Gabriel Arcand
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Biography: Gabriel Arcand (born June 4, 1949) is a French Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand. He won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for his performance in Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Le Démantèlement, and the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Decline of the American Empire. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Les Plouffe and at the 20th Genie Awards for Post Mortem, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for Suzanne and at the 20th Genie Awards in 1999 for Le Grand serpent du monde.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Deschambault, Québec, Canada
Birthday: June 04, 1949
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Gender: Male
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Agnes of God
Overview: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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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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A Wonderful Spell
Overview: Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-07
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Post Mortem
Overview: A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-28
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Karakara
Overview: Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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The Auction
Overview: Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn't end up losing her house...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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The Revolving Doors
Overview: A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-26
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La ligne de chaleur
Overview: In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to Montreal.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-26
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Réjeanne Padovani
Overview: The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Unfaithful Mornings
Overview: Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing of a novel. But Jean-Pierre is not really respecting the rules of the game...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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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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La vie secrète des gens heureux
Overview: Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses études en architecture avec succès, le jeune homme rencontrera Audrey, une belle ténébreuse qui lui donnera des ailes. Évidemment, le bonheur n'est jamais simple et la vie peut être parfois cruelle...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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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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The Big Snake of the World
Overview: This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensible people who try to persuade him to settle down. For Tom has only one idea in his head: to once again head south, riding the waves of love and fate.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Bye, See You Monday
Overview: Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married lover who, every Friday evening, rushes off to a home that has been forsaken for a while, saying: "Bye, see you Monday"...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-21
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Résonance
Overview: An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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Le toasteur
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-06
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L'âge de la machine
Overview: A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-19
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Thunder Drum
Overview: Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this feature film, Arthur Lamothe films the daily life of the Innu, the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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A Kid
Overview: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…Filled with secrets, this story about one man’s coming to term with the foreign family he never knew he had is complex with interconnected themes such as masculinity, family, paternity and filial devotion coiling in the layers underneath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-31
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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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Dirty Money
Overview: A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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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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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Overview: In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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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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Congorama
Overview: Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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Panique
Overview: Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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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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La fabrication d'un meurtrier
Overview: A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in search of his wife's past and met a beautiful young doctor who introduced him to a patient with amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-03
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Nelligan
Overview: This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Pour l'amour de Thomas
Overview: A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as possible, rejecting self-pity and alienating his over-protective mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-24
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Les vautours
Overview: Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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She Who Wears the Rain
Overview: Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-14
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Chaos and Desire
Overview: Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River, north of Lake Saint-Jean. The Chapdelaines work tirelessly to push the limits of the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot dampen the warmth of family life, Maria, strong and full of hope, finds herself faced with major dilemmas. Thrust into the world of adults, Maria will suddenly be forced to decide on her future as a woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-24
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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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Easy in Mind
Overview: A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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A House with a View of the Sea
Overview: In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them once again in the place of their dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-08-28
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Blood of the Hunter
Overview: In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake is a disturbed drifter who has murdered a man and has found a way to frame Jan for his crime. Jan is out tending to his traps when an Indian friend with psychic talents tells him Marie is in grave danger. Jan hurries back, but he has no idea just how serious matters are until he arrives home -- Jan is wanted by the law for a crime he didn't commit, while Blake is hiding out in his home, and has taken Marie hostage.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-07-25
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