My top 50 movies made in Quebec
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- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMarie-Josée CrozeJean-Nicolas VerreaultStephanie MorgensternAfter plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
- DirectorJean-Philippe DuvalStarsSébastien RicardJoseph MesianoDimitri StorogeIn the whiteness of the Quebec countryside, in St-Étienne-de-Bolton in Estrie, Dédé Fortin and his Colocs withdrew to compose what became their most famous but also their last album, Dehors Novembre.
- DirectorFrançois BouvierStarsJoël Dalpé-DrapeauDenis BouchardPatrick ThomasAn adult Martin Roy reminisces about his life in the 1966/67 school year. At fifteen years old and in his last year of junior high school, he breathed, ate and slept hockey. He collected hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried skating and ice hockey for the first time in his life, but was most fascinated with his local national league team, the Montréal Canadiens, and its star player, Henri Richard. He dreamed of growing up and working for the Canadiens franchise. But a more immediate goal was to get tickets to one of their games, using M. Richard and his banker father, Hervé, as possible conduits to that goal. He also remembers his school life from that year, with the arrival of pot smoking free thinking hippie Ron Richardson as the new English teacher, and dreading home room with strict Mlle. Chouinard, who he eventually learned too had a human side. But he learned that there may be a couple of things more important than hockey: family, and the opposite sex.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLorne BrassGaston LepageBenoît BrièreIn Montreal, the wanderings of two urban homeless, Marcel, an old timer and Joseph, who just landed in the big city. Both philosophers and resourceful nice bums roam the streets of the metropolis in search of Stanley, the only friend of Marcel and who has not been heard of since a long time. Throughout their adventures, the two men forged an unbreakable friendship. Will they find Stanley before it's too late?
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsIannicko N'Doua-LégaréRobin AubertEmmanuel BilodeauIn the middle of the night, in the Quebec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
- DirectorErik CanuelStarsIsabel RicherSylvain MarcelCatherine TrudeauDeux soeurs, Stéphane et Bettie Brousseau risquent de perdre la porcherie, héritée de leur père, qu'elles opèrent ensemble. Joueuse compulsive, Stéphane a de la difficulté à épargner. Elle vend à Riendeau, son ex-mari, les plants de pot qui ont été semés et ont poussé dans son champ de maïs. Elle pense utiliser la commission de cette transaction pour payer rapidement ses dettes et éviter la saisie. Quand Paquette et son complice trafiquant se rendent compte que la culture a été vendue, ils kidnappent les soeurs Brousseau. Ils ignorent qu'un couple de Châteauguay attend l'enfant dont Bettie est la mère porteuse. Lorsque les deux parents s'installent à demeure pour aider Bettie à accoucher, l'entreprise des bandits devient périlleuse.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsCharlotte LaurierBenoît DagenaisJulien PoulinAt a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsGildor RoyJean-Guy BouchardBrigitte PaquetteThe last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéMarc-André GrondinDanielle ProulxA young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauJulien PoulinStarsJulien PoulinDenise MercierMarie-Claude DufourA Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.
- DirectorPierre FalardeauStarsHugo DubéLuc PicardPierre RivardA dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMaxim GaudetteSébastien HuberdeauKarine VanasseA dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsPierre LebeauKarine VanasseRoy DupuisA young woman is forced to marry an old greedy man to save her father from bankruptcy although she has promised her heart to another man.
- DirectorLouis BélangerStarsSerge ThériaultGilles RenaudSébastien DelormeThe owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
- StarsDonald PilonRémy GirardYves JacquesOvide 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.
- DirectorDaniel GrouStarsClaude LegaultRobert NaylorEugénie BeaudryTommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
- DirectorAndré MelançonStarsCédric JourdeMarie-Pierre A. D'AmourJulien ElieDuring Christmas holidays, the children of a small village split themselves into two groups and begin preparing a week-long snowball war. The rivalry opens up tension among group members, especially leaders Luc and Sophie.
- DirectorÉli LalibertéStarsGuy BellefleurPas celui du lien, mais celui fait dans les années 70s, pas sur IMDB.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
- DirectorPierre HouleStarsCéline BonnierRoy DupuisPatrick HuardThe oldest daughter of an impoverished Montreal family, Monique Sparvieri vows to find a way to get out of the ghetto in which she lives. Abandoned by Michael, the love of her life, Monique finds herself alone again when her second husband, Gaston, is sentenced to ten months in prison. While many other women her age are still dreaming of Prince Charming, Monique takes her own destiny in her hands. She and her new love, Gerald Simard, plan a series of bank robberies. Intoxicated by passion and success, Monique isn't afraid of anything and she wants to make sure that her children don't experience the same miserable upbringing as she did.
- DirectorLuc PicardStarsVincent-Guillaume OtisLuc PicardAlexis MartinDuring a stormy night in the past century, the one named "the witch" is about to give birth. Mrs. Gelinas and Toussaint Brodeur are assisting her in the process.
