Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.
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Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.
A simple offer of legal advice turns into the biggest challenge of Claire Darrow’s legal career when her new beau, D.A. Miles Strasberg, introduces her to his younger half-sister, Phoebe, a singer fresh off her first album. Following a legal dispute between the two, Phoebe's producer ends up dead and all signs point to Phoebe. Claire is the only one Miles trusts to uncover the truth and save his sister.
Michael has a routine. Every day at noon, he heads to his favorite local park where he sits and enjoys the sun on the same bench. However, this time is slightly different, he is greeted by a mysterious woman who soon seems to know everything about him. However, he doesn't recall ever meeting her.
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.
In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
Twelve severed feet in running shoes found on the shores of Western Canada have baffled Police. A videotape is leaked anonymously from the authorities. This paranormal thriller may solve the mystery of the severed feet.
Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a life for his daughter and himself
Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as they dig up "live" spectacular reenacted classical myths with a variety of dragon species and incarnations in the search for the root of a recurring nightmare. By mixing a fantastic storyline and a substantial dose of documentary information about the myths and realities that surround dragons, the film provides an exciting voyage of discovery for audiences, as they learn about the benevolent dragons of China, the terrifying Wyverns of the British Isles, creation stories from Ancient cities of the Middle East and dangerous water monsters described in native North American legends.
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,
"The watcher is in contol. Play or pay the price." I was really lucky to work with all these talanted people, I had such an amazing time making it and I hope you have an amazing time watching it as well! In a world where lockdowns are just a routine due to radiation in the air, a group of teenagers get on a zoom call to have fun while they're at home. But having fun can quickly turn dar when an unknown user named "The watcher" joins. A deadly game of Truth or Dare starts and everything goes downhill when everybody's secrets are revealed. Who will survive, who will die and will go missing is the right question...and who the hell is "The watcher" who hunts them and becomes their worst nightmare...
A Canadian therapist has one last chance to keep his own personal life afloat by avoiding a job transfer to Gimli and working to help three patients suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder.
When a struggling young maid wakes up next to her client’s pool covered in blood, she discovers the owner dead in the water and her eight-year-old son’s life is in jeopardy. With no memory of what happened, she races to uncover the truth. Inspired by true events.
Mostly animated with live-action segments featured throughout, FIDELITY is a comedic drama featuring Dora, a woman in her mid-30s who finds herself stuck in a loveless marriage and stumbling into an affair with another man.
Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, both with differing opinions about the supernatural, stumble across some scary revelations about the facility's violent and abusive history.
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese village. The accusation kills his career, and severely endangers his marriage. When he and Kathy flee to an isolated cabin, he awakes one morning to find her gone. Questions are asked, answers are given or hinted at, as the tension and suspense build.
Days before Christmas in Edwardian-era Toronto, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) is called to investigate a daring train robbery. When witnesses insist the culprit exhibited superhuman abilities, Constable Crabtree (Jonny Harris, Still Standing) realizes the robber bears a striking resemblance to the title character of his new graphic novel, Jumping Jack. As more robberies targeting gifts from Eaton's luxury department occur around Toronto, Murdoch and his team are forced to consider the possibility that Crabtree's character has come to life. As Station House No. 4 contends with the real-life Jumping Jack, Inspector Brackenreid (Thomas Craig, Coronation Street) orders the formation of a police choir, and Dr. Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy, Durham County) tries to help two orphans who mistake her for a fairytale heroine. Can Murdoch and his team stop Jumping Jack from stealing Christmas?
TV Movie directed by Gary Yates. Claire is hosting her best friend's wedding. Guests arrive, old family conflicts resurface and the night before the wedding, the Groom goes missing. Only Claire knows of Danny's disappearance and she is determined to find him and bring him back before her best friend finds out.
A businessman with places to be will be changed forever after a chance encounter in an elevator.
A Man sits at a desk, typing. Another Man sits across from him in a chair, sleeping. Outside, beneath them, reality plays out, as it has forever. Today, however, that changes.
To give in, the blood must flow.
Tintin finds himself involved in a mystery related to a drowned man, a can of crabmeat and a ship called Karaboudjan. After investigating the ship, Tintin discovers that the shipment of cans does not contain exactly crabmeat.
This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of their beloved friend Max when the Harts go to Montreal for the reading of his will. While there, they learn of a clock Max has left for them with his niece, Marie, which is stolen before they can receive it. Meanwhile, Marie’s partner in their antique shop, Vivienne, meets with Ronnie, her secret lover and the husband of the Harts’ friend Lady Camilla Ashley, and is subsequently killed. The clock seems to be at the center of a mystery which includes kidnapping and murder, and the Harts will have to unravel it if they want to get their gift from Max back.
Tintin and Captain Haddock search for Red Rackham's treasure with the help of an eccentric but lovable professor.
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire life to solve the crime? As the case unravels, so do the dark inner demons that Johanna has been trying to hide for the past 20 years!
In the midst of a snowstorm, a journalist dives back into the memories of her most recent investigation. Following the sudden eclipse of star figure skater Violeta Martínez, the journalist travels to Violeta’s hometown, a tropical village on the West coast of Mexico. There she encounters an intricate labyrinth of clues and wrong paths, surreal tales and enigmatic characters. As the story deviates and plunges into the night. A world fades into another.
