Best Canadian Thriller Movies

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Best Canadian Thriller Movies
Best Canadian Thriller Movies
TOP Movies: Rule of 3 (2020), Glass Houses (2020), Good Neighbours (2010), Summer of 84 (2018), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Braven (2018), Enemy (2013), Night Hunter (2018), Ready or Not (2019), Room (2015), Woman on the Run (2017), Remember (2015), What Keeps You Alive (2018), Brace for Impact (2016), The Conspiracy (2012), Picture Claire (2001), Mean Dreams (2016), A Mother's Instinct (2015), The Dark Hours (2005), Alive (2018).

List of Best Movies

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 5.6
 564
Rule of 3 (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alison Whitford thought she had it all. An accomplished career woman, she resisted getting married until she found “the One.” And Dominick was everything she had ever hoped for in a man. Still in the honeymoon phase of her marriage, Alison’s ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful
Plot: under the surface, loss of spouse, life & death, dealing with death, loss of loved one, murder, death of husband, family problems, other woman, social relations, couples, death ...
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 5.6
 509
Glass Houses (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage babysitter Carrie Dawson has a chip on her shoulder on the heels of a humiliating family scandal. When she finds out that neighborhood Queen Bee Madeline Cooper may be to blame, she is determined to exact revenge - even if it means ...
Style: suspense, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: teenage girl, secret revealed, family relations, teenage life, scandal, secretly observing, teenage crush, secret, adolescence, pursuit, brutality, public humiliation ...
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Good Neighbours (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, cat, rape, apartment building, investigation, police investigation, who to trust, friendship, snow, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: canada, montreal
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 6.7
 46K
Summer of 84 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
Style: suspense, disturbing, slasher, psychological, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, group of friends, friendship, psychopath, murder, neighbor, murder suspect, private investigation, basement, murder mystery, child killer, cop ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 2010s
Place: oregon
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, neo noir, suspense, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: twists and turns, hitman, revenge, assassin, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, justice, mafia, vengeance, secrets, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 42K
Braven (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scenic, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, manly
Plot: father son relationship, cocaine, wilderness, daughter, home invasion, mountain cabin, archery, mercilessness, fight, drug, murder, fight to the death ...
Time: future, 2010s
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 6.9
 212K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 5.9
 27K
Night Hunter (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A police task force traps an online predator, only to discover that the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, tense, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, tragic past, kidnapping, father daughter relationship, baby, justice, vigilantism, criminal ...
Time: 2010s
Place: minnesota
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 6.9
 180K
Ready or Not (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style: suspense, horror comedy, scary, brutal, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, game, rite, satanic cult, pursuit, murder, woman kills a man, hide and seek, wedding, ritual, family curse, fiancee ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1989, 80s
Place: illinois
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 8.1
 447K
Room (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, persia
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Woman on the Run (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving an attempt on her life, a reclusive mystery author discovers that her nanny has stolen her identity, forcing her to go to extreme lengths to get her children back.
Plot: strong female lead, stolen identity, identity theft, infidelity, stolen money, female empowerment, empowerment, betrayal, female protagonist, writers, trucker, psychiatric hospital ...
Place: san francisco
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 7.5
 28K
Remember (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Mexico, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story: With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Style: twist ending, suspense, unusual plot structure, surprise ending, psychological ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, ss, auschwitz, nazi war criminal, nazi officer, revenge, old man, genocide, swastika, world war two, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 2015
Place: germany, cleveland ohio, reno nevada
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What Keeps You Alive (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
Style: queer horror, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological horror ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forest, female villain, human prey, psychopath, vacation gone wrong, female killer, lesbian couple, murder, psychotic, survival, betrayal, unrequited love ...
Place: canada
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Brace for Impact (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist's brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and secretly begins investigating the crash.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: investigation, crime solving, brother sister relationship, investigator, unsolved crime, police investigation, cause and meaning, uncover truth, airplane crash, aviation, fear of flying, plane crash ...
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 6.3
 13K
The Conspiracy (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Style: suspense, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: secret society, conspiracy, found footage, human prey, corporation, uncover truth, new world order, manhunt, hidden truth, occult, secret movement, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Picture Claire (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mistaken identity, chase, murder, dishonesty, police, investigation, arson, photographer, police investigation, murder suspect, gangster, womanizer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, bahamas, montreal
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 6.3
 5K
Mean Dreams (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, young love, sheriff, murder, police corruption, abusive father, dirty cop, parent child relationship, illegal drugs, small town, runaway, teenage boy ...
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A Mother's Instinct (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing son, cyberbullying, missing child, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, crime investigation, law enforcement, family relations, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
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The Dark Hours (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Dr. Samantha Goodman is a beautiful, young psychiatrist. Burnt out, she drives to the family’s winter cottage to spend time with her husband and sister. A relaxing weekend is jarringly interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives. ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: game, psychiatrist, obsession, surrealism, mind game, vengeance, doctors and patients, kidnapped, hostage, psychopath, torture, blood ...
Time: 2000s
Place: canada
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 5.3
 2K
Alive (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.
Style: suspense, slasher, bloody, slasher horror, medical horror ...
Plot: torture, survival horror, gory violence, mercilessness, hostage, violence, brutality, anger, obsession, psychopath, survival, psychological torture ...
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 6.7
 95K
Run (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, kidnapping, revenge, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle, washington state
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 6.1
 7K
The Entitled (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, ransom, confined, crime gone awry, partner, danger, unlikely criminals, disorder, breaking point, blood, forest, unemployed ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: subconscious, father son relationship, picnic, family relations, doctor, parents and children, coma, mysticism, escape from reality, consciousness, flashback, psychologist ...
Time: year 2016
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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to claim her inheritance. Her son is then kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang led by a mysterious figure known only as ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, action adventure, action thriller ...
Plot: strong female lead, abduction, kick-butt women, kidnapping, revenge, showdown, parents and children, motherhood, ransom demand, mother love, woman with a gun, kidnapper ...
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The Wild Hunt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, dark fantasy ...
Plot: role playing, pretense, woman in danger, danger, escapades, mind game, woods, viking, game, attempted rape, trippy, folk horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.2
 2K
Treed Murray (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: gang, mind game, vengeance, danger, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, rivalry, politics, tree, mugging, criminal heroes, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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American Hangman (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unidentified man posts a live feed on social media showing that he has kidnapped two strangers and intends to kill one before the day is out. His intention is to hold a capital 'trial' online. As the authorities recognize what's ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, social media, macabre, kidnapped, judge, murder, justice, vigilantism, lynching, court, police investigation, legal action ...
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 4.4
 886
Below Zero (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, writer's life, losing-it hero, isolation, twists and turns, one last chance, danger, figment, gory, writers, trapped, cold ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.8
 738
Dead on Campus (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A freshman on campus discovers that the only way to be admitted into the sorority of her dreams is to seduce a nerdy introverted guy and film it. When the sorority "prank" goes viral, the boy is discovered dead from apparent suicide, but ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense
Plot: sorority, public humiliation, ritual, gift, party, college, murder, society, danger, violence, love, embarrassment ...
Time: 21st century
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