Canadian Movies I Recommend

Looking for a Canadian feature film to watch? Here are some that I really enjoyed, in chronological order:

(filmography links courtesy of the Internet Movie Database )

Title	Director	Year
Back to God's Country	David Hartford	1919
Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine)	Claude Jutra	1971
Les ordres (Orders)	Michel Brault	1974
Lies My Father Told Me	Ján Kadár	1975
J.A. Martin photographe (J.A. Martin Photographer)	Jean Beaudin	1977
Les bons débarras (Good Riddance)	Francis Mankiewicz	1980
Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family)	Gilles Carle	1981
The Grey Fox	Philip Borsos	1982
Sonatine	Micheline Lanctôt	1984
My American Cousin	Sandy Wilson	1985
Loyalties	Anne Wheeler	1986
Pouvoir intime (Blind Trust)	Yves Simoneau	1986
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing	Patricia Rozema	1987
Perfectly Normal	Yves Simoneau	1991
The Company of Strangers	Cynthia Scott	1991
Highway 61	Bruce McDonald	1991
Léolo	Jean-Claude Lauzon	1992
Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould	François Girard	1993
Double Happiness	Mina Shum	1994
Margaret's Museum	Mort Ransen	1995
Le confessionnal (The Confessional)	Robert Lepage	1995
When Night Is Falling	Patricia Rozema	1995
Fire	Deepa Mehta	1996
The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald	1997
The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	1997
Earth	Deepa Mehta	1998
Last Night	Don McKellar	1998
Le violon rouge (The Red Violin)	François Girard	1998
Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)	Léa Pool	1999
The Five Senses	Jeremy Podeswa	1999
New Waterford Girl	Allan Moyle	1999
Better than Chocolate	Anne Wheeler	1999
The Uncles	James Allodi	2000
Love Come Down	Clement Virgo	2000
Rare Birds	Sturla Gunnarsson	2001
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk	2001
Marion Bridge	Wiebke von Carolsfeld	2002
Ararat	Atom Egoyan	2002
Men with Brooms	Paul Gross	2002
Edge of Madness	Anne Wheeler	2002
La turbulence des fluides (Chaos and Desire)	Manon Briand	2002
La grande séduction (Seducing Doctor Lewis)	Jean-François Pouliot	2003
My Life without Me	Isabel Coixet	2003
Wilby Wonderful	Daniel MacIvor	2004
I, Claudia	Chris Abraham	2004
Water	Deepa Mehta	2005
C.R.A.Z.Y.	Jean-Marc Vallée	2005
Sabah	Ruba Nadda	2005
Away from Her	Sarah Polley	2006
One Week	Michael McGowan	2008
The Baby Formula	Alison Reid	2008
The Trotsky	Jacob Tierney	2009
Score: A Hockey Musical	Michael McGowan	2010
The High Cost of Living	Deborah Chow	2010

I should also mention some particularly famous Canadian films which are not on my list. Some are films I either didn't see or saw too long ago to remember well; others are films I personally didn't like enough to recommend.
Goin' Down the Road (Donald Shebib, 1970); The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff, 1974); Le déclin de l'empire américain (Denys Arcand, 1986); Jésus de Montréal (Denys Arcand, 1989); Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996); Les invasions barbares (Denys Arcand, 2003); Bon cop, bad cop (Erik Canuel, 2006); Passchendaele (Paul Gross, 2008); Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis, 2010); Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010).

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