Hector and the Search for Happiness

Hector and the Search for Happiness 2014

6.70

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

2014

The Warriors Gate

The Warriors Gate 2016

6.60

After a mysterious chest opens a gateway through time, teen gamer Jack is transported to an ancient empire terrorized by a cruel barbarian king. Jack will need all of his gaming skills as he battles to defeat the barbarian, protect a beautiful princess, and somehow find his way back home.

2016

Shut In

Shut In 2016

5.29

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

2016

French Exit

French Exit 2021

5.70

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

2021

Indian Horse

Indian Horse 2018

7.00

Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

2018

Bones of Crows

Bones of Crows 2023

7.70

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

2023

Foreverland

Foreverland 2011

6.50

A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.

2011

The First Movie

The First Movie 2009

7.30

Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.

2009

Citizen Bio

Citizen Bio 2020

7.50

The stories of four of America’s most notorious biohackers and their relationships with Aaron Traywick, a self-proclaimed biohacker whose life took a tragic turn when he was mysteriously found dead at a meditation spa at the age of 28.

2020

Clue: A Movie Mystery Adventure

Clue: A Movie Mystery Adventure 2014

6.90

In a new take on the classic 1985 film of the same name, six teens accidentally witness a horrible crime and must work to piece together clues they find to solve the mystery of 'who done it.' They soon find out that there is a lot more than meets the eye as they discover hidden treasure and a secret society.

2014

Canada in a Day

Canada in a Day 2017

1

An event special created entirely from videos made by Canadians over the course of 24 hours reflecting on their hopes and lives in Canada.

2017