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What are your top three favorite Canadian films?

posted 4 months ago by whynotwriteme (7811)
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Mine are:

1. The Silent Partner (1978) - American actor Elliott Gould, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, and British actress Susannah York in a Hitchcock-style doublecross story about a nerdy bank teller and a psychopathic bank robber. Great late 1970s scenes of Toronto, especially the Eaton Centre and Yonge Street.

2. Rituals (1977) - A group of doctors on a fishing trip to Northern Ontario run afoul of a horrifically scarred WW2 veteran hermit. More disturbing than Deliverance and no "Squeal like a pig" funny stuff.

3. Scanners (1980) - David Cronenberg's first big success. A dystopian SF adventure about a near future Montreal, plagued with rogue telepaths called Scanners, resulting from a thalidomide-like drug. Exploding heads!

[–] parkerbot (10625) 4 months ago

Blood and Donuts (1995)
Cube (1997)
Nothing (2013)

There's more but those ones jump out.

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) 4 months ago

Mine are:

1. Videodrome
2. Scanners
3. Bad Cop, Bon Cop

Honourable mentions: I Like Movies, Mommy, The Kid Detective

[–] samoanjoes (58491) 4 months ago

Les ordres (1974)
Mommy (2014)
The Grey Fox (1982)

Honourable mentions: Cube (1997), Polytechnique (2009), Black Christmas (1974), Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), Goin' Down the Road (1970)

[–] BillHicksFan (10709) 4 months ago

I'm using IMDB Advance Search

-Buffalo '66
-A Special Day
-Lies My Father Told Me

[–] whynotwriteme (7811) 4 months ago

Buffalo '66 is Canadian? Great film, but I had no idea.

[–] BillHicksFan (10709) 4 months ago

I'm wondering since Canada is a mile away from Buffalo, they might have gone that route for tax benefits, etc

[–] StoneKeeper (28241) 4 months ago

I cannot not reply to this thread!

La loi du cochon (2001)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Leolo (1992)

Rituals sounds interesting. I see it’s available on prime so I’ll definitely watch it. Maybe even with the moviechat movieclub.

[–] whynotwriteme (7811) 4 months ago

Man! I forgot all about Leolo! That would be tied for my number one spot. How could I forget Leolo?

[–] StoneKeeper (28241) 4 months ago

For real?? That’s awesome! Props man. :)

[–] whynotwriteme (7811) 4 months ago

It's got to be one of the strangest, most atmospheric films I have ever seen. It runs the gamut from laugh-out-loud funny to truly tragic. The part where his brother spends months exercising and body-building to defeat a bully, only to find that his cowardice was the real problem was devastating!

I cannot think of any other films that are really similar to Leolo. Maybe The Tin Drum comes closest, but as I am a Canadian ex-pat, Leolo is way better IMO.