Jean Lajeunesse
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: July 17, 1921
Deathday: September 26, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Les Brûlés
Overview: Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God
Overview: This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary debate, and Speaker of the Lower House, his heart was with the people being pillaged by the business elite. When legislation became the instrument of private advantage, Papineau brought government to a standstill. - NFB
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Little Aurore's Tragedy
Overview: A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Tadpole and the Whale
Overview: The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-17
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Janette et filles
Overview: Janette Bertrand, 96, is at the time of the balance sheets. Where are the women, where is the fight for gender equality? An hour of History with a capital H and Love with a capital A, to not forget anything and, above all, never stop moving forward.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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Réjeanne Padovani
Overview: The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
Overview: When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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Janette Bertrand : à l'aube d'être centenaire
Overview: Janette Bertrand will soon celebrate her 100th birthday. This intimate documentary, dotted with archives, pays tribute to this great lady, who devoted her life to providing popular education and breaking taboos. Through her daily life as a nearly century-old woman, Janette takes stock of her career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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Le père Chopin
Overview: A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-04-19
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Montreal by Night
Overview: This short film showcases the city of Montreal on a summer's night. What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds. It is North America's second largest port and, after Paris, the world's largest French-speaking city. With its warehouses, offices, homes, clubs and amusement parks, the city serves as a bright backdrop for a happy couple out on the town.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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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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Pousse mais pousse égal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-07
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Dubois et fils
Overview: A health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Whispering City
Overview: After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-20
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Le Diable à quatre
Overview: A divorced man, father of a boy, gets together with a colleague from the office, mother of a little girl, which causes some conflicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-17
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