David La Haye

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.

A paid assassin working for the biker gangs of Quebec outsmarts both the police and the underworld for decades, committing 28 hits over 25 years.

When Emma turns twenty, she decides to join the army. Not only does she want to follow in her father’s footsteps, but she also yearns to rid herself of an oppressive sense of existential emptiness. Although the army’s harsh discipline helps her break free, she slowly discovers that she cannot suppress all her emotions in this male society.

16-year-old Jeanne awakens in a pool of her own blood, her hands and feet marked with stigmata and her forehead bleeding as if from a thorny crown. This creates conflict, greed and of faith in a community sewn with horrifying secrets.

A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

At the Palacio, an all-inclusive resort in the carribean, Mike's arrival complicates the normal flow of operations. His voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism and unexpected miracles bring him the curious, among which he makes three friends and meeets a few admirers, a jealous salsa teacher and an enamored octopus. All of whom will accompany him in a gargantuan downward spiral mixing civil unrest and intestinal meltdown; a change of administration held up by the most attentive staff in the world.

Francis is being interrogated about a series of crimes he might be guilty of.

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.

Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.

David happily brings his wife and new baby to his parents to celebrate his birthday. All goes well until the next day, when he finds that his mother – a filmmaker – has committed suicide. His second shock comes on the day of the funeral, when he is told that the man who raised him is not his biological father. Bewildered, he starts to look for answers and finds a hidden side of his mother’s life.

Martha Barlow, a modern day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.

A year after their chance meeting in the streets of the Plateau, Dave bumps into Minou by chance in a park while trying to raise money for a date with Judith, a schizophrenic friend. Wishing to help her, Minou, who is accompanied by her friend Sylvie, invites her to her home. As she has an injured foot, the walk to the apartment is arduous, giving the three friends the opportunity to discuss all kinds of topics, from plastic surgeries to love and friendship. At the apartment, Minou's boyfriend, Richard, and his friend Hugo, still spent the night drinking and taking drugs, much to Minou's despair.

A year after their chance meeting in the streets of the Plateau, Dave bumps into Minou by chance in a park while trying to raise money for a date with Judith, a schizophrenic friend. Wishing to help her, Minou, who is accompanied by her friend Sylvie, invites her to her home. As she has an injured foot, the walk to the apartment is arduous, giving the three friends the opportunity to discuss all kinds of topics, from plastic surgeries to love and friendship. At the apartment, Minou's boyfriend, Richard, and his friend Hugo, still spent the night drinking and taking drugs, much to Minou's despair.

A year after their chance meeting in the streets of the Plateau, Dave bumps into Minou by chance in a park while trying to raise money for a date with Judith, a schizophrenic friend. Wishing to help her, Minou, who is accompanied by her friend Sylvie, invites her to her home. As she has an injured foot, the walk to the apartment is arduous, giving the three friends the opportunity to discuss all kinds of topics, from plastic surgeries to love and friendship. At the apartment, Minou's boyfriend, Richard, and his friend Hugo, still spent the night drinking and taking drugs, much to Minou's despair.

A year after their chance meeting in the streets of the Plateau, Dave bumps into Minou by chance in a park while trying to raise money for a date with Judith, a schizophrenic friend. Wishing to help her, Minou, who is accompanied by her friend Sylvie, invites her to her home. As she has an injured foot, the walk to the apartment is arduous, giving the three friends the opportunity to discuss all kinds of topics, from plastic surgeries to love and friendship. At the apartment, Minou's boyfriend, Richard, and his friend Hugo, still spent the night drinking and taking drugs, much to Minou's despair.

On Easter Day, Marie-Chantal Perron leaves the pharmacy on rue Mont-Royal to go to see friends in the McGill ghetto. On her way, she meets her friend, the actor David La Haye, forced to beg since an accident left him without short-term memory, therefore unable to learn his texts. Alone, without friends or a job, he is very happy to find his old friend, who has some difficult personal decisions to make and who is concerned by the state of his friend's health. As they walk, the two recall good times in their friendship.

