Telefilm Canada
1) Room
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.--
2) Remember
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks." --
3) Snow cake
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Alex offers a ride to a hitchhiker, only to have her killed instantly when they are involved in a brutal car accident. Alex then approaches the girl's mother, and the events that unfold dramatically change both his life and those of others around him.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
5) Henchmen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a comic book fanboy stumbles upon one of the world's most powerful weapons, he must decide between his helping his supervillain idol dominate the world, or being a hero who saves the planet." --
6) Brooklyn
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. --
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend." --
9) Maudie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
10) Eastern promises
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
11) Water
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hindi
Description
A Hindu widow in 1938 could throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, marry her husband's younger brother or live in poverty and self-denial from then on. When eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed, she is sent to a home in the Holy City of Varanasi where Hindu widows live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices, especially a young woman who has fallen in love with...
12) Afflicted
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Best friends Derek and Clif set out on the trip of a lifetime. Their plan: travel to the ends of the Earth, see the world, and live life to the fullest. But the trip soon takes a dark and bloody turn. Just days in, one of the men shows signs of a mysterious affliction which gradually takes over his entire body and being. Now, thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land, they must race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely.
13) Last train home
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration--an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Director Lixin Fan draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this desperate annual migration. Sixteen years ago, the...
14) Fido
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Timmy's best friend in the whole world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. When Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the Earth to keep Fido a part of the family.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around, and within,...
17) Familia
Series
Film Movement ; 4, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four strangers from across the globe begin having apocalyptic visions that draw them to a city in the West. There, they discover that their fates--and the fate of the world--are tied to a global satellite network, a massive conspiracy, and a mysterious orphan girl with a terrifying secret.
20) The nest
Publisher
IFC Films/Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has...