Canadian Cinema (from excellent to horrible)
by guisreis | created - 12 May 2014 | updated - 7 months ago | PublicWe use to think that films from Quebec are French and that films in English are from the United States. That is unfair. That is why I made this list.
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1. Blindness (2008)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya
Votes: 75,188 | Gross: $3.07M
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy
Votes: 744,994 | Gross: $233.92M
3. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,417
4. Defendor (2009)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Arthur Poppington, a regular man who adopts a superhero persona, known as "Defendor", combs the city streets at night, in search of his archenemy, Captain Industry.
Director: Peter Stebbings | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas
Votes: 37,527 | Gross: $0.04M
6. Mommy (I) (2014)
R | 139 min | Drama
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard
Votes: 61,815 | Gross: $3.49M
7. 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: 10,141
8. eXistenZ (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 107,177 | Gross: $2.84M
9. Suck (2009)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
A comedy centered on a rock 'n' roll band that will do anything to become famous.
Director: Rob Stefaniuk | Stars: Rob Stefaniuk, Jessica Paré, Paul Anthony, Mike Lobel
Votes: 5,210
10. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 666,456 | Gross: $42.34M
Co-production USA/Canada, filmed in New York.
11. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,332 | Gross: $5.70M
Co-production.
12. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Votes: 666,723 | Gross: $124.99M
An USA/Taiwan/UK/Canada co-production, partially shot in Montreal.
13. X2 (2003)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen
Votes: 575,963 | Gross: $214.95M
14. Pompeii (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 116,630 | Gross: $23.22M
Very nice and often unfairly criticised sword-and-sandal movie. A Canada/Germany/USA production, partially shot in Toronto.
15. Snake Eyes (1998)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino
Votes: 86,726 | Gross: $55.59M
16. The Memory Book (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A budding photographer seeks out the same true love she finds in an old photo album.
Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Meghan Ory, Luke Macfarlane, Art Hindle, John Cassini
Votes: 1,798
The production is not Canadian, it is from the USA. Though, it was shot in Canada with Canadian actors. It is very predictable, but it is also cute and moving.
17. Deadpool (2016)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy
A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal yet hideously scarred, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.
Director: Tim Miller | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein
Votes: 1,125,196 | Gross: $363.07M
18. Three Kings of Belize (2007)
88 min
In a small Central American country with a population of 270000, three veteran musicians share moments of their daily lives with us.
Director: Katia Paradis | Stars: Florencio Mess, Paul Nabor
Votes: 6
19. The Devil's Horn (2016)
86 min | Documentary
An exploration of the seemingly mythological hold the saxophone has had on those who've played it, including Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it in 1840.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: David Fox, Mathieu Lalot, Reverend Horton Heat, Albert Tootie Heath
Votes: 82
20. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
Votes: 540,569 | Gross: $234.36M
21. Porky's (1981)
R | 94 min | Comedy
In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson
Votes: 45,745 | Gross: $111.29M
22. A Done Deal (2016)
9 min | Short, Comedy
Remy, a hitman for a small-time Montreal mobster, has to kill Fernand, an old associate who talks too much. The plan is simple: invite him for coffee, offer him a ride and shoot him in the alley. Easy! A done deal...
Directors: Pierre-Marc Drouin, Simon Lamarre-Ledoux | Stars: Steve Laplante, Richard Fréchette, Eve Duranceau, Pascale Tremblay
Votes: 63
23. Ice Guardians (2016)
108 min | Documentary, Sport
On-ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the world's most prestigious hockey league, only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself.
Director: Brett Harvey | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Chris Chelios, Brett Hull, Bobby Hull
Votes: 1,828
24. Harpoon (2019)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.
Director: Rob Grant | Stars: Munro Chambers, Chris Gray, Emily Tyra, Brett Gelman
Votes: 6,210
25. The Cola Conquest (1998)
50 min | Documentary
The Cola Conquest tells the story of Coca-Cola - the 'sublimated essence' of all that American stands for - and the century-long competition with its rival, Pepsi-Cola. Challenging, ... See full summary »
Director: Irene Lilienheim Angelico
Votes: 107
26. Underworld: Awakening (2012)
R | 88 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrior Selene leads the battle against humankind.
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, India Eisley, Stephen Rea
Votes: 161,192 | Gross: $62.32M
27. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,033 | Gross: $3.43M
28. Overpass (II) (2015)
19 min | Short, Drama
One night, Mathieu, 17, goes under an overpass to do a graffiti.
Director: Patrice Laliberté | Stars: Téo Vachon Sincennes, Sandrine Bisson, Stéphane F. Jacques, Jérémie Gagnon
Votes: 106
29. Burning Mussolini (2009)
85 min | Crime, Drama
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left ... See full synopsis »
Director: Conrad Pla | Stars: Conrad Pla, Chelah Horsdal, Richard Chevolleau, David Zayas
Votes: 70
30. Birth of the Dragon (2016)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Set against the backdrop of 1960s San Francisco, BIRTH OF THE DRAGON is a modern take on the classic movies that Bruce Lee was known for. It takes its inspiration from the epic and still controversial showdown between an up-and-coming Bruce Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man - a battle that gave birth to a legend.
Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Billy Magnussen, Yu Xia, Philip Ng, Jingjing Qu
Votes: 8,802 | Gross: $6.90M
31. 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: 102,943 | Gross: $2.12M
32. 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: 8,697 | Gross: $1.90M
33. Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
17 min | Animation, Short, Thriller
Exhausted and profoundly melancholic, anachronistic Madame Tutli-Putli wants to board a train. And, surrounded by a lifetime's worth of personal belongings, she waits patiently. Is she running away from her past?
