Canadian thriller movies

List of the best Canadian thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Happytime Murders, Mommy's Little Girl, Tusk, Trench 11, The Void, Cardinal, Red Riding Hood, Non-Stop, Hellions, Blood Child.

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

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: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryCanada

The story of a dangerous little girl who is reunited with her natural mother after living with her controlling grandparents in a rural farmhouse in seclusion.

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: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, military
CountryCanada
Duration01:49

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:45

In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.

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: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:36

    Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Canada
    Duration01:46

    Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada

    A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryCanada, USA

    Blood Child is horror thriller based on a true story. Bill and Ashely DiAngelo seem to have it all, an overseas posting to Singapore, life in paradise and a new baby on the way. But tragedy strikes when she loses the baby and sinks into a deep depression. Unbeknownst to Bill, Ashley decides that the only way for her to "be" with her miscarried child is to dabble in the South East Asian occult practice of raising her own "ghost child". She seeks the help of her Indonesian maid, Siti, tasking her to find a bomoh (witch doctor) who knows how to trap the spirit of unborn dead fetuses. Siti tries to dissuade Ashley from resorting to such dark magic but to no avail. In the meantime, in an effort to put the tragic events of the miscarriage behind them, Bill decides that it would be good for the couple to return home to Minnesota to start their lives over. Several months after their return to the US, Ashley and Bill are surprised to find themselves pregnant again....

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
    Duration02:26

    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

    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: 4.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada

    Posy Pinkerton needs to step out of her shell. For this late-20s serial monogamist, life has been smooth sailing. She's got Tom, her doctor fiancé; her burgeoning career as a medical illustrator and a side hobby as a visual artist. But after a chance encounter with Jack, a handsome and worldly businessman, Posy's shell begins to crack. She finds him mysterious and he finds her charming, and for Posy it is an opportunity to try on confidence for size. Posy is reluctant to take it any further than petty flirting, but her cousin Laura, her polar opposite, pushes her for one last fling before settling down with Tom, her one and only. Posy's growing desire to break free allows her to exercise her inner self with Jack, an alter ego she's created called the Queen of Sin. Little does Posy know, as she's being swept up by Jack, she's really making a deal with the devil.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:27

    A spoiled, selfish teenager becomes infatuated with her teacher. She befriends his daughter as a way of worming her way into the family, and sets about manipulating every aspect of his life.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:30

    A vacationing couple's jeep crashes in an isolated location. They have to fight their way back to civilisation in spite of injuries and dangerous animals.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountrySpain, Canada
    Duration01:54

    Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:59

    Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:29

      Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:29

      A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, history
      CountryDenmark, Canada, USA
      Duration01:47

      An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller
      CountryCanada

      A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada

      When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, China, Canada
      Duration02:32

        The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountrySpain, France, Canada

        A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

        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: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:37

        A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:13

        A timid and reclusive 18-year-old high school student is alienated by her parents and ruthlessly rejected by her peers. Desperate and isolated, she confides in her own reflection — and in the mirror she finds her imagined evil twin, someone who supports her, encourages her and knows all her secret desires. When the “girls” trade places, repressed sexuality and a ferocious violence erupt with a dangerous sense of freedom.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:45

        A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, India
        Duration02:32

        Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, Canada

        After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:57

        An inventive crime thriller told backwards -- reversing day by day through a week -- following a local sheriff's quest to unlock the mystery of three small town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
        CountryCanada

        Lacey, a socially detached loner is cursed with immortality and a never-ending tedium of existence. In her attempts to keep her compulsions in check, she seeks out the darkest souls humanity has to offer. Lacey must now face her own inner demons while simultaneously finding her next meal.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:29

          The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.

          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: 4.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryCanada
          Duration02:17

          The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryCanada
          Duration01:29

          A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

          Markimdb: 3.7
          Genrethriller, fantasy
          CountryCanada

          In the twenty years since the fall of Camelot, Merlin has become a recluse known as "the wild man of the woods." He is now summoned by a charge of young knights as they quest to destroy an evil wizard who rules the land from a throne of a "New Camelot."

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller
          CountryCanada

          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.

          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
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:29

          When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.

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