Sophie Desmarais
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: July 24, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Who by Fire
Overview: Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep in the woods and stay at the isolated estate of acclaimed director Blake Cadieux. He has high expectations for the trip: Cadieux is an artist he greatly admires – plus Aliocha, Max’s older sister, with whom he is secretly in love, is also coming. The untouched and hostile forest and the director’s huge cabin become the territory where the youthful search for ideals and freedom confronts the wounded egos of the adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-31
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Curling
Overview: Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne, never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Jusqu’à l’holocauste nucléaire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Head in the Clouds
Overview: Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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La tête en bas
Overview: Head Down casts an atypical view on the solitude, melancholy and marginality in the daily life of three girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Honey, I'm in Love
Overview: Jean-Paul, a successful plastic surgeon, separates from his wife and he sees his life turn upside down when everyone in his family blame him for all their troubles.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-19
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Trash
Overview: Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-02
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Canadian, Sniper
Overview: While attempting to reintegrate peacefully into civilian life on a remote farm, an army sniper silently struggles to discern reality from the haunting uncertainty of PTSD.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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The Auction
Overview: Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn't end up losing her house...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Sarah Prefers to Run
Overview: When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. Sarah agrees but only to discover that her true heart lies elsewhere. Sarah prefers to run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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Pink Lake
Overview: It’s perhaps too wintery to qualify as Edenic, but Sam and Cora have seemingly carved out a largely idyllic existence for themselves in a cabin in the hills of Gatineau. However, the tree-planter/taxidermist and server/poet find their routine disrupted when they’re visited by Nadia, one of Sam’s dearest friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Hunting The Northern Godard
Overview: In 1968, an internationally renowned French film director unexpectedly lands in Abitibi, in the northwest of Quebec, to conduct political and mass-media experiments. This event fuels the revolutionary tendencies of Michel, a local young man, and the desire to travel the world of Marie, his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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Heat Wave
Overview: After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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Paparmane
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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The Switch
Overview: A sniper returns home from Afghanistan to his small Northern Ontario town. Confronted with the mundane reality of everyday life he longs for the release provided by shooting. Slowly his need for regimented military discipline takes over leading to violent confrontation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-09
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Nut Jobs
Overview: Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to get revenge on her former boss, who owns a right-wing radio station. His story blends conceptual artists, amateur theatre troupes, hallucinogenic vinyl record and other magical powers. All that nonsense leave Angie wondering if he made that up only to win her back.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-16
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Gurov and Anna
Overview: With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey's family hanging in the balance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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A Parallel Hereafter
Overview: Léandre is a Montreal computer scientist in charge of the protection of the Minister of Public Safety. After selling secret information to the Mafia, he realizes he’s been directly implicated in an attack on the politician. If things weren't bad enough, Léandre ends up in the hospital because of awfully painful kidney stones. He then decides to leave his problems and his girlfriend behind to find refuge with his aunt in his small hometown of Havre-St-Pierre. Hiding from everyone that he’s wanted by the police, Léandre renews his relationships with his childhood friends and his childhood sweetheart, Ève.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Henri Henri
Overview: Henri was raised by religious in a convent and lived with them until the women, now elders, moved, leaving him alone. Henri fixes lamps. Since his young age, he's been replacing burned light bulbs and illuminates people's lives. After following signs, he finds himself working in a lamp company. Through his new work, he meets an old man trying to never forget his glory days and a blind woman, teller in an adult cinema, with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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I am not a great actor
Overview: An actor shows up fifteen minutes to curtain for his commedia dell'arte theater play facing the dilemma of quitting the stage because of an overwhelming feeling of being alone with everybody.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-14
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What Are We Doing Here?
Overview: Long-time friends Yan, Simon, Roxanne, Maxime and his sister Lily are in their early 20s, the age when anything is possible. They are just embarking on their careers. Then one fine summer day, Yan is involved in a fatal car accident. The young man is killed instantly and the rest of the gang is thrown into turmoil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-15
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When Adam Changes
Overview: Adam is a 15-year-old teenager who has the strange peculiarity of having a body that changes, depending on the teasing and negative comments he receives from those around him. The accumulation of his physical changes just adds a layer to his already complex life.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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The Forbidden Room
Overview: A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-07
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Victoria
Overview: Two struggling musicians, trying to get by performing their less-than-sterling drag show, find a mysterious benefactor in the form of Victoria. Bankrolling a series of performances throughout Quebec, Victoria joins the duo on a haphazard tour along the St Lawrence River.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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A Place to live
Overview: A recent widow living in a small Quebec town goes to Montreal to visit her busy adult son and daughter, and then on a whim decides to travel to the town of her childhood, where she hadn't set foot in decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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My Boy
Overview: Though Louis agrees to attend his brother’s bachelor party, he is not particularly interested in the planned activities or cleaning up after the drunken groom-to-be. But as the night’s events get wilder he is forced to decide how much he can tolerate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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La version nouvelle
Overview: A woman spends her days editing the film of an absent lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Be Yourself
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-06
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Heartbeats
Overview: Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-29
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Vacarme
Overview: Abandoned by her mother in a group home of the DPJ, Émilie (13) tries to flee her new reality. Influenced by the people she meets on her getaway, her ray of hope lies in learning a musical instrument.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-10
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Don't Read This on a Plane
Overview: As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Polytechnique
Overview: A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Funkytown
Overview: Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Le Petit Prince – théâtre musical
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Days of Happiness
Overview: Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick. She has to face up to her emotions and decide whether she wants to successfully combine her career with her love affair with Naëlle, a recently separated cellist and mother of a young son.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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