- DirectorRicardo TrogiStarsPatrice RobitailleJean-Phillipe PearsonStéphane BretonQuébec-Montréal: 250 km of asphalt, nine thirty-something travelers, four cars, one destination. The journey becomes an opportunity to share points of view about life and discuss troubling questions about existence. Highway 20 forms the backdrops for the sometimes hilarious, sometimes complicated situations between three south-bound friends who discuss ideal love, the quest of romance between two ambiguous office colleagues, the appearance of passion from a pictures perfect couple versus the daily-grind suffered by another young couple and their pending break up. The two hours in transit along the winding thoroughfare of love set a collision course of grating simultaneous reality-checks and deep reflections about where life has taken you and the roads that it will take you on in the future.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsÉlise GuilbaultLuc PicardMichel ForgetÀ la veille de ses derniers instants, une femme se remémore son passé d'alcoolique. Elle revoit toute sa jeunesse dont une cuite qui, à 46 ans, lui a coûté tout ce qu'elle avait. «La solitude, le vieillissement sont des thèmes qui s'imposent à moi, sous une forme ou l'autre. Quant à l'alcoolisme, il me fascine à cause de la révolte qu'il sous-tend, et me révolte par le malheur qu'il crée autour de lui.» (Bernard Émond).
- DirectorÉric TessierStarsMarc-André GrondinNormand D'AmourSonia Vachon5150 ELM'S WAY is located at end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike.
- DirectorRicardo TrogiStarsJean-Carl BoucherClaudio ColangeloSandrine BissonFilmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsRoy DupuisStephen McHattieJulie LeBretonA story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsJacques GagnonLyne ChampagneJean DuceppeSet in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
- DirectorLyne CharleboisStarsIsabelle BlaisJean-Hugues AngladeAngèle CoutuAn erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol.
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsGuy L'EcuyerPaul HébertSuzanne ValéryA worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.
- DirectorMichel BraultStarsHélène LoiselleJean LapointeGuy ProvostA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
- DirectorGabriel PelletierStarsMichel CôtéSylvie LéonardPatrick HuardAfter 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsLuc PicardDiane LavalléeZhenhu HanThis is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.
- DirectorDan BigrasStarsAlexandre CastonguayIsabelle GuérardPatrick MartinThree friends who grew up together in the suburbs of Montreal end up living on the streets.
- DirectorAlain ChartrandStarsSerge ThériaultClaude MeunierRaymond BouchardTwo harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves.
- DirectorRobert MénardStarsMichel CôtéLouise MarleauGeneviève RiouxThe same actor plays four kinds of male animals prowling four kinds of Montreal nightclubs.
- DirectorGhyslaine CôtéStarsJacinthe LaguëJulie DeslauriersIngrid FalaiseIn Montreal, childhood friends gather at a lakeside cottage. After inviting a stranger to their party, one girl is raped and murdered. Fifteen years later, the traumatized survivors reunite, uncovering wounds from their harrowing loss.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMichel CôtéGeneviève BrouilletteSylvie BourqueA judge is caught with a prostitute. She provides a list of her clients which includes several high-profile judges and politicians. This triggers a series of disturbing events creating an atmosphere of danger and intrigue.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsJean-Guy BouchardNormand D'AmourRené-Daniel DuboisOn the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsPaul AhmaraniStéphane DemersGeneviève NéronChristophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision. Christophe sells his car, while Stéphane receives more funding for the film, and can hire a sound man. However, the crew following Christophe with a camera is a hinderance in his job-hunting. After spending the night with Christophe, his girlfriend Odile, an artist working as a supermarket cashier, takes over the camera and films the roommates as they get up. Finally Christophe finds a few days work dismantling machines for a company that is moving to Mexico, but his cameraman causes problems after interviewing the president of the company in the washroom.
- DirectorSylvain ArchambaultStarsMichel CôtéMaxime Le FlaguaisLéo ArguelloToronto, August 2001. Commander Robert Piche left Pearson Airport heading for Lisbon on an Airbus 330. Due to a significant fuel loss, he was headed for an almost certain crash. However, he courageously kept his cool and skillfully glided the plane to a safe landing, saving the 306 passengers on board. Back in Canada, Piche's criminal past and extraordinary life came to light, explaining somewhat how he was able to commit this heroic act.
- DirectorMichel JettéStarsDominic DarceuilDavid BoutinRonald HouleAfter an unpleasant run-in with a group of bikers, a young convenience store robber (Marc) gets approached by the same bikers to help out with a picnic. After the picnic, seeing he has guts, the bikers propose him for membership. As the story unfolds, Marc winds up questioning his own morality and wondering whether he's going down the wrong path. The biggest problem, however, is that one of his friends got him into trouble, and he has little time to fix it...
- DirectorMichel PouletteStarsMartin DrainvilleZhenhu HanChantal FontaineLouis has always had a dream, to be on television. But when he enters a contest and wins, the first prize involves a cameraman following him everywhere for three months. The only problem is that Louis has a boring life, so the TV executives decide to put some excitement in it.
- DirectorLouis SaiaStarsMarc MessierCéline BonnierSerge ThériaultA school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
- DirectorCharles BinaméStarsPascale MontpetitGuy NadonAnne-Marie CadieuxLouise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an hour of her time to strangers on the street. "An hour of myself", to do whatever they want to do. But one hour precisely, that's it. This leads to many different situations, some funny, some sexy, some sad. Louise talks to someone who later turns out to have been an undercover reporter. The reporter anticipates a bad end for Louise...
- DirectorGéza BereményiStarsKároly EperjesJudit PogányEnikõ EszenyiSandor Monori thinks that he can buy everything with his gold. The story takes place after the World War II at the famous Teleki ter where he is the King of the market.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsMarie TifoPierre CurziJacques GodinA government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who's being released in exchange for information about Montreal's underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money and safe passage to the US for himself and his son Robin. Théo brings in two helpers, Gilder, ex-con and set designer, and Roxanne, Gilder's friend, a tough-minded petty thief. Their elaborate plan blows up when a guard, Marcel, takes his responsibilities too seriously. What happens to father and son? Will any of the thieves escape?