Jean-Louis Roux

В Рождество, 25 декабря 1960 года, родился Захари Болье, четвёртый ребёнок в семье, состоящей из пяти мальчиков и их родителей. Обычная семья: любящая мать и отец, грубоватый, исполненный гордости своими сыновьями. Сложные трансформации личности, в ходе которых маленький мальчик взрослеет, изменяясь и внешне и внутренне, встречают отторжение и неприятие его отца. Жизнь семьи наполняется необычными и экстраординарными событиями.

В середине 18-го века, во время сражения Англии и Франции за Канаду между крестьянкой и охотником разворачивается страстный роман.

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.

Фрэнк Шор давно потерял веру и отрекся от бога, хотя все еще продолжает быть священником. Прозванный в религиозных кругах «убийцей чудес», он разоблачил многих фальшивых пророков и чудотворцев. Но дело о таинственной мраморной статуе во дворе одной из церквей Чикаго, глаза которой источают кровавые исцеляющие слезы, оказалось не совсем обычным. Фрэнк думал, что в современном мире больше нет места святым, а дьяволу уже не нужны людские души. И только когда ему пришлось прикоснуться к запретным тайнам, многие века хранимым церковью, он поверил, что на земле ещеслучаются истинные чудеса…

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.

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...

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?

Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly wrong when jealousy, sabotage, fraud, and a failed love story begin.

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.

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.

Two children deal with the arrival of a foster brother, a Cambodian refugee. All three of them discover a hermetic retired railway engineer living in the woods. Then the children find an abandoned locomotive and, with the help of the engineer, bring it back to working order.

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.

Пьер, мальчик, пытающийся смириться с тем, что его мать-одиночка Мария-Луиза начала новые отношения после смерти его отца. Чего он не знает, так это того, что его мать солгала, чтобы защитить его: его настоящий отец не умер, но на самом деле он отпрыск Марии-Луизы, изнасилованной ее отцом.

Детектив полиции Монреаля Джим Хендерсон расследует странную смерть проститутки-наркоманки Элизабет, упавшей с балкона высотного дома. Вскоре Хендерсон приходит к выводу, что смерть была не несчастным случаем, а Элизабет столкнули вниз. Мало того, Элизабет была членом общества сатанистов, исповедующего кровавые культовые ритуалы…

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.