Movies and TV shows set in montreal
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in montreal ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, independent film, suspenseful, psychological, tense and realistic films and TV shows about / with urban, female nudity, coming of age, friendship, family relations, character study, organized crime, social commentary, violence and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres shot in Canada, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as montreal: Bad Blood (2017), Epidemic (2020), Dusk for a Hitman (2023), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Crisis (2021), Trop (2017), Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017), Coming Out (2013), Gurov and Anna (2014), La Run (2011).
Best films
New films
| Matthias and Maxime (2019) | 6.8 | |
| Mafia Inc (2019) | 6.8 | |
| Crisis (2021) | 6.2 | |
| Universal Language (2024) | 6.9 | |
| Arlette (2022) | 5.9 |
List of movies set in montreal
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
mafia, criminal underworld, crime boss, mob boss, gangster, organized crime, criminal, family relations, lifestyle, group of criminals, criminal's revenge, criminal gang ...
Place:
montreal, quebec, canada
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425
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
-A dangerous virus is spreading in Montreal (in Canada) among a group of ostracized and vulnerable homeless people. How long will Anne-Marie Leclerc, infectious disease specialist and director of the Laboratory for Emergency Health, take before ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
epidemic, deadly virus, laboratory, hospital, infection, infected, virus, medical research, doctor, scientist, public health, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, betrayal, manhunt, killer, investigation, organized crime, underworld, killing, police officer, crime and punishment, criminal underworld, accomplice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hitman, mafia, assassin, adultery, dark humor, twists and turns, killer, farce, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
montreal, chicago, canada, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Belgium, USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, social, anamorphic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, war on drugs, drug dealing, drug, drug lord, drug smuggling, father son relationship, criminal, fighting crime, relationship problems, family relations, social problems ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
montreal, detroit, canada
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87
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The existence of two sisters is jostled when the youngest, Anaïs, joins her eldest, Isabelle, in Montreal (Canada). What seems like a happy reunion is a little less funny when Isabelle finds out that her little sister is living with bipolar ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny, touching ...
Plot:
bipolar disorder, sisters, thirty something, friendship, sibling relationship, friends, family relations, two sisters, sister, illness, sister sister relationship, older sister ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: History
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, period drama
Plot:
indians, supernatural, good versus evil, life philosophy, odd couple, graphic violence, vengeance, justice, plague, virus, partner, archaeology ...
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
The explosive lives, loves and losses of an intermingled group of Montréalers are explored as they confront the subject of difference. Managing a modern relationship can be a mess. Single? Attached? Married? Divorced? Open? Closed? The most common ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, romantic, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, gay lead character, gay couple, gay, lovers, young lovers, love, gays and lesbians, love affair, couples, homosexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey's family hanging in the balance.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, contemplative, romantic, captivating
Plot:
passion, teacher student relationship, teacher student sex, sexual assault, obsession, age difference, rape, hot and sexy, marriage crisis, college, older man younger woman sex, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
Is relevant?
194
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Guillaume is a good young man. He has never taken hard drugs in his life, doesn't plan on trying, and has an honest job. Everything goes chaotic when he witnesses his father's attempted suicide over a heavy gambling debt. In order to pay ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, crime drama, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, drug dealing, drug abuse, violence, ambition, jealousy, drug, money, drug traffic, gambling debt, desperation, smuggling ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft.
Style:
heartbreaking, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, family drama, hockey, heroism, military service, amputation, loss, tragedy, sacrifice, pregnancy, resilience, longing ...
Place:
montreal, canada, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Robin Spry, Prologue was the first Canadian film to screen at the Venice Film Festival. Set and filmed during the sixties, this fiction feature tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, independent film, political, political drama ...
Plot:
counterculture, frustration, deserter, activism, protest, anti war, commune, social commentary, violence, police brutality, riot police, anti establishment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young couple, find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street. What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
female voyeur, hot and sexy, voyeur, voyeurism, young couple, peeping, infidelity, erotica, plot twist, eye surgery, cuckold husband, cheating wife ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
montreal
Is relevant?
141
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
NOIR chronicles the lives of four people living in a neighborhood plagues by poverty and violence, aspiring to freedom and happiness. Kadhafi, a 26 year old aspiring rapper and ex-member of a street gang, just out of prison, wants to steer clear of ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gang member, organized crime, drug dealer, teenage boy, released from prison, father son relationship, rapper, mother daughter relationship, gang, immigrant, family relations, couples ...
