Gaston Lepage
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Biography: Throughout his long career in his native Canada, Gaston Lepage consistently delivered commendable performances on both the big and small screens. Born on Feb. 24, 1949 in Québec, Canada, Lepage began acting on various comedy serials like "Les as" (Radio-Canada, 1977-78), "Les brilliant" (Télémétropole, 1980), and the New Year's countdown and sketch comedy special "Bye-Bye" (Radio-Canada, 1968-2011). In 1980, Lepage co-starred in the critically acclaimed drama "Cordelia," followed by a string of TV and film roles, including a lead part in "Gaspard et fil$" (1988), as a 40-year-old librarian who reevaluates his relationship with his ailing, grumpy father after he learns the latter won the lottery. By this time, Lepage had established himself a versatile actor who excelled in both comedic and serious roles in films like "Jesus of Montreal" (1989), "King of the Airways" (1994), and "Joyeux Calvaire" (1996). Aside from acting, he was also an experienced helicopter pilot and founder of "Productions Inc. Tuxedo," which produced many popular soap operas and weekly programs in Canada. He continued to take on an impressive list of projects, including a featured role in Denys Arcand's Academy Award-winning film "The Barbarian Invasions" (2003), the long-awaited sequel to "The Decline of the American Empire" (1986), and recurring parts on the comedies "Caméra café" (TVA Films, 2002) and "Les Bougon: C'est aussi ça la vie" (CBC, 2004-06). In 2010, Lepage appeared on the historical drama "Musée Eden" (Radio-Canada) and in the feature comedy "Cabotins."
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Félicien, Québec, Canada
Birthday: February 24, 1949
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Gender: Male
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Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Overview: Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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A Happy Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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Aurore
Overview: After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-07-08
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Being at Home with Claude
Overview: The relationship between lovers Yves and Claude comes to an abrupt conclusion when, as the couple are making love, Yves slices Claude's throat, killing him. After being taken into custody for his crime, the police inspector demands to know the reason behind Yves' actions. Yves then weaves the tale of his life with Claude, explaining the origins of their relationship and how it reached a point where murder was the only possible conclusion.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Poverty and Other Delights
Overview: Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel’s only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story to tell, his hope to share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Nitro
Overview: Max leads a good life with Alice and their son Théo; that is until Alice is threatened with death while waiting for a heart transplant. Max promises Théo that he will save Alice, but to keep his word he must find a heart, and fast. Since time is running out and he must find a solution, Max decides to reconnect with his troubled past. His decision will change his life in ways he could never imagine
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-29
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Ababooned
Overview: Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Twilight
Overview: When Madeleine is diagnosed with Alzheimers, she makes two important decisions. One is to keep it from her family. The other is to revisit her beloved Gaspésie and relive, for one last time, the memories this evokes. Encountering Zoë, an emotionally disturbed young musician, Madeleine asks her to be her driver for the trip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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The Countess of Baton Rouge
Overview: In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Kalamazoo
Overview: A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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May God Bless America
Overview: On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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The Rooster of St. Victor
Overview: In this fun family comedy, a village rooster's punctual (and loud!) crowing keeps everyone awake until a group of sleepy locals hatch a scheme to get rid of him.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-21
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Arlette
Overview: Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-Amour becomes, overnight, Minister of Culture. She succeeds by her look and her daring in creating a real buzz around Culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-05
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Marie-Soleil et Jean-Claude: au-delà des étoiles
Overview: A tribute to Marie-Soleil Tougas and Jean-Claude Lauzon, 25 years after their tragic accident.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-09
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Silver Rivers
Overview: In 2001, the government of Quebec announced a new program to issue permits for the construction of private hydroelectric dams at specific sites. Upset, the population took things into their own hands and decided to act. Citizens formed collectives to protect their waterways, among the most beautiful in the province. This documentary follows several artist and citizen groups who led a crusade to force the Québec government to abandon private hydro-electrical production. It is a thorough inquiry on the environmental impact and other repercussions of such projects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Score
Overview: Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question : "How much is too much?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-21
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À toi les oreilles
Overview: While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-09
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Testament
Overview: In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-year-old single man, has lost all his bearings in this society. He lives in a retirement home located in a heritage building, managed with care and precision by Suzanne. Their peace is shaken by the arrival of young activists who demand the destruction of a historic fresco. Overwhelmed by an era dominated by political correctness, Jean-Michel will regain faith in humanity with the birth of an unexpected love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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North Station
