Alfred
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Rosario le bedeau
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
In this Canadian made oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) 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.
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
The man with the dog
A French Canadian relationship drama based on a novel by Roger Fournier.
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
Father
Historia de amor entre una mujer que es asesinada brutalmente y el ángel que le resucita.
Rosaire Tremblay, the father
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
Ouvrier
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
The uncle
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Le sculpteur
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Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
The Grocer
En octubre de 1970, con el pretexto de combatir a la organización política armada Frente de Liberación de Quebec, el parlamento canadiense votó la War's Measures Act. Policía y ejército fueron legitimados por ella para quebrar a las organizaciones populares de la provincia de Quebec. Más de cuatrocientas personas fueron detenidas por su militancia política o social. Pero nunca fueron acusados de nada. Esta es su historia.
Le cardinal
A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures.
L'oncle
Hubert Tremblay
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
Armand Tremblay
After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he don't have long to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die somewhere other then home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Widower
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
Georges Bouchard, Road Minister
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.
Oncle Arthur
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
Léo
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.
Non-Quebecois may find this French language comedy somewhat inscrutable, as it contains many local references and in-jokes. The story concerns two incredibly primitive backwoods types. These men have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy nearly destroys their relationship, but after they have come to blows over her, they discover she has left. This film is mildly pornographic, as it has nudity and depicts sexual situations.
Neighbour
A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.
Le médecin
A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Dr. Helier (uncredited)
En un pequeño pueblo de Quebec, el Dr. Pearson comienza a recibir cartas en la que se le amenaza para que rompa con el supuesto romance que está sosteniendo con Cora Laurent y simultáneamente, muchas otras personas comienzan a recibir misivas donde se amenaza con hacer públicas sus faltas. ¿Quién es? ¿Qué intereses tiene? El Dr. Pearson y el psiquiatra Laurent se disponen a averiguarlo.
In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and settled on a piece of land. Everyone joins forces to take their revenge on the hateful Séraphin.
Butler
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
