Sophie Nélisse
Also Known As: Marie-Sophie Nélisse
Biography: Marie-Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in Monsieur Lazhar and for her portrayal of Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the novel The Book Thief. Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, but moved to Montréal, Québec, with her family when she was four. She is of French Canadian descent. Besides her Genie Award for Monsieur Lazhar, she won a Jutra Award for her performance and a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actress in an International Feature Film. She also had roles in the film Ésimésac and in a Québec sitcom called Les Parent. Her sister is actress Isabelle Nélisse.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Birthday: March 27, 2000
Age: 25 years old
Gender: Female
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Exode
Overview: After a one-night fling, a young woman is unsure about her feelings and tries to resolve the many questions she has been facing since the start of her adolescence. However, she will realize that the answer she finds in the happiness that is seemingly taking root in her life will not please everyone in her entourage.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Monsieur Lazhar
Overview: During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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The Book Thief
Overview: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Pawn Sacrifice
Overview: American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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Ésimésac
Overview: With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of a new railway line promises to connect Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to the rest of the world and brings the hope of abundance. Riopel, the hulking blacksmith, starts working on the railway track and convinces the locals to invest in his project rather than waste their time playing in the garden. Ésimésac’s big project flounders under the weight of metal. But can he really stop progress?
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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Whistle
Overview: A group of misfit high school students stumble upon an ancient Aztec death whistle. They find that when they blow the whistle, the terrifying sound it emits will invoke their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
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Irena's Vow
Overview: 19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-15
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Endorphine
Overview: Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
Overview: Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-05
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Two Women
Overview: Violette and Florence no longer understand what is happening to them. Respectively, on maternity leave and off work, one is on edge, the other no longer feels anything. The neighbors are both filled with a feeling of failure: despite their careers and families, they are not happy. Florence's first infidelity will be a revelation. What if happiness was rebelling against our rigid society of performance? In a context where having fun is very low on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy is perhaps downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it will be the breath of fresh air they were hoping for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-25
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Mean Dreams
Overview: When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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The History of Love
Overview: The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-09
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1:54
Overview: Tim, a shy 16-year-old athlete with a natural gift for running, is dealing with the loss of his mother, as well as his sexuality. After a personal video is posted to social media, Tim's private life is about to explode into the public eye.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Wait Till Helen Comes
Overview: After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Worst Case, We Get Married
Overview: Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real kind, the one that hurts. Baz wants to help this lost little girl, but she wants much more from him, and is ready to do anything to get it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Close
Overview: A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Overview: Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
Genres: Horror Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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The Rest of Us
Overview: Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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Flashwood
Overview: Shot over a period of 7 years, a group of young suburban friends get together during summertimes. They wonder about their future, their ambitions and their love lives. We meet up with them 5 years later, then 1 year later. Flashwood, a story of a youth trying to find itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-04
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The Kid Detective
Overview: A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Ellie and the Monster Team
Overview: When a homeless little ghost knocks on the door to the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong, she accidentally attracts the attention from the outside world and must team up with the motley crew of monsters on a crazy quest to save not only the future of the Ghost Train but also her only chance to finally have a family of her own.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-06-27
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