200 films incontournables du cinéma québécois (1937-2015)
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1. En pays neufs (1937)
67 min | Documentary
Director: Maurice Proulx | Star: Maurice Montgrain
Votes: 11
2. La petite Aurore l'enfant martyre (1952)
102 min | Biography, Drama
A little girl witnesses the death of her mother--expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The conniving nurse then marries the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Yves Bigras | Stars: Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell, Paul Desmarteaux, Janette Bertrand
Votes: 316
3. Tit Coq (1953)
104 min | Drama, Romance, War
After returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
Directors: René Delacroix, Gratien Gélinas | Stars: Fred Barry, Monique Miller, Denise Pelletier, Clément Latour
Votes: 176
4. Les raquetteurs (1958)
15 min | Short, Documentary
Footage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.
Directors: Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
Votes: 394
5. Les brûlés (1959)
114 min | Drama
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
Director: Bernard Devlin | Stars: Jacques Bilodeau, Georges Bouvier, Hervé Brousseau, Rolland Bédard
Votes: 69
6. Bûcherons de la Manouane (1963)
28 min | Short
Quebecois lumberjacks have to face harsh working and living conditions to earn a living and support their families.
Director: Arthur Lamothe
Votes: 46
7. Seul ou avec d'autres (1962)
64 min | Drama
-September 1961. It's back to school at the University of Montréal (in Canada). Nicole, a young bourgeoise studying in arts, meets Pierre, a sophomore who teaches her how to succeed without... See full summary »
Directors: Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Stéphane Venne | Stars: Michelle Boulizon, Nicole Braun, André Dubois, Serge Grenier
Votes: 41
8. À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre (1962)
42 min | Documentary, Short
-Documentary made by Hubert Aquin in 1962 about a 24-hour tour of the popular Saint-Henri district in Montreal (in the province of Quebec, Canada). We discover the simplicity of this ... See full summary »
Director: Hubert Aquin | Star: Jacques Godbout
Votes: 65
9. Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963)
105 min | Documentary
At 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.
Directors: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Stars: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Abel Harvey, Louis Harvey
Votes: 710
10. Take It All (1963)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Claude Jutra, Johanne Harelle, Victor Désy, Tania Fédor
Votes: 383
11. The Cat in the Bag (1964)
74 min | Drama
A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.
Director: Gilles Groulx | Stars: Barbara Ulrich, Claude Godbout, Manon Blain, Véronique Vilbert
Votes: 499
12. The Merry World of Leopold Z (1965)
68 min | Comedy
A 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.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Guy L'Ecuyer, Paul Hébert, Suzanne Valéry, Monique Joly
Votes: 394
13. YUL 871 (1966)
71 min | Drama
A Frenchman has an affair while on a business trip.
Director: Jacques Godbout | Stars: Charles Denner, Andrée Lachapelle, Paul Buissonneau, Francine Landry
Votes: 84
14. The Times That Are (1967)
118 min | Documentary
Four years after Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), the director 'Pierre Perrault' ask Alexis Tremblay if he agreed to travel with his wife Marie in the country of their ancestors, France... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Alexis Tremblay, Marie Tremblay, Léopold Tremblay, Marie-Paule Tremblay
Votes: 78
15. Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967)
85 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Claude Gauthier, Geneviève Bujold, Paul Gauthier, Denise Bombardier
Votes: 307
16. Poussière sur la ville (1968)
93 min | Drama
Un homme et une femme. Lui, jeune médecin, il consacre toutes ses énergies à sa vie professionnelle. Elle, déçue par cette vie trop calme, s'ennuie à mourir. Un homme et une femme qui vivent côte à côte sans jamais se rencontrer.
Director: Arthur Lamothe | Stars: Guy Sanche, Michelle Rossignol, Henri Norbert, Nicole Filion
Votes: 15
17. Le viol d'une jeune fille douce (1968)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
A sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried; her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their sister.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Julie Lachapelle, Jacques Cohen, Katerine Mousseau, Daniel Pilon
Votes: 78
18. La chambre blanche (1969)
78 min | Drama
A film poem in which a married couple engage in conversation about love, death, and life while the scenery changes around them.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Michèle Magny, Marcel Sabourin
Votes: 18
19. Jusqu'au coeur (1969)
93 min | Drama
An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Paul Berval, Robert Charlebois, Denis Drouin, Pierre Dufresne
Votes: 39
20. Valérie (1969)
97 min | Drama
A seminal Quebec erotic film about a curious girl who leaves her convent to explore the Montréal hippy scene, becomes a prostitute and meets her true love who doesn't know she's a hooker, that started erotic film genre in Canada.
