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Brutalités amoureuses (1972)
Character: N/A
Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She talks to David, the owner, about her past: drugs, psychiatric hospital, murder of a nurse. Her friends show up and throw a party, which gets out of hand.
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Panique (1977)
Character: Maurice Falardeau
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
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Du pic au coeur (2001)
Character: N/A
A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.
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La mercière assassiné (1958)
Character: N/A
Dans un petit village de France près de Reims, Jean Rivière, un journaliste canadien, descend dans le seul hôtel de l'endroit. Ce soir-là on vient de découvrir, dans sa boutique, baignant dans son sang, la mercière assassinée In a small village in the French countryside, a traveling canadian journalist finds the hostess of the small hotel dead, victim of murder, and begins investigating along with a local magistrate.
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Félix et Meira (2015)
Character: Théodore
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
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Il était une guerre (1959)
Character: N/A
We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
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De père en flic (2009)
Character: Homme journaliste
To save the life of fellow cop kidnapped by a biker gang, a father and a son who cannot stand the sight of each other infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy for fathers and sons. Their biggest challenge is to survive the therapy without killing each other.
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Camping Sauvage (2004)
Character: Ange-Albert Pigeon
Pierre-Louis Cinq-Mars is a successful stockbroker. Everything in his life is well-ordered -- stock investments, luxury car, the latest computer, stylish and tasteful clothes...well-ordered to the point of being utterly predictable. Jackie Pigeon, the owner of the Camping Pigeon campground, is a go-getter who always gets her way. She conducts her business with a sure hand and everything at the campground runs smoothly. Her life is the complete opposite of Pierre-Louis's -- she's rather messy, of modest means, wears flamboyant and sexy clothes...everything in her life hovers on the edge of bad taste. Two people from completely different worlds whose paths would not normally have been fated to cross.
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Pudding chômeur (1996)
Character: Croque-mort
Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and misanthropes. The story roughly centers on the adventures of Yo-Yo, a young woman who is first seen acting as a high priestess for a ceremony involving the miraculous healing powers of the little boy Alphonse.
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Maurice Richard (2005)
Character: Paul St-Georges
The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
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Idole instantanée (2005)
Character: N/A
Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.
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Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film (2004)
Character: Kerplunk
The movie chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for a new planet to welcome humankind. The seven crew members venture outside their own galaxy to explore other star system in search of a new planet large enough to sustain 6 billion people. The few habitable planets encountered are ultimately abandoned either because they are already occupied (emphasizing the wrongdoing of invading other civilizations and cultures), or because upon closer inspection they are found to have other problems (cow-sized mosquitoes, high radiation levels, dog overpopulation, unsuitable living environment, ...).
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Parlez-nous d'amour (1976)
Character: Pierre Vignon, le chanteur
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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Amanita Pestilens (1973)
Character: Simon, Sophie's Lover
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.
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