30 hidden gems on CBC Gem

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Aftersun

U.S. 2022. Psychological drama by Charlotte Wells with Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Celia Rowlson-Hall. Looking back on the vacations she spent with her father as a child, a young woman wonders if she has idealized the man she thought she knew so well.

Runtime: 96 min.

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After Yang

U.S. 2022. Science-fiction by Kogonada with Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja. While trying to get his adopted daughter's android brother repaired, a merchant discovers shocking data in the latter's memory.

Runtime: 96 min.

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Crimes of the Future

Can. 2022. Science-fiction by David Cronenberg with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman. The work of a conceptual artist, who stages the metamorphosis of his organs, attracts the attention of a mysterious group of activists.

Runtime: 107 min

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The Banshees of Inisherin

Irl. 2022. Drama by Martin McDonagh with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon. In 1923, on a small Irish island, two lifelong friends find their friendship called into question when the first abruptly decides he no longer wants to see the second.

Runtime: 109 min.

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C'mon C'mon

U.S. 2021. Drama by Mike Mills with Joaquin Phoenix, Woody Norman, Gaby Hoffmann. A radio journalist, who is preparing a series on children’s perspectives on the future, looks after his young nephew when his sister suddenly has to go out of town.

Runtime: 108 min.

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Scarborough

Can. 2021. Drama by Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson with Liam Diaz, Essence Fox, Anna Claire Beitel. Enrolled in the same community education center in their underprivileged Toronto neighbourhood, three children from different backgrounds try to help each other.

Runtime: 136 min.

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Ammonite

G.-B. 2020. Sentimental drama by Francis Lee with Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones. In the 19th century, on the English coast, a sullen paleontologist falls in love with the neurasthenic young wife of a scientist who came from London to learn her methods.

Runtime: 117 min.

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Nomadland

U.S. 2020. Drama by Chloé Zhao with Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May. Unemployed since her mining touch shut down, a widow adopts a nomadic lifestyle, travelling the country in her van.

Runtime: 108 min.

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Parasite

V.O.: Gisaengchung

Cor.S. 2019. Mores drama by Bong Joon-ho with Choi Woo-sik, Cho Yeo-Jeong, Song Kang-ho. An unemployed family intrude into the opulent bourgeois home of a very gullible housewife.

Runtime: 132 min.

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First Cow

U.S. 2019. Drama by Kelly Reichardt with John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones. In Oregon, during the gold rush, the friendship between a Boston cook and a Chinese man wanted for murder is strengthened by the trade of doughnuts made with stolen milk.

Runtime: 121 min.

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The Lighthouse

U.S. 2019. Psychological drama by Robert Eggers with Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman. In New England at the end of the 19th century, tensions mount between two lighthouse keepers on an inhospitable island cut off from the rest of the world.

Runtime: 110 min.

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The Farewell

U.S. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Lulu Wang with Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Gil Perez-Abraham. A young New Yorker from China returns home to say goodbye to her grandmother, who has been kept in the dark about her terminal cancer.

Runtime: 100 min.

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Disobedience

G.-B. 2018. Drama by Sebastian Lelio with Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola. When her father, an Orthodox rabbi, dies, an out-of-touch photographer returns home and reconnects with a childhood friend she was once in love with.

Runtime: 114 min.

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Shoplifters

V.O.: Manbiki Kazoku

Jap. 2018. Mores drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda with Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kairi Jyo. A strange family of shoplifters takes into their miserable a little girl abused by her parents.

Runtime: 121 min.

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Chien de garde

Can. 2018. Drama by Sophie Dupuis with Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Maude Guérin. In a modest Montreal neighbourhood, two brothers are pressured by their uncle, a small-time drug dealer.

Runtime: 87 min.

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BPM - Beats Per Minute

V.O.: 120 Battements par minute

Fr. 2017. Social drama by Robin Campillo with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel. In 1990, a 26-year-old gay man joins the Paris branch of the AIDS movement ACT UP, where he falls in love with one of the group’s most radical members.