A young man still in love with his self-destructive ex agrees to join her on a trip to Cancun where he ends up meeting a local girl - forcing him question everything he wants in life.
Three childhood girlfriends reunite to celebrate Demie’s 30th birthday. Unbeknownst to them, Demie’s boyfriend organized a special evening. A night featuring mystery guests, enigmas and maybe a murder.
Detective Murdoch fights against a family of great influence to solve the murder of abortionist Dolly Capshaw.
A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.
When his friend suddenly commits suicide, reporter Paul senses something strange about it. When he starts investigating, a series of sinister events leads him to a deadly Satanic cult.
A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
Perpetually relegated to the kids’ section, aspiring journalist Amélie tries to make the front page by uncovering the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of a local folk hero.
Policeman Stevie Grimes never lost his trust in the police force but has been suspended a few months for accidentally shooting and killing a young boy. Because of lack of evidence in court and with some help from his former partner, Stevie soon finds himself working as a policeman again. When Stevie returns to the police force he is bound to a desk job. Stevie misses the action of the streets and asks his former partner who has been promoted to lieutenant, if there are any interesting assignments available, the lieutenant knows just a case that Stevie can work out perfectly. The lieutenant and Stevie do however share a dark secret... It wasn't Stevie that shot the young boy but somebody very important within the police force, Stevie took the fall out of loyalty.
The Reception takes place in an isolated mansion on an island, but the host is mysteriously absent. A storm traps everyone inside, and the atmosphere turns sour when it is revealed, by way of a video, that each of the guests has a criminal past. A death ensues, and then another... the mansion quickly turns into a jail. Inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.
Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed in a disturbing world of strange mystical codes, he learns that his father was tracking a huge buck with awe-inspiring antlers alongside the “Indian”. After several outstanding short films, Aurtenèche delivers a first feature that obliquely references the legend of Saint Hubert, who encountered the Almighty while hunting a stag. A cryptic thriller, hidden manuscripts, the quest for self-knowledge, psychotropic drugs: La Contemplation du mystère boldly shifts between moods and genres.
Tintin is out on a peaceful walk. But the comfortable atmosphere will not last long. When an aircraft with an engine failure lands, Tintin does his part to help, but he is shot and ends up in hospital.
John Clem heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John feels a sense of home, something he hasn't felt since he was a child. Running into Avery (Ray Wise - Twin Peaks, Reaper) his father's colleague, he receives no help on his dad's disappearance, but instead, a new set of eyes in which to view the living world around him.
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.
Mystery film about a man who finds out that his job processing obituaries isn't what he thought it was.
After receiving an enigmatic message from his eccentric friend, a young man arrives at a boarding house to discover that his friend has vanished under mysterious circumstances. He begins finding himself under the influence of a mysterious power.
Jodie enters a strange world when the house she moves into seems full of nude people. Is it a dream, hallucination, a prank, or paradox?
Tintin buys an old model ship at a flea market as a gift for Captain Haddock, who tells him about the exploits of a famous ancestor related to it. Then, Tintin learns that it is not an ordinary model ship.
Melding dream-logic and wry mystery, Arutinae melts the seams between sleeping and waking worlds. We follow up-and-coming indie musician Billie Christie on a pilgrimage to the former home of her musical idol, Inge Shielke, in the lakeside village of Matlock. Here, Billie meets the matriarch of an eccentric local family who presides over the lake's secrets—a polluted portal to the parallel world of Arutinae.
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.
The forest watches as two sisters confront personal truths - and what lurks in the dark (originally released as a television series, this is a theatrical release edit).
Anna is a jaded and nonchalant young woman whose only pleasure is music. Her life changes when she breaks her CD player and gets a new classic iPod. A mysterious person enters her life at the same time. Anna then becomes fascinated by this new iPod and this strange woman who seems connected to it. This new obsession plunges Anna into a journey between dream and reality.
Following a family tragedy, a reserved teen moves in with his uncle, but begins to suspect not everything is as it seems.
Jim, the father of a young girls finds her puppet shows most disturbing.
A young man unearths a terrible family secret.
As Newfoundland and Labrador hurtles toward its Confederation vote, a murder aboard the infamous train turns a routine journey into a chaotic political whodunit where every passenger has a motive, and the future of a nation might just be riding on a narrow gauge.
A documentary about a newly discovered phenomenon: The Valley of the Bosnian Pyramids. In 2005 five pyramids have been discovered there, in Visoko; a little town in Central Bosnia. According to many scientists and researchers this Valley and its Pyramids have the potential to be an archeological site of the greatest mystery and biggest discovery of our century. This movie tells the story through the in-depth opinions, knowledge, and experience of Dr Semir Osmanagic (the principal investigator and anthropologist in the discovery of the pyramids), other scientists, volunteers, and local people. The story goes that one ancient civilization built the pyramids, another one preserved them by filling them in, and a third one is now excavating them.
A teenage posse, known as the Vandits, attempts to pull off a ridiculous heist.
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
In June of 2004, a group of film students and actors from Toronto camp out on the property of one of this town's only residents. With uncooperative actors, technical problems, and of course swarms of mosquitos, the project they went there to film quickly goes downhill. Brandon, the camera man, starts noticing strange things on the tapes, and people start acting weird. Could the people of Bonville have something to hide?
When her daughter vanishes, Dawna takes it upon herself to locate her.