Pascale Montpetit
Also Known As: Pascale Monpetit
Biography: Pascale Montpetit is a French Canadian actress. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's H and in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's Savage Messiah, 2 Gémeaux Awards, a Jutra Award and a Mons International Festival of Love Films award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1960
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Female
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Eclipse
Overview: A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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Silence Lies
Overview: Depuis une sérieuse dispute avec son frère Fred, qui lui servait de modèle, Viviane, photographe professionnelle, a mis en veilleuse ses ambitions artistiques. Or, le hasard lui fait rencontrer Guillaume, un jeune mécanicien dont la photogénie naturelle l'inspire. Réticent, ce dernier se laisse convaincre de poser pour Viviane qui, retrouvant son énergie créatrice, fait de lui le sujet d'un projet d'exposition. Bientôt, l'artiste constate que le jeune homme, qui vit toujours chez ses parents, porte les stigmates d'un douloureuse expérience familiale, qui le rend asocial et autodestructeur. Tout en cherchant à percer le mystère de Guillaume, Viviane tente un rapprochement avec son frère.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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A Wonderful Spell
Overview: Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-07
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Streetheart
Overview: Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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Pandora's Beauty
Overview: Not long after Vincent meets the vivacious Pandore at the Montreal port for a business meeting, the two are soon rolling around in a hotel room. Vincent's ardor cools for the lass when he learns of her ominous secret, and his button-down wife Ariane walks out on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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The Invention of Love
Overview: Somewhere in Montreal, Antoine toils as a struggling writer. The end of his relationship with Matina causes him to work obsessively on his new novel, making it difficult for him to interact with the opposite sex. One day while moping over Matina, Antoine is hit by a car driven by Charlotte, a married mother of two and the manager of a hip boutique. Despite their differences, an attraction quickly develops between Charlotte and Antoine, and they soon add Elisabeth, a brainy and beautiful teenage prostitute, to their sticky couplings. Meanwhile, Charlotte's husband Joey sits at home and watches dispassionately as his wife abandons him and their kids for epic nights of passion.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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Eldorado
Overview: This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink's office that she has no time to listen to the doctor's advice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-28
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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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Stay
Overview: A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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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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The Phantom of the Operator
Overview: The Phantom of the Operator is a poetic film collage that documents the construction and rise of female telephone operators and their eventual replacement with computerized communications systems.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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The Refugees of the Blue Planet
Overview: For around ten years, natural disasters have been occurring more frequently, causing widespread destruction; yet industrialized countries still refuse to implement or persist in doubting the actions they must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and fail to revise their policies for economic growth. Decisions taken high up directly affect the way of life of thousands of people, in Canada and elsewhere. In 2003, the United Nations indicated that for the first time in history, environmental refugees (25 million) outnumbered those fleeing from war or political persecution (23 million). And their numbers keep on increasing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Soho
Overview: Soho, an aspiring young woman of about 30, lives on the fringe with all those who, like her, believe that one day they will be a famous writer, a star dancer or a famous director. While waiting for that day, they take up yoga, positive thinking, or various forms of electronic macramé. One hot summer evening, Soho meets 18-year-old Choubie, the other generation with a bright future ahead of her. At 102o, in the shade, in a suburban basement, Soho realizes that she is no longer young, almost poor, and that meditation has not opened the doors of any paradise, even earthly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-28
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L'incompris
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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The City Without Windows
Overview: One day, all the windows in the City disappeared... Then the rain started... No matter what people tried, nothing could stop the water. Soon, disease spread, robbing people's abilities to speak; the endless rain killing all other forms of communication with its acidic torrent. This was a time when dialogue became a new challenge. When everything we knew had to be reinvented. This was also a time, in the midst of a chaotic, decaying environment, when a man tried to cope with the loss of his former lover.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-05
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Mean Ends
Overview: A buried body, a missing sister and an inquisitive neighbour makes for a hell of an evening. And the sun isn’t close to setting on Eric’s sh*tty day.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-15
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H
Overview: A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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The Stork Derby
Overview: The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-08
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Coteau Rouge
Overview: A working-class family fights a greedy developer for control of their neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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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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Black Forest
Overview: Jura Department, France. A judge orders the re-enactment of a crime scene in order to shed some light on inconsistencies in a murder case. Under the eye of Lady Justice, the accused, a family of three women from Quebec, have to thoroughly relive the day of the crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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La petite histoire d'un homme sans histoire
Overview: A man in his mid-40s is killed by a truck just after receiving a prescription against death from his doctor. He then regains consciousness in a video store, and with some further difficulties, receives a film of his life. Although full of factual inaccuracies, it is an enjoyable examination of his birth, youth, marriage, family and death. Unfortunately, his request for a sequel is denied, and as he advances down the corridor to God, technical difficulties are experienced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Come Out!
Overview: A heartbroken man wants to kill himself but pretends the opposite to avoid the eternal damnation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Saver
Overview: When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-20
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La Position de l'escargot
Overview: Tunisian-born Myriam, a Sephardic beauty, lives in Montreal. Théo, her grad-student boyfriend, breaks up with her, and she's desolate. She house-sits for a friend for several weeks: during that time, her father arrives looking for her after 20 years, Théo realizes he misses her, and she meets the quirky Lou, a poetry-spouting squatter who introduces himself by clipping a lock of her hair during a movie; he later breaks into her flat to chat with her. She's angry with her father, confused by Théo, and delighted with Lou, whose free spirit and undemanding attention inspire her. Working out her feelings about her father gives her to key to decide what to do next.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Chili's Blues
Overview: At a Montreal railway station, passengers are stranded because of a snowstorm. One of the stranded, Pierre-Paul, discovers a young schoolgirl on the brink of suicide. While he searches for someone to intervene, Chili, the young girl, disappears, only to reappear of her own accord after Pierre-Paul's fruitless search. This brief encounter leads to flashback revelations and interaction among the supporting characters also stranded in the storm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-27
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Savage Messiah
Overview: As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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How to Conquer America in One Night
Overview: A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Girl In The White Coat
Overview: Elise, a factory worker who lives in isolation and is tormented by her co-workers, decides that despite her lack of money, she must get her coat fixed. A case of mistaken identity pulls her into events she had not intended. (Wikipedia)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-06
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Varian's War
Overview: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-14
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