Louise Portal
Also Known As: Louise Lapointe
Biography: Louise Portal (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol (Not Me!). Her other film roles have included Full Blast, Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché), The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares), The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq), The Happiness of Others (Le Bonheur des autres), Adrien (Le Garagiste), Paul à Québec, The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines), Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin and Cordélia. Portal was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her twin sister Pauline Lapointe (died 2010) was also an actress. Source: Article "Louise Portal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
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Heading South
Overview: A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-25
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The Barbarian Invasions
Overview: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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F*ckin' Coffin!
Overview: May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied by his daughter, little Lucy, he decides to go investigate in his native Saguenay against the backdrop of a referendum on Quebec's sovereignty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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A Happy Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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The Decline of the American Empire
Overview: Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-19
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Angel at Sea
Overview: Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-03
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My Best Pals
Overview: They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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The Happiness of Others
Overview: Twenty years before the events in the film's story, Jean-Pierre left his wife, Louise. At that moment, Marion and Sylvie, Jean-Pierre's two children, were respectively 10 and 8 years old. Eventually, Jean-Pierre will come back to his family and he believes that his past mistakes were forgotten.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Overview: The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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Saint Jude
Overview: Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jude's father kicks her out of the house for her abusive and thieving ways, Jude is forced to survive on the streets with the assistance of her odd assortment of friends, including middle aged pedophile Clarence, pre-teen male hustler Georgie, pimp Big Al, and Maureen's junkie boyfriend Gabe. Georgie has a crush on Jude, while Jude unrealistically fantasizes about a normal married life with Gabe. All the while, Jude is also trying to elude the sadistic Mink, who she inadvertently crossed
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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The Klutz
Overview: Have you ever had "one of those days" when nothing seems to go right? Well, imagine how Claude feels-his entire life has been one screwy day after another. Some people attract attention, others attract the opposite sex, all poor Claude can attract is chaos-and plenty of it! Discouraged by his ill luck, Claude is on his way to see his girlfriend when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a bank robbery. In the wink of an eye Claude becomes public enemy number one with both cops AND robbers hot on his trail!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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Not Me!
Overview: In this Canadian psychological drama a repressed young man struggles with his phobia of sex. It began when he was a sensitive 11-year old awakened in the night by the sound of his parents making love. Not understanding the nature of the groans, he peeks in and is horrified by the sight. Things get worse the next day when he and his mother discover that daddy died in his sleep that night. The boy, confused by it all deduces that it was the sex-act that killed his father and so refuses to mature so he will never have to die. This goes on several years and for some reason his mother doesn't seem to mind. Things seem okay until his mom's new boy friend moves in. The teen and the lover constantly fight. Late at night, the boy begins spying on his mother and the man and in so doing comes to realize that sex is not as deadly as it seemed. Once this light dawns, the boy is able to grow up and become normal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-27
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Dangerous People
Overview: It has kidnapped Roxane Labelle, a Canadian singer covered gold records and awards. To his captors, no question of release without payment of a large ransom. Father and manager of the star, Paul Labelle asks a small accountant do it. Easier said than done, especially the payer also has a large sum to the Mafia and, rapidly, what Québec account scoundrels, thieves and killers are chasing the fabulous bonanza.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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The Orphan Muses
Overview: Haunted by the death of their father and the disappearance of their mother, four children, three girls and a boy, take refuge in an ideal and delirious world while opposing their social environment. With its lively and daring camerawork, The Orphan Muses goes beyond filmed theater and plunges the viewer into the heart of personal and family identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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Wild Animals
Overview: Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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The Big Snake of the World
Overview: This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensible people who try to persuade him to settle down. For Tom has only one idea in his head: to once again head south, riding the waves of love and fate.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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L'érotisme et le vieil âge
Overview: The director deals with the subject of the sexuality of older people, an often taboo subject. The actress Louise Portal and her partner Jacques Hébert participated in this documentary. They share their experience with us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-10
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The Wolves
Overview: A woman travels from the big city to the countryside. The locals are suspicious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-06
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The Emptiness Within
Overview: Elliot, a retired alcoholic, embarks on a desperate quest to find his son who has been missing for two decades. During his trip to French America he will meet Bourk, an Acadian with whom he will form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Dream Life
Overview: Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-07-22
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Adrien
