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Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.
A story about two detectives trying to solve a murder, but the detectives are not the brightest
After a disastrous art theft that killed one of them, the members of a crime family turn on each other as they attempt to fence the masterpiece they acquired.
The sole Asian teen in a redneck town learns his father was a Triad legend and seeks his legacy in the criminal underworld of the big city — only to face a brutal choice between power and his soul in a world more savage and strange than anything he could have imagined.
A Toronto musician faces personal issues and industry uncertainty as he attempts to make his songs heard.
Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The result is two remarkable documentaries: the first, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible, premiered at Hot Docs in the spring of 2013 and follows the story of a violent patient released into the community. The second film, Out of Mind, Out of Sight, returns to the Brockville Mental Health Centre to profile four patients, two men and two women, as they struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
When Alana, a naïve stripper, is raped by her boss, Stag, and his drug dealer friend, she turns to her fellow dancers for help. Joined by the beautiful Roxy and seductive Crystal, they hatch a plan to kidnap Stag and force him to give them the combination to his safe. Using his own vices against him, they seduce and drug him. When he wakes he is cuffed in his office where three women he has wronged in different ways hold him captive. In what becomes a grim battle of wills, the girls use physical and mental torture to try to force the combination from him, needing the money to flee before he gets free and kills them all. But they quickly realize they're in over their heads as everything that can go wrong does. As the walls close in around them they have until dawn to get even, get the money and get gone.
A Super-8 short-film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" styled as a music video/silent-film -- director Juli Saragosa has a different take on greaser masculinity than did Francis Ford Coppola.
A young cockfighter and sports memorabilia reseller prepares for the unexpected release of his incarcerated father.
During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're being chased by the police, accused of murdering several police officers.
Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in which Lucie learns how to lie, to live, and perhaps also to like. Wolves in the Snow is an intense drama set against the backdrop of Montreal.
When a cop kills a criminal's brother, his life is in more danger than ever before; Sam Ramirez must do what he can to put an end to criminal activity in his city, while avoiding being in the line of fire.
A small-time car stereo thief weasels his way into intercepting a high-stakes drug deal. The job seems simple and easy, but he soon encounters double-cross upon double-cross, merciless drug kingpins, and a mysterious female thief. This beautiful, glossy, neo-noir, fast-and-furious action thriller explores the seedy, dangerous underbelly of East Vancouver, and ultimately unspools a tale of the inexorable hand of fate.
Boris, an ex-con thief, is persuaded by his girlfriend to pull one last heist, breaking into her paraplegic, millionaire boss' sprawling, castle-like mansion. But once inside, they become trapped in a maze-like series of escape rooms which must be solved in order to stay alive.
A young woman working as a pizza delivery girl in a small suburban town is thrown into a string of violent events following the theft of her bicycle.
An artist must decide whom to trust when she receives messages from an unknown source claiming her husband is having an affair.
A hi-tech computerized building is left on autopilot and decides it needs to eat its employees to maintain its power.
Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".
Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He's a bookish scholar with glasses; she's a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit... Guylaine's brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine's friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles...
A Hong Kong martial artist joins forces with a U.S. marshal in 2020 to stop the release of a virus that halts the aging process.
When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at her door and it becomes clear that the past is not easily forgotten.
An intertwining story of coincidence and closure. Now, then and before the "death" of his YouTube partner and best friend, Seamus tries to come to terms with his new predicament and create a final video for the channel, a sendoff to the last five years of friendship.
A bloody drama and an apocalyptic vision of the universities, and more generally of Québec society.
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible tells the story of a troubled young man who stabbed a complete stranger 6 times in a crowded shopping mall while gripped by psychosis. Twelve years later, his victim, who miraculously survived, is terrified to learn that he's out, living in the community under supervision. He's applying for an absolute discharge, and if he succeeds, he'll no longer be required to take the anti-psychotic drugs that control his mental illness. With unprecedented access to the patient, the victim, and the mental institution, the film looks at both sides of the debate and puts a human face on the complex ethical issues raised.
The relationship between lovers Yves and Claude comes to an abrupt conclusion when, as the couple are making love, Yves slices Claude's throat, killing him. After being taken into custody for his crime, the police inspector demands to know the reason behind Yves' actions. Yves then weaves the tale of his life with Claude, explaining the origins of their relationship and how it reached a point where murder was the only possible conclusion.
