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Plot Summary:
A construction conglomerate, headed by a ruthless millionaire, wants to buy a ski resort that has been a family business for years, but the family does not want to sell. The businessman resolves to get the property, whether they want to sell it or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Lecture 21 (2008)
Plot Summary:
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min
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Something About Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The Wind Blows Round (2005)
Plot Summary:
The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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scissere (1982)
Plot Summary:
A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: art film, experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film
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Black Mud (2017)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story about two orphaned brothers who travel cross country to the Alberta oil sands in search of a new life. Along the way, they learn to depend on one another, but tensions grow as money gets tight. On the brink of giving up, Alex, the older brother, meets Flora, a young drifter, who insists on coming with them in exchange for a place to stay in Alberta.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
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The Night I Swam (2017)
Plot Summary:
Snow covered mountains in Japan. Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His 6 year old son is awoken by his departure and finds it impossible to fall back to sleep. In the sleeping household, the young boy draws a picture he then slips into his satchel. On his way to school, still drowsy, he strays off the path and wanders into the snow.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 78 min
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The Family (2021)
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Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
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John A.: Birth of a Country (2011)
Plot Summary:
A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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Loyalties (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Lotus Eaters (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Conquest (1998)
Plot Summary:
British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be repaired. She is convinced by the banker to take on the duties at the local hardware store to pay for the parts for her car and soon a romance between the two develops.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: 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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Looking for Angelina (2005)
Plot Summary:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
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Few of Us (1996)
Plot Summary:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, avant garde, silent, silent film
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Snow Job (1972)
Plot Summary:
A famous skier (Jean-Claude Killy), his mistress (Danièle Gaubert) and a ski instructor (Cliff Potts) rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Sitting in Limbo (1986)
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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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Christmas with a View (2018)
Plot Summary:
This Christmas, Thunder Mountain Ski Resort is abuzz when celebrity chef Shane Roarke is named the new head chef. Clara Garrison isn't as excited and is instead focused on getting resettled after her failed attempt at opening a restaurant in the city. With their paths constantly crossing, will their shared passion for cooking bring them together or will secrets keep them apart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, sincere, touching, sweet
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min
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Elephant Song (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, sexy, independent film, aesthetic, gay cinema
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The Mountain (2011)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic incident happened two years earlier; one that changed their lives completely.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, queer cinema
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The Mountain (2004)
Plot Summary:
Boundary Mountain is an escapist playground for wealthy tourists and extreme sports enthusiasts, but to the Carver family, it's home. "The Mountain" chronicles the larger-than-life saga of the Carvers, whose colorful patriarch, David Carver, Sr., founded the town and its internationally famous ski resort after winning the land in a poker game. When this legendary man unexpectedly dies, his choice of an heir sends shockwaves throughout the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, scenic
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Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Plot Summary:
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden his father has to bear as postman for the villagers, and the old postman is also deeply moved as his son relates his mother's anxiety as she waits for him to return home from every trip.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Downhill (2020)
Plot Summary:
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical, dark comedy
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Summit Fever (2022)
Plot Summary:
A daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked against them, the friends are forced to trust each other to save themselves by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
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Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
Plot Summary:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew and passengers to ever-growing despair. First they consider themselves relatively lucky as 14 out of 18 aboard are alive, including Captain Wilma De Groot, a medical doctor, but as time progresses the merciless cold makes it seem hopeless to check on Bob and Sue, who cannot be moved near the only campfire, while rescue attempts on land from Alert ('only' about 10 miles) and by air from Edmonton (8 hours flying) take no less then 32 hours to reach the plane wreck.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Slalom (2020)
Plot Summary:
15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps, has been accepted to a highly selective ski club whose aim is to train future professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned coach, decides to make Lyz his shining star regardless of her lack of experience. Under his influence, Lyz will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape his grip?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, semi autobiographical
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Touch the Top of the World (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious
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The Beckoning Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scenic
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Scream of Stone (1991)
Plot Summary:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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