock formation. Three young women go through the place making fun of the summer people but also giving statistics and ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Luce Guilbeault, Anne Lauriault, Suzanne Valéry
Votes: 47
93. The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
115 min | Drama
A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon, Pauline Julien
Votes: 329
94. Gina (1975)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Céline Lomez, Claude Blanchard, Frédérique Collin, Serge Thériault
Votes: 607
95. Normande (1975)
117 min | Drama, Fantasy
The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Raymond Cloutier, Reynald Bouchard, Carmen Giroux
Votes: 214
96. The Heavenly Bodies (1973)
104 min | Comedy
A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Donald Pilon, Micheline Lanctôt, Carole Laure, Jacques Dufilho
Votes: 78
97. The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard, Robert Rivard
Votes: 467
98. Maria Chapdelaine (1983)
107 min | Drama
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Claude Rich, Amulette Garneau
Votes: 262
99. Fantastica (1980)
110 min | Drama, Musical
In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Serge Reggiani, Claudine Auger
Votes: 139
100. A Passage Beyond Fortune (2023)
Documentary, Short
In their 80s, Gale and Myrna Chow are elders in the Chinese community in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, which was once a central point in Chinese immigration to Canada and one of the largest ... See full summary »
Director: Weiye Su
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