Paul Berval
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Longueuil, Québec, Canada
Birthday: January 20, 1924
Deathday: February 25, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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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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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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C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
Overview: When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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Master Cats
Overview: An example of 1970's Maple Syrup cinema from Quebec, this whimsical and sexy tale revolves around two trickster roommates and the women in their lives who want to see them settle down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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Hot Dogs
Overview: Mr. Clean is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Le gros Bill
Overview: A tiny Quebec community is thrown into an uproar when a tall young Texan named Bill arrives to claim a farm he has inherited. Bill's inability to speak French, and his apparent unwillingness to learn the language, foments plenty of ill will in the community. The story is resolved with an abundance of warmth and humor, sometimes hokey, sometimes hilarious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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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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Straight to the Heart
Overview: An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-01
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There's Always a Way to Find a Way
Overview: A bank clerk is driven by his brother-in-law in many adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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Les lumières de ma ville
Overview: A beautiful country girl and a seductive nightclub singer vie for the same good-looking man.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-05
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The Doves
Overview: The lives of two families in Montreal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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The Apprentice
Overview: In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-10
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The Plouffe Family
Overview: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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The Alley Cat
Overview: Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Two Women In Gold
Overview: Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-21
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Madame La Bolduc
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-24
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