Directors: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Star: Laurie Maher
Votes: 2,936
34. Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Western
In 1860s Texas, a man whose abused wife fell in love with a Kiowa organizes a hunting party to recapture her.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 227
35. Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Irene Bedard
Votes: 1,432 | Gross: $3.34M
36. Closing the Ring (2007)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 1, 1944.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Dylan Roberts, Gene Dinovi
Votes: 4,869
UK (Northern Ireland) / Canada / USA production.
37. Underworld: Evolution (2006)
R | 106 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Picking up directly from the previous movie, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy, Tony Curran
Votes: 209,188 | Gross: $62.32M
39. Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017)
95 min | Documentary, History
The history of Mattel's definitive action figure toy line.
Directors: Randall Lobb, Robert McCallum | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Anthony De Longis, Richard Edlund
Votes: 1,794
40.
True Justice (2010–2012)
Episode:
Dark Vengeance: Part 2
(2011)
TV-MA | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With the killer seemingly caught the team believe the case is closed, when another woman is found dead matching the m.o. of the serial killer. Sarah unwittingly becomes the target of the real killer.
Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie, William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart
Votes: 156
41. Below Zero (2011)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Jack, a writer who goes to a remote meat cooler, where his agent has set it up for him, to be locked in for five days so he can meet his deadline while he writes the ending to his book.
Director: Justin Thomas Ostensen | Stars: Edward Furlong, Kristin Booth, Michael Eisner, Michael Berryman
Votes: 888
42. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Jemima West
Votes: 138,757 | Gross: $31.17M
43. Dans les eaux profondes (2014)
13 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Three characters have in common a secret and intimate experience which seems to have a strong impact on their life...
Director: Sarah Van den Boom | Stars: Fred Bianconi, Julian Casey, Miranda Handford, Richard Jutras
Votes: 96
44. Black Fox (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Romance, Western
A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 481
45. Turbo Kid (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.
Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Stars: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright
Votes: 29,694 | Gross: $0.05M
46. A Fighting Man (I) (2014)
R | 88 min | Drama, Sport
Haunted by a tragic past, undefeated washed up boxer Sailor O'Connor is a broken man. When a fluke opportunity arises to step back in the ring, he takes it. Now he must stay on his feet throughout a bloody, brutal beating in the ring.
Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Kim Coates, Louis Gossett Jr., Adam Beach
Votes: 1,658
47. Warcraft (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper
Votes: 278,743 | Gross: $47.37M
48. Seventh Son (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 80,469 | Gross: $17.22M
USA-UK-Canada-China production with scenes shot in Canada.
49. I Was Lorena Bobbitt (2020 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 97 min | Drama
An immigrant bride to a battered wife into an unlikely media sensation.
Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Niamh Wilson, Luke Humphrey, Patrice Goodman, Jorja Cadence
Votes: 346
50. Mostly Sunny (2016)
TV-MA | 83 min | Documentary
Mostly Sunny is a documentary that tells the remarkable story of Sunny Leone, the Canadian-born, American-bred adult film star who is pursuing her dreams of Bollywood stardom.
Director: Dilip Mehta | Stars: Sunny Leone, Daniel Weber, Sundeep Vohra, Kiran Bedi
Votes: 771
51. The Colony (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Director: Jeff Renfroe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan
Votes: 47,107
52. Her Husband's Betrayal (2013 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A suspicious woman spies on her husband, only to find he has committed a murder and framed her for it.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Shawn Roberts, Marc Bendavid, Jacob Horsley
Votes: 503
A horrible film, very boring.
53. The King of Fighters (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Live-action feature based on the video game "King of Fighters".
Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Will Yun Lee, Ray Park
Votes: 4,564
54. Goon (2011)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.
Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Eugene Levy
Votes: 90,776 | Gross: $4.17M
Out of ranking: I only watched the end.
55. The Corporation (2003)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, History
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones
Votes: 21,783 | Gross: $1.88M
Out of ranking: I haven't watched yet. Just here as a wish list, for me remembering.
56. The Little Prince (2015)
PG | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A little girl lives in a very grown-up world with her mother, who tries to prepare her for it. Her neighbor, the Aviator, introduces the girl to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, the world of the Little Prince.
Director: Mark Osborne | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 66,510 | Gross: $1.34M
57. Eastern Promises (2007)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin
Votes: 261,071 | Gross: $17.11M
58. Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld (2008)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
ODYSSEUS, The Warrior King, has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Arnold Vosloo, Steve Bacic, JR Bourne, Stefanie von Pfetten
Votes: 832
59. Assassin's Creed: Embers (2011)
21 min | Animation, Short, Action
Now living in a cozy Tuscan Villa with his wife and their two children, Ezio spends his time enjoying the company of family, old friends, and cultivating his vineyards. The life of this ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Bernier | Stars: Peter Arpesella, Angela Galuppo, Roger Craig Smith, Anna Tuveri
Votes: 2,491
60. Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)
Not Rated | 36 min | Short, Action, Adventure
When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy's most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself.
Stars: Romano Orzari, Manuel Tadros, Jesse Rath, Devon Bostick
Votes: 4,716
61. Nico the Unicorn (1998)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
As an 11-year-old boy struggles to cope with a disability, he finds a pony who gives birth to a unicorn which he takes care of.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Neige, Pierre Chagnon, Martin Neufeld
Votes: 575
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