Jean-Louis Roux
Nacimiento : 1923-05-18, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Muerte : 2013-11-28
Prêtre
Drama familiar. Cuando Zach entra en la adolescencia y descubre que es diferente a los demás, reprimirá sus tendencias más profundas para no perder el amor de su padre. Entre 1960 y 1980, vive rodeado de sus hermanos, de Pink Floyd y los Rolling Stones, los porros fumados a escondidas, las grandes y pequeñas discusiones. Pero, sobre todo, lo que Zac busca es poder mantener la relación con su padre.
Jean-Baptiste's Servant
Inspirada en hechos reales. La historia de amor entre una joven campesina del Bajo San Lorenzo y un audaz aventurero, se ve marcada por un destino inexorable que está relacionado con el abandono de Canadá por parte de Francia. Entre 1758 y 1761 transcurre el turbulento periodo que da lugar a la derrota de Nueva Francia y la instauración del régimen inglés.
Bishop Blanc
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.
Cardinal Sarrazin
Frank Shore, un sacerdote conocido como el "asesino de milagros", es llamado urgentemente por su obispo para que actúe como abogado del diablo: una estatua de mármol de un convento de Chicago llora lágrimas de sangre. El párroco local propone la beatificación de Helen O'Regan, una santa mujer de pasado desconocido, que vivió sus últimos años en el convento y a quien la comunidad cree responsable de las milagrosas lágrimas. El padre Frank, que atraviesa una crisis de fe, pide ayuda a Roxanne, la hija de Helen, lo que complica más la situación, porque empieza a sentirse atraído por ella y eso hace que sus creencias se tambaleen aún más.
Professor Gerald Lambert
Chicago cabbie Mitch Lawrence is a man whose dreams are starting to fade. His only shining light is his loving and pregnant wife. When one of his clients, author Lou Webber offers him money to eliminate a drug dealer who is stalking him, Mitch refuses. Days later, Mitch is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. He reconsiders Lou's offer, and for the sake of his wife and baby, eliminates the threat. But after that night, everything changes, Mitch's stomach pains disappear. The Drug dealer suddenly resurfaces in a crowd. Then events conspire to drag Mitch deeper into a game that proves that at the right price any man is for hire.
Juge Armand Gagné
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...
Père Berube
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Pawnshop
Tres niños, Benoît, Charles y Marie, proporcionan servicios de limpieza para pasar creativamente su tiempo durante las vacaciones escolares de verano.
Marcel
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organises field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.
Monsieur Blaudelle
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.
Tinamer is 27 years old when her mother dies. The funeral of this last one makes her relive certain events of her childhood which marked her forever.
Toby es un niño incomprendido que tiene a un pato como confidente y que desea ser famoso como Jesucristo. Él, su hermana y un amigo camboyano suelen hacer viajes de exploración en bicicleta. En una de esas excursiones conocen al "Emperador del Perú". un cuentacuentos paralítico y extravagante que vive en un mundo de fantasía.
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.
Père Prenant
After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.
Keerson
En un edificio habitado por varias prostitutas, una de ellas muere asesinada. El procedimiento se reitera y hay otras muertes. Entretanto, los investigadores llegan a la conclusión de que una víctima profesa la religión católica. Uno de los clientes, indaga a una prostituta, preguntándole si pertenece a esa religión y podría existir la presencia de satanismo....con suspenso, buena música compuesta por la protagonista -Karen Black- se despliega la película que tiene un cierto decaimiento hacia la hora de irradiación aproximadamente sin que surjan acontecimientos demasiado sustanciales pero con una resolución interesante e inesperada que levanta el film.
Raymond
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.