1,305 Films & TV Shows Set In Canada
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Cross My Heart
Quebec12-year old Manon promises her younger brother, Mimi, that they will stay together, despite their difficult family circumstances and the ominous signs of being put into foster care. During the height of Quebec's FLQ Crisis in 1970, they stage their own rebellion by kidnapping an elderly woman and hiding her in the country, aided by their two cousins.
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Tadoussac
QuebecIn the dead of winter, 18-year-old Chloe runs away from Montreal and hitch-hikes to Tadoussac, a small Quebec tourist village. In exchange for a room, she works at the local hostel, like many other young travelers. But Chloe is also secretly searching for someone.
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Junior Majeur
QuebecFive years after winning the Quebec Pee-Wee tournament with his team, 18-year-old hockey prodigy Janeau Trudel is playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
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Afterwards
QuebecA man blames himself for the tragic death of his daughter's friend. Unable to get past this event, the man spirals into depression, and then he undergoes a 'groundbreaking' therapeutic treatment that may put him in contact with dead people.
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Mission Kathmandu: The Adventures of Nelly & Simon
🇳🇵 Nepal Quebec The 1950sQuebec, 1956. The impulsive and headstrong Nelly Maloye, a novice private eye, joins the methodical and pragmatic Simon Picard, a research scientist in a dubious quest to prove the existence of the elusive Yeti. The brave-hearted heroes come face-to-face with countless dangers during their trek through the heart of the Himalayas.
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Primas
QuebecTwo cousins come of age together, overcoming the heinous acts which interrupted their childhoods.
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For Nonna Anna
Ontario The 2010sIn this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
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Sashinka
QuebecWhen Sasha's mother arrives on her doorstep without warning the young musician is unable to hide her trepidation. As she tries to prepare for the most important concert of her career, the reasons for her mother's visit come to light and Sasha must find a way to survive the remaining 24 hours, confronting both the volatile woman and the past that Sasha had worked so hard to leave behind her.
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A Paradise Too Far
QuebecUpon learning of their mother's death, Samuel and Émilie, two mentally challenged siblings, run away from their group home in the middle of winter. As they go deeper and deeper in the forest, their relationship is put to the test.
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Roobha
OntarioA beautiful twenty-year old dancer, Roobha, falls in love with a much older charismatic family man, Anthony, giving him a sense of escape and solace from his mundane life and troubles.
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The Last Buffalo
Alberta The 19th CenturyFor thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national icon on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.
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Alias Grace: Season 1
Ontario The 1840sBased on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.
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Frontier: Season 2
Quebec The 18th CenturyThe chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.
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Anne with an E: Season 1
Prince Edward Island The 1890sA young orphan's arrival in Avonlea affects the hearts and minds of everyone she meets, beginning with the pair of aging siblings who take her in.
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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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Yoga Hosers
ManitobaDo your 'wurst... — Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.
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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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Closet Monster
🇨🇦 CanadaA creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
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Across the Line
Nova ScotiaOut of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.
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Maudie
Nova Scotia The 1950s The 1930sTriumph epitomizes adversity — Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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The 3 L'il Pigs 2
QuebecRémy is always between two planes, travels to Shanghai on business. During this trip, he takes the opportunity to cheat Dominique first with a woman, then with a man. Upon his return, his wife puts him out after showing him more than compromising photos of his Asian aspirations.
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Balmoral Hotel
British ColumbiaThe life story of a First-Nations sex-worker living in Vancouver's Downtown East side told in a nine-minute dance piece.
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The Void
OntarioThere Is a Hell. This Is Worse. — In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
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Montreal, White City
QuebecIt’s Christmas Eve, but the Algerian taxi driver living in Canada is more caught up in Ramadan. By chance he picks up a compatriot, a former pop star thought dead, and the evening gets more interesting.
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Kindergarten Cop 2
British ColumbiaAssigned to recover sensitive stolen data, a gruff FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, but the school's liberal, politically correct environment is more than he bargained for.
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