Canadian movies about serial killers

List of the best Canadian movies about serial killers selected by visitors to our site: Saw, The Silencing, In the Shadow of the Moon, Joker, Freaky, American Psycho, Cardinal, Discopath, Seed 2, Punjab 1984.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:43

Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada

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.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:18

In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.

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: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

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: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada

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 Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryCanada
Duration01:21

The mid-70's: A timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music....disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.

Markimdb: 2.1
Genrehorror
CountryCanada, Germany
Duration01:18

Coming back from her bachelor party in Las Vegas, Christine and her friends are driving through the hot desert of Nevada. But they are not alone - serial killer Max Seed is back and he brought the whole family.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama, family, history
CountryCanada, India

This is the story of a mother and her missing son set in the backdrop of 1984 Punjab, when the state was going through a terrible time of terrorism. The film depicts the longing of a mother for her son and her search for her son, who is labelled a terrorist because of the bad times in Punjab.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryCanada

Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers but their tranquility starts to be threatened when they think are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf and Joseph leaves them behind to track it.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:56

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.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:35

    In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
    Duration01:30

    See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:43

    A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:38

    Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryCanada, Italy, Germany

    As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:45

      Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:21

      A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom

      Three best friends attending a heavy-metal show cross paths with sadistic killers after they travel to a secluded country home for an after party.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, musical
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:28

      A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:37

      After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit might be a strange doll she received a few days earlier.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada

      Images coming from the crimes committed by a deranged pair of murderers bring a small town woman to the attention of a celebrity lensman. But how much danger will enter her life as a result of all this attention?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:26

      Once a Los Angeles homicide detective, Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises, unlikely suspects and grave danger. Though it's widely believed the murder was committed by an incarcerated serial killer, Jesse suspects another killer is at large and is hell-bent on bringing him to justice.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:35

      A one-time (and now one-handed) master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, Canada, USA
      Duration02:00

      Two women have been murdered within hours of one another near St. Pancras station, but in quite different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, DI Thorne realizes two serial killers may be at work in a macabre partnership

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada, Hong Kong
      Duration02:23

      After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:30

      Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica's been trained to handle herself in surprisingly lethal ways.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:39

      Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or her own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three neighbors spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryCanada
      Duration02:17

      Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A pair of comic book writers begin to notice scary similarities between the character they created and horrific real-life events.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada

      In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, China, Canada
      Duration02:02

      In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:23

      A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:42

      When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:31

      In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:43

      A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

      A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:50

      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 aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:24

      When two friends open a Halloween fun house on Devil's Night it is all fun and games until their former sorority sisters begin to arrive. These six sisters are confronted by their past as the night spins out of control.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
      Duration01:48

      Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

      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: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:34

      A weekend of 'fear therapy' turns into a nightmare of terror when a mannequin comes to life. Only those with the courage to confront their demons will survive.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genredrama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:42

      An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada, Germany

      Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:23

      A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA

      A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:36

      A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:36

      Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:30

      Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned the town not to celebrate Valentine's Day again. When a group of teenagers decides to defy that order, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.




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