Gilles Pelletier
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Québec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: March 22, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 05, 2018
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Jesus of Montreal
Overview: A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-15
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Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Daniel and the Superdogs
Overview: A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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Bingo
Overview: A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Seducing Doctor Lewis
Overview: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-20
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Anatomie
Overview: A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Romaine 30° Below
Overview: Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises but she is scared to death of taking the plane. Once in Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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On My Mother's Side
Overview: David happily brings his wife and new baby to his parents to celebrate his birthday. All goes well until the next day, when he finds that his mother – a filmmaker – has committed suicide. His second shock comes on the day of the funeral, when he is told that the man who raised him is not his biological father. Bewildered, he starts to look for answers and finds a hidden side of his mother’s life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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Huguette Oligny, le goût de vivre
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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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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The Great Land of Small
Overview: While visiting their grandparents in the Québec countryside, two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-18
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Poussière sur la ville
Overview: A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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Nelligan
Overview: This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Les vautours
Overview: Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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The 13th Letter
Overview: A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-21
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I Confess
Overview: Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-13
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Longing for Eternity
Overview: In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-26
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La terre à boire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-09
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Generator 4
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated Canadian documentary about the building of the fourth generator building at Kitimat, British Columbia and the aluminium smelters it will supply.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Noël Blank
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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You Can Thank Me Later
Overview: Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital — failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-03
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Chasse-Galerie : La Légende
Overview: In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about to die in labor, he makes a pact with the devil to save her and his newborn daughter Liza. He then cheats the devil of his prize by sacrificing himself. 25 years later, Liza wants to marry her beloved Jos, who has to go away to a remote logging camp to earn money to save his farm, but the devil is determined to ruin her happiness.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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