Director: Denis Héroux | Stars: Danielle Ouimet, Guy Godin, Andrée Flamand, Kim Wilcox
Votes: 167
21. Où êtes-vous donc? (1969)
96 min | Drama
-Three friends in Montreal (Canada) pursue music careers. One of them wants to create great art but the other two want fame and fortune and are willing to do anything to get it.
Director: Gilles Groulx | Stars: Jean-Claude Bernard, Diane Bernatchez, Georges Dor, Danielle Jourdan
Votes: 55
22. Wow (1970)
94 min | Documentary
Nine teenagers are interviewed about social and cultural issues and then get to act out their dreams and fantasies.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Danielle Bail, Philippe Dubé, Michèle Mercure, Dave Gold
Votes: 72
23. Deux femmes en or (1970)
106 min | Comedy
Two women neighbors, exasperated by the fact that their husbands do not pay much attention to them, have sexual adventures with several men, usually delivery men or repairers.
Director: Claude Fournier | Stars: Monique Mercure, Louise Turcot, Marcel Sabourin, Donald Pilon
Votes: 274
24. My Uncle Antoine (1971)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Set 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.
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault
Votes: 3,185
25. Acadia Acadia?!? (1971)
117 min | Documentary
Long métrage documentaire tourné dans les coulisses de l'action à l'Université de Moncton (Nouveau-Brunswick), théâtre du réveil acadien de la fin des années 1960. Dans une province où 40 ... See full summary »
Directors: Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | Stars: Irène Doiron, Michel Blanchard, Bernard Gauvin, Blondine Maurice
Votes: 117
26. Les mâles (1971)
113 min | Comedy
A student and a woodcutter living in the wood since a year and a half, lacking a woman, kidnapped a nurse working in the near village. Well, she didn't dislike it. In the mean time, the ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Donald Pilon, René Blouin, Andrée Pelletier, Katerine Mousseau
Votes: 179
27. On est loin du soleil (1971)
80 min | Drama
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Director: Jacques Leduc | Stars: Esther Auger, Reynald Bouchard, Pierre Curzi, J. Léo Gagnon
Votes: 26
28. The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard, Robert Rivard
Votes: 467
29. IXE-13 (1972)
115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him.
Director: Jacques Godbout | Stars: Louise Forestier, André Dubois, Serge Grenier, Marc Laurendeau
Votes: 301
30. Le temps d'une chasse (1972)
98 min | Drama
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Guy L'Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne, Olivier L'Ecuyer
Votes: 231
31. The River Schooners (1968)
110 min | Documentary
The life of the people living on the Ile-aux-Coudres, the way these men construct their own schooners, the hard work in coasting or on the high seas.
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Laurent Tremblay, Aurele Tremblay, Yvan Tremblay, Eloi Perron
Votes: 38
32. Les smattes (1972)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A family refuses to leave their native village after being ordered to by the government and are pursued by the authorities as a result of an accidental shooting.
Director: Jean-Claude Labrecque | Stars: Donald Pilon, Daniel Pilon, Louise Laparé, Marcel Martel
Votes: 51
33. Québec: Duplessis et après... (1972)
121 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about Maurice Duplessis and the quebec nationalism which to new levels after the death of this Premier of the Province of Quebec. The director used the electoral campaigns of ... See full summary »
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Robin Spry, Gisèle Trépanier, Denys Arcand, Robert Bourassa
Votes: 53
34. Tendresse ordinaire (1973)
82 min | Drama
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
Director: Jacques Leduc | Stars: Esther Auger, Jocelyn Bérubé, Jean-Pierre Bourque, Claudette Delorimier
Votes: 36
35. Kamouraska (1973)
R | 124 min | Drama, History
Quebec, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe Léotard
Votes: 420
36. The Heavenly Bodies (1973)
104 min | Comedy
A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Donald Pilon, Micheline Lanctôt, Carole Laure, Jacques Dufilho
Votes: 78
37. The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
115 min | Drama
A young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon, Pauline Julien
Votes: 329
38. O.K. ... Laliberté (1973)
113 min | Comedy
A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.
