Benoît Brière
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Biography: Benoît Brière (born June 20, 1965) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction), for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 24th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 6th Jutra Awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Longueuil, Québec, Canada
Birthday: June 20, 1965
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Gender: Male
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Coco Farm
Overview: After his father faces financial struggles, 12-year-old Max is forced to shut down the pawn shop he operates from his garage and move to a small country town. When Max discovers the world of small-scale farming, the young entrepreneur rallies the help of his cousin Charles, along with local youtuber Alice, to start an egg farming business in Charles's old decaying barn.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-11
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Katak: The Brave Beluga
Overview: While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, Katak departs on a perilous journey to the Great North.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Walter & Tandoori's Christmas
Overview: Before Christmas, in the village of Hart's Landing, an ominous shadow may befall! Will Walter and Tandoori be able to save their village from an ecological disaster?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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White Tuft, the Little Beaver
Overview: White Tuft is a small beaver who lives in the north of Canada; It is a dangerous place so in his adventure he would have to recognice his friends and his enemies.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Magique
Overview: Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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The Baroness and the Pig
Overview: A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-02
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A Sense of Humor
Overview: A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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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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Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo
Overview: Fredo just inherited his uncle's company but it bores him. Then he meets Angelo, a French movie director that introduces to the magical world of feature films. Suddenly, Fredo sees himself in different films. Soon, Fredo discovers that Angelo has a hidden agenda...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-26
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The Turtle Syndrome
Overview: What could the illness afflicting Henri Castagnette be? Filled with anxiety, the young man puts his fate in the hands of the off-puttingly exuberant Dr. Von Strudel. In The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin, author of the popular “motormouth” graphic novels Phobie des moments seuls and Whitehorse, recounts the story of an endearing anti-hero’s frenzied and hilarious medical appointment. Produced by the NFB, The Turtle Syndrome is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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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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The Child Prodigy
Overview: On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-28
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Noël Noël
Overview: Billionaire businessman Noel Noel is long on cash but short on social graces; so when he finds himself falling for the fairy Beatrice, he mistakenly thinks he can buy her love with material gifts. It takes a little girl named Zooey, her dog Snooze, and a blue-eyed reindeer to help Noel Noel learn the true meaning of love in this animated Christmas fable that features narration by Leslie Nielson (AIRPLANE, NAKED GUN) and music by French-Canadian songstress Ariane Moffatt.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-13
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Sisters and Neighbors!
Overview: The story of Germaine Lauzon, a housewife who wins a million stamps which, she believes, will allow her access to happiness and a new world that she has dreamed of for so long. But her joy will make some people jealous...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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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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April and the Extraordinary World
Overview: It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-04
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The Seat of the Soul
Overview: This Canadian science-fiction film takes place at the beginning of the 20th Century in an unnamed city where eager Jules is a member of a scientific team researching the secrets of immortality. The scientists uncover a buried pyramid containing an embalmed body with a heartbeat -- but minus a soul. Heading into the city at night, Jules hopes to locate the soul. He encounters Sophie who seems to have some answers to the mystery.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-26
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Seducing Doctor Lewis
Overview: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-20
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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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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Overview: Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-15
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Dusk for a Hitman
Overview: 1979. Donald Lavoie is a fearsome hitman who works under the orders of Claude Dubois, head of the Montreal South-West mob. Donald is tasked to take under his wing new recruit Serge Rivard, a hotheaded small-time crook who soon compromises him in a botched double murder. Donald avoids justice thanks to the Dubois clan's lawyers, but this is only a temporary setback for Detective Sergeant Roger Burns, who wants to convince Lavoie to become an informer.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-10
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Yvon Deschamps - Intemporel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-19
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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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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Overview: The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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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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Kiss Me With All Your Love
Overview: Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crippled from birth. This proximity awakens the sensuality of Berthe who tries to seduce her brother. Pierre rejects her advances, but when he falls in love with Marguerite, his best friend's girlfriend, he is haunted by the fantasy of his sister.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Noël chez les Paré
Overview: At the Paré household, Christmas is part of a long tradition of squabbles, depressing gift exchanges and dubious feasts. This year, determined not to let her children spoil her turkey dinner yet again, Moman does everything in her power to bring back a Christmas of warmth and sharing. Popa puts in his two cents’ worth with his twin cousin Sti-Mé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-16
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Overview: Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Le Petit Prince – théâtre musical
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Rosa
Overview: After being touched by a patient's story, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-09
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The Tale of Teeka
Overview: Returning to the now abandoned family farm, a man’s memories of his past resurface. Seen through the eyes of his younger self, Maurice’s most vivid memory is of his friendship with Teeka, his pet goose, and the sole refuge this provides from a violent relationship with his parents. As Maurice and Teeka escape deeper into a fantasy world inspired by Tarzan comics, the goose realizes that beneath all the play lies a dark universe from which neither he nor Maurice will be able to escape. Based on the book by Michel Marc Bouchard.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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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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