Hiver, neige et campagne; Winter, snow and the countryside
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- DirectorRaymond GarceauStarsGuy ThauvetteFrancine RacetteJacques BilodeauDans les campagnes du Québec, un nouveau phénomène a fait son apparition: la violence. Comment un beau grand garçon de village, libre et paisible, se laisse-t-il entraîner sur la voie du crime? Telle est l'histoire du grand Rock après son mariage avec Régine, qui convoite tous les biens que vante la publicité. Forcé d'abdiquer sa liberté pour la paye hebdomadaire, coupé de ses racines, le grand Rock cherche l'aventure dans le monde de la pègre qui en fait un cagoulard.
- DirectorMartin DoepnerStarsIsabelle GuérardLothaire BluteauAnthony LemkeA young mother is forced to shelter five soldiers for a night in her isolated house.
- DirectorMichel BraultGilles GroulxFootage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsGeneviève BujoldRichard JordanMarcel CuvelierQuebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine's violent death.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDenis HérouxStarsChristine OlivierDaniel PilonMylène Demongeot-In 1837, in Quebec, a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the sentimental drama of Simon de Bellefeuille and Julie, chosen from her heart, for another.
- DirectorRoger CardinalStarsDaniel PilonMariette LévesqueCéline LomezThree ski instructors are busier in accumulating love than in giving lessons so they spend more time in bed than on the slopes.
- DirectorJean-Claude LabrecqueStarsGeorge Morris
- StarsFrançois LétourneauVincent-Guillaume OtisÉdith CochraneTwo TV writers whose critically savaged police show is a surprise hit decide that they need real criminal experiences to spice up their second season.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMichel BraultPierre PerraultStarsLéopold TremblayAlexis TremblayAbel HarveyAt the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
- DirectorJean-Philippe DuvalStarsFrancis DucharmeCaroline DhavernasFrançois PapineauIn 1863 travelers make a pact with the devil for a flying canoe. To save wife and daughter, a man sacrifices himself. 25 years later the devil tries to ruin daughter's engagement to a logger.
- DirectorAndré ForcierStarsGuy L'EcuyerMichel CôtéPierre GiardA friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
- StarsMarc MessierNormand DaneauFanny MalletteJournaliste vedette de l'information télévisée, Louis-Bernard Lapointe a vu sa brillante carrière péricliter à cause de son penchant pour la dive bouteille. Il a perdu le feu sacré et c'est sans enthousiasme qu'il se rend dans une petite ville isolée du Nord québécois, Grande Ourse. De fait, il ne faudra pas beaucoup de temps pour que des événements bizarres et surtout une femme aussi belle que mystérieuse ne retiennent l'attention de Lapointe et l'incitent à pousser plus loin son enquête.
- DirectorPatrice SauvéStarsMarc MessierNormand DaneauFanny MalletteTo save his best friend, Louis-Bernard Lapointe has to transport himself to a parallel world to find the 'Key of Possibilities', a magical and legendary object that allow his user to visit an infinite numbers of universes where everything is possible.
- StarsMarina OrsiniRoy DupuisVéronique Le FlaguaisAt the end of the 19th century, Emilie Bordeleau, daughter of Caleb Bordeleau, decides she wishes to continue her education. She faces great opposition from her small minded entourage, but her spunk and verve win out and she becomes a school teacher. Eventually she falls in love and marries one of her students and they move to Shawinigan and have a whole bunch of children. Though her marriage is based on passion, happiness eludes Emilie, whose husband is an irresponsible lout with a drinking problem. The only job he seems able to hold down is as a lumberjack up north, where his wife and kids cannot follow.
- StarsJean-Pierre MassonAndrée ChampagneGabriel GasconA historical drama set in the 1880s in the growing settlement of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, where a love triangle involves the powerful but miserly mayor, the woman forced into marrying him, and the beau with whom she shares a deep love.
- StarsNicole LeblancRaymond LegaultMireille ThibaultLa famille Cormoran possède une terre au bord du fleuve, dans la région du Bas Saint-Laurent. Elle habite une imposante maison qui domine les environs. En 1936, la société traverse une crise politique, économique et culturelle. Les idéologies s'affrontent et la société canadienne-française s'en ressent. Dans le microcosme de Baie-d'Esprit, un propriétaire foncier, un commerçant politicien, un industriel en devenir et un imprimeur-éditeur participent aux bouleversements de l'époque. Sans trop le savoir, ils sont de gauche ou de droite, républicains ou monarchistes, camelots du roi ou communards. Ils s'aiment, se détestent, s'allient, se combattent selon les situations quotidiennes qu'ils sont appelés à vivre, et les pressions que la société exerce sur eux.
- StarsNicole LeblancKaterine MousseauPierre DufresneL'action se déroule peu après la Première Guerre mondiale, dans la région de La Malbaie qui est bouleversée par l'arrivée du modernisme: le téléphone, l'électricité, l'automobile, etc. Rose-Anna, une veuve qui a trois enfants, doit faire des travaux domestiques pour arriver à joindre les deux bouts. Elle est courtisée par Joseph-Arthur Lavoie, cultivateur prospère et veuf lui aussi, mais refuse d'être infidèle à son premier mari. Le curé Chouinard veille sur ses paroissiens et observe les intrigues qui se nouent et se dénouent dans les familles ou au gré de la politique locale: le fils de Joseph-Arthur, Yvon, qui va épouser la fille de Rose-Anna, la quasi centenaire mémère Bouchard, les manoeuvres du notaire de Québec, Cyprien Fournier, Ti-Coune, l'innocent du village, qui voit quand même beaucoup de choses. Les conflits de générations et de valeurs animent durant 20 ans tout ce petit monde en transformation.
