33 Films & TV Shows Set In Canada During The 1980s
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Weekends
Ontario The 1980sSet in 1980s Toronto, a young boy shuffles between the homes of his recently divorced parents.
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The Exchange
Ontario The 1980sA socially awkward but highly enterprising teenager decides to acquire a "mail order best friend"; a sophisticated exchange student from France. Instead, he ends up importing his personal nightmare, a cologne-soaked, chain-smoking, sex-obsessed youth who quickly becomes the hero of his new community.
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Aline
Quebec The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe life story of Canadian singing sensation Céline Dion.
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Your Name Engraved Herein
Quebec The 1980s The 2010sWho is the one linger in your heart after all these years? — In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
🇨🇦 Canada 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980sAn American Myth — Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.
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Killing Patient Zero
Quebec The 1980sThe story of the AIDS epidemic and the man accused of starting it all. — Skilfully revealing the homophobia behind the headlines, this doc traces the devastating impact of the 1980s AIDS epidemic and clears the name of the Québécois flight attendant who was infamously known as “patient zero.”
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Vivre à 100 milles à l'heure
Quebec The 1970s The 1980sThis dramatic comedy offers a tender and offbeat look at the turbulent and intoxicating period of the transition to adulthood, with the city of Quebec and its 1970s and 1980s as a backdrop.
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Angèle, Virtuoso
New York Quebec The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThe unconventional story of virtuoso violinist Angèle Dubeau and her incredible journey from a small Quebec rural town to Julliard and eventually, to the world stage.
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Creed II
New York Pennsylvania Nevada California British Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sThere's More to Lose than a Title — Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
🇨🇦 Canada Louisiana North Dakota The 1930s The 1950s The 1970s The 1960s The 1980sDocumentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.
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Hands of Stone
New York Nevada Louisiana Quebec 🇵🇦 Panama The 1980s The 1960s The 1970s The 2000sNo más. No surrender. — The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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Eddie the Eagle
Alberta England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980sWin or lose, always aim high — The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
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Bloodied But Unbowed
British Columbia The 1970s The 1980sCost of rebellion set against the first wave of Canadian punk rock - a bunch of rebels from a backwater town who gained notoriety in the late 70s and have never lived it down. Music. Punk. Rebellion. Sex. Drugs. Death.
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1987
Quebec The 1980sIn 1987 Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...
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Gerry
Quebec The 1970s The 1980sBorn into a modest family, Gerry Boulet found fame with the Québec rock group Offenbach. After a life of drug and alcohol abuse and a great love story, Gerry died of cancer in 1990.
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Starbuck
Quebec The 1980s The 2010sStarbuck is a 2011 Canadian comedy film directed by Ken Scott and written by Martin Petit and Ken Scott. The main character David Wozniak is a perpetual adolescent who discovers that, as a sperm donor, he has fathered 533 children. David, a deliveryman for a butcher shop, is being pursued by thugs because he owes them money. Next, he is advised that more than 100 of his offspring are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of "Starbuck", the pseudonym he used when donating sperm. In addition, his girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child but doesn't feel that he is mature enough to be a father. The film's title refers to a Canadian Holstein bull who produced hundreds of thousands of progeny by artificial insemination in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Polytechnique
Quebec The 1980sA dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
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1981
Quebec The 1980sFilmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
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Victoria Day
Ontario The 1980sLife Changes In A Flash. — Over the course of one week in 1988, the search for a missing teammate, parental expectations, a burgeoning sexual awakening and the rock concert of the century all threaten to jolt a 16-year-old into adulthood. With the long Victoria Day weekend signaling the end of school, and the Stanley Cup playoffs afoot, the summer of 1988 arrives in Toronto. Ben Spector, a smart, sensitive kid from a Russian immigrant family, hits the Bob Dylan show with his buddies and runs into Jordan Chapman, the class jerk and Ben's tormentor on the ice-hockey rink. Jordan is five dollars shy of scoring some drugs, and Ben begrudgingly spots him the dough. But the next day, Jordan fails to show up at school or hockey practice. With days passing and Jordan's whereabouts a mystery, Ben finds himself in an uncomfortable predicament, especially when a romance with Jordan's sister tentatively blooms in the midst of the ordeal.
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Air India 182
Atlantic Ocean Quebec The 1980sA look at one of the worst plane bombings of the 20th century. In 1985, an Air India 747 flying from Montreal, Canada to Delhi was blown up in mid-flight by Khalistani extremists. All 331 passengers were killed, most were of Indian origin.
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Karla
New York Ontario Saskatchewan The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sEvil has a beautiful face. — Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
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Black Bridge
Manitoba The 1980s1984: Year of the Banger... — Clive, Eddie, Sammy, Tracey, Gomer and Adrian , a close-knit group of "headbanging" friends all have an equal passion for Heavy Metal music, partying and experimenting with the occult and supernatural. When the mutilated body of murdered 12 year-old Mikey Gay (brother of the Hellrats' feared, trouble-making gang-leader Vinny) surfaces in Sammy's "Satanic Enshrined" bedroom, all six become prime suspects in the murder. Did one of the six teenagers take their interests in Black Magic a little too far? Or was Mikey murdered at the hands of someone else? This coming of age tale represents a different side of the 80's that has never been chronicled until now...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Quebec The 1970s The 1960s The 1980sGrowing up in this family, you'd have to be... C.R.A.Z.Y. — A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to love him for who he really is.
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Taking Lives
Pennsylvania Quebec The 1980s The 2000sHe would kill to be you. — Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
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