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Canadian film list
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Movies from the great white north.


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Movie: Strange Brew ( 1983 )
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
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Movie: Goon ( 2012 )
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.
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Movie: Goon: Last of the Enforcers ( 2017 )
A hockey player plagued by injuries is confronted with the possibility of retirement when a tough new player challenges his status as the league's top enforcer.
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Movie: A History of Violence ( 2005 )
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
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Movie: Room ( 2015 )
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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Movie: Mommy ( 2014 )
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
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Movie: The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997 )
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
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Movie: Black Christmas ( 1974 )
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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Movie: Black Robe ( 1991 )
A young Jesuit priest seeks to convert the Indian tribes in Canada while also trying to survive the harsh winter.
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Movie: Ginger Snaps ( 2001 )
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
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Movie: Away from Her ( 2007 )
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
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Movie: Mr. Nobody ( 2013 )
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
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Movie: The Fly ( 1986 )
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
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Movie: The Changeling ( 1980 )
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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Movie: Eastern Promises ( 2007 )
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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Movie: Heavy Metal ( 1981 )
A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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Movie: Prom Night ( 1980 )
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
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Movie: Brooklyn ( 2015 )
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
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Movie: Cube ( 1997 )
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.
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Movie: Defendor ( 2010 )
Arthur Poppington, a regular man who adopts a superhero persona, known as "Defendor", combs the city streets at night, in search of his archenemy, Captain Industry.
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Movie: Fido ( 2007 )
Space radiation turns dead into Zombies. Zomcon fights zombies and finds ways to pacify and use them. On preteen Timmy's 1950s suburban street, all have a zombie doing menial chores. Timmy's zombie becomes his pet/friend and is named Fido.
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Movie: Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy ( 1996 )
A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
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Movie: Scanners ( 1981 )
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.
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Movie: Meatballs ( 1979 )
Rudy goes to summer camp full of rowdy teenagers. The head counselor is Tripper Harrison, the prank pulling, girl seducing, fun lover, teasing both his boss and the counselors at the nearby rich kids camp. He and everyone else are sick and tired of always losing the Camp Olympics every year, and Tripper must encourage all campers to try their hardest, and even convince young Rudy that this may be his chance to feel better about himself.
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Movie: The Captive ( 2014 )
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Movie: Pontypool ( 2009 )
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
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Movie: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould ( 1993 )
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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Movie: The Red Violin ( 1998 )
A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
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Movie: The Boys of St. Vincent ( 1992 )
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Movie: Remember ( 2015 )
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person he believes to be responsible for the death of his family in the death camp to kill him himself.
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Movie: Trailer Park Boys: The Movie ( 2006 )
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles come up with a scheme to steal large amounts of untraceable coins.
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Movie: Videodrome ( 1983 )
When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality.
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Movie: Bon Cop Bad Cop ( 2006 )
Two Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario Quebec border line.
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Movie: Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 ( 2017 )
A francophone S.Q. officer and an anglophone O.P.P officer reunite to investigate a large car theft ring led by an Italian mobster.
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Movie: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1974 )
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
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Movie: Beyond the Black Rainbow ( 2010 )
Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.
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Movie: A Christmas Story ( 1983 )
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
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Movie: Atlantic City ( 1981 )
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Movie: Dead Ringers ( 1988 )
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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Movie: Nightbreed ( 1990 )
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
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Movie: Enemy ( 2014 )
A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.
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Movie: The Grey Fox ( 1983 )
When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.
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Movie: The Terry Fox Story ( 1983 )
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
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Movie: The Saddest Music in the World ( 2005 )
A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
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Movie: Exotica ( 1995 )
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
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Movie: Powwow Highway ( 1989 )
Depicts the struggles of reservation-dwelling Native Americans in the North Central United States. The main character is an introspective and lovable person in a process of seeking pride and identity through traditional and mystical means of gathering power. His high school friend, who is a Vietnam War Veteran, is exerting power as a highly principled social activist, using a modern rational materialist adversarial model of progress.
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Movie: Shivers ( 1975 )
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
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Movie: Blindness ( 2008 )
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
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Movie: Hard Core Logo ( 1996 )
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
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Movie: Incendies ( 2011 )
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
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Movie: The Rocket ( 2007 )
In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as an ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts, Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians face constant discrimination in a league dominated by the English speaking. Although a man of few words, Richard begins to speak his own mind about the injustice which creates a organizational conflict that would culminate in his infamous 1955 season suspension that sparks an ethnic riot in protest. In the face of these challenges, Richard must decide who exactly is he playing for.
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Movie: The Demons ( 2015 )
A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.
