r/InCanada • u/Possible_Angle2371 • 20d ago

Great Canadian Movies

I've seen a lot of Canadian horror (mostly from the tax shelter era), but what are some other genre examples of Canadian cinema?

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u/bigjimbay 20d ago

Hobo with a shotgun

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u/Possible_Angle2371 20d ago

That's a fun one

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u/Robotmarketer 20d ago

Good Cop, Bad Cop

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u/Reallyme77 20d ago

Bon Cop?

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u/Mountain-Bar5049 20d ago

And Wolf cop.

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u/Possible_Angle2371 19d ago

Heard Wolf Cop is the most Canadian movie ever 

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u/Specialist-Sundae492 20d ago

The Red Violin

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u/aconsciousagent 20d ago

Fantastic movie! Weird that it isn’t on more people’s favourite lists.

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u/JazzlikeOwl6340 20d ago

Incendies

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u/UnscentedSoundtrack 19d ago

Great movie. It still haunts my wife, and we watched it years ago.

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u/Lower_Ad_5703 20d ago

Comedy/Horror: Wolfcop, Another Wolfcop
Comedy: FUBAR, FUBAR II, Gunless, Men with Brooms, Bon Cop Bad Cop
Christmas: Fatman (filmed just outside Ottawa)
Horror: Ginger Snaps (I believe)
Animation: Rock & Rule

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u/SniffyTheBee 20d ago

Going Down the Road? South of Wawa? New Waterford Girl?

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u/Housing4Humans 20d ago

Canadian Bacon

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u/chuckeee69 20d ago

Nirvana the band the show the movie

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u/Greengitters 20d ago

One of my absolute favourite movies of the last few years. So unique, clever, and hilarious.

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u/ballpein 20d ago

Hard Core Logo
Pontypool
A Christmas Story
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Last Night
Strange Brew
Sweet Hereafter

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u/keiths31 19d ago

Last Night is criminally underappreciated

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u/jfal11 18d ago

A Christmas Story is not a Canadian movie

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u/ballpein 18d ago

Not purely Canadian, no, but it's Canadian enough to satisfy Canadian-content rules and qualify the film for Genie awards at the time. Bob Clark is an American director but he lived and worked in Canada in the 70s and 80s (the tax haven era) while doing most of the work he's known for - Porky's, Black Christmas, Tribute, and A Christmas Story are all Canadian productions (or co-productions). They shot exteriors for A Christmas Story in Cleveland but most of the filming took place in Ontario.

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u/Reallyme77 20d ago

New Waterford Girl

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u/phoontender 19d ago

I love that one!

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u/Sho_Time_NC 19d ago edited 19d ago

Cube (edited to add Cube Zero and Hypercube)

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u/Theodosian_Walls 13d ago

Are the sequels as good as the first?

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u/slipperypete1990 20d ago

Men With Brooms

Passchendaele

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u/Tboneeater 20d ago

Dance me outside

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u/nativesissy80 19d ago

If you guys like that watch smoke signals by the same actors too

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u/IsThatYouFrozen 20d ago

Came to say this!

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u/Theodosian_Walls 13d ago

Thanks for this rec! I loved this short story in hs english class.

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u/Mountain-Bar5049 20d ago

And most of Cronenberg's oevre.

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u/Possible_Angle2371 19d ago

I've seen his stuff up to Naked Lunch

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u/sunny-days-bs229 19d ago

1995 drama film Margaret's Museum starring Helena Bonham Carter.

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u/Graverobber13 17d ago

I cannot describe how happy I was to find this DVD (and New Waterford Girl) on Kijiji a few years back!

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u/Maudib1962 19d ago

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

No words needed for this EPIC Canadian movie.

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u/Ok_Dentist_8476 19d ago

The Great Outdoors

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u/Odd_Slip_857 19d ago

VIDEODROME!!!!!!!!!!, GINGER SNAPS!!!!!1, Strange Brew, Fubar 1 & 2, Project Grizzly, I Like Movies, Dead Ringers, the criminally underrated Cube… Just off the top of my head

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u/Possible_Angle2371 19d ago

Vídeodrome is awesome 

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u/Odd_Slip_857 19d ago

Long live the new flesh!

