Gabriel Arcand

An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.

Maria Chapdelaine cuenta la historia de una joven que tiene que elegir entre tres pretendientes que le prometen a cada uno una vida diferente. Ante los acontecimientos que la empujan, María debe tomar el destino de él en sus propias manos y decidir cuál será su futuro.

Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning.

Mathieu tiene 33 años y vive con la incógnita de no haber conocido a su padre. Su madre siempre le dijo que fue fruto de una aventura de una noche. Una mañana, en su apartamento de París, recibe una llamada de Canadá de un desconocido que dice ser amigo de su padre y le informa de que éste ha fallecido, y que le quiere enviar lo que aparentemente le ha dejado en herencia: un cuadro. También le dice que tiene dos hermanos. Movido por la curiosidad, decide viajar a Montreal para conocer a esa parte de su familia que vive allí, que no serán, ni mucho menos, los que Mathieu esperaba.

Gaby Gagnon, un granjero de 60 años tiene que vender sus tierras familiares en las que cría corderos para poder ayudar a su hija menor, madre de dos hijos y que se encuentra en serios problemas financieros. Sin su sustento económico, Gaby tendrá que dejar su apacible vida en el campo para ir a vivir a Montreal a un pequeño apartamento.

Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.

Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses études en architecture avec succès, le jeune homme rencontrera Audrey, une belle ténébreuse qui lui donnera des ailes. Évidemment, le bonheur n'est jamais simple et la vie peut être parfois cruelle...

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.

Una sismóloga investiga el misterioso cese de las mareas cerca de su ciudad natal Quebec.

Los Andes 1948. Tras la muerte de su esposa, el campesino Tomás Alonso y su hijo Santiago han quedado solos en una casa en mitad de las montañas, junto a un par de bueyes y a un sembrado de trigo. Sólo ciertas tardes Tomás Alonso toca el violín. La llegada de un forastero y un incidente inesperado desatan los nudos que tejen la historia: de un lado el amor y la ansiedad que el padre y el hijo se han ido inventando por el mar y, del otro lado, el dilema de Tomás: ser un hombre bueno y cobarde o convertirse en un asesino para defender a su hijo. Al cabo la historia se precipita sobre la redención de la violencia hasta llevar a Tomás Alonso y a Santiago a las orillas de sus propios sueños: el mar.

This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensible people who try to persuade him to settle down. For Tom has only one idea in his head: to once again head south, riding the waves of love and fate.

In this tough French-Canadian drama, two outsiders -- one who works with the law, another who lives outside it -- come together with unfortunate consequences. Linda (Sylvie Moreau) is a devoted single mother who will do anything to support her five-year-old daughter, Charlotte (Sarah Lecompte-Bergeron). Unfortunately, a lot of what Linda does best isn't exactly legal, such as luring well-to-do men into the park and then mugging them. One night, Linda is trying to coax a visitor from America into the shadows when the situation starts to go wrong. Meanwhile, Ghislain (Gabriel Arcand) is a shy, lonely fellow who works at the morgue and likes to listen to the blues late at night. In time, we discover that Linda and Ghislain met at one time, leading to an ugly encounter for both of them.

In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake is a disturbed drifter who has murdered a man and has found a way to frame Jan for his crime. Jan is out tending to his traps when an Indian friend with psychic talents tells him Marie is in grave danger. Jan hurries back, but he has no idea just how serious matters are until he arrives home -- Jan is wanted by the law for a crime he didn't commit, while Blake is hiding out in his home, and has taken Marie hostage.

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.

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.

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.

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.

Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing of a novel. But Jean-Pierre is not really respecting the rules of the game...

In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to Montreal.

Uno de los grandes éxitos del cine canadiense de los años ochenta. El director francófono -natural de Quebec- Denys Arcand retrata dos grupos, uno de hombres y otro de mujeres, que hablan de sexo, de sus fantasías, sus fustraciones, sus intimidades...

Uno de los grandes éxitos del cine canadiense de los años ochenta. El director francófono -natural de Quebec- Denys Arcand retrata dos grupos, uno de hombres y otro de mujeres, que hablan de sexo, de sus fantasías, sus fustraciones, sus intimidades...

Una monja (Meg Tilly) asegura haber recibido la visita de Dios y haberse quedado embarazada. Entonces la psiquiatra Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) decide investigar el caso para llegar al fondo del asunto.

Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.

Montreal a mediados de los años cincuenta. Suzanne es una mujer joven muy inclinada a mantener relaciones con hombres. Queda embarazada de un gángster al que, poco después, condenan a diez años de prisión. Ella tiene ese hijo y se casa con otro hombre al que no ama, buscando la seguridad propia y la de su pequeño. Cuando el matón sale de prisión después de cumplir su condena, irá en busca de Suzanne. La actual situación de ella no puede más que agravar las cosas...

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

A French Canadian relationship drama based on a novel by Roger Fournier.

A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.

Una bella stripper comienza a matar criminales para vengarse de aquellos que la violaron tiempo atrás en la habitación de un motel.

A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.

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.

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.

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.