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsCéline BonnierLysandre MénardDiane LavalléeIn a small convent school in rural Quebec, Mother Augustine provides a musical education to young women no matter their socio-economic background. However, with the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the school's future is at peril.
- DirectorSébastien PiloteStarsGilbert SicotteNathalie CavezzaliJeremy TessierMarcel Lévesque, a quick-witted car salesman nearing retirement, lives to sell. He has been salesman of the month for the last sixteen years at the dealership where he has spent his career, in a declining industrial town in Lac Saint-Jean, where it's cold enough to scare away the tourists and buying a car sometimes seems completely absurd. There's just one thing on his mind: getting his beloved Detroit rides off the lot. Marcel Lévesque is a salesman from a bygone era, a man who learned his trade by telling tales - "fibs dressed up with flowers" - and making his customers happy. But a tragedy will change everything for this peddler of dreams.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsEmmanuel BilodeauPhilomène BilodeauRoc LafortuneOn the fringe of society in a remote part of the French-Canadian countryside, the fragile relationship and unusual private life of a father and daughter is jeopardized by dreary, unforeseen circumstances.
- DirectorAnne Claire PoirierStarsKelly RicardNora Scott-MoncrieffYvon CharetteThe history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony with the men already there, and ending with the modern career woman.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsLothaire BluteauAden YoungSandrine HoltIn the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsAnnie AyotteLucille BarilMélanie Bastien-OuimetDr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency room doctor from Montreal, agrees to go to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, with no plans for an extended stay. When Dr. Rainville suddenly dies, Jeanne must decide if she'll take over the job, and its inherent responsibilities, for the long-term.
- DirectorJean-François PouliotStarsDavid BoutinLucie LaurierRaymond BouchardA much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
- CreatorBrian BirdMichael Landon Jr.StarsErin KrakowPascale HuttonJack WagnerElizabeth Thatcher, a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
- DirectorRobert MorinStarsFrançois PapineauSylvie MoreauGeorges AubinA notorious fraud artist on the lam confides in his daughters on video.
- DirectorAndré MelançonStarsDenis BouchardRaymond LegaultPipo GagnonOn Christmas eve a journalist witnesses a theft in a mall and then tracks one of the thieves to later be taken as his hostage in the radio station he works for.
- DirectorCatherine MartinStarsPaule BaillargeonDenis BernardDenise GagnonHow to go on living afterwards? It is the end of winter. A young violinist is murdered in her apartment by a stranger. Her mother is in shock. Devastated by the violent death of her daughter, she decides to leave Montréal and take refuge, alone, in Kamouraska, at the country house built by her maternal ancestors and inherited from her mother. She tries to rebuild an interior life by re-establishing contact with Nature, with the house, and with the objects that remind her of her childhood and that of her daughter. But the mother's grief is profound: she doesn't want to go on living. In extremis, she is discovered and saved in the forest by a man while she was letting herself freeze to death. They recognize each other: they knew each other as teenagers. They can't help letting the amorous feelings of those times resurface. The presence of this man and the benevolent spirits of her grandmother, mother and daughter, all dead yet still present for her, help her regain her equilibrium and find the desire to live again.
- DirectorBenoit PilonStarsMarie-Josée CrozeFrançois PapineauNatar UngalaaqTravelling to the Arctic for the first time, Carmen arrives in Iqaluit to tend to her husband, Gilles, a construction worker who has been seriously injured. Trying to get to the bottom of what happened, she strikes up a friendship with Noah, Gilles' Inuk friend, and realizes they share a similar story. Together, Carmen and Noah head out on the Frobisher Bay - she, looking for answers to her questions; he, trying to stop his son from committing what can't be undone.
- DirectorSonia Bonspille BoileauStarsEve RinguetteCharles Buckell-RobertsonMarco CollinLe dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman, who routinely works at her father's convenience store in a small First-Nations community in Québec. One night, as she prepares to close up, she is held-up at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more perplex as she recognizes her assailant. Inadvertently, Lydia will be forced to make a decision that will forever change her life.
- DirectorAlexis Durand-BraultStarsGabriel SabourinDenise FiliatraultSophie LorainJulien publishes an autobiography focusing on his childhood memories and his odd relationship with his long-estranged mother. His mother, who is unaware of the book's content, tries to reconnect with him and redeem the lost time.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsSamianRaoul Max TrujilloGilles RenaudMohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
- StarsMarjolaine HébertGuy ProvostJean DuceppeDans une grande famille rurale contemporaine, les Jacquemin, trois générations s'affrontent. Le patriarche de 85 ans, Léandre, répugne à régler sa succession; autour de ce pilier familial, gravitent ses fils qui vivent dans l'attente, ainsi que leurs enfants qui grandissent dans la fougue de leur âge. Ce drame familial s'insère dans le quotidien de Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, une petite paroisse où couvent des conflits qui, peu à peu, éclatent au grand joue: mésententes conjugales, discordes familiales, soucis d'argent ou d'éducation des enfants.