Luc Proulx
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 10, 1951
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
La partie
2016-09-17
La partie
Overview: Bernard is an austere man whose sole occupation is to care for his beloved Line, who is very ill. Their son organizes a sugaring off party that forces Bernard to reconnect with the exhilaration of spring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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A Happy Man
2009-02-27
A Happy Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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L'étoile Polaire
2008-07-21
L'étoile Polaire
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-21
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Soho
1994-03-28
Soho
Overview: Soho, an aspiring young woman of about 30, lives on the fringe with all those who, like her, believe that one day they will be a famous writer, a star dancer or a famous director. While waiting for that day, they take up yoga, positive thinking, or various forms of electronic macramé. One hot summer evening, Soho meets 18-year-old Choubie, the other generation with a bright future ahead of her. At 102o, in the shade, in a suburban basement, Soho realizes that she is no longer young, almost poor, and that meditation has not opened the doors of any paradise, even earthly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-28
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What Remains
2016-02-13
What Remains
Overview: Following a criminal act perpetrated by a small group of young men, several questions remain unanswered. While François searches for them, he must maintain control over his emotions, but struggles with his impulses and rational thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-13
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The Passenger
2006-12-07
The Passenger
Overview: Yakuza Naoki Sando discovers his daughter Hiroko in bed with his adopted son Kohji. Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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irlande cahier bleu
2023-07-20
irlande cahier bleu
Overview: An anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker, Ducarmel also plays in a competitive basketball league. There’s only one problem with his hobbies: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when he dozes off in the evening, he dreams… a little too forcefully. In his bizarre dream world, a beguiling blue book reigns, love looms, and he is the best basketball player of all time.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-20
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Histoire de famille
2006-01-17
Histoire de famille
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-17
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L'oreille d'un sourd
1996-05-28
L'oreille d'un sourd
Overview: A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged French Canadian black comedy. Leon, the con-artist makes his living cheating Catholic bingo players by hosting bogus religious pilgrimages. He is involved with a woman, but that doesn't stop him from getting involved with the frustrated Sophie who hates living in a tiny apartment with her lazy husband, her ever-gloomy teenage daughter and her husband's demanding, self-centered father, Emile. Sophie is so desperate to escape and start a new life that she convinces Leon to help her kill Emile who allegedly has $150,000 tucked away. The murder is to occur during one of Leon's pilgrimages. He convinces his son Paolo, an ex-con, to assist. Despite their careful planning, nothing prepares the would-be killers for the surprising result.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Happiness is a Sad Song
2004-05-11
Happiness is a Sad Song
Overview: The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with her mini-cam, collecting testimonials on the subject of happiness. She meets a medley of characters whom she engages in engrossing, thought-provoking discussions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-11
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Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo
1996-05-26
Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo
Overview: Fredo just inherited his uncle's company but it bores him. Then he meets Angelo, a French movie director that introduces to the magical world of feature films. Suddenly, Fredo sees himself in different films. Soon, Fredo discovers that Angelo has a hidden agenda...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-26
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Trudeau
2002-03-31
Trudeau
Overview: This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-31
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The Fading
2023-03-14
The Fading
Overview: In the heart of a foggy and rural Quebec winter, Luce, a grieving mother faced with the disappearance of her son, is taken aback when three local hunters track down the alleged killer, a seemingly harmless young man. When it is proposed to her to take revenge on the latter, the spirit of the masses slowly takes possession of her tragedy as the group sinks into the forest.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-14
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L'érotisme et le vieil âge
2017-02-10
L'érotisme et le vieil âge
Overview: The director deals with the subject of the sexuality of older people, an often taboo subject. The actress Louise Portal and her partner Jacques Hébert participated in this documentary. They share their experience with us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000-04-19
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Overview: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-19
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À toi les oreilles
2024-03-09
À toi les oreilles
Overview: While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-09
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Skyline
2013-10-31
Skyline
Overview: A man tormented by old age reluctantly accepts to abandon the last remaining tie to his youth: his motorcycle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-31
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The Three Madeleines
2000-05-15
The Three Madeleines
Overview: Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado (France Arbour), her biological mother, who put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Marie-Madeleine is to take a long road trip for a magazine assignment, and she invites Mado along. Joining the two women is Marie-Madeleine's daughter (Isadora Galwey), who has yet to meet her German father. The three women share their thoughts and ideas as they travel through an idyllic setting to photograph birds. Les Fantomes des Trois Madeleine was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-15
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Amoureux fou
1991-06-07
Amoureux fou
Overview: When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married. Sarah's husband knows she will eventually get tired of Remy while his wife just can't let go. At first she throws him out, begs him to come back, cheats on him, hates him, and finally slumps into the worse depression ever. It is amazing what love can do...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Bonzaïon
2005-05-20
Bonzaïon
Overview: To liberate his friend who's been taken hostage by a sorcerer who's after a large ransom, a young man decides to take control of a marijuana plantation, not knowing that it belongs to his dad and that the marijuana production goes to an artist's agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Sous bois
2013-10-14
Sous bois
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-14
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Ravenous
2017-09-23
Ravenous
Overview: In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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The Art of Speech
2016-10-11
The Art of Speech
Overview: Koroviev, a police officer who teaches poetry in a brigade of police poets, is in search of a precious Bible annotated by Pierre Maheu, the captain of the St. Elias, a legendary ship. His quest leads him to befriend a young thief who introduces him to a mysterious woman named Coriandre.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-11
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A Sunday in Kigali
2006-03-03
A Sunday in Kigali
