Macha Grenon
Biography: Macha Grenon is a Montreal-based actress who has been working in film, television and the theatre for the past 20 years. She has received Gemeaux, Gemini and Genie nominations for her work in both French and English including Juliette Pommerleau, Familia, Mon meilleur ennemi, as well as for her role of Nathalie Belding in Ann Wheeler's critically acclaimed CBC production of the Sleep Room.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 07, 1968
Deathday: N/A
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Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
1991-03-31
Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Overview: An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-31
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Days of Darkness
2007-09-26
Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Familia
2005-09-15
Familia
Overview: When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreaking results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Barney's Version
2010-10-26
Barney's Version
Overview: The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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The Windsor Protocol
1998-11-10
The Windsor Protocol
Overview: Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-10
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Coeur de nylon
1988-08-28
Coeur de nylon
Overview: A bum named Richard (Yves Desgagnés) is like many others, apart he always carries a red suitcase with him everywhere he goes, from which a curled wire is attached to his chest. This is very intriguing to young runaway Christian (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), who finds refuge at Christian's place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-28
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Daniel and the Superdogs
2004-10-27
Daniel and the Superdogs
Overview: A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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Dead Awake
2001-11-06
Dead Awake
Overview: An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-06
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Mistaken Person
1995-05-26
Mistaken Person
Overview: Charles Renard, a police officer who has lost his hearing following an ear injury during an operation, is entrusted upon his return to work with the investigation of credit card thefts committed by a woman who uses newspaper classified ads to lure her prey.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Family Pack
2001-07-04
Family Pack
Overview: A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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The Haven
1997-01-01
The Haven
Overview: Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Myth of the Male Orgasm
1993-05-28
The Myth of the Male Orgasm
Overview: The excesses of feminism and political correctness come in for some serious ribbing in this Canadian comedy, which might just give Rush Limbaugh a belly-laugh or two, along with anyone else who has ever thought that his pet term "feminazi" was humorous. In the story, Jimmy (Bruce Dinsmore) is having a mid-life crisis, and in order to get a handle on why he has so much trouble with women, decides to participate in a college-sponsored study on male sexuality. What he doesn't know is that the study is being run by some extremely radical, doctrinaire feminists, and that he's in for a nightmarish grilling. He shows up for his first sessions, is blindfolded, and is then put through his paces as a relentless female interrogator puts him constantly on the defensive for everything he has ever done with women throughout his entire life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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1st Love
2013-06-21
1st Love
Overview: Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-21
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The Child Prodigy
2010-05-28
The Child Prodigy
Overview: On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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The Sleep Room
1998-03-31
The Sleep Room
Overview: At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-31
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Power Games
1989-11-30
Power Games
Overview: A group of teenagers training for the national Power Commando championship games mistakenly find themselves on land owned by drug merchants. With only harmless paint bullets as their weapons, they must match their skills against live ammunition and the ruthless men behind it.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
2011-03-04
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Overview: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Café Olé
2000-09-24
Café Olé
Overview: Malcolm's (28) new love, Alicia (25), an illegal Chilean refugee, will be short-lived if he does not make the right choice.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-24
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Secrets of the Summer House
2008-01-01
Secrets of the Summer House
Overview: Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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April and the Extraordinary World
2015-11-04
April and the Extraordinary World
Overview: It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-04
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Boundaries
2016-11-18
Boundaries
Overview: Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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The Little Match Girl
1999-10-20
The Little Match Girl
Overview: Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney brings new relevance to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story The wintry streets of an American city are thronged with shoppers, in preparation for New Year's Eve. But no one is interested in buying the matches and artificial flowers offered by one little girl. Wishing to avoid the cold welcome awaiting her at home, she lights her matches for what little heat they can provide. The visions that she sees in their flickering glow warm her spirit, even as the brutal cold of night destroys her body.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-20
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Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
1994-04-01
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
Overview: Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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The Barbarian Invasions
2003-09-24
The Barbarian Invasions
Overview: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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Liberace: Behind the Music
1988-10-08
Liberace: Behind the Music
Overview: A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-08
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The Pianist
1991-01-31
The Pianist
Overview: Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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L'homme idéal
1996-05-29
L'homme idéal
Overview: Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-29
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Rated R for Nudity
2011-05-13
Rated R for Nudity
Overview: A playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Bergman, Spielberg... and Bo Derek.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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The Secret
2007-10-10
The Secret
Overview: Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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Coyote Run
1997-06-17
Coyote Run
Overview: A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-17
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You Can Thank Me Later
1998-05-23
You Can Thank Me Later
Overview: In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-23
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Stardom
2000-10-13
Stardom
Overview: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995-03-25
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
Overview: A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-25
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Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous
2023-04-04
Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous
Overview: A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers’ popular children’s film series.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-04
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