Indigenous Voices: Non-Documentary Film
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1. The Red Dress (1977 TV Movie)
Director: Michael J.F. Scott | Stars: Abbie Burnstick, Yvonne Lois Lee, Shannon Two Feathers, Tommy Banks
Votes: 17
2. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,628 | Gross: $184.21M
3. For Angela (1994)
25 min | Short
Directors: Nancy Trites-Botkin, Daniel Prouty | Stars: Tina Keeper, Tiffany Peters, Drew Vodrey, Lee J. Campbell
Votes: 16
4. Dance Me Outside (1994)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family - and murder.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Ryan Rajendra Black, Adam Beach, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes
Votes: 1,332 | Gross: $0.30M
5. Dead Man (1995)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 103,086 | Gross: $1.04M
6. Honey Moccasin (1998)
47 min | Comedy
Investigates the authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
Director: Shelley Niro | Stars: Florence Belmore, Tantoo Cardinal, Ron Cook, Willie Dunn
Votes: 22
7. Smoke Signals (1998)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Votes: 12,605 | Gross: $6.72M
8. Skinwalkers (2002 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The story revolves around the legend of the skin walkers or "S Dubs", a folk legend from Utah about the spirits of murdered Indians returning to seek revenge upon those who disrespect the land.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Harrison Lowe, James Dalgai, Adam Beach, Saginaw Grant
Votes: 1,055
9. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
112 min | Drama
A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.
Directors: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut, Natar Ungalaaq
Votes: 385
10. Ikwé (2009)
5 min | Short, Biography, Fantasy
The re-imagination of the generational passage of traditional knowledge between a woman and her grandmother moon.
Director: Caroline Monnet | Stars: Caroline Monnet, Elizabeth Spence
Votes: 39
11. Two Indians Talking (2010)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Two Indians Talking is a comedic drama about the conflicting opinions of two First Nations men as they prepare to set up a roadblock. Each man wants fiercely to do the right thing, but ... See full summary »
Director: Sara McIntyre | Stars: Nathaniel Arcand, Justin Rain, Ashley Harry, Denise Poole
Votes: 53
12. Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school.
Director: Jeff Barnaby | Stars: Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould, Brandon Oakes, Roseanne Supernault
Votes: 1,467 | Gross: $0.00M
13. Maïna (2013)
102 min | Drama
A Canadian aboriginal woman journeys to the Arctic in search of a missing member of her tribe, and falls in love with a man from a rival clan.
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Roseanne Supernault, Ipeelie Ootoova, Uapshkuss Thernish, Eric Schweig
Votes: 502
14. Searchers (2016)
94 min | Drama
Inspired by the John Ford film The Searchers, an Inuit woman and her daughter are kidnapped by three Inuit men, while her husband and son are away. The Inuit husband sets out on a journey to find his family and punish the perpetrators.
Directors: Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq | Stars: Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu, Jonah Qunaq, Apayata Kotierk
Votes: 226
15. Te Ata (2016)
PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Te Ata set her sights on Broadway and what she thought was her life's dream. Audition after audition she was rejected and began to wonder if she was cut out for the bright lights.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Q'orianka Kilcher, Gil Birmingham, Brigid Brannagh, Graham Greene
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.07M
16. Indian Horse (2017)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sport
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli | Stars: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Wayne Baker, Sladen Peltier, Skye Pelletier
Votes: 2,655 | Gross: $1.95M
17. Wind River (2017)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wildlife officer, who is haunted by a tragedy that happened because of him, teams up with an FBI agent in solving a murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation and hopes to get redemption from his past regrets.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene, Kelsey Asbille
Votes: 280,576 | Gross: $33.80M
18. Edge of the Knife (2018)
101 min | Drama, History
When a man accidentally causes the death of the son of his best friend, the man is wracked by grief and runs off into the woods.
Directors: Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown | Stars: Willy Russ, Adeana Young, Brandon Kallio, Merika Gladstone
Votes: 388
19. Blood Quantum (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Director: Jeff Barnaby | Stars: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon
Votes: 5,407
20. The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw (2019)
96 min | Comedy
Mitzi Bearclaw is an indigenous woman who reluctantly returns to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her bitter mother.
Director: Shelley Niro | Stars: Morningstar Angeline, Andrew Martin, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Gail Maurice
Votes: 80
21. Beans (2020)
92 min | Drama
Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.
Director: Tracey Deer | Stars: Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, Paulina Alexis
Votes: 1,061
22. Monkey Beach (2020)
105 min | Mystery
In an effort to turn her life around, a young indigenous woman returns to her hometown and discovers how dysfunctional her family has become.
Director: Loretta Todd | Stars: Grace Dove, Adam Beach, Tina Lameman, Nathaniel Arcand
Votes: 238
23. Night Raiders (2021)
101 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A mother joins an underground band of vigilantes to try to rescue her daughter from a state-run institution.
Director: Danis Goulet | Stars: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer
Votes: 1,585
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