Movies and TV shows set in canada
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in canada ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, melancholic, touching, feel good and humorous films and TV shows about / with family relations, friendship, death, dialogue, mentor, culture clash, storytelling, runaway, catastrophe and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in Canada, USA, France and other countries.
2018
TOP 10 movies tagged as canada: Schitt's Creek (2015), The Snow Walker (2003), The Silencing (2020), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Fly Away Home (1996), Turn the River (2007), Anne with an E (2017), The Border (2008), One Week (2008), Death Hunt (1981).
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List of movies set in canada
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, ironic, not serious, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
small town, gay, lgbtq, motel, couple relations, gay relationship, riches to rags, real life father and son playing father and son, class differences, siblings living together, businessman, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, seattle
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Style:
suspense, captivating, perverse, action thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder investigation, forest, manhunt, hunter, small town, sheriff, missing daughter, disappearance, missing girl, dead girl, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs ...
Style:
witty, talky, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
sex, infidelity, sadomasochism, depression, lgbtq, couple relations, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, human nature, radical ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, california
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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:
sexy, depressing, erotic, fairy tale, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, incest, sexy girl, bus, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, adultery, flashback ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
canada, british columbia
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as ...
Style:
period piece, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
anne of green gables, friendship, corporal punishment, coming of age, school, adopted daughter, mentor, teachers and students, love, heartwarming, child prodigy, orphan ...
Time:
1800s, 1900s, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
canada, usa, chicago, boston, england ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, inspirational, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
goose, rescue, father daughter relationship, bird, aviation, single father, animal, loss of mother, migration, conservation, deforestation, childhood ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
canada, new zealand, north carolina, ontario canada, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, crying ...
Plot:
billiards, gambling, hopes, family relations, kidnapping, family problems, addiction, parents and children, dysfunctional family, introspection, going straight, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, orphan, teenage life, small town, coming of age, feminism, child's point of view, family relations, children's home, society, school, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice ...
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
national security, law enforcement, border patrol, border, terrorism, abduction, fighting crime, politics, society, spy, covert operation, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, philosophical, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, motorcycle, terminal illness, travel, cancer, love story, depression, solitude, coming of age, beautiful scenery, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pacific ocean, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada, british columbia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Western
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 ...
Style:
cult classic, visually stunning, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
wilderness, survival, manhunt, winter, mountain, bounty hunter, treasure hunt, wilderness survival, nature, disaster, serial killer, tough guy ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1931, year 1981
Place:
canada, yukon, alaska, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style:
art house, social, contemplative, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, christmas, foster child, mining, uncle nephew relationship, youth, countryside, boy, infidelity, loss of son, catholic priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
shaman, husky dog, culture clash, family relations, religions or cults, couples, clergy, hopes, society, tradition, customs, frozen ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Canada, Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, offbeat, period drama, f word
Plot:
cell phone, business, technology, marketing, mobile phone, businessman, rise and fall, advanced technology, silicon valley, biopic, job, arrogance ...
Time:
2000s, year 1996, 20th century, 90s, year 2009 ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
unrequited love, coming of age, children, childhood, youth, dysfunctional family, abused child, abandoned by mother, faking illness, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boyhood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
canada, quebec
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise ...
Style:
detective, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, homicide detective, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, partners in crime, police corruption, psychopath, psycho killer, sadist, uncover truth ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, touching, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
oedipus complex, dysfunctional family, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, childhood, troubled teen, teenage boy, mother love, mother son relationship, teenager, adhd ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, near future, year 2015, year 1982 ...
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that's what they've told the parole board. But when they arrive back at ...
Style:
stylized, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, light ...
Plot:
heist, marijuana, buddies, drinking, police investigation, friends, prison, white trash, disorder, criminal heroes, society, nothing goes right ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
coming of age, road trip, youth, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, texas, florida, usa, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
swat, rescue, hostage negotiator, law enforcement, policewoman, mission, saving a life, police protagonist, race against time, police, danger, confined ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Style:
road movie, touching, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
dog, cat, wilderness, animal, labrador retriever, friendship, pets, wildlife, siamese cat, puppy love, camp, camping trip ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who ...
Style:
surreal, black comedy, breathtaking, black and white, visually stunning ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
beer, surrealism, music, great depression, contest, musician, baroness, dysfunctional family, satire, amputee, prohibition, tragic hero ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1933, 1920s
Place:
canada, winnipeg, sarajevo, new york, serbia ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is ...
Style:
exciting, sexy, supernatural thriller, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, danger, wolf, transformation, female protagonist, female werewolf, self defense, strong female character, blood, double life, secret identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, new york, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, independent film
Plot:
nothing goes right, forbidden love, on the run, fish out of water, disorder, unlikely criminals, redemption, crime gone awry, death in the family, comedy of errors, down on your luck, friendship ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
canada, latin america, cuba
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, political drama
Plot:
miscarriage, deserter, conscription, life is a bitch, infidelity, regret, old age, cancer, vietnam war, memory, filmmaker, abandonment ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
canada, richmond virginia, montreal, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. While widower Patrick Wheeler braces for his fate, he meets Sandra, the wife of a businessman who is intent on ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, semi serious, sincere, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
apocalypse, doomsday, chaos, end of the world, distopia, existentialism, satire, solitude, post apocalypse, hopes, danger, armageddon ...
Time:
year 1998, y2k, turn of the century, year 2000, future ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, dramatic ...
Plot:
rescue, cold, avalanche, truck driver, mine, snow, struggle for survival, trapped, snowstorm, risk, mission, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, north dakota
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Style:
spiritual, controversial, art film, art house, postmodern ...
Plot:
religion, christian, hospital, church, redemption, bible, philosophy, actor, christ allegory, priest, catholic priest, library ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal
Is relevant?
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, gloomy, touching, affectionate ...
Plot:
train, robbery, redemption, railway, biopic, photography, redheaded woman, released from prison, exodus, indians, stranger on a train, highwayman ...
Time:
year 1982, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century, 90s
Place:
canada, british columbia, vancouver, usa, washington d.c. ...
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