Overview: In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-03
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Le Pays des âmes (a jazz fable)
2011-02-24
Le Pays des âmes (a jazz fable)
Overview: In today's Montreal, the devil, through discreet manners of seduction, takes liberty upon death. A brave trumpet player in love with a damned soul must fight him.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-24
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An Imaginary Tale
1991-05-26
An Imaginary Tale
Overview: In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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La Pharmacie de l'espoir
2005-10-17
La Pharmacie de l'espoir
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-17
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The Far Shore
2019-03-08
The Far Shore
Overview: Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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The Party
1990-02-02
The Party
Overview: At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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15 Février 1839
2001-01-26
15 Février 1839
Overview: In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels are still in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three others. While they await their death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots will walk to the scaffold, knowing will they die.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Babine
2008-11-28
Babine
Overview: The adventures of Babine, the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and narrowly evades death.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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My Very Own Circus
2020-08-14
My Very Own Circus
Overview: A girl who comes from a long line of circus performers tries to fulfill her dream of going to private school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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Gerry
2011-06-15
Gerry
Overview: Born into a modest family, Gerry Boulet found fame with the Québec rock group Offenbach. After a life of drug and alcohol abuse and a great love story, Gerry died of cancer in 1990.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-15
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The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984-08-29
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Overview: Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Old Buddies
2021-05-21
Old Buddies
Overview: Pierrot is serene and has no fear of his premature death. He asks his childhood friend Jacques to help him end his days well. This unusual approach will lead the two friends to a peaceful end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Truffle
2008-08-22
Truffle
Overview: Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Full Blast
1999-09-15
Full Blast
Overview: A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife and the band's former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he's been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Night Zoo
1987-05-01
Night Zoo
Overview: Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Chaos and Desire
2002-08-22
Chaos and Desire
Overview: Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Lance et compte
2010-11-26
Lance et compte
Overview: After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-26
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Montreal Stories
1991-11-08
Montreal Stories
Overview: Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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The Rocket
2005-10-25
The Rocket
Overview: In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as a ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens, his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts, Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians face constant discrimination in a league dominated by the English speaking. Although a man of few words, Richard begins to speak his own mind about the injustice which creates a organizational conflict that would culminate in his infamous 1955 season suspension that sparks an ethnic riot in protest. In the face of these challenges, Richard must decide who exactly is he playing for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
2002-11-29
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Overview: The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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The Necessities of Life
2008-08-25
The Necessities of Life
Overview: In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes despondent. When he refuses to eat and expresses a wish to die, his nurse, Carole, comes to the realization that Tivii's illness is not the most serious threat to his well-being. She arranges to have a young orphan, Kaki, transferred to the institution. The boy is also sick, but has experience with both worlds and speaks both languages. By sharing his culture with Kaki and opening it up to others, Tivii rediscovers his pride and energy. Ultimately he also rediscovers hope through a plan to adopt Kaki, bring him home and make him part of his family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-25
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Chili's Blues
1994-05-27
Chili's Blues
Overview: At a Montreal railway station, passengers are stranded because of a snowstorm. One of the stranded, Pierre-Paul, discovers a young schoolgirl on the brink of suicide. While he searches for someone to intervene, Chili, the young girl, disappears, only to reappear of her own accord after Pierre-Paul's fruitless search. This brief encounter leads to flashback revelations and interaction among the supporting characters also stranded in the storm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-27
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Il faut que je parle à mon père
2007-11-01
Il faut que je parle à mon père
Overview: One day, David leaves town to pay a visit to his father. A somewhat ordinary trip to the country. But looking closer, thousands of little details catch your attention. In usual films, these details are arranged to build a story, while we tried to subject the story to its details.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Take Me to a Nice Place
2021-01-01
Take Me to a Nice Place
Overview: After mankind drove itself to the brink of extinction, a zealous lone survivor hunts his way across remote Canadian landscapes in search of knowledge and materials in order to reshape humanity. Ten years later, a woman raises 10 same-age children and prepares them for the sacrifices they must make in order to save the human race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Streetheart
1998-09-14
Streetheart
Overview: Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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News, news
2014-10-15
News, news
Overview: That winter in Montréal, there is a girl. Three captains are wooing her. Cinema killed Jean-Baptiste Lamirande, the disastrous Liberator, who comes back to life just before Christmas. Héloïse, an amnesiac actress who lost her watch, has been reported missing.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-15
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Waiting for April
2018-02-18
Waiting for April
Overview: Waiting for April is a romantic, epic cop comedy freely inspired by songs and medieval fables collected by storyteller Michel Faubert. Detective Haffigan investigates a mysterious singing bone, a talisman endowed with dangerous powers, and chased after by a coterie of second-rate outlaws. The bone turns out to be in possession of Mithridate, a seductive actor with a gorilla’s right arm. Haffigan expresses romantic interest in the charming comedian, but he rebuffs her, instead setting his sights on Eleonore, a cashier at the Bank of Permanent Fog, who promises to liberate him from the bone’s curse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-18
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L'automne sauvage
1992-04-03
L'automne sauvage
Overview: After two boys are found dead and scalped in a remote cabin, a corrupt police chief puts the blame on an innocent indigenous man. Charlie Miton, who left this town a decade ago and never thought he'd come back, returns to help clear the name of his friend and find the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-03
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