BlackBerry (
2023) | IMDb:
7.4
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
Starring:
Jay Baruchel
,
Glenn Howerton
,
Matt Johnson
,
Rich Sommer
,
Michael Ironside
,
Cary Elwes
Possessor (
2020) | IMDb:
6.5
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Starring:
Andrea Riseborough
,
Christopher Abbott
,
Jennifer Jason Leigh
,
Sean Bean
,
Tuppence Middleton
,
Rossif Sutherland
The Man Who Invented Christmas (
2017) | IMDb:
7
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
Starring:
Dan Stevens
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Jonathan Pryce
,
Justin Edwards
,
Morfydd Clark
,
Donald Sumpter
Directed by:
Bharat Nalluri
Treading Water (
2013) | IMDb:
6
Mica is born smelling of fish that soap and doctors can't remove. Problems increase starting school as no one'll be his friend. He sees a therapist. His life seems doomed until he meets Laura.
Antiviral (
2012) | IMDb:
5.7
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
Starring:
Caleb Landry Jones
,
Sarah Gadon
,
Malcolm McDowell
,
Joe Pingue
,
Sheila McCarthy
,
Douglas Smith
Hobo with a Shotgun (
2011) | IMDb:
6.1
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
Gunless (
2010) | IMDb:
6.4
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Starring:
Paul Gross
,
Sienna Guillory
,
Tyler Mane
,
Callum Keith Rennie
,
Dustin Milligan
,
Graham Greene
Directed by:
William Phillips
Blindness (
2008) | IMDb:
6.5
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Starring:
Julianne Moore
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Alice Braga
,
Yûsuke Iseya
,
Yoshino Kimura
,
Don McKellar
Directed by:
Fernando Meirelles
Silk (
2007) | IMDb:
5.8
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Michael Pitt
,
Alfred Molina
,
Koji Yakusho
,
Sei Ashina
,
Miki Nakatani
Directed by:
François Girard
Snow Cake (
2006) | IMDb:
7.4
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
Starring:
Alan Rickman
,
Sigourney Weaver
,
Carrie-Anne Moss
,
Emily Hampshire
,
James Allodi
,
Janet van de Graaf
Directed by:
Marc Evans
The Red Violin (
1998) | IMDb:
7.6
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
Starring:
Carlo Cecchi
,
Irene Grazioli
,
Anita Laurenzi
,
Tommaso Puntelli
,
Samuele Amighetti
,
Jean-Luc Bideau
Directed by:
François Girard
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