Jean-Louis Roux
Also Known As: Jean Louis Roux
Biography: Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: May 18, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 28, 2013
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Overview: Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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The Pyx
Overview: A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-08
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Battle of the Brave
Overview: In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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The Clean Machine
Overview: Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly wrong when jealousy, sabotage, fraud, and a failed love story begin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-07-03
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Cargo
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Bye Bye Victor
Overview: Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organises field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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For Hire
Overview: Chicago cabbie Mitch Lawrence is a man whose dreams are starting to fade. His only shining light is his loving and pregnant wife. When one of his clients, author Lou Webber offers him money to eliminate a drug dealer who is stalking him, Mitch refuses. Days later, Mitch is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. He reconsiders Lou's offer, and for the sake of his wife and baby, eliminates the threat. But after that night, everything changes, Mitch's stomach pains disappear. The Drug dealer suddenly resurfaces in a crowd. Then events conspire to drag Mitch deeper into a game that proves that at the right price any man is for hire.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-11
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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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Chocolate Eclair
Overview: After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-22
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The Third Miracle
Overview: The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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The Revolving Doors
Overview: A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-26
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The Courage to Love
Overview: In 19th century New Orleans, creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-24
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Mon amie Max
Overview: Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-01
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The Story of Dr. Louise
Overview: The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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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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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Overview: A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-27
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The Emperor of Peru
Overview: Toby and his sister Liz live with their aunt and uncle, who take in Cambodian orphan Hoang while he awaits foster placement. The trio become fast friends, and, as they explore a nearby wood, encounter a retired engineer living in an abandoned freight car. Playing off Toby's already active imagination, the kids and the engineer use the train car to make a fantastic journey to Cambodia.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-09
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Black List
Overview: At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Henry V
Overview: Henry, tracing his descent from Edward III, has claimed the French crown. Assured by the Archbishop of Canterbury that right is on his side, and needled by the Dauphin’s insolence, he prepares for war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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La fenêtre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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