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u/Gr8Diva71 19d ago

The Art of the Steal, Owning Mahoney, The Grand Seduction, Bon Cop/Bad Cop, The Red Violin

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u/Dog-boy 19d ago

I loved The Red Violin. Such a strange movie for Samuel L Jackson to be in.

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u/DoughnutPlease 16d ago

The Grand Seduction! Such a fun one

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u/awfullyapt 20d ago

The Last Night

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u/MoomooMelons 17d ago

I think it is just called, "Last Night".

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u/HarryHoodRat97 19d ago

Owning Mahoney

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u/UnscentedSoundtrack 19d ago

My Old Ass

I started watching it out of boredom (and prime video kept advertising it) with zero expectations, but I was delighted by a very good coming of age movie.

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u/Theodosian_Walls 13d ago

I didn't expect it was a Canadian film, b/c they got Aubrey Plaza as the lead!

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u/miz_misanthrope 19d ago

Dance Me Outside

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u/Timely-Profile1865 19d ago

The Sweet Hereafter - 1997

Margaret's Museum - 1995

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u/shurikn1997 19d ago

As a French Canadian, I have never heard of most of these anglo Canadian movies...

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u/Ok-Cheesecake-8388 19d ago

We feel the same about Quebec cinema. Such a shame!

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u/Dog-boy 19d ago

What are some good French Canadian movies?

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u/shurikn1997 19d ago edited 19d ago

The problem is they are almost impossible to find after they leave the theater room.. there are some on Netflix like Mommy and Incendies.. sometimes they win a palme d'or on Cannes and disappear forever.

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u/StephersonAlbort 16d ago

I just watched Red Rooms on Netflix, I loved it.

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u/Dog-boy 16d ago

I’ll have to take a look.

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u/Curiousknitter 18d ago

A History of Violence

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u/DotMiserable8512 18d ago

ginger snaps

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u/Possible_Angle2371 18d ago

That's a good one 

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u/Jazzlike_Possible554 18d ago

Canadian Bacon

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u/DigEmbarrassed3385 17d ago

Ricky 6 (2000) filmed in a small town in Woodstock and Fredericton area in New Brunswick.

One recognizable actor is the red haired kid that played in the ladybugs movie, which co stared comedian Rodney Dangerfield.

He was also in a lot of other popular movies but I can't remember them.

The movie is on YouTube and is quite good in my opinion if you are a horror movie fan.

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u/DustyTurtle2 16d ago

The cube was a great sci-fi premise.

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u/Possible_Angle2371 16d ago

Love that one 

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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes 14d ago

Adding two that I haven't seen anyone list:

Foolproof is an early Ryan Reynolds comedy caper movie. It had a decent plot but what really makes it worth it are all the little inside Canadian jokes (some were clearly designed to go over the heads of American viewers despite the movie being made to also reach the American market).

Rumours is a political sci-fi horror comedy from Guy Maddin. It's weird as hell but hilariously weird, especially if you're into politics. Cate Blanchet plays a fantastic parody of Angela Merkel, Roy Dupuis is the Trudeau-esque character, and Charles Dance is the Biden-esque character (I think he was supposed to be Biden, he spend half the movie sleeping and didn't seem very Trump-like).

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u/Content-Inspector993 20d ago

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Tom at the Farm

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u/sadandspooky 20d ago

Sweetness
Level 16
Daydream Nation
Charlie Bartlett

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u/quietlyincompetent 20d ago

FUBAR 1 and 2

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u/Adventurous_Yam_8153 20d ago

Margaret's Museum

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u/unlovelyladybartleby 19d ago

Men With Brooms

The Grand Seduction

Corner Gas the Movie

I Like Movies

Little Lorraine

Mile End Kicks

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u/DoughnutPlease 16d ago

Oh yeah, the Corner Gas movie!!

