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Plot Summary:
A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Highpoint (1982)
Plot Summary:
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Self Defense (1983)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of selfrighteous bullies want to set some "new rules" in town while the police in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) are on strike. They try to scare all the gays and lesbians in a bar, but by accident the owner of the establishment is killed, and the leader of the bullies then decides to execute all witnesses. One guy, though, escapes and takes refuge in an isolated block of flats. The young tenants in the house refuse to hand over the survivor, and the bullies then decide to get rid of all the residents in the house. This turns out to be not so easy, because the young people in the house barricade their apartments, set up traps and arm themselves in order to fight back, and this inevitably leads to more bloodshed and killings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, slasher, independent film, cult film
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Final Assignment (1980)
Plot Summary:
An intrepid television journalist (Genevieve Bujold) sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat (Michael York). - Geneviève Bujold, Michael York, Burgess Meredith.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Her Sister's Keeper (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Stricken (1997)
Plot Summary:
In their final semester of school, a group of six college friends get together to pull the ultimate prank on a fellow classmate. The joke goes awry, resulting in a series of tragic events. Can they explain their way out of this one?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Warm Texas Rain (2000)
Plot Summary:
A married ex-Marine gets seduced by the same mysterious woman because of whom he ended up in prison some years ago. Is she the true love of his life, or the biggest mistake he's ever made?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Taken (1999)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1994)
Plot Summary:
Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made inoperable.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Sudden Fury (1975)
Plot Summary:
Fred is a psychotic entrepreneur who hopes to convince his wife Janet to invest in a shady land deal. The wife refuses, and the couple continue their heated argument while driving through the Ontario backwoods. When their car crashes, Janet is seriously injured, but Fred leaves the scene, hoping that his wife won't last the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, poliziottesco
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By Design (1981)
Plot Summary:
Angie and Helen are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a mother. Angie loves Helen and if Helen can't feel fulfilled without a child she is willing for them to become parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bandit (2022)
Plot Summary:
After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, crime drama, detective
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Hard Evidence (1995)
Plot Summary:
Trent Turner has it all - a beautiful wife, a fabulous house, and a business he owns with his best friend. He also has a mistress, a mistress who gets him involved with more than he's bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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MBM (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, Mafia Boss ( James Cell) meets with his team to find out who killed his wife , he finds out that she was killed by Sebastian Renaud a re-known club owner and a rival mafia boss, he goes in for the kill and kidnaps Sebastian's brother (Charles) along the way but things change in the end.
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Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Golden Apples of the Sun (1973)
Plot Summary:
Behind these bars lies an unbridled fury. Caged Terror-a tale of madness, infidelity and revenge. Everyone needs to get away from it all, and the country is the most tranquil place to escape life's everyday battles. Or is it? Richard and Janet, a city couple, find that just the opposite is true as their weekend getaway is transformed into a frightening and primitive wilderness. Camping for the night in a seemingly abandoned farmhouse, the two are suddenly joined by strangers who have been secretly watching them all afternoon. Strangers who will soon cage Richard like a trapped animal and ravage his wife. Strangers who will drive Richard berserk in the cold and inhuman isolation of Caged Terror.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Down the Road Again (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian Classic Goin’ Down the Road. Now, some forty years later, Joey has died, and Pete must fulfill his last wish: to take his ashes back to Cape Breton Island, as well as a few other tasks along the way. Armed with a series of letters and an envelope full of money, Pete heads back home. DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN is a touching, comedic and romantic tale of second chances at life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Russian Roulette (1975)
Plot Summary:
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When his prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assasination scheme.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, independent film
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Treed Murray (2001)
Plot Summary:
An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, sad, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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Keyhole (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, serious, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, black and white, mind bending, sexy, psychedelic, art house
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Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Plot Summary:
The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in his plans, but he becomes a very good provider. The responsibilities of parenthood, alas, irreparably damage the boy-girl relationship. Filmed in a quasidocumentary manner, Sitting in Limbo seems predestined to win film festival awards--as indeed it has.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Plot Summary:
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, depressing, neo noir, slasher, disturbing, controversial, intense, psychosexual thriller, psychological, independent film
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And Baby Will Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose runs a garden center and is a devoted house-father. Like his wife Ivy, who suffered two stillbirths, their new neighbor Melinda is near to giving birth. Just after David showed her around in the Rose home, Melinda goes missing. Although no corpse is found, just circumstantial evidence more likely to be planted then stupidly left behind, police detective Blanchard treats David as his sole suspect, soon arrested, even after nosy neighbor Bindel is knocked down while David is in jail. School buddy Theo does his best to counsel the couple, yet Ivy doubts her husband's innocence just because of indications he may have had an affair with Melinda since high-school, and starts snooping with her best friend Jody. The worst crime is still being hatched.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, crime thriller, rough, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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Secrets in the Attic (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a teen girl and her mom inherit an old house, little do they know that a mysterious person is hiding in the attic – a teen boy who has been living there for months.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Money (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Amber Alert (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 20 year old man takes a bus full of young children hostage in exchange for money to help his sick mother. Meanwhile a detective must over come doubt from family and co-workers while she tries to negotiate with the hostage taker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Surrogacy Trap (2013)
Plot Summary:
After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they first thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, sexy, feel good
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Bait (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dominic Brunt’s impressive second feature after the beloved ‘Emmerdale’ actor took the genre by storm with BEFORE DAWN is a tense female revenge saga - a frightening true-life crime thriller graced by a scalpel-sharp screenplay and extraordinary performances. Two women who dream of opening their own café in a work-depressed northern town go to the wrong person for a loan in this chilling allegory of the economic brutality independent businesses face within the austerity-led banking system. Unable to meet the outrageous payment demands, the hardened duo must find it within themselves to take pitiless, bloody retribution on their malicious aggressor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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Rollercoaster (1999)
Plot Summary:
In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film, sincere, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, psychotronic
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Cold Comfort (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Whitewash (2013)
Plot Summary:
The brutality of winter and the power of the mind are aptly portrayed in this dark comedy set in Northern Quebec. Bruce (Thomas Haden Church) is merely trying to survive a harsh winter when he meets Jean. Conflict leads to an accidental death, and Bruce finds himself in a complicated and unexpected place. Grappling with his guilt, Bruce creates a prison from which he cannot escape. Haden Church perfectly utilizes his comic talent in this wry, well-crafted film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, mind bending, offbeat, realistic, independent film