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Movie: Crash ( 1997 )
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
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Movie: Felicia's Journey ( 1999 )
A young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.
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Movie: My American Cousin ( 1986 )
Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another long summer of cherry picking when suddenly her older, James Dean-cool cousin Butch (John Wildman) arrives unexpectedly from California in a red Cadillac convertible. Sandy and her pre-teen friends fall madly for Butch's rock 'n' roll swagger, but he's more interested in making time with the local girls and getting in fistfights than in playing chauffeur to Sandy. Both have a lot to learn about life and each other, but united under the strict parental rule of Sandy's dad, they vow to make this summer a truly unforgettable experience. Capturing the restlessness of youth with a fresh and funny perspective, Wilson's genuinely charming period piece is forever reaching for lost innocence as it playfully contrasts Canadian and American attitudes. My American Cousin has remained a consistent favourite for Canadians and non-Canadians.
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Movie: The Grand Seduction ( 2014 )
To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.
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Movie: Fifty Dead Men Walking ( 2009 )
Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
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Movie: Shake Hands with the Devil ( 2007 )
The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
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Movie: C.R.A.Z.Y. ( 2006 )
A young French-Canadian, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging homosexuality with his father's conservative values and his own Catholic beliefs.
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Movie: Naked Lunch ( 1992 )
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
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Movie: The Art of War ( 2000 )
UN's secretary general uses covert operations to help diplomacy along. Shaw's called back 6 months after one such operation. He witnesses the murder of Chinese UN ambassador at UN, NYC, chases the assassin and ends up a suspect.
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Movie: Wolf Girl ( 2001 )
Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis-- she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.
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Movie: Foolproof ( 2003 )
Kevin, Sam and Rob are founding members of a theoretical group which pulls off heists. Leo, a gangster, blackmails them into pulling off a real multi-million dollar heist. Now it's up to them to get out alive.
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Movie: Owning Mahowny ( 2003 )
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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Movie: The Statement ( 2004 )
Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and Police investigators.
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Movie: Being Julia ( 2004 )
Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.
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Movie: Pompeii ( 2014 )
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
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Movie: eXistenZ ( 1999 )
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
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Movie: The River King ( 2005 )
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was being badly bullied, Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher, Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by his boss, as the school is a generous benefactor to the Police benevolent fund. Abel, however, cannot let the case go, not only because his own brother committed suicide years before, but also it seems that the spirit of the dead boy is leaving them clues as to what really happened that night.
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Movie: Where the Truth Lies ( 2005 )
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
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Movie: Snow Cake ( 2006 )
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
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Movie: Passchendaele ( 2008 )
The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.
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Movie: Sorry for Your Loss ( 2019 )
Ken Wall is quietly miserable in his life. He hates his job in marketing for a small brewery and especially hates his boss, Richard. Ken and his wife Lori have just had their first child, a still-unnamed son. Lori has postpartum depression in addition to having some new-mom physical issues, but is still doing all the proverbial lifting in parenting as Ken has not taken to the father role. Amid this turmoil, Ken reluctantly heads back to his hometown, Winnipeg, Manitoba upon the news that his father Andy, from whom he's been estranged ever since his parents' divorce, has died from an aneurysm. Ken plans to get in and out of Winnipeg as soon as possible, but while there he meets two others in Andy's regular golf foursome: Vince Kendall and Jeff Steadman; Vince is the lawyer handling Andy's will, and Jeff is the executor of his will. Ken learns that he gets the entire undisclosed amount of Andy's estate and then learns that the amount is sizable. Lori wants the money as a trust fund for their son, while Ken eyes at least part of it to start his dream business of a gastropub or brewpub. In order to inherit anything, Ken must scatter his father's cremated remains onto the field of the major-league football stadium Investor's Field in two days. He isn't able to do so officially, so with Jeff largely by his side, he must find a way to honor his father's last wishes. In the process, Ken might take a different view of his own life in learning more about his father, reconnecting with his college buddy and fellow brand-new father Cam, and discovering the true reason for Andy's wish.
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Movie: Closet Monster ( 2016 )
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
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Movie: The Brood ( 1979 )
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Life ( 2015 )
A photographer for LIFE Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.
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Movie: Little Criminals ( 1995 )
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like vandalize, steal, light fires, and mug people. He thinks that he is untouchable because he cannot be charged until he is twelve. Cory becomes Des' best friend and they carry on like nothing can stop them; however, Des ends up at an assessment centre for troubled youths and may begin a new life without crime.
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Movie: Mama ( 2013 )
A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched itself to their family.
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Movie: Antiviral ( 2012 )
In a blackly satirical near future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.
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Movie: Take This Waltz ( 2012 )
A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.