Denise Filiatrault
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Biography: Denise Filiatrault (born May 16, 1931) is a Canadian actress and director. She attained star status on TV in the 1960s, co-starring with Dominique Michel in the Radio-Canada television series Moi et l'autre (1967–71) and in many editions of Radio-Canada's annual New Year's special, Bye Bye. She had further success in Chez Denise (1978–1982), Le 101, avenue des Pins (1984–85) and Denise... aujourd'hui (1990–91). In addition to her television career, Filiatrault also performed in films and on stage, notably in works by Michel Tremblay. She was known to perform both comic and dramatic roles, such as Gilles Carle's The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron) in 1973, André Brassard's film version of Tremblay's Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'Est) in 1974, Denys Arcand's Gina in 1975, Claude Fournier's Far from You Sweetheart (Je suis loin de toi mignonne) in 1976, Fantastica in 1980 and Carle's The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) in 1981, playing the tormented Cécile. Following Les Plouffe, Filiatrault took a break from film, concentrating more in writing and directing for theatre and summer comedy. Filiatrault then decided to take the leap to directing cinema by adapting Tremblay's novel C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux into the 1998 film It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux, presenting the world of overweight women yearning for love and affection. Filiatrault opted for a simple yet effective style that showcased the talents of the film's strong female leads. This dramatic comedy scored such success that Filiatrault wrote and directed the 1999 sequel Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux... la suite), in which she further developed the characters and their world. In 2002, she produced a new comedy fantasy, Alice's Odyssey (L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay), which received a lukewarm response from critics and moviegoers. In 2003, taking advantage of the success of her motion picture characters, Filiatrault produced a television miniseries for TVA, Le Petit monde de Laura Cadieux (2003), before tackling a new film Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) (2004), a dramatic biography of 1930s-1950s singer Alys Robi (played by Pascale Bussières). As artistic director of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, she and the theatre were criticized in January 2015 by a coalition of Montreal arts groups for a year-end production in which a Caucasian actor portrayed hockey player P.K. Subban in blackface. Filiatrault responded that she was "shocked, outraged, and humiliated" by the reaction, saying that she had been in show business for 60 years and was the first person to hire a black Quebecer on television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Birthday: May 16, 1931
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Gender: Female
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The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Overview: Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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The Plouffe Family
Overview: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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Backyard Theatre
Overview: Backyard Theatre is a documentary about playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard’s flavourful brand of Quebec theatre, which captured the earthy wit and joual (slang) of Montreal's East End working-class neighbourhood. The film features impromptu improvisation by the cast of Les belles-soeurs and Demain matin, Montréal m'attend, two genre-defining plays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Filiatrault : Parcours d'une légende
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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Once Upon a Time in the East
Overview: Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-26
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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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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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Je suis loin de toi mignonne
Overview: In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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Bedmania
Overview: A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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15 Nov
Overview: A look at November 15, 1976, the date the Parti Québécois seized power in the provincial elections, a victory that gave rise to an unprecedented outburst of joy at the Center Paul-Sauvé, a place where PQ sympathizers gathered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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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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The Late Blossom
Overview: 30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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The Horse Trader’s Daughter
Overview: An Irishman falls in love in turn-of-the-century Quebec (in Canada).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Sisters and Neighbors!
Overview: The story of Germaine Lauzon, a housewife who wins a million stamps which, she believes, will allow her access to happiness and a new world that she has dreamed of for so long. But her joy will make some people jealous...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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Laurence Anyways
Overview: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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Alisée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Par le sang des autres
Overview: In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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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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The Razor's Edge
Overview: Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighborhood. An unlikely bond is formed between the two as they face the devastating civil war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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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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Compulsive Liar
Overview: Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon’s self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching him a lesson and making all of the lies reality on the eve of his company’s crucial meeting with a Russian businessman that Simon absolutely needs to impress in order to prevent the closure of the small-town plant where his twin brother Phil works.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-10
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Filiatrault
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-23
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Gina
Overview: Gina is a stripper at a popular local club. Everybody loves her and wants her. One night, a feared gang enters her motel room and gang-rape her violently. Soon afterward, she asks the services of criminals to help her exact revenge on those who attacked her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-23
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Les beaux dimanches
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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Mado
Overview: A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Effraction
Overview: During a robbery that goes wrong, Valentin Tralande kills his accomplices and bank customers.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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Le p'tit vient vite
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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