Yvon Leroux
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada
Birthday: April 22, 1929
Deathday: February 12, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Les Brûlés
Overview: Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Il était une guerre
Overview: We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Deliver Us from Evil
Overview: André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-28
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The Christmas Martian
Overview: A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.
Genres: Family Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Amanita Pestilens
Overview: A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Les Brûlés
Overview: Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Windigo
Overview: Native Americans clash with the Canadian government as they struggle for independence in this factual Canadian drama set in Quebec during the summer of 1990. Eddie Laroche, a rebellious native leader spawned a national crises when he and his supporters declared the independence of Aki territory in a far-flung area of northern Quebec. He refused to negotiate without the presences of television cameras to record his people's plight. Jean Fontaine was the reporter assigned to the story and much of the film is told from his viewpoint. To reach Laroche's land, negotiators, government officials, and the film crew had to travel by boat. Fontaine is initially cynical and reluctant to do the story, but after he spends time on the boat interviewing it's passengers, his cynicism has dissolves and he realizes he is faced with the presentations of a terribly complex situation. His dilemma provides a main focus for the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Overview: The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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O.K.... Laliberté
Overview: A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-01
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Kamouraska
Overview: A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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The True Nature of Bernadette
Overview: Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
Genres: Drama Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-06
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