First Love (2018)

2 personas, David y Claire, dejan un autobús en exactamente la misma parada... David sigue a Claire. Ella se da cuenta que la persigue... sin embargo descubren que viven en exactamente el mismo hogar. Al localizar fotografías juntos determinan que se conocen entre sí y sencillamente tienen amnesia. Con el objetivo de recobrar sus recuerdos, David sugiere que los 2 tengan relaciones íntimas...

Paul Snider es un estafador narcisista y de poca monta que se imagina a sí mismo como un mujeriego. Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Dorothy Stratten que trabaja detrás del mostrador de una Dairy Queen. Bajo su dirección, Dorothy alcanza la fama como Playmate de Playboy. Pero cuando Dorothy comienza a seguir una carrera como actriz, el celoso Paul se ve alejado de la escena por hombres más famosos.

Tras detener a un hombre robando en su propia joyería, la policía descubre que sufre el chantaje de un individuo que ha secuestrado a su esposa. El agente William Stantin logra acorralar al criminal en los bosques del norte de los Estados Unidos, pero debido a su inexperiencia a la hora de actuar en parajes naturales, tiene que buscar la ayuda del agente Knox para darle caza. (FILMAFFINITY)

Dos atractivas jóvenes, Maggie y Kim, se conocen en Vancouver, comienzan un apasionado romance y se van a vivir juntas. Mientras tanto, Lila, la ingenua y conservadora madre de Maggie, se divorcia y decide irse a vivir con su hija. Será entonces cuando descubra la verdad sobre su hija y su poco convencional grupo de amigas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Emily (Maggie Cheung), tras pasar seis meses en la cárcel por posesión de drogas, sólo tiene una obsesión: recuperar a su hijo, que está viviendo con sus suegros lejos de ella. Para lograrlo Emily tiene que reconstruir su vida... estar limpia.

Una mujer rica y solitaria, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis), invita un día a un joven (Michael Burns) al que conoce en un parque cercano a ir a su apartamento, y le ofrece que viva con ella. Un claustrofóbico estudio sobre la personalidad de un individuo emocionalmente inestable, lleno de obsesiones y de sexualidad reprimida.

The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.

Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.

Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder.

The life and murders of one of the worst serial killers in history, Robert Pickton who went unchallenged for decades.

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their lives worth living: baseball. They may be the underdogs, but the Vancouver Asahi baseball team have a sense of fair play and smart tactics that set them apart from the brute force of their opponents. Under the guidance of new team captain Reggie Kasahara, can they be able to rise above all the negativity to win the tournament? This film is based on the true story of Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was inducted into The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing. Enduring hardships from everyday life on the streets of Vancouver, this sub-culture depicts street life as much more than stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The films takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face, and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.

In what appears to be a serendipitous encounter upon saving the life of a stranger, the calculated and reserved businessman Nick meets the impulsive and optimistic photographer Ali, who believes in destiny and carpe diem, or seizing the day. Nick, who seeks closure for his past mistakes, is drawn towards Ali's spirit and vigor. Despite living with a congenital heart disease and being on the wait-list for a heart transplant, Ali continues to be hopeful about her future. Ali challenges Nick to seize every moment of his life before it's too late. Meanwhile, Nick finds a way to give Ali a new lease on life - even if it means risking one's life and their love for each other.

Gang leader Jeet Johar and his young, loyal, and often-brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention, and openly compete with an old style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver drug and arms scene. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken, and family bonds shattered as the Beeba Boys do anything to be seen and to be feared in a white world.

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Filmmakers Holly Dale and Janis Cole explore the culture of Davie Street, located in the underbelly of Vancouver, where dozens of prostitutes work and live every day. Surprisingly, they find that the sex trade there is stable and largely non-violent, and that the women who work on Davie Street meet daily to discuss safety and health issues and don't use pimps. The film also includes candid interviews with the prostitutes and footage of negotiations with potential clients.

After getting lost the day his family travels 2,000 miles in preparation for a move to Australia, this clever, loyal, 'map reading' dog begins an amazing cross-country journey to find them.

In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian Classic Goin’ Down the Road. Now, some forty years later, Joey has died, and Pete must fulfill his last wish: to take his ashes back to Cape Breton Island, as well as a few other tasks along the way. Armed with a series of letters and an envelope full of money, Pete heads back home. DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN is a touching, comedic and romantic tale of second chances at life and love.

This documentary, set in the Lower East End of Vancouver's downtown core, is a pretty honest account of life on the streets in urban Canada. It is aimed at educating high school kids on the dangers of addiction to hard drugs and is the brainchild of a group of city police officers who videotape their interactions with local homeless personalities.

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pride is complicated by commercialization and a sense that the festivals are turning away from their political roots toward tourism, party promotion and entertainment. Christie documents the ways larger, more mainstream Pride events have supported the global Pride movement and how human rights components are being added to more established events. In the New York sequence, leaders organize an alternative Pride parade, the Drag March, set up to protest the corporatization of New York Pride. A parade in São Paulo, the world's largest Pride festival, itself includes a completely empty float, meant to symbolize all those lost to HIV and to anti-gay violence.