Élise Guilbault
Also Known As: Élise Guilbeault, Elise Guilbault, Élise Guilbaut
Biography: Élise Guilbault (born April 8, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit), and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente. She featured in the trilogy of Bernard Émond, playing a doctor in quest of faith and redemption in La Donation. Her television roles have included Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin, Le Coeur a ses raisons, Annie et ses hommes, Un gars, une fille and René Lévesque.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St-Lin des Laurentides, Québec, Canada
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Rispondetemi
Overview: As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memories.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-12
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The Legacy
Overview: When considering taking a few weeks off, Dr. Rainville places an ad to find a replacement who would agree to take his place in Normétal, in Abitibi. Jeanne Dion from Montreal accepts the offer and goes to the site, where it comes into contact with old customers and the lonely doctor. The problems of the inhabitants of the small community are varied, but Jeanne adapts well to her new environment. When Dr. Rainville was struck by a heart attack, he must still be replaced some time. She could even take his place permanently...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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One Summer
Overview: For more than 25 years, Marc Côté, street chaplain and parish priest, has lived with the poor and the homeless. Today, Marc is a worn-out man. Exhausted from running his church, which serves as a shelter, and overwhelmed by the bills they can no longer pay, Marc must face the facts: he will have to shut down his church. Like a call from Providence, he inherits a property in the Bas-du-Fleuve region and decides to take a group of homeless people with him, who, like himself, need a vacation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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Dying Alive
Overview: Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-17
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Montreal Stories
Overview: Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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La vie fantôme
Overview: Pierre is in love with two women and has a stable relationship with both of them. His wife, all by herself, makes him feel whole. However, he has the identical feeling with his librarian mistress and cannot understand why this arrangement shouldn't be satisfactory for everyone concerned.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Cap Tourmente
Overview: Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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Nuits d'Afrique
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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The Woman Who Drinks
Overview: On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Novena
Overview: Two men bond as one recovers from an attack and the other deals with the impending death of his grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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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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Desire in Motion
Overview: During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Albertine in Five Times
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Sortie 234
Overview: Sortie 234 portrays Renaud's passion for Frank. A passion that reaches its bursting point. But between these two poles of attraction, there is Lucille, Frank's love. Lucille, whom Renaud tries to approach. Lucille who becomes the link between the two men. 'Sortie 234' constitutes a trajectory, beings both similar and different will try if not to join, at least to join and understand each other. You never know what can change your life.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Victoire
Overview: VICTOIRE traces the story of Victoire Du Sault, founder of the shoemaking industry at the origin of the Dufresne fortune, better known for the castle that bears their name in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Although the entrepreneurial spirit and professional career of this visionary command admiration, it is above all her romantic impulses which form the heart of this melodrama where impossible love, a sulfurous love triangle and a family secret intertwine. upsetting which risks leaving no one unscathed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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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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Cosmos
Overview: Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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A Place to live
Overview: A recent widow living in a small Quebec town goes to Montreal to visit her busy adult son and daughter, and then on a whim decides to travel to the town of her childhood, where she hadn't set foot in decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Poor Georges
Overview: Georges (Grégory Gadebois), teaches school in Montreal – he and wife Emma, (Monia Chokri) have just moved to the countryside. One day, he surprises a young intruder Zack, (Noah Parker), rummaging through his things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-03
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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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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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The Bossé Empire
Overview: It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the world, participating in all sectors who have made money in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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