Runtime: 140 min.

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Call Me by Your Name

It. 2017. Sentimental drama by Luca Guadagnino with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg. In 1983 Lombardy, the teenage son of an art history professor falls in love with an American intern who has come to their villa to live for six weeks.

Runtime: 132 min.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

G.-B. 2017. Thriller by Yorgos Lanthimos with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan. A heart surgeon, married with two children, develops a helping relationship with the son of a patient who died on his operating table.

Runtime: 121 min.

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God's Own Country

G.-B. 2017. Sentimental drama by Francis Lee with Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones. A taciturn and brutal young Yorkshire farmer discovers love with a Romanian seasonal worker.

Runtime: 104 min.

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20th Century Women

U.S. 2016. Drama by Mike Mills with Annette Bening, Lucas Jade Zumann, Greta Gerwig. In 1979 California, an open-minded single mother tries to help her teenage son to better understand and respect women.

Runtime: 118 min.

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Room

Irl. 2015. Drama by Lenny Abrahamson with Jacob Tremblay, Brie Larson, Joan Allen. A five-year-old boy whose universe is limited to the tiny room where he has always lived with his mother discovers the existence of the world the day she urges him to escape.

Runtime: 118 min.

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A Most Violent Year

U.S. 2014. Thriller by J.C. Chandor with Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo. In 1981 Brooklyn, the owner of a growing heating oil distribution company faces setbacks from the authorities and his competitors.

Runtime: 126 min.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

U.S. 2014. Comedy by Wes Anderson with Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan. In 1985 in a run-down Hungarian hotel, a writer is told by the owner about the splendid years of this neo-romantic palace during the interwar period.

Runtime: 100 min.

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You're Sleeping Nicole

V.O.: Tu dors Nicole

Can. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Stéphane Lafleur with Julianne Côté, Catherine St-Laurent, Marc-André Grondin. The idleness of a young woman who enjoys the family home alone during the summer is disturbed by the arrival of her older brother and his musician friends.

Runtime: 93 min.

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Boyhood

U.S. 2014. Chronicle by Richard Linklater with Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke. From age six to eighteen, the evolution of a boy from Texas's life with his older sister and their divorced mother.

Runtime: 162 min.

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Gabrielle

Can. 2013. Psychological drama by Louise Archambault with Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry. A young woman with an intellectual disability demands her independence after her lover, who also has a disability, is forbidden by her mother to date her.

Runtime: 102 min.

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12 Years a Slave

U.S. 2013. Biography by Steve McQueen (II) with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o. In the mid-nineteenth century, a black musician from New York is kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a Louisiana plantation.

Runtime: 134 min.

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Stories We Tell

Can. 2012. Documentary by Sarah Polley. After learning that her father is not her father, a filmmaker in the middle of shooting a documentary about her family investigates her identity.

Runtime: 90 min.

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Monsieur Lazhar

Can. 2011. Drama by Philippe Falardeau with Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron. An Algerian awaiting refugee status is tricked into replacing a Montreal teacher who hanged herself in her Grade Six classroom.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Incendies

Can. 2010. Drama by Denis Villeneuve with Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. When their mother dies, Montreal twins discover disturbing facts about her youth in a Middle Eastern country ravaged by civil war.

Runtime: 131 min.

30 hidden gems on CBC Gem

Aftersun

After Yang

Crimes of the Future

The Banshees of Inisherin

C'mon C'mon

Scarborough

Ammonite

Nomadland

Parasite

First Cow

The Lighthouse

The Farewell

Disobedience

Shoplifters

Chien de garde

BPM - Beats Per Minute

Call Me by Your Name

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

God's Own Country

20th Century Women

Room

A Most Violent Year

The Grand Budapest Hotel

You're Sleeping Nicole

Boyhood

Gabrielle

12 Years a Slave

Stories We Tell

Monsieur Lazhar

Incendies

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