Director: Marcel Carrière | Stars: Jacques Godin, Luce Guilbeault, Jean Lapointe, Lucille Papineau
Votes: 88
39. Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
96 min | Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Jean Lajeunesse, Luce Guilbeault, J. Léo Gagnon, Therese Cadorette
Votes: 407
40. Les dernières fiançailles (1973)
92 min | Drama
After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long to live. But after more than 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere else. His wife, Rose, has secretly ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Marthe Nadeau, J. Léo Gagnon, Marcel Sabourin
Votes: 211
41. Les beaux dimanches (1974)
93 min | Drama
The psychological tensions which are driving four bourgeois couples apart are blithely ignored, as they attempt to party through them, all the while discussing politics, flirting, and drinking heavily.
Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Jean Duceppe, Denise Filiatrault, Yvon Dufour, Luce Guilbeault
Votes: 157
42. J.A. Martin photographe (1977)
100 min | Drama
The wife of photographer J. A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thierry, Catherine Tremblay
Votes: 399
43. Orders (1974)
109 min | Drama, History
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost, Claude Gauthier
Votes: 1,150
44. Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1974)
87 min | Documentary, History
A historical account of the French-Canadian terrorist kidnapping incident and the Federal Govt.'s response by declaring martial-law.
Director: Robin Spry | Stars: Thor Bishopric, Pierre Bourgault, Réal Caouette, Claude Charron
Votes: 117
45. Bar Salon (1974)
84 min | Drama
Charles Méthot, propriétaire d'un bar menacé de faillite, accepte la gérance d'un bar de banlieue pour sauver son propre commerce. Après une aventure sentimentale décevante avec une ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Françoise Berd, Lucille Bélair, Madeleine Chartrand, Michèle Dion
Votes: 77
46. Bulldozer (1974)
93 min
Director: Pierre Harel | Stars: Yvan Ducharme, Pauline Julien, Raymond Lévesque, Claudine Monfette
Votes: 27
47. Normande (1975)
117 min | Drama, Fantasy
The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Raymond Cloutier, Reynald Bouchard, Carmen Giroux
Votes: 214
48. Gina (1975)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Céline Lomez, Claude Blanchard, Frédérique Collin, Serge Thériault
Votes: 607
49. Les vautours (1975)
91 min | Drama
A young man has to contend with his three greedy aunts after his mother dies and leaves him a sum of money.
Director: Jean-Claude Labrecque | Stars: Gilbert Sicotte, Monique Mercure, Carmen Tremblay, Amulette Garneau
Votes: 37
50. L'eau chaude, l'eau frette (1976)
94 min | Drama
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Jean Lapointe, Jean Pierre Bergeron, Sophie Clément, Louise Gagnon
Votes: 199
51. On est au coton (1970)
173 min | Documentary
Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Denys Arcand, Jean-Paul Beaudry, Carmen Bertrand, Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Votes: 87
52. 24 heures ou plus... (1973)
114 min | Documentary
Pamphlet cinématographique réalisé par Gilles Groulx à un moment de fièvre populaire exceptionnelle au Québec, quelques mois après le front commun des trois syndicats québécois les plus ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Groulx | Stars: Gilles Groulx, Jean-Marc Piotte, Claude Beauchamp, Robert Bourassa
Votes: 61
53. Une amie d'enfance (1978)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A dinner reunion of two childhood friends and their spouses turns into a disaster when they realize they have radically different lifestyles.
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cartier, Pauline Lapointe, Pauline Martin, Jean-Guy Viau
Votes: 14
54. Good Riddance (1980)
120 min | Drama
A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Louise Marleau
Votes: 772
55. A Scream from Silence (1979)
96 min | Drama
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
Director: Anne Claire Poirier | Stars: Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie, Monique Miller
Votes: 196
56. Deux épisodes dans la vie d'Hubert Aquin (1981)
57 min | Documentary
Retraces the life of Hubert Aquin, one of Quebec's most brilliant writers. The film revolves around 2 episodes in Aquin's life: the dramatic.
