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- Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
- Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
- During Christmas holidays, the children of a small village split themselves into two groups and begin preparing a week-long snowball war. The rivalry opens up tension among group members, especially leaders Luc and Sophie.
- The disruptions caused in the life of 13 year old Kenny born with underdeveloped legs, removed to replace other missing bones at 6 months old when a French film company comes to do a film about his life and family.
- Documentary focusing on the career of pro wrestler Bret Hart & his controversial exit from the WWF.
- Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
- A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
- 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.
- Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre.
- A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- Cindy, an ex-prostitute rescues Marianne, one of her pimp's potential new recruits and a deadly rivalry begins.
- When a police detective kills a criminal, this traumatic event triggers a locked memory, he didn't know he had, of him being a subject of a CIA experiment.
- A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.
- A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.
- After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).
- Cruel, and utterly effective, Peter Foldes' experimentation with computer animation employs a bold speechless narrative to draw attention to the grave effects of consumerism. Who needs ethics when everything is within arm's reach?
- A crusading TV reporter finds his life ripped apart as he investigates a story about a company's deadly criminal negligence.
- An experimental film that features busy urban areas, but does so without a soul in sight.
- Three bickering people search after the gold mine the father of one of them owned.
- A film about life in the Czech border area after the expulsion of the Germans.
- A couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- A Frenchman has an affair while on a business trip.
- A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
- A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
- A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.
- The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
- Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- 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 frog have done and track him back. Despaired he contact a radio talk show to tell his story trying to find a way to save the life of his partner in the hand of those who contract him.
- The film tells the story of an alien from outer space who befriends two young children when he lands in a small town in Quebec.
- A communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.
- Set in mid-winter Montreal, a mentally unstable young man becomes involved with 2 women, which fuels his paranoia, forcing him to commit criminal acts.
- On a sandy desert, a man made of sand constructs other sand creatures to help make a beautiful sand castle for themselves.
- To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.
- Made in celebration of the Canadian centennial, this Oscar-nominated documentary offers aerial exploration of the country's vast and varied landscape, featuring impressive widescreen cinematography, amusingly irreverent commentary, and even a cameo by The Beatles.
- Through an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
- Troubled youth Eddie McGeer, on a whim, steals a motorcycle and takes it on a short joy ride with his girlfriend Marie before they ditch it when they hear police sirens. Indeed, the police do know he stole the bike. Eddie doesn't know what to do except hang low for for while and dream about getting away from his troubles by going someplace like Acapulco with Marie. He tells his friends that they haven't seen him if anyone asks. He doesn't tell his mother what trouble he's in this time. And his social worker, knowing something is the matter, tries to get him to at least open up to him. Eddie eventually does tell his social worker, who knows that Eddie is not a bad kid but a scared one who needed to grow up far too quickly. Only Eddie can decide to take his advice to turn himself in, or continue to run, especially as Marie seems to be distancing herself further and further from him.
- When a camera crew are sent to document hippie protests in Yorkville, Canada's counter-culture capital, they are charmed by a group of misunderstood kids with their own ideas about what kind of movie to make.
- A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative reactions of her parents, boyfriend, etc in a series of vignettes.
- A documentary chronicling the career of teen singing star Paul Anka (the title is taken from one of his hit songs).
- This film is a documentary about the filming of one of Buster Keaton's movies: The Railrodder (1965).
- In this short animation film, a magnificent bird performs for the Emperor inside a glittering palace. Its plumage is a blaze of colour. A blackbird, watching enviously, strives to acquire what he so desperately covets, only to discover that a golden cage can't compete with the open skies.
- National Film Board of Canada Donald Owen teamed with NFB producer Donald Brittain for an imaginative profile of Montreal poet Leonard Cohen.
- 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.
- A family of seven lives on a New England island with nobody else. One winter, they got stranded because the bay froze over. This didn't much matter to them, but someone on the mainland remembered them and launched an aerial rescue mission; an unfounded story that one boy had appendicitis results in a larger rescue mission, with the situation rapidly escalating into a major catastrophe all because of the rescue mission.
- A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.
- The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
- A very engaging short documentary of how a native Indian from Quebec works building skyscrapers in New York City, with breathtaking shots of walking on narrow beams 25 stories in the air, as well as a chilling recounting of the death of numerous Indian iron workers building a bridge in Quebec in the early part of the century.
- Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.
- A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
- Egoyan's contribution to Inspired By Bach, a series of six films featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborating with different artists to explore new interpretations of six Bach Cello Suites.