Movies produced in Canada
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Thir13en Ghosts
Horror / Thriller , produced in 2001, Canada, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
After the death of his eccentric Uncle Cyrus (Murray Abraham), Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) inherits his strange mansion. The bizarre glass house is filled with different mysterious artifacts as well as Latin inscriptions carved on the walls and floors. The doors in the house open and close strangely by themselves. Little does Arthur know that when he enters this creepy mansion, he will reluctantly fulfil Cyrus's evil will and unleash twelve vengeful ghosts that are imprisoned in the basement. Then the energy of the gruesome ghosts will fuel an evil giant machine to open a portal to the Eye of Hell. But it requires a thirteen spirit to join the Black Zodiac...
The Thin Red Line
Action / Drama / War , produced in 1998, Canada, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.
The 6th Day
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2000, Canada, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Il film narra di Adam Gibson, common-man con moglie e figlia, pilota di aerei a noleggio con l'amico Hank. Un bel giorno si trova coinvolto, senza volerlo e senza saperlo, in una esperienza agghiacciante creata da una megaindustria illegale di cloni umani di proprietà del perfido Michael Drucker (alla sua terza morte!), usando le ricerche del dottor Griffin Weir. Ma come è possibile? Adam è stato clonato per sbaglio. Da questo momento comincia l'inferno per il pover'uomo. Killer senza scrupoli (peraltro clonati e clonabili all'infinito) lo cercano: la clonazione umana è illegale e uno dei due Adam deve essere eliminato. Ma, questa volta, Drucker ha clonato l'uomo sbagliato!
The Red Violin
Drama / Music / Mystery / Romance , produced in 1998, Canada, Italy, UK , added: 04 Mar 2005
Description:
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin."
Cube Zero
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, Canada , added: 24 Mar 2005
Description:
A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms.
The Boondock Saints
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1999, Canada, USA , added: 24 May 2005
Description:
Irish brothers Connor & Murphy MacManus live and work in Boston. Feeling that God's will to rid Earth from all human Evil was given to them as a mission, they set out to do their divine deed. A public outcry is never heard, and even FBI agent Paul Smecker, who follows their trace of bloodshed, admits that the boys are doing exactly what he secretly always has wished to happen. Risking their lives for their beliefs of Veritas (truth) and Aequitas (justice), the Boondock Saints are hyped by the public, for they are doing good, which only few dare to admit.
The Pacifier
Action / Comedy / Family / Thriller , produced in 2005, Canada, USA , added: 15 Jul 2005
Description:
The scientist working on a secret invention is assassinated and his children are endangered. In this family-friendly movie, Vin Diesel's Shane Wolfe is involved to combine two seemingly incompatible jobs: to defeat a world-threatening enemy and to confine the naughtiness of small mischiefs while doing the housekeeper's work. Zoe, a rebel teenager, gloomy 14-year-old Seth, 8-year-old Ninja-wannabe Lulu, baby Tyler and a toddler Peter are not specified in the index of the Navy SEAL equipment he can handle. Anyway, this tough-guy loner soon realizes one of the most important missions of his life: becoming part of a family and bringing them all closer together.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi , produced in 2004, Canada, France, Germany, UK , added: 16 Jul 2005
Description:
Raccoon City became a deadly trap for the young and beautiful girl survived after the zombification virus outbreak from the "Hive" underground research station. "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" begins where the first film left off, we find Alice (Mila Jovovich) in the middle of the zombie-ravaged deadly city. With the help of a few survivors, Alice must escape the deadly location being hunted by the awesome biological weapon known as Nemesis and having some secret agenda. It will be difficult to escape before the Umbrella Corporation will erase the terrific consequences of its abortive experiment from the face of the Earth.