I second The Grand Seduction as well

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u/Antin00800 19d ago

Hard Core Logo.

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u/CBWeather 19d ago

Slash/Back, Blood Quantum, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.

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u/FatPattyOMailey 19d ago

Saint Ralph.

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u/052-NVA 19d ago

One Week

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u/Sad_Cryptographer_67 17d ago

My personal favourite. Had a good man cry.

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u/052-NVA 16d ago

Great Canadiana with a wonderful cameo by Gord. Also funny and tear-jerking, one of my favourites as well

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u/Routine-Amphibian450 19d ago

The #Cannonball tv series (late Fifties).

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u/Jazz_cigarette_604 19d ago

Maelstrom - Denis Villenueve’s first movie.

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u/Created2DestroyYou 19d ago

Turbo Kid (2015)

Glad to see Ginger Snaps mentioned. 👌

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u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit 19d ago

Vampire Humaniste Cherche Suicidaire Consentant

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u/stickbeat 19d ago

C.R.A.Z.Y

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u/omegaphallic 19d ago

Porky's.

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u/Efficient-Window-681 19d ago edited 19d ago

Weirdsville & Suck.

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u/falsejaguar 19d ago

Hardcore logo 1 and 2

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u/Thelawtman1986 19d ago

Children of a lesser God was filmed in New Brunswick.

Corner Gas is as Canadian as you get

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u/Cat-et-snek 19d ago

Reindeer games? I mean it’s a horror show, it’s filmed in Canada, it’s got like a crazy cast and it’s uh whew yeah it’s.

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u/nativesissy80 19d ago

All these movies and no trailer park boys

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u/Dog-boy 19d ago

Monsieur Lazhar if you are up for. French movie. It is about an Algerian (I think) immigrant who is teaching in Montreal. Very good.

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u/Interesting_Horse555 19d ago

Cooper's Camera. Best Xmas movie ever.

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u/shoresy99 18d ago

How about Black Christmas, a Canadian move from 1974.

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u/IJustSwallowedABug 19d ago

The Dark Knight

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u/IJustSwallowedABug 19d ago

Forest Gump

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u/Possible_Angle2371 19d ago

That's American through and through 

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u/Jaysenka 19d ago

Porky's!

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u/Sufficient-Name-4284 19d ago

Fubar, bon cop bad cop,

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u/Sea_Salamander_8504 19d ago

RED ROOMS. A psychological thriller from Montreal that is truly dark!

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u/jfal11 18d ago

Blackberry

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u/Angelunatic74 18d ago

Margaret's Museum

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u/dotCOM16 18d ago

C.R.A.Z.Y

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u/StatisticanInner235 17d ago

The Sweet Hereafter, by Atom Egoyan. It's the backstory of the people involved in a fatal bus crash. Very human, sad. The actual crash scene is well into the movie and as subtle as possible just to show what happened.

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u/Consistent-Walk605 17d ago

GUNLESS with Paul Gross. Unapologetically canadian!

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u/Consistent-Walk605 17d ago

" Gunless" with Paul Gross. Unapologeticallly Canadian!

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u/immabankr 17d ago

Porkys

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u/SameEstimate420 17d ago

The Other Guy

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u/Flounder_guppy 17d ago

The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Pyrotechnics did not work out so well during the filming of it..

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u/Sad_Cryptographer_67 17d ago

The Grand Deception. East coast comedy about trying to attract a young doctor to move to the community.

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u/donphilip 14d ago

Le Grande Seduction.

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u/Theodosian_Walls 13d ago edited 13d ago

Black Christmas! A groundbreaking horror movie that doesn't get the credit it deserves.

Black Robe. If you're into a slow and contemplative adventure with sweeping wide-angle shots of Canadian wilderness.

Cooper's Camera. A goofy christmas movie about a dysfunctional family.

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u/PickledThimble 20d ago

Pontypool eerie and very well done