J. Léo Gagnon
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Department: Acting
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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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Séraphin
Overview: In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and settled on a piece of land. Everyone joins forces to take their revenge on the hateful Séraphin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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La forteresse
Overview: After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-22
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Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Overview: A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Panique
Overview: Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Bye, See You Monday
Overview: Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married lover who, every Friday evening, rushes off to a home that has been forsaken for a while, saying: "Bye, see you Monday"...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-21
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Normande
Overview: Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-30
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The Men
Overview: Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy arises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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The Last Betrothal
Overview: After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere other than at home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-28
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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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Le père Chopin
Overview: A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-04-19
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Night Cap
Overview: A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Death of a Lumberjack
Overview: This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-25
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Far from the Sun
Overview: The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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Ordinary Tenderness
Overview: A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Dirty Money
Overview: A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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La piastre
Overview: Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Noël et Juliette
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
Overview: In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Des armes et les hommes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Overview: A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-13
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Whispering City
Overview: After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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The 13th Letter
Overview: A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-21
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Cordélia
Overview: In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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Réjeanne Padovani
Overview: The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Before the Time Comes
Overview: Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-11
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Pigs Are Seldom Clean
Overview: The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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Fantastica
Overview: In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Overview: A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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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 Angel and the Woman
Overview: Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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Orders
Overview: A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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Little Aurore's Tragedy
Overview: A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Moonshine
Overview: A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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La Belle apparence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-30
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