Just Friends
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2005, Canada, USA , added: 13 Sep 2006
Description:
Chris (Ryan Reynolds) and Jamie (Amy Smart) were the best friends at the high school: he was the clumsy source of mockery for cruel classmates, she was a popular and beautiful cheerleader. Surely, he harbored a secret that he is hopelessly in love with Jamie. One day Chris finally works up his courage and makes his feelings known for her. Surprised, Jamie proceeds with "let us stay just friends" talk, that fateful moment Chris decides to change himself. Decade after, we can see reinvented Chris as a smooth talking womanizer, living large in Los Angeles. He was given a challenging job assignment from his boss, KC, concerning the turning spoiled socialite, diva and magazine pin-up girl Samantha James into a pop-star. The snag is in the fact that Chris and Sam used to date, and that she still carries a torch for him, which makes it all the more hellish. On their way to Paris, they make an unexpected stop in New Jersey – for Chris it's the first time back in 10 years. Chris isn't going to stay there for a long, but he runs into Jamie working at the local bar... You should see yourself what will come further in this slapstick comedy!
American Haunting, An
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2005, Canada, Romania, UK , added: 28 Nov 2006
Description:
Between the years 1818-1820, residents of a small town in Tennessee lived in abject terror: the respectable family of farmer John Bell (Donald Sutherland) fell under a curse. Each night the family members were terrorized by an unrelenting phantom. Everything started with small sounds which eventually grew louder, causing the Bells to suffer grueling psychological and physical torment. All their attempts to discover the cause of its actions and break the evil curse were futile. The agonizing visits of the deadly entity went on until the patriarch of the family passed away...
Slither
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi , produced in 2006, Canada, USA , added: 01 Dec 2006
Description:
The small quiet town of Wheelsy is taken over by an incursion of alien slugs penetrating into the unsuspecting residents, dominating their brains and turning them into zombies and all forms of creepy mutant monsters. A team composed of few survivors, Sheriff Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion), Mayor Jack MacReady (Gregg Henry), and Starla Grant (Elizabeth Banks), starts to combat a horde of fierce mindless zombies with might and main.
Beowulf & Grendel
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy , produced in 2005, Canada, Iceland, UK , added: 18 Jan 2007
Description:
This tale of Beowulf, a medieval warrior who arrived in a time of need to assist King Hrothgar when his kingdom was attacked by the monster Grendel, is an adaptation from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. As a soldier, Beowulf is not used to hesitating, he leads the troop of Norse warriors ahead to the village besieged by the monster. In search for the vicious and elusive Grendel, he crosses paths with Selma (Sarah Polley), a beautiful and voluptuous witch whose alliances are divided between Beowulf and his enemy.
American Psycho
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2000, Canada, USA , added: 15 Aug 2007
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Pathfinder
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War , produced in 2007, Canada, USA , added: 21 Aug 2007
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The action-adventure movie tells the heroic story of the times when Vikings tried to conquer North America by destroying local tribes before Christopher Columbus reached its shores. Wrecked during the storm, a ship became the grave of Vikings and their captives. There was only one survivor, a Viking boy whose unconscious body was washed up on the shore by the powerful waves. Fortunately, the People of the Dawn tribe used various healing remedies to fix the kid up and raised him as their own. Many years later, he grows up into a warrior named Ghost (Karl Urban) and bravely defends his abode against an invasion of ferocious Vikings who, after having plundered great cities of Europe, land on the shores of North America. Despite a mighty legion of his foes, Ghost is unwilling to sheathe the sword and attempts to defeat the usurpers.
Shooter
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2007, Canada, USA , added: 12 Nov 2007
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The suspense thriller focuses on Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a top Marine Corps scout sniper who has retired from the service after a routine mission ended in failure. Three years later, he is coerced back into service in order to thwart an assassination attempt against the President of the United States. While carrying out his mission, Swagger is shot twice by a police officer, but manages to escape and take refuge with Sarah Fenn (Kate Mara), the widow of his former partner. Realizing that he has been framed and is now the subject of a national manhunt, Swagger sets out both to find the real shooter and take revenge on corrupt CIA agents who have twice betrayed him.