Director: Jacques Godbout | Star: Hubert Aquin
Votes: 27
57. Pea Soup (1979)
94 min | Documentary
-Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo-colonial exploitation and ... See full summary »
Directors: Pierre Falardeau, Julien Poulin | Stars: Marie Eykel, Paul Ross
Votes: 89
58. Les grands enfants (1980)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
The film does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change: people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships.
Director: Paul Tana | Stars: Marielle Bernard, Robert Gravel, Jean Mathieu, Gilbert Sicotte
Votes: 20
59. The Plouffe Family (1981)
227 min | Drama
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Gabriel Arcand, Rémi Laurent, Pierre Curzi, Juliette Huot
Votes: 484
60. The Shimmering Beast (1982)
128 min | Documentary
A documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Louis-Philippe Lécuyer, Philippe Cross, Stéphane-Albert Boulais, Maurice Chaillot
Votes: 279
61. Les fleurs sauvages (1982)
152 min | Drama
Three generations of a family struggle to be open with each other during a week of summer vacation at their country cottage.
Director: Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Stars: Marthe Nadeau, Michèle Magny, Pierre Curzi, Claudia Aubin
Votes: 46
62. Le confort et l'indifférence (1982)
109 min | Documentary
Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly ... See full summary »
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Raymond Barre, Pierre Brodeur, Monique Bégin
Votes: 228
63. Lucien Brouillard (1983)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Montreal provides a backdrop for this intriguing, fast-paced political drama about the later, dangerous interactions of two boys who first became best friends during their years at an ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Carrière | Stars: Pierre Curzi, Roger Blay, Marie Tifo, Paul Savoie
Votes: 25
64. Maria Chapdelaine (1983)
107 min | Drama
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Carle | Stars: Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Claude Rich, Amulette Garneau
Votes: 262
65. Au clair de la lune (1983)
92 min | Drama, Comedy
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Guy L'Ecuyer, Michel Côté, Pierre Giard, Marcel Fournier
Votes: 160
66. Bonheur d'occasion (1983)
123 min | Drama
In the early 1940s, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy... See full summary »
Director: Claude Fournier | Stars: Mireille Deyglun, Pierre Chagnon, Michel Forget, Marilyn Lightstone
Votes: 109
67. Sonatine (1984)
91 min | Drama
Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.
Director: Micheline Lanctôt | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre F. Fauteux, Kliment Denchev
Votes: 277
68. Jacques et novembre (1984)
72 min | Drama
Les derniers jours d'un homme qui filme avec humour sa propre mort. Un film surprenant et singulier comme il existe peu d'exemples dans notre cinématographique et qui s'impose par la démarche unique des deux réalisateurs.
Directors: Jean Beaudry, François Bouvier | Stars: Jean Beaudry, Marie Cantin, Carole Chatel, Carole Fréchette
Votes: 28
69. Le dernier glacier (1984)
84 min | Documentary, Drama, History
In December 1982 the Iron Ore Company decide to close their iron mining facilities at Schefferville in the Nouveau-Quebec region. To close the mine is to close the town. The mine is the ... See full summary »
Directors: Roger Frappier, Jacques Leduc | Stars: Robert Gravel, Louise Laprade, Martin Dumont, Michel Rivard
Votes: 16
70. Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (1985)
89 min | Comedy, Music
A 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.