On Easter Day, Marie-Chantal Perron leaves the pharmacy on rue Mont-Royal to go to see friends in the McGill ghetto. On her way, she meets her friend, the actor David La Haye, forced to beg since an accident left him without short-term memory, therefore unable to learn his texts. Alone, without friends or a job, he is very happy to find his old friend, who has some difficult personal decisions to make and who is concerned by the state of his friend's health. As they walk, the two recall good times in their friendship.

On Easter Day, Marie-Chantal Perron leaves the pharmacy on rue Mont-Royal to go to see friends in the McGill ghetto. On her way, she meets her friend, the actor David La Haye, forced to beg since an accident left him without short-term memory, therefore unable to learn his texts. Alone, without friends or a job, he is very happy to find his old friend, who has some difficult personal decisions to make and who is concerned by the state of his friend's health. As they walk, the two recall good times in their friendship.

On Easter Day, Marie-Chantal Perron leaves the pharmacy on rue Mont-Royal to go to see friends in the McGill ghetto. On her way, she meets her friend, the actor David La Haye, forced to beg since an accident left him without short-term memory, therefore unable to learn his texts. Alone, without friends or a job, he is very happy to find his old friend, who has some difficult personal decisions to make and who is concerned by the state of his friend's health. As they walk, the two recall good times in their friendship.

Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for the annual Water Festival competition. In a boxing camp on the Thai-Burmese border the children of mostly illegal migrant workers fleeing Burma live and train for prize fights. In a region where combat sports have always been a matter of honor and money, the film reveals their daily struggles. Bets are open and as the hope of prize money rizes, the young boxers contemplate what it could mean for them and their families

A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.

Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's atmosphere now has serious consequences on the every day lives of our grandchildren.

A Swiss policeman infiltrates an international money laundering ring. Based on a true story.

Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.

Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.

La Belle Bête is a powerful study of the conflict between beauty and ugliness, hate and love. The story revolves around three main characters. At the center, Patrice, a beautiful but mindless youth stands gazing at his image in the water. Around him move his ugly sister Isabelle-Marie, and his frivolous mother Louise, the first lost in love and hate for her brother's beauty, the second seeing it as an adornment for herself. Into this small, obsessed universe come a blind boy and an elegant fop from the outside world. At once, the pattern breaks and events move forward into a terrifying denouement.

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.

Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and Jenny quickly gets entangled his dangerous lifestyle.

Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.

An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.

While planning to go to an Halloween party with the woman of his dreams, the shy and innocent Daniel sees himself rather dragged by the threatening Sylvain in a series of misadventures which will introduce him to the Montreal underworld.

Somewhere in Montreal, Antoine (David La Haye) toils as a struggling writer. The end of his relationship with Matina (Irene Stamou) causes him to work obsessively on his new novel, and also makes it difficult for him to interact with the opposite sex. One day while moping over Matina, Antoine is hit by a car driven by Charlotte (Pascale Montpetit), a married mother of two and the manager of a hip boutique. Despite their differences, an attraction quickly develops between Charlotte and Antoine, and they soon add Elisabeth (Delphine Brodeur), a brainy and beautiful teenaged prostitute, to their sticky couplings. Meanwhile, Charlotte's husband Joey (Andreas Apergis) sits at home and watches dispassionately as his wife abandons him and their kids for epic nights of passion.

In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.

A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife and the band's former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he's been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

A heartbroken man wants to kill himself but pretends the opposite to avoid the eternal damnation.

Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.

Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.

A 12-year-old girl finds herself stranded on a lonely Caribbean island with a 20-year old retarded man in this sensitively rendered Canadian drama from Quebec. Emile and Cedrine are first seen during their rescue in which both are nearly in a coma. Their story of how they got there and survived is told via flashback. The two were the only survivors of a plane crash and at first Cedrine is terrified of Emile, thinking he might lose control and rape her. Fortunately, Emile is gentle and the two become friends, playmates, and eventually lovers in scenes that exploit neither character.

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.

Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming undone. Yet, the choice of the two friends remains the same: break up with the past and plunge into the unknown.

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.

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.