Butterfly on a Wheel (aka Shattered)
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2007, Canada, UK , added: 12 Dec 2007
Description:
Successful and happily married Chicago residents Neil (Gerard Butler) and Abby Randall (Maria Bello) are the living embodiment of the American dream. But all of a sudden, their peaceful existence is shattered by a cold-blooded and calculating sociopath named Tom Ryan (Pierce Brosnan) who kidnaps their little daughter, Sophie (Emma Karwandy). However, Ryan doesn't seem to be an average kidnapper. He doesn't demand ransom money for returning their adorable kid safe and sound. What he wants is to derail their idyllic life that they have built over 10 years. Ryan takes a sadistic delight in making them suffer from psychological torture and take their difficult choice in life.
Away from Her
Drama / Romance , produced in 2006, Canada , added: 21 Dec 2007
Description:
Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) have been happily married for over forty years. When Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, they come to realize that she must live in a nursing home as she requires medical treatment. For the first time in their lives, the spouses are forced to live apart from each other. According to the rules of the medical facility, visitors are not allowed during the first month so that patients can adapt to their new environment. When Grant finally comes to visit his wife, he is shocked to discover that Fiona not only has lost all memory of him but has given her heart to another man, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), a fellow patient.
Eastern Promises
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2007, Canada, UK, USA , added: 18 Feb 2008
Description:
David Cronenberg's thriller is set in London where Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a regular midwife living with her aunt and uncle Stepan, a man of Eastern European origin, tries to help a child whose mother, a young Russian immigrant, died in childbed. She finds the girl's diary and asks her uncle Stepan to translate it. She also finds the Trans-Siberian restaurant card inside the diary and visits Semyon, its owner, to trace the baby's relatives. Semyon shows much interest in the diary too, because being the head of a Russian mafia brotherhood it was he who made the child's mother a sex slave. His son Kirill (Vincent Cassel) is to become Semyon's successor, but there is Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen), the mafia's driver and killer with great veiled ambitions who seems waiting for the moment to take the whole power in his own hands. Anna has known too much about the criminals, the baby is in great danger and Nikolai has to play the double game to protect them and at the same time to get benefit from the situation.
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Action / Adventure / Fantasy , produced in 2007, Canada, Germany, USA , added: 04 Apr 2008
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A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son — two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian.
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Adventure / Comedy , produced in 2004, Canada, Germany, USA , added: 03 Jun 2008
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers.
Stargate: Continuum
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 07 Jul 2008
Description:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Sleepwalking
Drama , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 07 Jul 2008
Description:
The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.
Prom Night
Horror / Thriller , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 08 Jul 2008
Description:
Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night.
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming
Horror / Thriller , produced in 2007, Canada, USA , added: 22 Aug 2008
Description:
Ted Cogan is a U.S. soldier fighting in Iraq when he is injured in an explosion during an attack that left an innocent Iraqi family dead, and him comatose with a head wound. Upon awakening, Ted returns to his home in Chicago and after he has encounters of increasingly frightening visions of dead people, including a burned victim, Ted begins to realize that his injury has unlocked some gift of clairvoyance which he is targeted by ghosts seeking his help. As Ted tries to unlock the mystery of one, his worried and skeptic wife Molly, and teenage son Max, hinder his quest for the truth in the matter, which may lay closer than Ted thinks.
Postal
Action / Comedy / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2007, Canada, Germany, USA , added: 28 Aug 2008
Description:
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but political figures as well.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2008, Canada, Germany, USA , added: 02 Sep 2008
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In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick and Alex O'Connell unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin — a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard centuries ago.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Mystery / Sci-Fi , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 06 Oct 2008
Description:
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Redacted
Crime / Drama / War , produced in 2007, Canada, USA , added: 20 Oct 2008
Description:
A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.
Kill Switch
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 06 Nov 2008
Description:
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
Punisher: War Zone
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2008, Canada, USA , added: 10 Feb 2009
Description:
After hunting down and killing hundreds of violent criminals, Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw.
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