Canadian Independent Movies on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
One Week
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJoshua Jackson stars in this bittersweet odyssey as Ben, a young man who's just received news of his terminal illness. Leaving his perplexed fiancée, Samantha (Liane Balaban), Ben buys a 1973 Norton motorcycle and heads for the Pacific. His journey takes him through nature, introduces him to interesting fellow travelers, brings him unexpected romance and begins to put his impending fate in perspective.
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Sabah: A Love Story
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDutiful 40-something daughter Sabah (Arsinée Khanjian) shocks her conservative Arab family by falling for Stephen (Shawn Doyle), a non-Muslim, in this romantic comedy set in Toronto. The relationship sparks a culture clash, ensnaring Sabah between Stephen and her tight-knit family. Like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, director Ruba Nabba's film reveals what happens when Old World tradition collides with modern love. Setta Keshishian co-stars.
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Growing Op
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter years of being home-schooled by his earnest, post-hippie, pot-growing parents, Quinn (Steven Yaffee) decides to jump from the nest and give himself a normal high school experience. He quickly learns, however, that there's nothing normal about high school. When the teen falls for a beautiful blonde neighbor (Rachel Blanchard), he realizes he'll have to make some compromises to get what he wants -- once he's sure what that is.
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Cole
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsLooking to escape from his tiny town, aspiring writer Cole Chambers enrolls in a university class in the city, where he falls for a fetching fellow student -- a black woman whose controlling parents don't approve of the match.
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At Home by Myself with You
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsApartment dweller Romy Scott (Kristin Booth) decides to deal with her many phobias by never leaving her home. When her elderly neighbor dies and the woman's handsome nephew (Aaron Abrams) moves in, Romy's isolated existence is threatened by the one thing she never expected to find: love. But can love be any match for six years of comfortable existence within a bubble? Kris Booth directs this romantic comedy.
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Cairo Time
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen magazine editor Juliette Grant travels to Cairo to meet her diplomat husband, Mark, she learns from his friend Tareq Khalifa that Mark has been delayed. But as Tareq shows her around the city, an unexpected attraction develops between them.
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The Timekeeper
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen his father dies, Martin Bishop (Craig Olejnik) gets a job building the Canadian railroad in the mid-1960s. As timekeeper, he's responsible for ensuring the crew stays on pace to lay 52 miles of track through some of the country's roughest terrain in 52 days. Bishop soon runs afoul of the domineering foreman Fisk (Stephen McHattie), who leads the remote work camp with an iron fist and may have a secret agenda.
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Cooking with Stella
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsHousekeeper Stella's superb culinary skills have helped her hide the fact that she's skimming more than a little off the top, but the jig may be up when a very honest nanny threatens her side business.
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Real Time
2008 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsA lifetime of bad luck and bad habits catches up with compulsive gambler Andy (Jay Baruchel) when he's apprehended by a quietly intimidating hit man named Reuben (Randy Quaid), who's been dispatched to kill him. But before he does the deed, Reuben grants Andy one last hour to live and chauffeurs the young ne'er-do-well from one stop to the next on a hilarious journey filled with surprising revelations and unexpected discoveries.
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Blood Pressure
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDiscontent with her family life and career, a woman begins receiving letters from a secret admirer. Intrigued by this mystery figure, she agrees to continue accepting the correspondence, which contains increasingly strange messages and instructions.
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Grown Up Movie Star
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsTeenage Ruby's life turns upside down when her mother runs off and her hard-luck ex-hockey star father, Ray, comes home. While her dad struggles with failed expectations, Ruby strikes up an ill-advised friendship with an older man.
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Down to the Dirt
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDrug addict Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) longs to clean up his act and get a new start on life, but lacks the motivation to do so. Determined to escape both his small Newfoundland town and his addictions, Keith seeks solace in his girlfriend Natasha (Mylene Savoie) but eventually descends further into depravity. Hynes also penned the semiautobiographical novel that inspired this dark drama.
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Surviving Crooked Lake
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsYoung teen Steph and her three pals find themselves hopelessly lost deep in the wilderness when their guide perishes while leading them on a backcountry canoe trip. Now the four girls must survive the perils of the wild and find their way back.
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Curling
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsFearing damaging influences, overprotective Jean-Francois (Emmanuel Bilodeau) isolates his teen daughter, Julyvonne (Philomène Bilodeau), from the world in this sensitive drama that paints an intimate portrait of the parent-child relationship. Set in a wintry village in Quebec, the film charts the unraveling of the pair's orderly but constricted world, which begins as the snowy woods surrounding their home yield some dark discoveries.
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Vital Signs
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsAfter her grandmother passes away, Simone (Marie-Helene Bellavance) tries to bury her grief by helping others who are near death. Albeit short-lived, these intense relationships with people who crave intimacy more than anything else help Simone access her own emotional needs. Writer-director Sophie Deraspe's moving drama examines the connection between the frail human body and the resilient but often well-guarded soul.
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Lost Journey
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsIranian teenager Pedram Abasi travels to Canada to live with his aunt and uncle, who are pleased to see how well he adapts to the change -- until he befriends Nima and Chrissy, who introduce him to a nightlife soaked in sex and drugs.
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSheltered, sexually frustrated chemist Perry is thrust headlong into the wildness of the 1960s when he is selected as a jury member in the infamous trial of Charles Manson and becomes obsessed with one of Manson's followers, Leslie Van Houten.
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Lodela
1996 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsAn evocation of the origins of the world. A hymn to the beauty of the human form. A celebration of movement. A metaphor for life and death.
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When Life Was Good
2008 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsThis semi-improvised indie tale follows a group of twentysomething friends as they experience the ups and downs of relationships, including a struggling actress who returns from studying abroad with second thoughts about her boyfriend.
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Jo Pour Jonathan
2010 | NR | 2.1 out of 5 StarsJo is a Quebec teenager who emulates his older brother Thomas, a thrill-seeker enamored with illegal car races. When Thomas dies in an accident, Jo must decide whether to embrace the nihilistic life that took his brother or chart his own path.
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