A hopeless romantic with big dreams, Steve is an ex-con hired to chauffeur a mob boss' girlfriend for a night. He's blissfully unaware that his passenger has died and is now possessed by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Two strangers show up at a family's cottage claiming to have spent their childhood summers there, but their behaviour seems to be driven by something more sinister than nostalgia.
A high school teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.
A non-linear surrealistic horror film documenting a man's broken descent into isolation, body mutilation, paedophilia and murder.
Within a society fearful of vampires, Ernesto Murciélago, a detective and luchador, must rescue a kidnapped basketball player and defeat the city's evil leader, L0L1TA (a fascist tape recorder).
Angel Candy is a lot of things. A huckster, an artist, a life coach, a radio personality, and a titan of the rail wheel lubricant delivery industry. Above all else he is doomed. While in hiding, he presents to us the story of his bizarre and often morally questionable life.
Three criminals on the run pass through Kingsport and decide to rob an old man who they believe has a hoard of gold coins. An adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft short story.
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
This documentary shows the investigation conducted by journalists Monic Néron and Simon Coutu to shed light on the career and personality of the young Trifluvien exiled in Thailand.
An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.
A hitman is seduced by a dancer that he had been tasked to kill.
Wealthy socialites gather for a lavish birthday, but when an unexpected event shatters their world, they face a choice that tests their loyalties. As tensions rise, not everyone is willing to make the same sacrifice.
A desperate immigrant is sent to Vancouver to recover a stolen watch. Meanwhile, two low-level gangsters search for the same watch to avoid being executed by their boss. Both groups fight for the same object that has the power to save their lives.
Seeking refuge from a past she can't outrun, Maria returns home. But when an unexpected connection with a gentle stranger stirs hope for something more, she's forced to confront the truth: love can't always save us from who we've been.
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
Fly Detective Francis McFly loses his partner to the infamous ‘Croaks’, a frog gang at the centre of his most recent investigation. Stricken by grief, he decides to get revenge, and go head to head with their ravenous leader, The Frogfather.
Two radical youths embark on a journey to a house on a mountain.
In this sly and clever heist, two shyster salesmen might have finally met their match.
The next experience in experimental giallo & film noir, inspired by the sensual and violent world of the Italian giallo film, Glass tells the tale of a young Canadian couple, Mike and Zarana, who decide to cut themselves off from social media and remain in their glass-walled apartment overlooking the waters running through their city. Anxiety, paranoia, violence, and murder follows. Sex, conspiracy and violence explode in GLASS, the second instalment of Vince D'Amato's neo-giallo series. Tirra Dent plays Zarana, a woman consumed by paranoia and rabid nightmares after she finds herself relentlessly stalked by the enigmatic killer. Set in the "glass jungle" of Vancouver's gentrified neighbourhoods, Glass is a scathing critique of social media and the society of middle and lower classes.
A narcotics officer returns to Niagara Falls to check smuggling of "black tar" heroin.
The Ojibway Switchback, a Popular Native American gigolo, is sent to repay a debt for his madam in trade. However, he underestimates exactly what is in store for him.
An entrepreneur discovers that his heart transplant came from an organ harvesting enterprise and decides to risk everything for the woman who would be their next victim.
A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
Hired to protect a royal reputation, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson soon find their investigation crossing paths with Irene Adler, the one woman Holmes can never quite forget.
A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are transpiring of each of them on loop. As the eye attempts to take them all in, the murder soon seems entirely unimportant.
An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes.
An examination of the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, the film explores the reasons why Indigenous women are uniquely vulnerable to violence by juxtaposing the stories of some missing or murdered women with the personal testimonies of women who are doing activism on the issue and women who have personally survived incidents of violence.
Two men meet in a park. It's Christmas Eve. Kane is an assassin, on his way to do a job that means more to him than the usual killings he is paid to do. This time it's personal.
Things are getting hot for Ski Mask Guy and his gang of masked villains. Too many habits have begun to spiral out of control. If it's not a corrupt police detective breathing down his neck for a fix, he has to try and put a limit on his crony, the Meathead's new hobby: cruising the city streets at night and abducting young girls. But when the two problems collide, Ski Mask Guy must find a way to tie up these loose ends without taking the fall.
Jay and Matt move everything out of "Stu's" garage. A road trip of memory ensues.
Jay is a witty and cultured rookie detective who gets paired with the serious and quiet detective Eddie. The pair must investigate the brutal murder of Victoria French while simultaneously trying to put up with each other. The team gets wrapped up with adventures that quickly become unorthodox.