A Christmas Story (1983)
Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.
Filming Location: Canada
Films in this library shot in Canada, the production base whose tax structure made it the standard economical double for the United States. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
British ColumbiaThe Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered. The Cabin in the Woods is Drew Goddard's 2011 American meta-horror film depicting college students at a remote cabin who discover…
CanadaScrooged (1988)
Scrooged is Richard Donner's 1988 American comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray as a cynical television executive producing a live Christmas Carol broadcast on Christmas Eve who is himself visited by three spirits over the course of…
CanadaBlack Christmas (1974)
A sorority house is terrorized by an unseen caller during Christmas break, in the proto-slasher that preceded Halloween by four years. Black Christmas is Bob Clark's 1974 Canadian horror film depicting a sorority house during Christmas break terrorized by an…
CanadaThe Santa Clause (1994)
A divorced father inadvertently kills Santa Claus and discovers a contractual clause requiring him to take over the role permanently. The Santa Clause is John Pasquin's 1994 American Christmas comedy about Scott Calvin, a divorced toy company executive who inadvertently…
British ColumbiaElf (2003)
A human raised by Santa's elves travels to New York City to find his biological father, an embittered publishing executive. Elf is Jon Favreau's 2003 American Christmas comedy about Buddy, a human raised among Santa's elves at the North Pole,…
CanadaThe Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…
CanadaViolent Night (2022)
Violent Night is Tommy Wirkola's 2022 American action-comedy depicting Santa Claus, played as a disillusioned former Viking warrior, trapped inside a wealthy family's Connecticut compound as mercenaries take the family hostage on Christmas Eve, leading Santa to fight back with…
CaliforniaCapote (2005)
Bennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor.
British ColumbiaThe Hurt Locker (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraq EOD drama. Won Best Picture, Best Director.
CanadaOnce Upon a Time in America (1984)
Sergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.
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