Some Distinctly Canadian Movies

• Back to God's Country (1919)
  
  
• God'sCrucible (1921)
  
  
• Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921)
  
  
• Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941) (United Kingdom) - a Nazi U-boat crew shipwrecked in Canada try to flee to the neutral United States - an Academy Award winning classic
  
  
• The Railrodder (1965) - starring Buster Keaton
  
  
• Goin' Down The Road (1970)
  
  
• Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) - director Claude Jutra
  
  
• Wedding In White (1972)
  
  
• The Rowdyman (1972) - written by and starring Gordon Pinsent
  
  
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) - director Ted Kotcheff, writer Mordecai Richler
  
  
• Les Ordres (1974) - director Michel Brault
  
  
• Dreamland: A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939 (1974) documentary
  
  
• Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
  
  
• Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1978) documentary
  
  
• Videodrome (1983) - director David Cronenberg
  
  
• Who has Seen the Wind? (1977) - writer W. O. Mitchell
  
  
• Les bons débarras (1980) - director Francis Mankiewicz,
  
  
• The Grey Fox (1982)
  
  
• The Wars (1983)
  
  
• Maria Chapdelaine (1983), from the book by Louis Hemon
  
  
• Strange Brew (1983)
  
  
• The Bay Boy (1984) - director Daniel Petrie
  
  
• Joshua Then and Now (1985) - director Ted Kotcheff, writer Mordecai Richler
  
  
• My American Cousin (1985)
  
  
• Agnes of God (1985) - director Norman Jewison
  
  
• The Decline of the American Empire (1986) - director Denys Arcand
  
  
• John and the Missus (1987) - written by and starring Gordon Pinsent
  
  
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) - director Patricia Rozema
  
  
• Obsessed (1988)
  
  
• Dead Ringers (1988) - director David Cronenberg
  
  
• Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) - director Guy Maddin
  
  
• Jesus of Montreal (1989) - director Denys Arcand
  
  
• Roadkill (1989) - director Bruce McDonald
  
  
• Bye Bye Blues (1989) - director Anne Wheeler
  
  
• Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
  
  
• Highway 61 (1991) - director Bruce McDonald
  
  
• Black Robe (1991) - writer Brian Moore
  
  
• Léolo (1992)
  
  
• Buried on Sunday (1992)
  
  
• The Diviners (1993) - director Anne Wheeler
  
  
• Exotica (1993) - director Atom Egoyan
  
  
• Love and Human Remains (1993) - director Denys Arcand
  
  
• Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) - director Francois Girard
  
  
• Dance Me Outside (1994) - director Bruce McDonald
  
  
• Whale Music (1994)
  
  
• Double Happiness (1994)
  
  
• When Night is Falling (1995) - director Patricia Rozema
  
  
• Le Confessionnal (1995) - director Robert Lepage, fictional account of the filming of Hitchcock's " I Confess"
  
  
• Margaret's Museum (1995)
  
  
• Hard Core Logo (1996) - director Bruce McDonald
  
  
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - director Atom Egoyan
  
  
• Les Boys (1997) - top grossing film in Canada for that year
  
  
• The Hanging Garden (1997) from Nova Scotia
  
  
• Last Night (1998) - director Don McKellar
  
  
• The Red Violin (1998) - director Francois Girard, written with Don McKellar
  
  
• Emporte-moi (Set Me Free) (1999) - director Léa Pool
  
  

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