Movies and TV shows set in vancouver

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in vancouver ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense, independent film and disturbing films and TV shows about / with murder, couples, female nudity, couple relations, death, violence, deadly, father son relationship, husband wife relationship and chase plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in Canada, USA, UK and other countries.
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vancouver movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as vancouver: No Tomorrow (2016), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), Shoot to Kill (1988), Come and Find Me (2016), Dragon Boys (2007), Cold Squad (1998), Star 80 (1983), Beeba Boys (2015), Hard Core Logo (1996), That Cold Day in the Park (1969).

List of movies set in vancouver

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 7.2
 5K
No Tomorrow (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When a risk-averse, straight-arrowed, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a free-spirited man who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, humorous, apocalyptic, romantic
Plot: bucket list, heartache, hipster, conspiracy theory, optimism, paranoia, fall in love, love affair, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love interest ...
Place: vancouver, canada
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Dream for an Insomniac (1996)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style: sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, insomnia, friends, jealousy, loneliness, gay, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love triangle, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, san francisco, vancouver, usa, oakland california ...
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 6.8
 15K
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, chase, fbi, manhunt, on the run, horse, survival, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, vancouver, seattle, san francisco
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Come and Find Me (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: missing person, girlfriend, mind game, chase, double life, government agent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger, twists and turns, missing girl, photograph, neighbor ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: vancouver, los angeles
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 7.1
 177
Dragon Boys (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Dragon Boys is a CBC Television miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng. It aired on CBC on January 7 and 8 of 2007.
Style: detective, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot: triad, gang, organized crime, undercover cop, police, crime solving, criminal gang, bandit, mafia, police officer, investigation, criminal ...
Place: vancouver
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Vancouver 2010: XXI Olympic Winter Games (2010)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
TV show
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, entertaining, non fiction
Plot: winter olympics, olympics, competitor, female athlete, snow, skiing, professional sports, olympic athlete, sporting event, olympian, rivalry, champion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: vancouver, canada
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 6.9
 640
Cold Squad (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by ...
Style: detective, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: police detective, investigation, murder investigation, nypd, coroner, strong female presence, partner, riddles and clues, law enforcement, police investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
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 6.8
 8K
Star 80 (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen.
Style: disturbing, stylized, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, playboy, female nudity, obsession, crimes of passion, nude model, fame, rise and fall, movie business, couple relations, jealous husband, true crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1978
Place: vancouver, canada
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 5.0
 631
Beeba Boys (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, organized crime, vengeance, killings, greed, mafia, death, brutality, crime boss, murder, betrayal, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on ...
Style: mockumentary, talky, humorous, intense, captivating ...
Plot: punk, music, punk rock, on the road, existentialism, rock music, music band, rock and roll, artists and showbiz, friends, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver, winnipeg, british columbia, los angeles
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That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Style: slasher, controversial, neo noir, intense, depressing ...
Plot: spinster, kidnapping, dangerous attraction, obsession, captivity, voyeurism, female nudity, american horror, age difference, sensuality, female psychopath, stoner ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: vancouver, canada
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 6.8
 5K
Clean (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time: year 2004
Place: paris france, ontario canada, vancouver, canada, france ...
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Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, racism, religion, culture clash, clergy, immigrant, curses spells and rituals, dysfunctional family, hopes, society, sister sister relationship, youth ...
Time: year 1975
Place: vancouver
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Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, ...
Style: sexy, sexual, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, sex, lesbian sex, lesbian love, transsexual, gender, transgender, female masturbation, divorce, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: canada, vancouver
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 3.0
 192
Jikirag (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A pagan village, founded on the bones of both innocent and foul, is deeply rooted within the heart of an ancient Eden. When a balance of flesh and soil decays, the last surviving village elder battles madness and the macabre to save her people from ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, scary
Plot: pagan cult, folklore, forest, nightmare, monster, supernatural, rescue, fear, pagan, survival, paganism, folk horror ...
Place: vancouver, canada
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 3.5
 1K
Hanger (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A horrifying tale of revenge that begins with a back-alley abortion, and ends with a bloodbath so vicious that it brings a new meaning to 'an eye for eye.
