Canadian drama movies

List of the best Canadian drama movies selected by visitors to our site: Big Eyes, Tully, The Age of Adaline, Joker, The Wolf and the Lion, The Basketball Diaries, The Vow, Frida, The Call of the Wild, Marley & Me.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:46

    The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:11

    Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:32

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:25

    During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryFrance, Canada

    After her grandfather's death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home - a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, sport
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:42

    Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:44

    Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
    Duration01:58

    "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:55

    A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, China, Canada
    Duration01:55

    Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, China
    Duration02:05

    A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
    Duration01:54

    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
    Duration02:15

    The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia, Canada
    Duration02:00

    In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:42

    A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:36

    A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
    Duration02:07

    The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Teen best friends Abby and Gretchen grapple with an otherworldly demon that takes up residence in Gretchen's body.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

    Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, family, cartoon
    CountryCanada, USA

    Greg Heffley is an ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous. The problem is that he has to survive middle school first.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, fantasy, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    A girl navigates life with two neurodivergent parents and an extended family that can’t quite agree on the best way to help.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, Croatia, Hungary

    James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryCanada, USA

    After an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryCanada

    The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, Canada

    A journalist seeks a fresh start in Alaska working for a newspaper in Anchorage.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryCanada

    The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, sport
    CountryCanada

    Sees the foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favorite character, Shoresy, join a senior AAA hockey team in Sudbury on a quest to never lose again.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom

    Following Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he investigates cases beneath the idyllic surface of the Quebec village, Three Pines, finding long-buried secrets and facing a few ghosts of his own.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA, Vietnam, Australia, France, Canada
    Duration01:35

    A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, Canada, USA
    Duration01:45

    An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads and informants turn up dead.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama
    CountryGermany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
    Duration01:59

    One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:42

    An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration01:41

    In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration00:30

    Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryCanada

    A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:32

    After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, family, sport
    CountryCanada

    Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who spends his time 'running' from the law.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, documentary
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:34

    Follows the dramatic journeys of video game developers as they create and release their games to the world. It's about making video games, but at its core, it's about the creative process, and exposing yourself through your work.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration02:48

    The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self: a woman.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:29

    The estranged daughter (Lauren Lee Smith) of a recently deceased filmmaker gains a new understanding of her father when she offers to create a retrospective of his work.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:43

    This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). Deanna's boyfriend is deeply threatened by Sean and Deanna's friendship, resulting in a violent confrontation. Seeking to protect himself, Sean issues a death threat online - and is swiftly arrested. When the police raid Sean's home, they find rifles, shotguns, knives and ammunition - all property of Sean's father Ricky (Michael Buie), an avid hunter. They also find a supposed "hit list" with twenty names of people who have tormented Sean. The authorities and the media proclaim another Columbine has been narrowly averted, and soon Sean faces a terrifying imprisonment in a youth detention facility. Sean's only hope is to overcome his dark image, and prove his innocence to Deanna and to his community.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama
    CountryCanada
    Duration02:18

    A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:52

    Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySpain, Canada, France
    Duration01:52

    As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, fantasy, drama, family, crime, biography
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:35

    The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling as a pastor.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:45

    Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.




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