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Stump the Guesser

After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.

NR

6.5

2020 Comedy 19 min Play

6

The Green Fog

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

NR

6

2018 Documentary 62 min Play

5.8

The Forbidden Room

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

NR

5.8

2015 Comedy 128 min Play

5.7

Keyhole

Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

R

5.7

2011 Drama 94 min Play

7.2

My Winnipeg

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in a personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

NR

7.2

2007 Comedy 80 min Play

5.4

Sissy-Boy Slap-Party

Sailors in repose on an island paradise seemingly have no worries of war or danger — until a playful gesture is interpreted as an act of wilful aggression. Soon, the innocent act of slight slapping becomes a relentless and unforgiving orgy of open-palmed face-smacking.

NR

5.4

2004 Comedy 6 min Play

7.2

The Saddest Music in the World

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

R

7.2

2003 Comedy 100 min Play

7

Cowards Bend the Knee

When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.

NR

7

2003 Drama 64 min Play

6.4

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

NR

6.4

2002 Drama 75 min Play

7.2

The Heart of the World

Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.

NR

7.2

2000 Drama 6 min Play

6.2

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia ...

NR

6.2

1997 Fantasy 91 min Play

6.1

Careful

In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an ...

NR

6.1

1992 Comedy 100 min Play

5.8

Archangel

A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.

PG-13

5.8

1990 Comedy 82 min Play

6.5

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

NR

6.5

1988 Fantasy 68 min Play