Overview: Is having control of our life a right? Are living and dying freedoms, duties or responsibilities? How should we love? How should we live? How should we die? These questions are woven into the story of Adrien, who suffers from kidney failure. He runs a garage in Trois-Pistoles, a small town on the St-Lawrence in Québec, where people seem ordinary, but aren't: each love story, each life, each destiny is unique.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Paul à Québec
Overview: In 1999, Paul and his partner Julie experienced beautiful moments with their young daughter. They are looking for a house in Montreal and frequently see their family, notably Julie's parents who live in St-Nicolas, a suburb of Quebec City. But the illness has hit Roland hard, the proud and generous patriarch of the family, who tries as best he can to hide the ultimatum he is suffering from his children. Life being what it is, Roland will have to be admitted to a palliative care center while his loved ones, including Paul, will have to come to terms with the idea of his death. In the process, Paul will take up drawing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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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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Taureau
Overview: A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the intolerance of the other villagers when the mentally-challenged son falls in love with the schoolteacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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A Scream from Silence
Overview: A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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Larose, Pierrot et la Luce
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Nous sommes le Freak show
Overview: A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-01
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Tinamer
Overview: Tinamer is 27 years old when her mother dies. The funeral of this last one makes her relive certain events of her childhood which marked her forever.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Full Blast
Overview: A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife and the band's former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he's been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Bye Bye Love
Overview: Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming undone. Yet, the choice of the two friends remains the same: break up with the past and plunge into the unknown.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-25
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From My Window, Without a Home
Overview: After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks back. That is until her daughter, now 21, shows up in Montreal for a visit. This film explores what it means to be free for a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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The Natural Sweetness of Skin
Overview: Revealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Everything Outside
Overview: When circumstances conspire to leave Louise, an established Quebec painter, and Ahmed, an aspiring Lebanese-Canadian actor, sharing a remote lake house, the tension rarely abates. Understandably, Louise resents her solitude being trespassed on, particularly by someone whose backstory is hardly airtight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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And the Birds Rained Down
Overview: A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that swept through Northern Ontario at the turn of the 20th century. But before she arrives, she learns that Boychuck has just perished. Survivors of the long-ago fire, Tom and Charlie, two elderly men who have chosen to live out their last days in the woods, are introduced to Marie Desneige, whose 60 year institutionalization has only fueled her passion for life. Meanwhile, the photographer is discovering that Boychuck had been a painter, whose life’s work had been entirely inspired by the Great Fire. The story immerses us in a historical drama while captivating us with the strange lives of these men of the forest. Three men who, in choosing freedom above all else, made a deal with death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Confessions of a Hitman
Overview: A paid assassin working for the biker gangs of Quebec outsmarts both the police and the underworld for decades, committing 28 hits over 25 years.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-20
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The Guide to the Perfect Family
Overview: A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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Angel Life
Overview: Two strangers have a fateful one-night stand in Montréal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-25
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Roseline like in the movies
Overview: Roseline is a renowned actress with an impressive career. After a lifetime on camera, she gets ready to play her greatest role yet. Fiction and reality blur together, surfacing a deeply buried secret—then: lights, camera, action
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-06
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L'odeur après la pluie
Overview: Claire, a recently retired widow, shares her suburban house with her sister Gisele. On a scorching summer day, Julien an old flame, shows up unexpectedly with the intention of winning Claire back. Proof that life never ceases to amaze us.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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Les beaux dimanches
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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Le Chevreuil
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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The Five of Us
Overview: In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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Alice's Odyssey
Overview: After reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-28
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Lance et compte
Overview: After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-26
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The Cold
Overview: Unable to accept the death of her husband, a woman keeps him secretly in their apartment. Helped by the cold, she tries to keep the corpse preserved for as long as possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-21
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Memories Unlocked
Overview: In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-24
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The Mother Eagle
Overview: After learning of her convent's closure, a nun prays to Marie of the Incarnation and receives an answer in person.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Le jour où le dromadaire est parti
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A Christmas Storm
Overview: The preparations for the Christmas holidays turn into a nightmare for a mother of three children of whom she shares custody with her ex-husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Exit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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