Guy Maddin Movies

  • 2001
    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

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    Film created for inclusion on "Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse", a collection of short films built around the music of indie rock band Sparklehorse.

    It's a Wonderful Life
  • 1982
    Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms

    Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms

    Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms

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    The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka...

    Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
  • 2014
    Louis Riel for Dinner

    Louis Riel for Dinner

    Louis Riel for Dinner

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    Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

    Louis Riel for Dinner
  • 2003
    Cowards Bend the Knee

    Cowards Bend the Knee

    Cowards Bend the Knee

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    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...

    Cowards Bend the Knee
  • 2007
    Lullaby

    Lullaby

    Lullaby

    02007HD

    The filmmaker sends the viewers off to sleep with this 9minute descent into the netherworld.

    Lullaby
  • 1997
    Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

    Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

    Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

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    Interviews with Guy Maddin and his pals are included in this documentary about the Canadian film-maker's life and movies. Features clips from most of...

    Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
  • 2004
    A Trip to the Orphanage

    A Trip to the Orphanage

    A Trip to the Orphanage

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    While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains....

    A Trip to the Orphanage
  • 2013
    Invisible World

    Invisible World

    Invisible World

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    An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

    Invisible World
  • 2007
    Odin's Shield Maiden

    Odin's Shield Maiden

    Odin's Shield Maiden

    5.82007HD

    The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi while her acolytes in mourning aid her in this fact-based account of a tragic...

    Odin's Shield Maiden
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

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    The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
  • 2008
    Death of the Reel

    Death of the Reel

    Death of the Reel

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    Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.

    Death of the Reel
  • 2009
    The Little White Cloud That Cried

    The Little White Cloud That Cried

    The Little White Cloud That Cried

    5.92009HD

    A tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith. The film centers around a graphic transsexual orgy.

    The Little White Cloud That Cried
  • 2002
    Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

    Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

    Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

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    A group of drowned men arise from Lake Winnipeg to individually visit the homes of lonely women. home. After various passionate trysts, the men grab...

    Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
  • 1997
    Zookeeper Workbook

    Zookeeper Workbook

    Zookeeper Workbook

    4.31997HD

    A surreal short film featuring a zookeeper with a large moustache.

    Zookeeper Workbook
  • 2021
    Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist

    Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist

    Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist

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    Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.

    Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist
  • 2015
    Once a Chicken

    Once a Chicken

    Once a Chicken

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    Adaptation of Moholy-Nagy's unrealised Once a Chicken, made with the students at Béla Tarr's film factory.

    Once a Chicken
  • 2009
    Night Mayor

    Night Mayor

    Night Mayor

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    Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his...

    Night Mayor
  • 2012
    Only Dream Things

    Only Dream Things

    Only Dream Things

    62012HD

    Only Dream Things was part of an installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for its centennial in 2012. Collects an assortment of Guy Maddin's own...

    Only Dream Things
  • 1991
    Indigo High-Hatters

    Indigo High-Hatters

    Indigo High-Hatters

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    The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them...

    Indigo High-Hatters
  • 2020
    The Rabbit Hunters

    The Rabbit Hunters

    The Rabbit Hunters

    4.22020HD

    A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini...

    The Rabbit Hunters