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, extreme horror ...
Plot: prostitute, pregnancy, gory, rape, murder, vengeance, abortion, violence spree, life is a bitch, exploitation, disfigurement, mutilation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver
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 3.3
 554
Famine (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two years after a high-school prank involving flesh-eating acid nearly kills popular teacher Mr. Balszack, the graduating class of Sloppy Secondary holds a ’24-Hour Famine’ charity event on school grounds. But there’s an uninvited guest at ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: high school student, serial killer, fear, teacher student relationship, psychopath, murder, school, bullying, maniac, characters killed one by one, vengeance, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver, canada
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 5.6
 747
The Murders (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A rookie Homicide detective's negligence in a fellow officer's death has her searching for redemption in her investigations.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot: murder investigation, rookie, death, investigation, police detective, partners against crime, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, partner, friendship, murder ...
Place: vancouver
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Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Unnatural & Accidental is the feature length dramatic film adaptation of the stage play entitled, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by renowned Metis playwright Marie Clements and is based loosely around the "unnatural and ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, indigenous people, killer, slum, binge drinking, drunken sex, female protagonist, bare breasts, female nudity, search for mother, murder of a nude woman ...
Place: vancouver
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 6.4
 14K
Crying Freeman (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in ...
Style: emotional, exciting, suspenseful, anime, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, martial arts, police investigation, assassin, danger, murder, rivalry, transformation, violence, revenge, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, china, san francisco, vancouver, new york ...
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Russian Roulette (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When his prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assasination scheme.
Style: political thriller, independent film, suspense
Plot: hitman, kgb, conspiracy, spy, car, exploitation, cold war, christmas, cia, helicopter, hotel, assassination plot ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, year 1970
Place: soviet union, vancouver, british columbia, canada
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The Killing Machine (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret identity, special agent, tough heroes, confined, danger, murder, hitman, triad, heroes, one man army, killer, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver, british columbia, hong kong
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 5.4
 4K
They Wait (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, death in the family, murder, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, gory, parents and children ...
Place: vancouver, canada
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 6.1
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Last Wedding (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. ...
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, family relations, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, couples, family problems, looking for love, parents and children, human nature, hopes ...
Place: vancouver, canada
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 5.3
 9K
Intersection (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During a car accident, Vincent Eastman watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he sees. While maintaining the semblance of a marriage with his wife, Sally, Vincent has been carrying on with a mistress, Olivia. ...
Style: bad ending, sexy, sad, erotic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithful wife, destiny, love, architect, hospital, marriage, road accident, car accident, feeling, affair, erotica, love triangle ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: vancouver, canada, usa
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Charlotte's Song (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young girl with a special gift comes of age during one of the most desolate periods in American history in this dark Dust Bowl fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: mermaid, monster, transformation, coming of age, fairy, burlesque, supernatural, killings, deadly creature, supernatural ability, heroes, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: oklahoma, vancouver
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 6.6
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Skip Tracer (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
Style: independent film
Plot: canuxploitation, loan shark, death threat, collector, loan, money, town
Place: vancouver, canada
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 6.3
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Robson Arms (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sitcom, anthology ...
Plot: neighbor, social relations, human nature, apartment building, eccentricity, mixed marriage, weirdo, handyman, hamster, apartment, canadian humor
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, vancouver
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When Life Was Good (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brooklyn flies home to surprise her boyfriend on his birthday, but immediately changes her mind upon arrival and decides to hide out for the summer with her friend Faith. Faith lives with Casey and with relationship problems of their own, the couple ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, independent film, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: relationships, love and romance, youth, couples, relationship problems, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, unhappiness, career, young adult, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver, new york
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 5.3
 38
Explosion (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn't go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they're ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, counterculture, juvenile delinquent, hippie, murder, psychiatrist, canuxploitation, deserter, misanthrope, death, father son relationship, violence ...
Place: vancouver
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