Claude Préfontaine
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: January 24, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 05, 2013
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Black Robe
Overview: Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Valérie
Overview: Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless dancer, Valerie quickly graduates to becoming a high-class hooker. After amassing a small fortune, she falls in love with an artist, a man who is more-than-willing to overlook Valerie's sordid past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire
Overview: Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine of France. This historical drama tells the tragic tale of a young woman who, in the beginning started out with task, that ended with great sadness and sorrow.
Genres: Documentary Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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YUL 871
Overview: An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Overview: A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-03-27
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Battlefield Quebec: Wolfe & Montcalm
Overview: Documentary about the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, part of the Seven Years War between Britain and France. Both leaders, Wolfe and Montcalm, died in the battle, which decided control over what would become Canada. Includes re-enactments of the battle and the personalities of the two commanders. For two months Montcalm and Quebec City endured English bombardments. However, in what the documentary describes as an exceptionally well planned operation during the night of September 12th, Wolfe got 4500 men and two cannons up L’Anse-au-Foulon cliffs to the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm, who never commanded an army before being posted to New France, chose to leave the city walls and try to fight a linear battle against a better trained army.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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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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Le savoir-faire s'impose: 2e partie
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Des fleurs sur la neige
Overview: Beaten and live an unimaginably difficult childhood, Elisa Trudel and her sister Madeline Trudel still have hope in their heart. Beaten both by their heartless mother. Their mother that this remarried with another man after their father died of a heart attack. Day after day, Elisa and Madeline overcomes the challenges and they discovers the key to be happy, is love. Based on a true story happened in the 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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Savage Messiah
Overview: As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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The True Nature of Bernadette
Overview: Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
Genres: Drama Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-06
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Laura Laur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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La présence des ombres
Overview: Madeleine, a young nurse, makes a fatal mistake that costs the life of the patient Léopold Sicard. She leaves the hospital after her colleague, Dr. Senez, writes a damning report against her. Some time later, the young psychologist Paul Forest receives at the end of one of his lectures a visit from his childhood friend, Roger, who tells him of his fears about the strange behavior of his wife, who is none other than Madeleine.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Overview: A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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