Films from the country "canada", sorted by revenue

, 1h47
Directed by François Girard
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Kenneth Welsh, Miki Nakatani, Martha Burns

Hervé (Michael Pitt), in 19th century France, is a military officer, because that is what his father wants. He is happy when he gets the opportunity to change his profession to that of trader of silkworm eggs. Because in Europe silkworms are affected by a disease (pébrine), he is sent to Africa to get healthy eggs. (The film shows only a brief desert scene.)

, 1h52
Directed by Atom Egoyan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Trucker films
Actors Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Alberta Watson, Marc Donato

In a small town in Upstate New York named "Sam Dent", a school bus skids into a lake, killing 14 children. Their grieving parents are approached by a lawyer, Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm), who is haunted by his dysfunctional relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Stephens persuades the reluctant parents to file a class action lawsuit against the state, school district, or other entity for damages, arguing that the accident is a result of negligence.

, 1h52
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Nicholas Campbell, George Coe

When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a CIA cryptographer blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Once there, however, he discovers a web of deception underneath his fiancée's death.

, 2h11
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Rape in fiction, Political films, Films based on plays, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Rémy Girard, Maxim Gaudette, Allen Altman, Frédéric Paquet

Nawal Marwan, an immigrant to Canada, succumbs to a stroke she suffers at a community swimming pool, and her two children, a brother and sister, receive her final requests in her will. To fulfill her wishes, they must journey to her birthplace.

, 1h34
Directed by Philippe Falardeau
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about immigration, Films about suicide, Films based on plays
Actors Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, Évelyne de la Chenelière, Stéphane Demers

In Montreal, an elementary school teacher hangs herself. Bashir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, then offers his services to replace her, claiming to have taught in his home country. Desperate to fill the position, the principal takes him at his word and gives him the job. He gets to know his students despite the cultural gap evident from the very first day of class and despite his difficulty adapting to the school system's constraints. As the children try to move on from their former teacher's suicide, nobody at the school is aware of Bashir's painful past, or his precarious status as a refugee. His wife, who was a teacher and writer, died along with the couple's daughter and son in an arson attack. The murderers were angered by her last book, in which she pointed a finger at those responsible for the country's reconciliation, which had led to the liberation of many perpetrators of huge crimes. The film goes on to explore Bashir's relationships with the students and faculty, and how the students come to grips with their former teacher's suicide. One student, Alice, writes an assignment on the death of their teacher, revealing the deep pain and confusion felt by each of the students.

, 1h32
Directed by Michael Dowse
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel, Marc-André Grondin, Alison Pill, Eugene Levy

Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott), a bouncer at a bar in Massachusetts, feels ostracized from his adoptive Jewish family, because his father, Dr. Glatt (Eugene Levy) and brother are both successful physicians. Doug attends a minor league hockey game with his best friend Pat (Jay Baruchel). Pat taunts the visiting team during a fight and one of their players climbs into the stands, calling him a homosexual slur. Doug, whose brother is gay, steps in and easily beats up the opposing player. Soon after, Doug gets a phone call from the coach of his hometown team who offers him a job as an enforcer.

, 1h29
Directed by Werner Herzog
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about nature
Actors Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff

C'est une grotte immense, protégée du monde depuis 20 000 ans parce que le plafond de son entrée s'est effondré. C'est un sanctuaire incrusté de cristaux et rempli de restes pétrifiés de mammifères géants de la période glaciaire. Pourtant, ce n'est pas le seul trésor que ce lieu unique au monde avait à nous offrir… En 1994, au sud de la France, les scientifiques qui ont découvert la grotte sont tombés, ébahis, face à des centaines de peintures rupestres, des oeuvres d'art spectaculaires réalisées il y a plus de 30 000 ans - presque deux fois plus vieilles que les peintures rupestres les plus anciennes découvertes jusqu'alors. Ces dessins, ces oeuvres, ces témoignages exceptionnels ont été créés à l'époque où les hommes de Neandertal parcouraient encore la terre, en un temps où les ours des cavernes, les mammouths et les lions étaient les espèces dominantes sur notre continent.

, 1h56
Directed by Aisling Walsh
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Greg Malone

L'histoire vraie du peintre Maud Lewis, une femme de ménage qui, un jour, devient célèbre en Nouvelle-Écosse pour ses peintures et se marie avec Everett Lewis, un vendeur de poissons qui n'est autre que le grand amour de sa vie.

, 1h37
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Ethan Hawke, Theresa Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, Don S. Davis, Sharlene Martin

Tom McHugh (Hawke) quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig (McNamara) isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door (Polo), during which Tom is harassed by unpleasant strangers, threatened by mobsters, pursued by police, attacked by an irate florist, accused of murder, and has his date kidnapped—all because everyone thinks he's Craig...and the classic 1959 DeSoto Firesweep he borrowed off his brother has two dead bodies in the trunk.