Overview: In 1950, in a small village called Northern Station, Samuel, a young mailman and his girlfriend, Évelyne, spend hours replying to letters that children have sent to Santa Claus. While delivering the letters on Christmas Eve, Samuel dies of cold in the forest. He finds himself in the magic land of Santa Claus, where he becomes an elf in charge of answering Santa’s mail. Fifty years later, Samuel opens a letter from Satia, a young girl from Northern Station who asks Santa Claus if he will save her grandmother, who is seriously ill. With the help of his friend, Howie, the young elf decides to go to the village for grant the child’s wish. However, it turns out that Satia’s grandmother is none other than Évelyne.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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When Adam Changes
Overview: Adam is a 15-year-old teenager who has the strange peculiarity of having a body that changes, depending on the teasing and negative comments he receives from those around him. The accumulation of his physical changes just adds a layer to his already complex life.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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The Coffin Affair
Overview: In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Overview: We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-03
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Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
Overview: Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Cordélia
Overview: In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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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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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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Stealing Alice
Overview: Artist and writer Marc Séguin offers his first film which is about a woman named Alice who steals paintings in order to reattribute them to people who can truly appreciate their beauty.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-10
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LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
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Genres: Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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The Fall of the American Empire
Overview: A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns the money will be looking for it. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker recently released from jail might get him out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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Je me souviens
Overview: A woman seeks revenge over false accusations of murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-06
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Coteau Rouge
Overview: A working-class family fights a greedy developer for control of their neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Gaz Bar Blues
Overview: This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. This movie relates all the small tragedies surrounding the gaz bar, such as hold-ups, competition from the big companies invading the neighbourhood, and the fact that is sons don't seem to be interested in the gas station.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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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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Les grands enfants
Overview: Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The film is set in Montreal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-24
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Gaspard et fil$
Overview: An aging father and son take off for South America in search of their winning lottery ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-03
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Red Eyes
Overview: A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-25
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Thrill of the Hills
Overview: In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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The Alley Cat
Overview: Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Jesus of Montreal
Overview: A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-15
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The United States of Albert
Overview: Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-08
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Piwi
Overview: The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Votez Bougon
Overview: Paul Bougon ignites social media networks and public opinion after his brief participation in a television program. Having become an instant celebrity thanks to his outspokenness, he decides to go into politics and founds his own party. With the help of his devoted entourage and at the head of the PEN (Parti de l’Écœurement National) [National Disgust Party], he wins the elections and becomes Premier. The challenges of his new career place him in front of heartbreaking choices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-16
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Au pays de Zom
Overview: A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Miss Météo
Overview: Myriam Monette, a not very conformist and slightly whimsical Miss Weatherwoman, is now forty years old, has a new boyfriend and a new mandate at Channel Météo (also called Channel M). On the surface, nothing has changed. In reality, nothing is the same anymore. Like a green lawn on a summer day suddenly covered in snow, Myriam went to bed a confirmed single “adulteen” and woke up in love, living with someone else and undergoing major changes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-09
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Chance or Coincidence
Overview: Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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Moonshine
Overview: A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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How to Conquer America in One Night
Overview: A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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The Timekeeper
Overview: A l'automne 1964, la construction des 52 derniers milles du chemin de fer du Grand lac des Esclaves est en voie d'achèvement. Une bande hétéroclite de travailleurs instables, ivrognes et voleurs, est recrutée dans les tavernes par Fisk, contremaître aux poings d'acier. Martin Bishop, dix-huit ans, arrive comme nouveau pointeur au sein de cette équipe, le précédent pointeur ayant « disparu ». Bishop découvre rapidement des faits anormaux dans ce camp isolé; celui qui ne suit pas les règles de Fisk risque d'être expulsé du camp dans la nature sauvage et hostile. Fait surprenant, tous les hommes qui ont été expulsés demeurent sur la liste de paie... Le refus de Bishop de jouer le jeu de Fisk lui vaut d'être expulsé dans la forêt, dont l'immensité devient sa nouvelle prison. Incapable de s'échapper, Bishop découvre des aptitudes à la survie qu'il ne croyait pas posséder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-21
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Lamento pour un homme de lettres
Overview: Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-27
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