When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.

Come As You Are

2019

English

7.1

♡ 10

94%

80%

Action

bodily disabled person

Richard Wong Director

Marika Engelhardt as Angelique

Ravi Patel as Mo

C.S. Lee as Roger

Gabourey Sidibe as Sam

Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence.

Omertà

2012

French

5.8

♡ 1

32%

Luc Dionne Director

Andreas Apergis as Andréa Manzoni

John Walsh as Chauffeurs policier

Michel Côté as Pierre Gauthier

Rachelle Lefevre as Sophie

When a worldwide plot to divert gold which was placed in central banks all across North America is investigated, Pierre Gauthier is summoned to lead the inquiry. Gauthier however is soon betrayed, and finds himself going head to head with the "capo" of Montreal Mafia.

Jesus of Montreal

1989

French

7.5

♡ 3

69%

Denys Arcand Director Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Daniel's Doctor / Daniel

Marie-Christine Barrault as Dubbing actress

Françoise Robertson as Extra

Véronique Le Flaguais as TV Host

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Afterglow

1997

English

6.0

♡ 10

77%

Alan Rudolph Director

John Dunn-Hill as Derelict in Park

Jay Underwood as Donald Duncan

Nick Nolte as Lucky Mann

Mark Camacho as Ritz-Carlton Bartender

Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky’s wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love quadrangle that reignites their marriages.

Stories We Tell

2012

English

7.5

♡ 8

94%

Sarah Polley Director

Thomas Hauff as Actor

Rebecca Jenkins as Diane Polley

Sarah Polley as Herself

Allie MacDonald as Joanna Polley

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

Blood Relatives

1978

French

6.2

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Claude Chabrol Director

Kenny Ireland as Bert Klinger

Tim Henry as Captain Marriott

Emil Glassbourg as Detective

Micheline Lanctôt as Mrs. Carella

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

Monsieur Lazhar

2011

French

7.5

♡ 6

98%

Philippe Falardeau Director

Sophie Nélisse as Alice L'Écuyer

Héléna Laliberté as Martine Lachance

Daniel Gadouas as Me Gilbert Danis

Émilien Néron as Simon

During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.

The Fall of the American Empire

2018

French

6.9

♡ 3

60%

Denys Arcand Director

Maxim Roy as Carla McDuff

Éric Bruneau as Enquêteur Plamondon

Claude Legault as Informateur

Alain Goulem as Sean McDowell

A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns the money will be looking for it. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker recently released from jail might get him out of trouble.

The Rocket

2005

French

7.6

56%

Charles Binamé Director

Sebastien Roberts as Bob Fillion

Steven McChattie as Dick Irvin

Terry Haig as Dr. Walter McKay

Philip Craig as Tommy Gorman

The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

Montréal Girls

2022

English

4.8

♡ 3

100%

Patricia Chica Director

Anthony Ecclissi as Poetry Lover

Larry Day as Professor

Marc Primeau as Pusher

Jade Hassouné as Tamer

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being forever changed by two young women who help him see his destiny.

Dusk for a Hitman

2023

French

♡ 4

92%

Raymond St-Jean Director

Benoît Gouin as Claude Dubois

Éric Bruneau as Donald Lavoie

Judith Baribeau as Journaliste

Alexandra Petrachuk as Nancy Collins

1979. Donald Lavoie is a fearsome hitman who works under the orders of Claude Dubois, head of the Montreal South-West mob. Donald is tasked to take under his wing new recruit Serge Rivard, a hotheaded small-time crook who soon compromises him in a botched double murder. Donald avoids justice thanks to the Dubois clan's lawyers, but this is only a temporary setback for Detective Sergeant Roger Burns, who wants to convince Lavoie to become an informer.

Rabid

1977

English

6.3

♡ 30

77%

David Cronenberg Director

Patricia Gage as Dr. Roxanne Keloid

Peter MacNeill as Loader

Miguel Fernandes as Man In Cinema

Louis Negin as Maxim

After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood.

Oh, Canada

2024

English

5.6

♡ 13

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Paul Schrader Director

Peter Benson as Benjamin Chapman

Uma Thurman as Emma / Gloria

Richard Gere as Leo Fife

Penelope Mitchell as Sloan Ambrose / Amy

Jacob Elordi as Young Leo Fife

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

The Nature of Love

2023

French

6.8

♡ 4

92%

Monia Chokri Director

Manon Lépine as Femme célibataire université

Micheline Lanctôt as Madeleine

Guillaume Laurin as Olivier

Marie-Ginette Guay as Sylvie

Laurence Anyways

2012

French

♡ 18

84%

Xavier Dolan Director

Jacob Tierney as Alexandre

Bronwen Mantel as Antiquaire

Emily Hampshire as Femme assise avec Laurence sur le plateau

Éric Bruneau as Mathieu

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Café de Flore

2011

French

7.3

♡ 11

63%

Jean-Marc Vallée Director

Hélène Florent as Carole

Vanessa Paradis as Jacqueline

Jérôme Kircher as Louis

Evelyne Brochu as Rose

Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.

Red Rooms

2023

French

7.1

♡ 40

96%

Pascal Plante Director

Chimwemwe Miller as Journaliste télé #1 TVN

Juliette Gariépy as Kelly-Anne

Maxwell McCabe-Lokos as Ludovic Chevalier

Frédérick De Grandpré as Mathieu Breton

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

Sarah Prefers to Run

2013

French

6.2

♡ 1

50%

Chloé Robichaud Director

Micheline Lanctôt as Entraîneure McGill

Hélène Florent as Isabelle

François Jaros as Man in bloody shirt in hospital waiting room

Benoît Gouin as Richard

When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. Sarah agrees but only to discover that her true heart lies elsewhere. Sarah prefers to run.

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Dusk for a Hitman

Rabid

Oh, Canada

The Nature of Love

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