Pierre Curzi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 11, 1946
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Gender: Male
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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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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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The Plouffe Family
Overview: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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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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Suzanne
Overview: An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Blind Trust
Overview: A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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Roméo et Juliette
Overview: Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he’s been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child. Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused. Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Dans le ventre du dragon
Overview: The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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Se fondre
Overview: Elderly inmates are dying mysteriously one after another in their prison cells.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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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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Chorus
Overview: A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Wild Flowers
Overview: Three generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-26
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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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L'amour blessé
Overview: A lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their personal problems, she has to come to terms with her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Le million tout-puissant
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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S As in...
Overview: One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily activities, instead he daydreams about the women in his past, about his teenage years, his failed marriage, and even his boyhood desires. His mental images follow each other across the screen, revealing that the women in his life are all the same (different wigs and costumes on the same actress), and his love life never changes either. This sameness can have a dulling effect on the viewers, indicating that if Jean-Baptiste's reminiscences were trimmed and his daydreams more varied and exciting, he would hold interest a little longer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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The New Life of Paul Sneijder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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The Red Kitchen
Overview: On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-29
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Leopard Ties
Overview: The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-06
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La pension des étranges
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-17
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Far from the Sun
Overview: The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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The Angry Man
Overview: Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Overview: A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Lucien Brouillard
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-20
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Caffè Italia, Montréal
Overview: Using archival documents, fictions, current accounts, and excerpts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints a nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the men and women taken to a prisoner of war camps during World War II, to the hardships and joys of building vibrant lives in Montréal. Caffè Italia Montréal chronicles a significant chapter in Canada’s history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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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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Parlez-nous d'amour
Overview: A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Babylone
Overview: A son is accused of involuntary manslaughter while his younger brother is put in a foster home... .
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Sonia
Overview: A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Anastasie oh ma chérie
Overview: Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the destructive invasion of family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Fantastica
Overview: In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Manigances: Notice rouge
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Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Les allées de la terre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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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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Old Buddies
Overview: Pierrot is serene and has no fear of his premature death. He asks his childhood friend Jacques to help him end his days well. This unusual approach will lead the two friends to a peaceful end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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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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You're Beautiful, Jeanne
Overview: A paraplegic is determined to rebuild her life on her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-26
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Shooting Star
Overview: Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-15
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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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Joutel
Overview: When Gérard finds a dead raccoon in his front yard, the old man becomes strangely distressed, shaken by thoughts of his own demise. Jocelyne watches the despair of her husband grow along with his obsession with the animal’s body, and his anguish takes root in her own mind. After a night of torment, they decide to go and bury the raccoon on the land where their house once stood in Joutel, a former mining town deserted since 1998. When they get there, the boreal forest is creeping in on the ruins of her former house, plunging Jocelyne into a deep nostalgia. Here, after a morbid picnic marking the raccoon’s burial, the couple meets a mystical being who leads them to make peace with their inner demons.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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A Revision
Overview: A professor of philosophy teaches lessons to his awakened students. One day, one of his students decides to put his lessons into practice, and she goes on a journey that shakes her deepest convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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A Cry in the Night
Overview: A lonely night watchman, whose quiet routine revolves around stargazing, faces emotional upheaval when his girlfriend reveals she's pregnant and leaves him, while a troubled young man records a farewell video to his ex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Elle va crier
Overview: Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant father and sexual assaults that have gone unreported. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had raped her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform this awkward exchange into a moment of communion, thanks to actors, a set and Audrey's desire to do herself justice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Exit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Les somnambules
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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