The Sweet Hereafter
(1997) [M]

A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer (Ian Holm) visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is...  More

The Red Violin
(1998) [M]

In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in...  More

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) [G]

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and...  More

Better Than Chocolate
(1999) [MA]

Two beautiful women Maggie (Karen Dwyer) and Kim (Christina Cox) meet in Vancouver and fall in love. After a passionate romance they decide to move in together and live in an open lesbian relationship. Well, open to all except Maggie's mother, Lila, who is in the process of getting divorced and...  More

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
(2001) [MA]

The first ever Inuit film to receive a theatrical release, Atanarjuat is a truly epic piece of storytelling and a wonderfully lyrical cinematic experience. The film is a recreation of an ancient Inuit legend of Atanarjuat - a classic quest story set in the Arctic at the dawn of the first...  More

Mambo Italiano
(2003) [M]

Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents by moving out on his own without getting married, and shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend,...  More

Ararat
(2002) [MA]

Directed by Atom Egoyan, Ararat explores how history, both personal and political, can inpsire a legacy of uncertainty and insecurity. Seamlessly shifting through time, Egoyan's film examines the quest for personal, sexual and cultural identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers,...  More

Emile
(2003) [M]

Starring two-time academy award nominated Sir Ian McKellen, Emile is the poignant exploration of an older man’s struggle with his past. Emile is given the opportunity to travel from England to Canada to receive an honorary degree at the university, and he goes to meet his only living relatives,...  More

The Barbarian Invasions
(2003) [MA]

Denys Arcand delivers a beautiful film with "The Barbarian Invasions", the story of a man on his deathbed who is joined by his distant son and all his closest friends throughout the last - wonderful and loving - days of his life. A follow-up to 1986's "The Decline Of The American Empire", the...  More

Being Julia
(2004) [M]

In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim, an Academy Award® nomination, the Golden Globe® Award and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in Being...  More