Émile Schneider
Also Known As: Émile Schneider-Vanier
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Richelieu
Overview: A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Hurricane F.Y.T.
Overview: Montreal, 1991. Delphis, 11 years old, grows up in a disadvantaged neighborhood and an unstable family environment. One evening, he decides to take control of his life and becomes The Hurricane. Armed with a lightning bolt on his headband and his middle finger held high, he flees a world that has no place for him. With the police and the Youth Protection Services on his trail, he leaves a mother in distress and has significant encounters in the street. Conquering himself, his adventure is like a road trip, from Hochelag' to Berri, from one family to another. Under the impetus of a hasty adolescence, his freedom thumbs his nose at the indifference towards the marginalized. Social etiquettes burst forth in an assertive tone and sustained rhythm. Between punk music and Marjo, The Hurricane hits us in the face, without waiting to die!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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Ababooned
Overview: Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Mercenaire
Overview: Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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There Where Atilla Passes
Overview: Atilla, a reclusive young man of Turkish origin adopted at a young age by Michael and Julie, a Quebec couple reconciles with his origins and his past thanks to the encounter with Asya, a student visiting Québec.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-05
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Kiss Me With All Your Love
Overview: Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crippled from birth. This proximity awakens the sensuality of Berthe who tries to seduce her brother. Pierre rejects her advances, but when he falls in love with Marguerite, his best friend's girlfriend, he is haunted by the fantasy of his sister.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Après la neige
Overview: When a divorced music video producer is forced to shut down his company, he attempts to rebuild his relationships with his father and estranged teenage son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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The Lion's Path
Overview: After meeting about a month ago, Alex and Jade fall for each other hard. When she invites him to join her in the country with some friends, including her cousin Oliver, he leaps at the chance. But what Jade has failed to make clear is that they will be sharing with other young guests who are all members of a commune led by Gabriel, a former college professor obsessed with Nietzsche. Alex, who has been soul-searching since he quit studying economics, soon realizes that Gabriel is a bona fide guru who has turned his magnificent house into what he calls a “laboratory of the real,” where pretence, prejudice, taboos and morality are banned. (FNC)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Vétérane
Overview: Camelia, an escort with a troubled past, is newly employed at an erotic massage parlour in eastern Montreal. Met coldly by her competitive new colleagues, she struggles to establish a clientele while maintaining her dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-30
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We Have Forever
Overview: A young man approaching his 20s can either work for his mother in her restaurant or carve his own path and join his friends in Montreal. Before making this decision, he encounters Sara and Léa, two enticing young women who may derail his plans of becoming the greatest chef in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-23
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Forgotten Flowers
Overview: Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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A Pact Among Angels
Overview: One evening, at the bend of an alley, an ordinary man surprises two young people who have just committed a crime. In panic, the teenagers take this witness hostage and drag him into their escape. Then begins for two generations that everything separates, an inner journey which will mark the three souls forever.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-29
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The Vinland Club
Overview: Boys' college in eastern Quebec at the end of the 1940s. Brother Jean is not a teacher like the others. He wants to interest his students in the subject and to achieve this, he conducts archaeological excavations with his students aimed at proving the establishment of a Viking colony (Vinland) on the coast of the Saint Lawrence. The superiors of his congregation do not appreciate his unconventional ways of teaching. Without knowing it, Brother Jean will have a significant impact on the lives of his students, particularly in that of Émile, a young man who is having difficulty at school and who would prefer to abandon his studies to go work in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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I'll End Up in Jail
Overview: A bored stay-at-home mom gets into trouble after speeding away from her small-town life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Rebel
Overview: Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is oblivious to the thousands of refugees entering Canada illegally to avoid deportation. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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2011
Overview: Independent production and very free artistically, the film will lock you in the apartment of an editor, while the latter goes crazy while finishing the assembly of a film.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River, north of Lake Saint-Jean. The Chapdelaines work tirelessly to push the limits of the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot dampen the warmth of family life, Maria, strong and full of hope, finds herself faced with major dilemmas. Thrust into the world of adults, Maria will suddenly be forced to decide on her future as a woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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Sami
Overview: Sami is an anticipation short film where a young conscript soldier finds himself at the frontline of a nameless war. Alone in his trench, boredom becomes his biggest enemy. There in the bottom of his hole that he will find an unexpected comfort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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The Splendour of Life
Overview: Evolving in two narrative threads, in the countryside and in the city, four female characters are transformed by an encounter and choose to close or open a new chapter in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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