Jocelyn Bérubé
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Et du fils
Overview: Set on an ice-encircled island in the St. Lawrence, this is a drama of passion and violence. An old man, attached to his ancestral home and traditions, is confronted by his son, an immature young man who has no time for these values. The outcome is tragic as the father refuses to let his home fall into the hands of outsiders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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Innucadie (festival du conte et de la légende de Natashquan, 1er édition)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cr
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't
Overview: Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Gina
Overview: Gina is a stripper at a popular local club. Everybody loves her and wants her. One night, a feared gang enters her motel room and gang-rape her violently. Soon afterward, she asks the services of criminals to help her exact revenge on those who attacked her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-23
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Montréal blues
Overview: A group of youths open an organic restaurant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-14
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L'amour blessé
Overview: A lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their personal problems, she has to come to terms with her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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The Handyman
Overview: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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The Horse Trader’s Daughter
Overview: An Irishman falls in love in turn-of-the-century Quebec (in Canada).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Pris au collet
Overview: Short fiction film from the "Toulmonde parle français" series, telling the amusing story of a man who gets caught at his own game after stealing hares from his neighbor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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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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L'absence
Overview: Louise is a professional photographer and very successful in her job. But her father who had disappeared for many years resurfaced. He is very sick and would like to see his three daughters again. At the request of her father, Louise hesitates and then slips away. The reappearance of his father poses problems even in her life as a couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-21
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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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In the Shadow of the Wind
Overview: The story is of a young man, Stevens, who returns to his native village after a five year exile caused by a violent quarrel with his father. The story revolves around the women in Stevens life and the affects of his presence.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-25
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The Conquest
Overview: Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and intellectual discussions followed a brief mad love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-16
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The Great Ordinary Movie
Overview: The Ordinary Grand Film is the result of love at first sight with The Ordinary Grand Circus. With film and equipment borrowed from left and right, with the free complicity of all those who appear in the credits, they went on weekends to film a few moments of their tour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-04
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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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Sonia
Overview: A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Le temps d'une vente
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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L'âge de la machine
Overview: A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-19
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Bach and Broccoli
Overview: A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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Summer Crisis
Overview: In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman's son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the 'Fisherman's House'. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists, hippies, rockers, hitchhikers and the like shake local authorities. Bernard is won over by the trio's ideas and gets increasingly involved in their project. The following year, the will join the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the Summer Crisis 1969.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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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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A Cry in the Night
Overview: A lonely night watchman, whose quiet routine revolves around stargazing, faces emotional upheaval when his girlfriend reveals she's pregnant and leaves him, while a troubled young man records a farewell video to his ex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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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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Barbaloune
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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Le royaume ou l'asile
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Lamento pour un homme de lettres
Overview: Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-27
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A Question of Loving
Overview: A drama of manners, spiced by light moments, describing the "love stories" of a mother and her daughter. The two women spend a summer together. Madeline, the mother, a professional, independent woman, begins a romantic relationship with an engineer after ending a previous relation. For her part, Renée, her 20-year old daughter, tries to see her father again and dreams of stable love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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