Carole Laure
Also Known As: Carole Champagne, Carole Laure O.C., Carole Lord
Biography: Carole Laure O.C. (born August 5, 1948) is an actress and singer from Quebec, Canada. Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband. Laure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013, "For her international career as an actress, singer, director and dancer." Description above from the Wikipedia article Carole Laure, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: August 05, 1948
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Gender: Female
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Sweet Movie
Overview: The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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Series 4
Overview: This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Croque la vie
Overview: Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married and scattered all over France, the once inseparable trio no longer keep in touch. But four years later, they decided to organize a big party for their reunion which serves as an opportunity for them to put things right and confess everything they have in their hearts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-18
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Overview: Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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Born for Hell
Overview: Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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Escape to Victory
Overview: A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Kill the Referee
Overview: Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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Shadows in an Empty Room
Overview: An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Heartbreakers
Overview: Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's interesting enough to spend more than one night with. Blue and Eli's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for Liliane, Blue's exotic gallerist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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La Menace
Overview: Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Stress
Overview: A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Primitifs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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La vie en couleurs
Overview: Laura, 35 years old, is married to Ricardo, an Argentinean cameraman, political refugee in France. They have two little girls, Ariane and Amélie. Laura works in a printing company, as a machine operator. When democracy is re-established in his country, Ricardo wants to return with his wife and daughters. But Laura refuses and the couple separates. Three years later, the young woman meets Didier Caillaux-Lalande, a young man who comes to print a book on Gustave Doré.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Thank You Satan
Overview: Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her life is about to be shattered. So it makes a bit of sense that she is receptive to the possibility of selling her soul for the chance to keep all this from happening. Just as her parents are (of course) getting back together, she wins the lottery and is able to buy their old apartment.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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The Surrogate
Overview: Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police are baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-15
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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 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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The Heavenly Bodies
Overview: A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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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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An Assassin Passes By
Overview: The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he falls in love with one of his prospective victims - a weakness which, of course, will be his downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-08
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Dirty Dishes
Overview: Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-17
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The Beautiful Beast
Overview: Louise, a widow, lives with her son Patrice and her daughter Isabelle-Marie in a house in the country. All her affection is directed towards her son, who is socially dysfunctional but very handsome. In contrast, Louise neglects her daughter, whom she considers ugly. However, their small, obsessed universe is soon interrupted by a blind boy and an elegant fop from the outside world.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Mary's Sons
Overview: After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-19
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Mon enfance à Montréal
Overview: This movie tells the story of a father, a mother and their young boy who, to get out of misery, leave the village where they live to try their luck in Montreal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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Drôle de samedi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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IXE-13
Overview: A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Night Magic
Overview: Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-18
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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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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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Flight from Justice
Overview: An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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Asphalt
Overview: Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-07
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Electric Blue 006
Overview: Vanessa del Rio hosts this men's video magazine which features profiles on British photographer Suze Randall and transsexual adult film star Sulka, centerfold models Felicity (Michelle Bauer) and Terri (Barbara Peckinpaugh), celebrity nude Hazel O'Connor (complete with her music video for “Hanging Around”), clips from the adult Alice in Wonderland with Kristine DeBell and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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La nuit avec Hortense
Overview: In an abandoned house by the river, a man meets a woman. All night long, they try to love each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Apprentice
Overview: In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-10
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Sweet Country
Overview: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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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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Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Overview: Arrived in New York, Margaux went to the bedside of her daughter Jess, who tried to commit suicide. She lives with Vic, who no longer satisfies her sexually. His ex, his father and his best friend, reappear soon in the life of Jess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Sauve-toi, Lola
Overview: Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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