Francis Ducharme
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Biography: Born in 1981 in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada, Francis Ducharme quickly grew out of his small town and traveled around the world as a dancer and actor. At 17, he was accepted into the Collège Lionel-Groulx theater school. His love of the arts led him to the theater, and finally film and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada
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The Master Key
Overview: To save his best friend, Louis-Bernard Lapointe has to transport himself to a parallel world to find the 'Key of Possibilities', a magical and legendary object that allow his user to visit an infinite numbers of universes where everything is possible.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-27
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I Killed My Mother
Overview: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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Vital Signs
Overview: After losing a loved one, Simone decides to volunteer in a hospital and spends her days with terminally ill patients. However, other parts of her life soon begin to suffer as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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The Capture
Overview: Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She’s managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted by her father’s violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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Passage
Overview: Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2008-02-15
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Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful
Overview: Brother Marie-Victorin was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and "biology without a veil". This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Corbo
Overview: Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After befriending two young far-left activists, he joined the Front de Libération du Québec, an underground radical group. Jean, from then on, marches inexorably towards his destiny.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Chasse-Galerie : La Légende
Overview: In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about to die in labor, he makes a pact with the devil to save her and his newborn daughter Liza. He then cheats the devil of his prize by sacrificing himself. 25 years later, Liza wants to marry her beloved Jos, who has to go away to a remote logging camp to earn money to save his farm, but the devil is determined to ruin her happiness.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Nelly
Overview: A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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The Runners-Up
Overview: A man, a women, a cabin, and a piano.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2
Overview: The crew aboard the Romano Fafard spaceship continues their mission. Captain Patenaude and his acolytes land on planet: Crème hydratante pour le visage soulage la peau sèche (moisturing cream for the face soothes dry skin!) in hopes of finding the ship’s probe, accidentally crashed, that they must have in order to move the Earthlings. Their search is in vain, but it leads them to the tyrannical Governor Supreme who rules the planet. Just when the governor is about to tell them where to find a new probe, there’s a terrible explosion. Will the captain and the Romano Fafard find a liveable planet where they can move six billion Earthlings? And if so, when?
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Action Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Overview: A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-27
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Rive-Sud
Overview: While paranoia takes over a small town following an unsolved crime, a woman in a state of panic attempts to go on with her life after witnessing a murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-17
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Lonely Child
Overview: William is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days camping with him, taking advantage of the situation by filming the trip and their time spent with another young gay couple. The camera never stops shooting, even when Médéric decides to get it on with another guy in a tent. As Canada's first Dogme95 film, the story is shot on location, with natural lighting and live sound, the camera is hand-held and all superficial elements are forbidden. Yet somehow, in spite of these harsh restrictions during the filmmaking process, the result is warm and beautiful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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The Five of Us
Overview: In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-27
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Over My Dead Body
Overview: The film is a portrait of Dave St-Pierre, a dancer and choreographer from Montreal who is urgently awaiting a lung transplant due to his lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-26
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