C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

If you see one film from this list, make it this one. Zach is the second-youngest of five brothers in a Montreal family during the Quiet Revolution, the 1960s and 1970s break with church-run Quebec, and he is gay in a house where his father's approval is everything. Jean-Marc Vallée tells it with huge energy and a soundtrack of Bowie, Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones that mattered so much he deferred about $600,000 of his own fees to help pay for the music rights. It won 10 Genie Awards and was the top-grossing Canadian film of its year, but the father-son story is the reason it lasts.