Movies and TV shows set in british columbia

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in british columbia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, exciting, independent film, suspenseful and rough films and TV shows about / with danger, blood, rivalry, fistfight, murder, pistol, martial arts, heroes, gunfight and fight plots mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres shot in Canada, USA, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as british columbia: The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Mother Lode (1982), My American Cousin (1985), 2 Frogs in the West (2010), Suck It Up (2017), Harmony Cats (1992), The Grocer's Wife (1991), Vixen! (1968), The Grey Fox (1982), Lotus Eaters (2011).

List of movies set in british columbia

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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: depressing, fairy tale, erotic, heartbreaking, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lawyer, snow, incest, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, redemption, betrayal, sexual abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: canada, british columbia
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 5.7
 2K
Mother Lode (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades ...
Style: retro, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure hunter, survival, gold, killer, aviation, airplane crash, hunter, cowboy, mine, cave, twins ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: british columbia, scotland, europe, alaska
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My American Cousin (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, summer, teen romance, biopic, bittersweet, forbidden love, single parent, fall in love, youth, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time: 1950s, year 1985, 50s
Place: british columbia, canada, usa, california
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2 Frogs in the West (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marie Deschamps has her whole life ahead of her but isn't sure what to do with it. To the disappointment of her parents, she drops out of college and decides to go work in Whistler in order to perfect her English. After a journey across Canada, ...
Style: road movie, factual, entertaining, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: hitchhiking, snowboarding, sex scene, fish out of water, french girl, ski resort, frenchwoman, lesbian relationship, lesbian, bisexuality, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Place: british columbia
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 4.8
 453
Suck It Up (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ronnie lost her brother, Faye lost her first love. These two best friends take off on a debaucherous road trip to the mountains to get over the death of the guy they both loved.
Style: psychological, emotional, funny, touching
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, bereavement, alcohol abuse, new job, entertainment, road trip, female protagonist, country house, drug, death
Place: british columbia
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 6.5
 150
Harmony Cats (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Graham Braithwaite is a violinist in a B.C. symphony. Unfortunately the symphony folds and much to his horror and disdain, he's forced to get a gig with a country band as the bassist. He has to leave the city and his girlfriend, Jane, to tour ...
Style: independent film
Plot: violinist, country music, musician, symphony
Place: british columbia, canada
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The Grocer's Wife (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A meek young man allows a stripper to stay in his house while his domineering mother is hospitalized.
Style: independent film, neo noir
Plot: stripper, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, misogynist, hospital, extramarital affair, death, contamination, assassination attempt, inspector, pen pal, death of mother ...
Place: british columbia
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 5.6
 3K
Vixen! (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she ...
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexploitation, incest, taboo, satire, cuckold, sex scene, jealousy, racism, lesbian sex, nymphomaniac, seductress, sexually aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
Place: british columbia, canada, seattle
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 7.3
 2K
The Grey Fox (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. He goes to Washington to live and work with his sister's family. But the world ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: train, robbery, redemption, railway, biopic, photography, exodus, stranger on a train, indians, redheaded woman, heist, aging ...
Time: year 1982, 1900s
Place: canada, british columbia, vancouver, washington d.c., usa ...
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 5.0
 312
Lotus Eaters (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
Plot: love and romance, best friend, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, friends, unfulfillment, city life, couples, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, group, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, british columbia, london
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Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A master thief (James Coburn) and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks (Michael Sarrazin, Trish Van Devere) how to steal wallets.
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, detective
Plot: pickpocket, outlaw, theft, career criminal, crime victim, friends, dishonesty, criminal heroes, teaching the ways of the world, cons and scams, partner, thief ...
Time: 70s
Place: seattle, washington state, british columbia, salt lake city utah, washington d.c. ...
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American Boyfriends (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Canadian college student learns about life and love during a trip to her cousin's wedding in California.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: wedding, vietnam war, friends, couples, love and romance, youth, rescue, coming of age, society, college, culture clash, friendship ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
Place: california, vancouver, british columbia, europe, portland oregon ...
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Anything to Survive (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Style: semi serious, realistic
Plot: island, survival, wilderness, sailboat, shipwreck, rescue, family relations, disaster, escapades, danger, confined, getting home ...
Time: 80s
Place: alaska, british columbia, usa
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 6.7
 7K
Once a Thief (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: John Woo directs this action-packed comedy that stars Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung as a trio of art thieves who grew up together as orphans under the tutelage of a cruel crime boss named Chow (Kenneth Tsang). Although Red Bean ...