, 1h18
Origin Canada
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Musical films, Films about toys, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Keith Knight, Bob Dermer, Eva Almos, Dan Hennessey, Tracey Ann Moore, Luba Goy

In Care-a-lot, the Care Bears are visited by the White Rabbit, the uncle of Swift Heart Rabbit. The White Rabbit gives the Care Bears the task of finding the missing Princess of Heart, who is to be crowned queen in Wonderland, otherwise the villainous Wizard of Wonderland will gain the throne. Tenderheart, Grumpy, Good Luck, Brave Heart, Lotsa Heart, Swift Heart and the White Rabbit search all over the world for the Princess, but to no avail. Grumpy is pointed to a girl who resembles the Princess, Alice. The Care Bears decide that Alice could act as the Princess until the real one is found. The group is separated by the power of the Wizard, forcing Grumpy, Swift Heart and the White Rabbit to use a rabbit hole to reach Wonderland.

, 1h38
Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Gary Reineke

Spider is the story of Dennis Cleg, a man who is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed persons. Cleg has just been released from a mental institution and in his new abode starts piecing together or recreating in his memory an apparently fateful childhood event. He roams the nearby derelict urban area and the local canal and starts to relive or visualize a period of his childhood in 1950s London with his mother and his father. A shift takes place in the child's psyche when he witnesses his mother groping with his father in the garden and, subsequently, when he sees his mother in a silky night gown she wore for his father. The son, as a grown man seems to recreate in his memory the buildup to his father's murder of his mother with the passive support of a prostitute he is involved with, who then moves into the house and is presented as his mother. The young son then kills the mistress by gassing her in the kitchen, although the final shot appears to show his true mother lying dead so we are left to wonder whether she really was his mother and the prostitute was just a fantasy. After that memory he sneaks late one night to the landlady's room and appears ready to kill her, whom he sees alternatively as the mistress, his mother and the landlady, but backs away after she says, "What have you done Mr. Cleg?" He is taken back to the asylum.

, 1h48
Directed by Christian Duguay
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sur une planète fictive, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Dystopian films, Space opera, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer, Liliana Komorowska, Charles Edwin Powell

The year is 2078. The planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a civil war between the mining company, known as the New Economic Block (NEB), and the Alliance, a group of former mining and science personnel. Five years into the war, Alliance scientists created and deployed Autonomous Mobile Swords (AMS) — artificially intelligent self-replicating machines that hunt down and kill NEB soldiers on their own. They are nicknamed "screamers" because of a high-pitched noise they emit as they attack. Screamers track targets by their heartbeats, so Alliance soldiers wear "tabs" which broadcast a signal canceling out the wearer's heartbeat and rendering them "invisible" to the machines.

, 1h30
Directed by George Mihalka
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Zombie films
Actors Lori Hallier, Cynthia Dale, Helene Udy, Don Francks, Keith Knight, Alf Humphreys

Two miners in full gear, including face masks, are seen going down into a deep mine shaft. They reach an alcove and one of the figures takes off half of their gear, and is revealed to be a woman. As the other miner refuses to remove his gear, he sticks his mining pick in a wall, and she does a strip tease, fondling the man's mask and breathing tubes in a sexual manner, resulting the miner killing her by impaling her chest with the pick's blade.

, 1h40
Directed by Stuart Gillard
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates, Yosef Shiloach

In the Georgian era, in 1823, David (Aames) and Sarah (Cates), two teenagers, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent 'Jackal' raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. David and Sarah and her servant, Geoffrey, narrowly escape, but all the others are slain in the massacre including David's American missionary parents. However, Geoffrey doesn't survive long, as he sees an encampment that, unbeknownst to him, is run by the Jackal. Geoffrey goes to the encampment seeking help but is killed by the Jackal as the remaining duo takes a rest in a nearby enclave on their westerly direction toward civilization.

, 1h32
Directed by Colin Minihan
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Sean Rogerson, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray

Jerry Hartfield, the producer of Grave Encounters, a famous ghost investigation television series, explains that Grave Encounters was cancelled in 2003 after the fifth episode, when the cast and crew, along with the footage for episode six, mysteriously went missing. The footage was finally recovered in 2010 and brought to Hartfield. In it, the show's host Lance Preston, along with occult specialist Sasha Parker, surveillance operator Matt White, cameraman T.C. Gibson, and fake medium Houston Grey, investigates the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where many instances of paranormal activity have been reported since its closure.