Splice (
2010) | IMDb:
5.8
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Starring:
Adrien Brody
,
Sarah Polley
,
Delphine Chanéac
,
David Hewlett
,
Abigail Chu
,
Stephanie Baird
Mr. Nobody (
2009) | IMDb:
7.7
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Directed by:
Jaco Van Dormael
The Secret Life of Words (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Starring:
Sarah Polley
,
Tim Robbins
,
Javier Cámara
,
Danny Cunningham
,
Dean Lennox Kelly
,
Daniel Mays
Directed by:
Isabel Coixet
Don't Come Knocking (
2005) | IMDb:
6.6
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
The I Inside (
2004) | IMDb:
6
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Starring:
Ryan Phillippe
,
Sarah Polley
,
Piper Perabo
,
Robert Sean Leonard
,
Stephen Rea
,
Rakie Ayola
Directed by:
Roland Suso Richter
Dawn of the Dead (
2004) | IMDb:
7.3
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
My Life Without Me (
2003) | IMDb:
7.4
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
Starring:
Sarah Polley
,
Amanda Plummer
,
Scott Speedman
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Leonor Watling
,
Debbie Harry
Directed by:
Isabel Coixet
No Such Thing (
2002) | IMDb:
6
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
Starring:
Sarah Polley
,
Robert John Burke
,
Helen Mirren
,
Julie Christie
,
Baltasar Kormákur
,
Annika Peterson
Directed by:
Hal Hartley
The Claim (
2000) | IMDb:
6.3
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Starring:
Peter Mullan
,
Milla Jovovich
,
Wes Bentley
,
Nastassja Kinski
,
Sarah Polley
,
Shirley Henderson
The Weight of Water (
2000) | IMDb:
5.8
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Starring:
Sean Penn
,
Catherine McCormack
,
Elizabeth Hurley
,
Sarah Polley
,
Josh Lucas
,
Ciarán Hinds
Guinevere (
1999) | IMDb:
6
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
eXistenZ (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Starring:
Jennifer Jason Leigh
,
Jude Law
,
Ian Holm
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Don McKellar
,
Callum Keith Rennie
Go (
1999) | IMDb:
7.2
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
Last Night (
1998) | IMDb:
7.1
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Starring:
Don McKellar
,
Sandra Oh
,
Roberta Maxwell
,
Robin Gammell
,
Sarah Polley
,
Trent McMullen
The Sweet Hereafter (
1997) | IMDb:
7.5
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Exotica (
1994) | IMDb:
7
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Starring:
Bruce Greenwood
,
Mia Kirshner
,
Elias Koteas
,
Don McKellar
,
Sarah Polley
,
Arsinée Khanjian