
It’s sometime in the 1970’s. Fifteen year old loner Agnes Marie Pottie – nicknamed Mooney – dreams of escaping life in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. Read More »
Tag Archives: Canada
La notte dell’alta marea (1977) Luigi Scattini, Anthony Steel, Annie Belle, Hugo Pratt

Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love. Read More »
Outrageous! (1977) Richard Benner, Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley

Robin Turner is a gay hairdresser. He hates his job. He loves old movies and will do his customers’ hair in the style of an iconic movie star if they’ll let him, and even if they don’t. Read More »
Profile for Murder (1996) David Winning, Lance Henriksen, Jason Nash, Joan Severance

A female police psychiatrist develops sexual fantasies involving a patient accused of murder. Read More »
eXistenZ (1999) David Cronenberg, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. Read More »
Red Hot (1993) Paul Haggis, Balthazar Getty, Carla Gugino, Jan Niklas, Drama, Music

In the 1950’s rock and roll becomes very popular around the world. But in Russia, that kind of music is banned. Read More »
Knight Moves (1992) Carl Schenkel, Christopher Lambert, Tom Skerritt, Diane Lane, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A chess grandmaster is at a huge tournament, and if his lover has been found painted and the blood drained from her body he becomes a main suspect. Read More »
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »
In Your Absence / En tu ausencia (2008) Iván Noel, Francisco Alfonsin, Pedro Salido Saborido, Gonzalo Sánchez Salas, Drama

13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence Read More »
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) François Girard, Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Biography, Drama, Music

As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films Read More »