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Crime
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
It’s 1993, and Paloma Luisa Marquez Hermosa is on top of the world. Originally from Columbia, she now heads a very discreet – and very efficient – criminal organization that smuggles cocaine into Montreal and launders drug money. Nicknamed the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
drug traffic, cartel, organized crime, criminal organization, police corruption, female crime boss, cocaine, drug dealing, drug, drug abuse, forensics, criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montreal, colombia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with her mini-cam, collecting testimonials on the subject of happiness. She meets a medley of characters whom she engages in engrossing, thought-provoking ...
Style:
independent film, thought provoking, reflective, philosophical, melancholic ...
Plot:
bittersweet, urban, introspection, obsession, realism, social experiment, slice of life, serendipity, found footage, publicist, unemployment, happiness ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Mount Royal was a Canadian prime time television soap opera that aired on CTV. It premiered January 3, 1988 with a two-hour episode. The series starred Patrick Bauchau and Domini Blythe. It is said to be Canada's answer to the American soap ...
Plot:
wealth, family conflict, family drama, wealthy family, high society, privilege, luxury, socialite, sibling rivalry, urban, reputation, glamour ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
Style:
controversial, art house, intense, realistic, sensitive ...
Plot:
gay, coming of age, sexual exploration, autobiography, taboo, jealousy, lgbtq, possession, social realism, hypocrisy, friendship, city life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
En 2011, une série d'opérations policières allait déstabiliser le milieu criminel de Montréal qui était alors dominé par les motards et la mafia italienne. Suite au vacuum provoqué par les rafles, tous les signes indiquaient ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense
Plot:
jamaican, rape victim, stripper, rape, brother sister relationship, gangster, bandit, gangsta, gang rape, female nudity, cocaine, burned alive ...
Place:
montreal
Is relevant?
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, contemplative, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, orphan, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, cleaning lady, life is a bitch, coming of age, determination, resilience, society, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story:
Brazilian native Priscilla Paredes is intent on staying in Montreal, despite the expiration of her student visa. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an exotic dancer at the Elixir, a downtown strip club, where she meets Milagro, a headstrong ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, art house, multicultural
Plot:
strip club, lesbian, survival, female protagonist, sex work, poverty, working class, immigration, friendship, desperation, realism, female empowerment ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
Is relevant?
369
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
All the vampires have to take a special potion made by Ghyslain Chabot to be human. Chabot's wife isn't a vampire yet but wishes to become one. Ghyslain doesn't share her desire because of all the rules and responsibilities inherent ...
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, potion, satire, vampirism, vampire human love, magical potion, love affair, relationships, problem, transformation, supernatural, urban ...
Place:
montreal, transylvania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.
Style:
tense, intense, dark, psychological, noir ...
Plot:
drug addiction, swat, violence, shootout, police raid, hostage, siege, social commentary, law enforcement, urban, urban decay, street life ...
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Style:
contemplative, romantic drama, melancholic, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, character study, chance meeting, self discovery, train travel, breakup, bittersweet, single parent, minimalism, cross country, nudity, female masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vancouver, montreal, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, poverty, social commentary, working class, social realism, young parents, coming of age, character study, welfare, domestic drama, teenage angst, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
One day, for no apparent reason, a cop kills 11 children. The same day, horror novelist Thomas Roy tries to commit suicide after cutting his fingers. At first glance, nothing seems to link the two events – until Dr. Paul Lacasse, a disillusioned ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, supernatural, uncover truth, doctors and patients, gory, urban, murder, hospital, paranormal, supernatural power, amputation, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A botched wedding proposal between two small town youngsters spirals into an epic Montreal night of chaos, confusion and destiny.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, existential, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, bittersweet, coincidence, surrealism, street life, intimate, odyssey, magic realism, night, wedding, town
Place:
montreal
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205
Genre: Action, Biography
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malarek is a film directed by Roger Cardinal in 1989. Ex-juvenile offender Victor Malarek catches a break when he's hired as a cub reporter for the Montreal Star. After witnessing a cop murder a street kid, Malarek dedicates himself to exposing ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, suspenseful, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
juvenile detention, social injustice, police brutality, investigative journalism, social commentary, police corruption, urban, poverty, investigation, true crime, human rights, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, canada
Is relevant?
65
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
Style:
psychedelic, independent film, controversial, erotic drama, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, sexual content, counterculture, social commentary, summer of love, moral ambiguity, addiction, initiation, loneliness, sex work, urban, manipulation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
quebec, montreal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Montreal, June 1995. Miron is a young delinquent who parties instead of going to school. His parents, both university professors, force him to move to the countryside in the hope that the remoteness of the city's distractions would allow him to ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, suspenseful, suspense, sincere ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, coming of age, older woman teenage boy sex, love, high school, parenthood, teenage sexuality, sexually frustrated woman, teenager, self discovery, loneliness, elderly woman ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montreal
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