Movies about Canada

Movies about Canada
List of the best movies about Canada, selected by visitors to our site: How to Fall in Love, Super Troopers 2, An Eye for Beauty, The Terminal, 49th Parallel, Legend No. 17, Laurence Anyways, Little Italy, Cell 213, A Serious Man.

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

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
CharactersAccountant
PlotDancing, True love
PlaceCanada
StyleRomantic, To cry

An accountant, who never quite grew out of his awkward teenage years, finds himself with a dating coach - she happens to be his high school crush as well. Thanks to his coach, he gets a pretty woman he has his sights on for some time, but realizes they are incompatible. Meanwhile, his dating lessons with his teenage crush reawaken old feelings. Not realizing the feelings are mutual, he finds himself unable to act on them due to his fear of being rejected by the one he truly loves.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:20
CharactersPolice
PlaceCanada

When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryCanada
Duration01:42
CharactersArchitects
PlotPassion, Weapon, Love triangle, Depression, Tennis
PlaceCanada
StyleTwisted plot, Fascinating, Explicit scenes, Serious

An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04
CharactersLosers
PlotLoneliness, Fate
PlaceNew York
StyleInteresting, Light, To cry, Cute, Soulful

Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:02
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier
PlotWar, Survival, Adventure
PlaceAircraft, Ocean, Canada
TimeWorld War II, 19th century
StyleExciting, Serious, Disturbing

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryRussia
Duration02:14
PlotLove, Sports, Hockey, Intrigue, Competitions
PlaceRussia, Spain, Moscow, Canada
StyleInspirational

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryCanada, France
Duration02:48
CharactersFamily, Transgender people, Surgeons
PlotBreakup
PlaceIslands, Canada
StyleRomantic, Soulful, Serious

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: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:35
CharactersCooks, Family, Friends
PlotLove, Friendship, Cheating, Rivalry
PlaceCanada
StyleRomantic, Light, To cry, Soulful, Atmospheric

Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror
CountryCanada
CharactersLawyers
PlotMystery
PlacePrison, Canada

Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he soon realizes that unnatural forces are behind a string of inmate suicides, making matters of guilt and innocence not as cut and dry as they seem.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:46
CharactersJews, Students, Parents
PlotLife, Divorce, Fate, Family life, Dreams
StyleSmart, Black humor, Intellectual

A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13
CharactersLawyers
PlotLove, Prison Break, Freedom, False accusations
PlacePrison, USA
StyleAction, Disturbing

A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:21
CharactersSerial killers, Strong women, Single mothers, Nurses, Mothers
PlotOn real events, Abduction, Investigation, Mystery, Missing people
PlaceCourt, USA, Los Angeles
StylePsychological problems, Action, To cry, Fascinating, Heartbreaking

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryCanada
CharactersTeens, Friends
PlotFriendship, Family life
PlaceVillage, Canada, Small cities
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Touching

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 poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon Oncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the Quebec mining town in which he lives.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller
CountryCanada
Duration01:29
CharactersTeens
PlotLove, Relationship, Hostage, Internet, Cheating
PlaceCanada
StyleRomantic, Serious, Disturbing

When teenager Cami Winters falls in love, she falls hard. Her single mother, Tori, has no idea that Cami has fallen in love with a boy named 'Jake' she met on a social networking website. Although Cami believes Jake's a 23 year-old college student, everything he's told her online is a lie.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50
CharactersNurses
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Mental disorders, Jealousy, Snow
PlaceCanada
TimeNew Year
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Tense

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, biography
CountryKenya, Судан, South Africa, USA
Duration01:40
CharactersPirates, Writers, Journalists, Friends, Presidential
PlotLove, On real events, Time travel, Adventure, Travel
PlaceVillage, Canada
StyleExciting, Tense, Disturbing

After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, only to quickly find himself in over his head.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:51
CharactersPartners
PlotPursuit, Love triangle, Chase, True love
PlaceParis, France
StyleTouching

French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of value that has a petty thief chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:37
CharactersMermaids, Singers
PlotDancing, Travel, Fight, Death, Mystery
PlaceIslands, Lighthouse, USA, Canada
Time19th century
StyleExciting, Psychological problems, Tense, Gothic

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Colombia
Duration01:08
CharactersSnipers, FBI, Friends, Criminals
PlotInvestigation
PlaceMexico, USA, Canada
StyleExciting, Action, For men, Disturbing

A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredocumentary, music
CountryCanada
Duration01:24
PlaceCanada, Concerts

On 10 February 1985, fifty-three of Canada's top performers gathered together to record the song Tears Are Not Enough in an effort to generate aid to famine victims in Africa. This is a behind-the-scenes look at that historic session, filled with moments of excitement, pathos, humor and magic.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryCanada, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration02:35
CharactersHired assassins, Heroes, Lawyers, Friends
PlotMoney, Investigation, Funeral
PlaceCourt, USA, Canada, Los Angeles
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryCanada
Duration01:48
CharactersTeens, Aliens, Family, Fathers, Parents
PlotLoneliness
PlaceSchool, Canada

Aurelie Laflamme feels alone in the world, especially since her father's death five years ago. What if her father had been an alien who left Earth to return to his own planet? In that case, Aurelie would be an alien too. That would explain many things such as why she feels different from others, especially her mother, why she can't string two words together without making a mistake, and why boys really get on her nerves. Through the pages of her diary, Aurelie confides her joys and sorrows, successes and failures, love and friendships, and tries to find her place.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, adventure, short, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:33
PlotMusic
PlaceCanada
StyleExciting, Serious, For men

Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:41
CharactersOld man, Mothers, Nephews
PlotTravel
PlaceCanada
StyleTouching

When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40
CharactersActors
PlotMystery
PlaceMansions, Canada

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration01:43
CharactersGay
PlotLife, Loneliness, Chase, Family life
StylePsychological problems, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Serious, Disturbing

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
Duration01:47
CharactersSuperhero, Mutant, Heroes, Scientists, Losers
PlotAdventure, Revenge, Superpowers, Supernatural, Experiments
PlaceCanada
StyleMarvel, Exciting, Serious, For men, Disturbing

After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryCanada
Duration01:34
CharactersHackers, Firefighters, Thieves, Friends, Partners
PlotRobbery, Bank robbery, Chess, Revenge, Weapon
PlaceKitchen, Canada
StyleUnexpected ending, Serious, For men, Disturbing

Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually perform them. The game goes wrong when their latest plan is stolen and carried out. Things get even worse when a mysterious man approaches them with an offer: plan a heist for him, or go to jail. As the clock ticks, they find that the risk might be higher than just their freedom.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration05:01
PlotApocalypse, End of the world, Adventure, Relationship
PlaceUSA, Canada

When a risk-averse, straight-arrowed, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a free-spirited man who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists, with comedic and poignant results.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:26
CharactersVampire, Immortals, Friends
PlotTravel, Friendship, Supernatural, Viruses
PlaceItaly, Canada
StyleAction, Atmospheric, Heavy, Tense, Serious

Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.





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