Lise Roy
Also Known As: Lise Cauchon-Roy, Lise Cauchon
Biography: Lise Roy is a French Canadian actress working in theatre, film and television. Roy graduated from Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in 1975. She holds a master's degree from the École supérieure de théâtre of the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has also been working at the University as a chargée de cours since 2005 an a professor since 2016.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
Overview: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-27
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Lucy Grizzli Sophie
Overview: Sophie is a hunted, traumatized woman. Seeking to escape her reality, she lands in an Airbnb hundreds of miles from her home. She is welcomed there by Martin, who occupies the premises with his aunt, Louise. Over the course of drunken evenings, tongues loosen and a disturbing complicity emerges between the man and the traveler... What if Sophie's presence in this remote bled was not so fortuitous?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-23
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Best Boy
Overview: After the death of their abusive and tyrannic father, three children - now adults - and their aging mother return to their long-abandonned summer cottage. They will have to partake in a strange competition that tore their family apart 30 years prior - A nightmarish return to the past for the family's children.
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Original Language: en
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Cruising Bar 2
Overview: Fifteen years later, the heroes from Cruising Bar may hardly have changed but the world around them most certainly has! For the Bull, reality is brutal. His wife of 30 years, sick of his infidelity, decides to show him the door. But the Bull, who has a positive outlook on life, isn't so easily defeated and fights for his survival. The Lion too faces a break-up when his girlfriend leaves. All alone, he's force to relearn the art of seduction. The Peacock, on the other hand, is trying to figure out his sexual identity with the help of a psychologist. As for the Earthworm, his long wait for a soulmate will, at last, be requited.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Tom at the Farm
Overview: A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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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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L'homme perché
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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White Skin
Overview: Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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King Dave
Overview: Dave is young and rebellious. A self-proclaimed King, influenced but not unconscious. As he sets out to find the stranger who danced with his girlfriend grabbing her ass, as if nothing had happened, he decides to take justice into his hands. Between violence, heartbreak and friendship betrayal, Dave will put his finger through the wringer and rush forward, unable to stop.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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Evil Words
Overview: One day, for no apparent reason, a cop kills 11 children. The same day, horror novelist Thomas Roy tries to commit suicide after cutting his fingers. At first glance, nothing seems to link the two events – until Dr. Paul Lacasse, a disillusioned psychiatrist, takes over the case. Prompted by his colleague Jeanne, a fan of Thomas Roy, Dr. Lacasse investigates the writer’s past. Hounded by a gossip columnist, Dr. Lacasse uncovers a series of troubling facts that bolster his convictions about the case. As he tries to reassemble the pieces of the puzzle in order to better treat the famous writer, Dr. Lacasse is dragged further and further into a series of events, with terrifying consequences.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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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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Endorphine
Overview: Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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The Acrobat
Overview: In an ever-expanding but nondescript North American city, Christophe, a middle-aged businessman, unexpectedly encounters Micha, a Russian acrobat recovering from an injury, while house-hunting. An instant attraction is quickly consummated and they embark on a torrid affair that helps each of them cope with their respective trials. A provocative, poignant drama about intimacy in an age of anonymity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later
Overview: Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-07
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Real Lies
Overview: Marco Valois wants to direct a serious movie inspired by the life of a soldier living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He soon realizes that the young soldier home from Afghanistan won't open up that easily. Marco, willing to do just about anything to get his story, follows Éric Lebel to his hometown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Simon Konianski
Overview: Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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Suburban Bliss
Overview: Catherine, a rebellious pre-teen who has been deeply affected by her parents’ divorce, plays a game which involves crossing a dangerous road with her eyes closed. She becomes friends with the girl next door, the quiet Ariane, to the consternation of Ariane’s father, David. Although he appears to be a model father, David is in fact obsessed by the need to protect his daughter. As such, he tries – unsuccessfully – to prevent Ariane from coming under Catherine’s bad influence. Ariane takes up smoking, starts telling lies, and begins to explore her sexuality. While Catherine’s mother attempts to seduce the handsome, and single, David, he sets a trap for Catherine. For Catherine, living dangerously is no longer a game, and she has to summon all her strengths in order to survive.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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Audionomie
Overview: Loïc is alone in the anechoic room. What had he done to find himself in there? Since when? He only came to the audiology clinic for a little hiss in his ear...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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It's the Heart That Dies Last
Overview: At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Montréal Dead End
Overview: A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-31
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...Comme un voleur
Overview: A garagist must take care of his sick mother and irresponsible brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Onzième spéciale
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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Bête noire
Overview: Two fleeing young sisters escape into a disturbing forest in search of the only individual who can help them accomplish a very difficult task.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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My Daughter, My Angel
Overview: Nathalie Dagenais is a 19 year old girl studying to be a lawyer. New to the city of Montreal, she will soon discover the world of porn. One day, her father (Michel Côté) comes across her picture on the Internet and wants to find her and before she makes what he thinks is a mistake. The story goes from past to present, when a police officer investigates the death of Max, a man who Nathalie knew.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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The Dancer
Overview: A mute female dancer who wows audiences in club competitions but can't get Broadway jobs because of her handicap, develops a "voice" when a young scientist invents a device that allows her to make music via her dance movements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-07
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My Salinger Year
Overview: A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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Crying Out
Overview: A young man feels compelled to travel with his grand-father. The young man wants to find his father who ran away with the corpse of his ex-wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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The Mirror
Overview: Jean has not spoken to his mother for 5 years. However, she has just committed suicide and he has to return to Belgium to settle his estate. While she bequeaths him an antique mirror of great monetary and sentimental value, he will have to deal with his mother's very young husband, Fabrice, and his mother, who are hindering his efforts to get it back. Through this quest for the mirror, Jean will have to free himself from a past that haunts him by making peace with what his mother left him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Le grand jour
Overview: A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-29
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Exit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Délivrez-Moi
Overview: After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-12
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A Family Secret
Overview: A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-07
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La Mise à l'aveugle
Overview: Denise is a woman of ripe age whose life has recently changed with the divorce from her husband Michel, the relocation to the neighborhood of her youth, and the retirement from her position as financial director in a large company now directed by her son, Alex. An object of contempt by her husband, her son and at her former workplace, Denise desperately clings to them, unable to communicate. This changes when Denise meets her new neighbors who initiate her to the world of poker. Little by little, she submits to the pleasures of the game and substitutes one family for another.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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