Style: suspense, stylized, heroic, fast, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, heist, kung fu, gunfight, chase, art thief, art theft, heroic bloodshed, caper, friendship, betrayal, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 1988
Place: british columbia, china
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 6.5
 10K
Gladiator (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story of two teenagers trapped in the world of illegal underground boxing. One is fighting to save his fathers life and using the money pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father. The second is fighting for the money to get out of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, harsh, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: boxing, friendship, underdog, contests and competitions, urban ghetto life, against the odds, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, unlikely friendships, ambition, boxer ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, cuba, british columbia, usa
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, wilderness, survival, animal, youth, childhood, friendship, young heroes, danger, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: british columbia, canada
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The Sixth Man (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, semi serious, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, ghost, college, life philosophy, death, sport team, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, team, underdog, athlete ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: british columbia, usa, seattle
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 5.2
 402
Big Meat Eater (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After killing the crooked mayor a homicidal janitor named Abdullah goes to work for a butcher who has invented a new language for the town's planned futuristic theme park. In the butcher shop is a septic tank where scraps of meat are dumped ...
Style: horror musical, slasher, surreal, scary, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space and aliens, canuxploitation, butcher, alien, evil alien, meat, zombie, science project, back from the dead, mayor, small town, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: british columbia
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 5.3
 29K
D-Tox (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, snow, winter, hospital, special agent, violence spree, police officer, mind game, haunted by the past, killer, psychopath, group therapy ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: british columbia, wyoming, usa
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The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, martial arts, assassination, heroes, on the run, murder, conspiracy, politics, manhunt, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Place: british columbia, usa
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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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 4.7
 4K
Hardwired (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - a Psi-Comp Implant that's hardwired into Luke's brain - saves his life, but Luke soon ...
Style: tense, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: amnesia, chases and races, mind control, cyberpunk, corporate crime, dystopian future, danger, society, dishonesty, hacker, murder, on the run ...
Time: future
Place: cuba, british columbia
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 4.6
 3K
The Stranger (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, brutality, violence, hand to hand combat, murder of family, fistfight, chase, wrestler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, british columbia, seattle
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Tactical Force (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: swat team, rivalry, gang, danger, law enforcement, confined, female warrior, swat, tough heroes, mission gone awry, male female relationship, fbi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, british columbia, los angeles
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In the Name of the King: Two Worlds (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Granger, an ex-Special Forces soldier gets thrown back to medieval times to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Venturing through the now war torn Kingdom of Ehb, he teams up with an unlikely band of allies with the goal of slaying the leader of the ...
Style: exciting, serious, epic, psychotronic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medieval, prophecy, dragon, imaginary kingdom, time travel, heroes, good versus evil, imaginary, danger, master warrior, heroic mission, fight ...
Place: british columbia, vancouver
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 5.2
 6K
Recoil (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, gang, death of wife, rivalry, vigilantism, murder, gangster, organized crime, violence, anger, good versus evil, revenge ...
Time: 2000s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: british columbia, usa
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, soldier, kidnapping, daring rescue, save the day, rivalry, danger, military, chase, wrestling, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: british columbia, usa, seattle, washington state
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The Marine 4: Moving Target (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: WWE Superstar Mike "The Miz" Mizanin returns as Jake Carter where he is assigned to protect a whistleblower who wishes to expose a corrupt military defence contractor. However, the military hires a heavily armed team of mercenaries to kill ...
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: marine, military, one man army, mercenary, fistfight, fight, rescue, surveillance, police detective, martial arts, blood, car chase ...
Place: british columbia
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A Snow Capped Christmas (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An injured figure skater is sent to the mountains to recover from an injury. Once there, she meets an ex-hockey player and his young daughter and begins to realise that something is missing from her life.
Style: romantic, light, humorous, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, ice hockey, single father, skating, rehabilitation, winter, christmas romance, fall in love, character change, transformation, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship ...
Place: british columbia
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The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, brutality, gunfight, fight, chase, murder, violence, betrayal, martial arts, death, deception, military ...
Time: 2010s
Place: british columbia
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