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- A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
- Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.
- A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
- Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.
- A gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
- A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.
- After finishing exams June 1977 near Dublin, Frankie spends the summer with his two friends, siblings and mom while dreaming of two cute girls and waiting for exam results. College?
- Margaret MacNiel, a girl living in a Cape Breton coal mining town, finds her life changing when she meets Neil Currie, a cheerful bagpipe-playing dishwasher. Unfortunately, neither of them are able to escape the industry around them.
- William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.
- Two friends leave the picturesque yet rural province of Nova Scotia for the nightlife and culture of Toronto. They soon end up wistful and nostalgic about Nova Scotia though after finding out that Toronto isn't as fun as they'd hoped.
- Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
- A young boy working in Nova Scotia's treacherous coal mines in the early 20th century finds a friend in ones of the ponies used to haul coal up from the tunnels to be used at the railway station and the steel mill.
- This film recounts the adventures of a toy Native American canoe as it makes its way from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
- Cottonland demystifies the world of the addict and explores the reality of economic and drug dependence in Nova Scotia's depressed coal towns of Cape Breton. Celebrated photographer and Filmmaker, Nance Ackerman describes the human cost and the pain caused by the prescription drug, Oxy Contin, with the help of collaborating Director, Eddie Buchanan, an ex addict who has come out the other side of addiction and despair.
- Four teenagers get stranded in the woods of Cape Breton Island when their car runs out of gas, and a crazed killer begins targeting them.
- After running off to the United States and failing to make anything of himself, a boy returns home to the gritty industrial island of Cape Breton, Canada, to face his mentally-deteriorating father.
- Colleen Dewhurst portrays Kate, a woman who begins to suspect one of her twin sons, James, is not her biological child when a boy, Etienne, who is identical to her other son Andrew enrolls in the same school. Further investigation determines that Etienne was born in the same hospital on the same day as her children. Kate pursues it in court and tests confirm Etienne and Andrew are twins. Kate becomes obsessed with getting Etienne back, while Marie, who has been raising him as her own, does not want to give him up and is not interested in getting custody of James, who is her biological son. She cannot understand how Kate could simply divorce herself from the child she has raised from birth. A judge orders that the boys be switched to live with their biological families, so Marie disappears with Etienne. This haunts all involved for the next twenty years. Kate drives her husband (William Shatner) away with her obsession. She continues to raise James, but dreams of reuniting with Etienne. James was terrified when he thought he might have to go live with Marie and is tortured by the fact that the woman he's loved as his mother loved him less when she found out he was not her real son and would have given him to a stranger. Andrew loves James as a brother and they are best friends, but Andrew has also lived with curiosity about Etienne. When their father resurfaces after many years only to be killed in a bizarre accident, Etienne comes back into their lives. James feels left out and unwanted and must decide where he fits in. Scenes from the past and present are strangely edited together.
- The life and trials of the titular character as he struggles with addiction, personal debts, his pregnant ex-girlfriend, and his misguided aspirations to be a clown.
- If you've ever been asked the question "where are you from?", this film is for you. Pairing the beloved road movie with poignant conversations about race, culture, and identity with people who live at the intersection of several realities.
- The odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right.
- A look at the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen.
- Denis Ryan, Dermot O'Reilly and Fergus O'Byrne comprised the Irish string band, Ryan's Fancy, the band and production crew travelled from St. John's, Newfoundland to Dorchester, New Brunswick to perform.
- Explores both Alistair MacLeod's personal life and the story behind his 1999 best seller "No Great Mischief."
- A chorus group of miners sing about the history of coal mining on Cape Breton Island.