Dorothée Berryman
Also Known As: Dorothée Beryman
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada
Birthday: April 28, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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 Automaton and the Magic Spell
Overview: An introduction to the world of French composer Maurice Ravel through The String Quartet in F major, performed by the Canadian ensemble Quatuor Arthur Leblanc. The four movements of the quartet are presented on screen by dance segments recreating key elements of the composer's life interspersed with documentary vignettes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Scanners II: The New Order
Overview: A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Every Jack Has a Jill
Overview: Jack is encouraged to take the romantic Paris vacation he won, despite just being dumped by his girlfriend. His trip soon devolves into chaos and adventure, when his luggage is swapped for a French businesswoman's belongings who soon takes a liking to his belongings -- especially his shoes -- and sets out to find him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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The Red Violin
Overview: 300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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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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The Decline of the American Empire
Overview: Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-19
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Winter Lily
Overview: In a remote part of New England, Clive arrives at Memory Lane, a rustic bed&breakfast. After being welcomed by the charming hostess, Agatha, he soon discovers a diary filled with mystery about the hostess' daughter, Lily. His natural curiosity turns into obsession as he desperately tries to solve the mystery surrounding the girl. Lily's presence is felt througout the house, but why is she kept out of sight? The more he seeks out the truth, the more he is caught in a whirlwind of obscurity, deception and torment and falls straight into the deadly trap set by his friendly hostess.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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My Only Love
Overview: The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-23
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Overview: Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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The Clean Machine
Overview: Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly wrong when jealousy, sabotage, fraud, and a failed love story begin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-07-03
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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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The Haven
Overview: Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Le nèg'
Overview: In the middle of the night, in the Québec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-11
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Jack Paradise (Les nuits de Montréal)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Back Stab
Overview: An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-03
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Days of Happiness
Overview: Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick. She has to face up to her emotions and decide whether she wants to successfully combine her career with her love affair with Naëlle, a recently separated cellist and mother of a young son.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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The Audrey Hepburn Story
Overview: The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-27
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Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum
Overview: BREAKING POINT brings viewers back to those tense, critical moments when Canada's future as a country was at stake.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-30
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Ding et Dong : Le film
Overview: Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Cabotins
Overview: To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Café Olé
Overview: Malcolm's (28) new love, Alicia (25), an illegal Chilean refugee, will be short-lived if he does not make the right choice.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-24
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Taken
Overview: A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Dancing on the Moon
Overview: Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has before. But she still doesn't want to become an adolescent. A tragic accident and the help of an eccentric aunt who just arrived in her life will help her to pass the barrier.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Pianist
Overview: Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-31
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No Ordinary Baby
Overview: A reporter gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the responsible doctor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-08
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Pretty Poison
Overview: A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Genres: Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-24
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A Paper Wedding
Overview: A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Zigrail
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-23
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The Mob
Overview: Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent New York City gangster, he leaps at the opportunity, ignoring the warnings of Montreal’s leading mob boss, who has forbidden local criminals from taking the assignment. Upon his return, Chico discovers he is being pursued from all sides, prompting an unlikely response: he calls a local talk radio show and starts revealing the mafia’s most carefully guarded secrets. As his revelations get more shocking, so do the tactics of his adversaries, culminating in a devastating gut punch of a finale.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Ice Cream, Chocolate and Other Consolations
Overview: Suzie and Samuel have known each other since childhood. With their friend Judith, they form a friendly trio. Now in their mid-twenties, at the age when everything is possible but nothing is easy, they find themselves at a crossroads.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Ladies Room
Overview: In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-30
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Innocent
Overview: Francis is being interrogated about a series of crimes he might be guilty of.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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La petite histoire d'un homme sans histoire
Overview: A man in his mid-40s is killed by a truck just after receiving a prescription against death from his doctor. He then regains consciousness in a video store, and with some further difficulties, receives a film of his life. Although full of factual inaccuracies, it is an enjoyable examination of his birth, youth, marriage, family and death. Unfortunately, his request for a sequel is denied, and as he advances down the corridor to God, technical difficulties are experienced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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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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Forgotten Flowers
Overview: Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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You Can Thank Me Later
Overview: In this Canadian comedy-drama, 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: 1998-05-23
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Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Overview: A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Moodland
Overview: Strange dreams caused by unusual weather changes are leading a suburban housewife to abandon her husband and children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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French Immersion
Overview: Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Free Money
Overview: A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after they claim to be pregnant. All hope seems lost, until the husbands hatch a madcap plan to rob a money train to freedom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Varian's War
Overview: Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-14
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Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie
Overview: Denis comes out of a love affair that disturbs him a lot. One day he meets Simone in the university cafeteria and he immediately understands that she is the woman of his life. But Simone is not the type to fall into the arms of the first comer!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Un autre homme
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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