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Movies6

• Movie

  Comedy

  A washed-up Indigenous bowler and his best friend competing in a national bowling championship in an attempt to raise money to preserve one's father's legacy and save their local bowling lanes from the wrecking ball.

  Lucky Strikes

  2024

• Movie7.3

  Drama

  A police constable guns down a First Nations chief one snow night in Winnipeg, a tragedy that will impact the community for years to come.

  Cowboys & Indians

  2003 · 3 votes

• Movie7.0

  FamilyAdventure

  Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant. Finally, he is taken in by his grandfather who, after a ten year stint in prison, is living on the reservation. With the help of his grandfather and several others who live on the reservation, Jesse begins to learn about his heritage and how to come to terms with his troubled life.

  Spirit Rider

  1993 · 3 votes

• Movie8.0

  HistoryDrama

  Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.

  Mistress Madeleine

  1986 · 1 votes

• Movie4.2

  Drama

  The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.

  Stryker

  2005 · 4 votes

• Movie

  Drama

  Ruthless Souls follows Jackalope “Jackie” Cambell, a tough as nails Ojibwe artist born and raised in the strange land of Winnipeg, Manitoba. On the one year anniversary of her partner’s tragic death due to complications from gender affirming surgery, she's back at work, she only drinks and smokes up “on the regular” instead of a “concerning amount daily.” It’s all gotta go up from here, right? Wrong.

  Ruthless Souls

  2019