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Can. 2024. Biography by Ali Abbasi with Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova. In the 1970s, with the advice of lawyer Roy Cohn, Donald Trump made a meteoric rise in New York real estate.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Matt Johnson with Matt Johnson, Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton. In the late 1990s, two computer geniuses from Waterloo, Ontario, developed the first smart phone in history.
Runtime: 122 min.
Can. 2022. Drama by Clement Virgo with Aaron Pierre, Lamar Johnson, Kiana Madeira. In the Toronto neighbourhood of Scarborough, a mother of Caribbean descent tries to help her young son overcome the absence of his older brother, who was like a second father to him.
Runtime: 119 min.
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.
Can. 2020. Drama by Tracey Deer with Kiawentiio, Paulina Alexis, Rainbow Dickerson. In 1990, during the Oka Crisis, a young Mohawk woman from the Kahnawake reserve asks a feisty teenager to teach her to overcome her fears.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Sophie Deraspe with Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Antoine Desrochers. By organizing the escape of her younger brother threatened with deportation, a young North African immigrant woman provokes a great movement of solidarity.
Runtime: 109 min.

A Colony

V.O.: Une Colonie
Can. 2018. Drama by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles with Émilie Bierre, Irlande Côté, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie. The awakening of a reserved teenager through contact with a popular student at her new high school and an Abenaki classmate.
Runtime: 103 min.
Can. 2016. Biography by Aisling Walsh with Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett. The crippled Maud Lewis, a housekeeper and later wife of a rough-hewn Nova Scotia fish salesman, gains national notoriety for her captivating naive art paintings.
Runtime: 115 min.

It's Only the End of the World

V.O.: Juste la fin du monde
Can. 2016. Drama by Xavier Dolan with Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel. Twelve years after leaving home, a playwright returns to his family, where he is met with mixed feelings.
Runtime: 97 min.
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.
14A
Can. 2014. Psychological drama by Xavier Dolan with Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément. A widow's difficult relationship with her hyperactive teenager is soothed by the arrival of a mysterious neighbor in their lives.
Runtime: 138 min.
14A
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.
Can. 2012. Drama by Kim Nguyen with Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien. In Africa, the journey of a child soldier who earns the reputation of being a witch, thanks to her prophetic visions, within the group of rebels who kidnapped her.
Runtime: 90 min.
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.
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.
14A
Can. 2008. Social drama by Denis Villeneuve with Maxim Gaudette, Karine Vanasse, Sébastien Huberdeau. Portrayal of the École Polytechnic massacre on December 6, 1989, from the point of view of the killer and two students, a survivor and a powerless witness.
Runtime: 77 min.
Can. 2008. War drama by Paul Gross with Paul Gross, Caroline Dhavernas, Joe Dinicol. In 1917, a sergeant returns from the frontlines traumatized and agrees to go back to protect the brother of the nurse with whom he is in love.
Runtime: 114 min.
Can. 2006. Sentimental drama by Sarah Polley with Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis. A woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease forgets her husband and their love.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2006. Police comedy by Érik Canuel with Patrick Huard, Colm Feore, Lucie Laurier. A Montreal police officer is forced to team up with his Toronto counterpart in a murder investigation.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 2005. Chronicle by Jean-Marc Vallée with Marc-André Grondin, Michel Côté, Danielle Proulx. Born in 1960 in a Montreal suburb, a young man who denies his homosexual impulses seeks his father's approval.
Runtime: 129 min.

The Triplets of Belleville

V.O.: Les Triplettes de Belleville
Fr. 2003. Animation by Sylvain Chomet. With the help of a trio of eccentric singers and a resourceful dog, an old lady tries to free her cycling grandson who has been kidnapped by the French mafia.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Barbarian Invasions

V.O.: Les Invasions barbares
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. A wealthy young financier tries to ease the last days of his father, an academic dying with cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.

Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner

V.O.: Atanarjuat - L'Homme rapide
Can. 2001. Tale by Zacharias Kunuk with Natar Ungalaaq, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Sylvia Ivalu. In an Inuit community, a hunter comes into conflict with the chief's son, whose family is under an evil spell.
Runtime: 172 min.
Can. 2000. Psychological drama by Denis Villeneuve with Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stéphanie Morgenstern. After killing a man in a hit-and-run, a guilt-ridden young woman meets the victim's son.
Runtime: 86 min.
Can. 1998. Chronicle by François Girard with Samuel L. Jackson, Jean-Luc Bideau, Sylvia Chang. After having crossed the ages and the continents, a superb Italian violin of the seventeenth century is presented at auction in Montreal.
Runtime: 130 min.
Can. 1996. Psychological drama by Atom Egoyan with Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1996. Psychological drama by John Greyson with Jason Cadieux, Danny Gilmore, Brent Carver.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1991. History by Bruce Beresford with Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young. In 17th century New France, a missionary undertakes a perilous journey to reach a Huron settlement.
Runtime: 100 min.

Jesus of Montreal

V.O.: Jésus de Montréal
Can. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay. A young actor, solicited by a religious man to renovate the presentation of a dramatic Stations of the Cross, creates a revised version of the passion of Christ.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 1988. Psychological drama by David Cronenberg with Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske. Twin gynecologists who share all their experiences see their reputations jeopardized the day one of them falls in love with an actress.
Runtime: 113 min.
18A

Night Zoo

V.O.: Un Zoo la nuit
Can. 1987. Mores drama by Jean-Claude Lauzon with Gilles Maheu, Roger Le Bel, Germain Houde. Harassed by a crooked police officer, an ex-convict reconnects with his sick father, whose last hours he tries to make more pleasant.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Decline of the American Empire

V.O.: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Can. 1986. Mores comedy by Denys Arcand with Dominique Michel, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi. Having met for a meal in a villa in the country, four couples find their love lives put into perspective.
Runtime: 101 min.
Can. 1983. Drama by Ralph L. Thomas with Eric Fryer, Michael Zelniker, Robert Duvall. A teenager with an artificial leg sets out to cross Canada from east to west to raise money for the fight against cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 1982. Western by Philip Borsos with Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Wayne Robson. Released from prison after thirty years, a former stagecoach robber finds himself returning to a life of crime.
Runtime: 91 min.

Good Riddance

V.O.: Les Bons Débarras
Can. 1979. Mores drama by Francis Mankiewicz with Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Germain Houde.
Runtime: 113 min.
Runtime: 107 min.
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