Directors: Pierre Falardeau, Julien Poulin | Stars: Julien Poulin, Denise Mercier, Marie-Claude Dufour, Pierre Falardeau
Votes: 1,264
71. Le matou (1985)
141 min | Drama
Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Serge Dupire, Monique Spaziani, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 316
72. Anne Trister (1986)
103 min | Drama
A Swiss Jewish artist who is grieving her father, moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with a child psychiatrist. While creating an installation in an abandoned warehouse, she confronts her past and is increasingly drawn to her friend.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Albane Guilhe, Louise Marleau, Lucie Laurier, Guy Thauvette
Votes: 301
73. The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors (1978)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Donald Brittain | Star: Donald Brittain
Votes: 19
74. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi
Votes: 8,698 | Gross: $1.90M
75. Blind Trust (1986)
PG-13 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Marie Tifo, Pierre Curzi, Jacques Godin, Robert Gravel
Votes: 272
76. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,114
77. Les portes tournantes (1988)
101 min | Drama, Music
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Mankiewicz | Stars: Monique Spaziani, Gabriel Arcand, Miou-Miou, François Méthé
Votes: 198
78. Les fous de Bassan (1987)
105 min | Drama
In a small town on Quebec's Gaspé peninsula in 1936, a young man returns home after a five-year absence. A hit with the local ladies but not with the object of his heart's desire, the town is thrown into turmoil as rape and murder ensues.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Steve Banner, Charlotte Valandrey, Laure Marsac, Angèle Coutu
Votes: 101
79. Les tisserands du pouvoir (1988– )
50 min | Drama
Stars: Aurélien Recoing, Gabrielle Lazure, Anne Létourneau, Francis Reddy
Votes: 53
80. Cruising Bar (1989)
R | 96 min | Comedy
The same actor plays four kinds of male animals prowling four kinds of Montreal nightclubs.
Director: Robert Ménard | Stars: Michel Côté, Louise Marleau, Geneviève Rioux, Véronique Le Flaguais
Votes: 1,187 | Gross: $3.40M
81. Jesus of Montreal (1989)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard
Votes: 7,553 | Gross: $1.60M
82. Les matins infidèles (1989)
90 min | Drama
Two men deal with the ups and downs of the creative process and passing the age of thirty.
Directors: Jean Beaudry, François Bouvier | Stars: Jean Beaudry, Denis Bouchard, Laurent Faubert-Bouvier, Violaine Forest
Votes: 68
83. Dans le ventre du dragon (1989)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A pharmaceutical laboratory, nutty scientists, and human guinea pigs. A Quebecois sci-fi comedy about three friends, one of them a test subject.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Rémy Girard, Michel Côté, David La Haye, Marie Tifo
Votes: 279
84. Une histoire inventée (1990)
100 min | Drama
An irresistible woman, Florence, dragging her last 50 disconsolate lovers behind her. A trumpet in the end of his career, loved by Florence and the only one who had refuse her. An amateur ... See full summary »
Director: André Forcier | Stars: Jean Lapointe, Louise Marleau, Charlotte Laurier, Marc Messier
Votes: 159
85. Le party (1990)
103 min | Drama
At 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,... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Falardeau | Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Benoît Dagenais, Julien Poulin, Lou Babin
Votes: 585
86. Ding et Dong le film (1990)
96 min | Comedy
Two 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Chartrand | Stars: Serge Thériault, Claude Meunier, Raymond Bouchard, Sophie Faucher
Votes: 696 | Gross: $2.40M
87. Love-moi (1991)
97 min | Crime
A stage director learns of his young actors' fears as they are setting up a new play.
Director: Marcel Simard | Stars: Germain Houde, Paule Baillargeon, Mario Saint-Amand, Yvon Roy
Votes: 69
88. Being at Home with Claude (1992)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
It's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Beaudin | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette, Gaston Lepage
Votes: 658 | Gross: $0.60M
89. Leolo (1992)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 7,336 | Gross: $0.61M
90. Le steak (1992)
75 min | Documentary
Directors: Pierre Falardeau, Manon Leriche | Stars: Gaëtan Hart, Gary Jewell, Ron Lea, Pierre Lenoir
Votes: 93
91. La sarrasine (1992)
109 min | Drama
C'est l'histoire d'un couple d'italiens qui, après s'être établi à Montréal, plonge dans le drame suite à un fâcheux accident. Librement adapté d'un fait divers survenu au début du 20e ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Tana | Stars: Tony Nardi, Enrica Maria Modugno, Tano Cimarosa, Jean Lapointe
Votes: 71
92. Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (1992)
93 min | Crime, Drama
The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.
Director: Robert Morin | Stars: Gildor Roy, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Brigitte Paquette, Sabrina Boudot
Votes: 450
93. Le sexe des étoiles (1993)
104 min | Drama
Camille don't like the man her mother is seeing. She still dreams about her father, who's living in New York. One day, she sees her mother arguing with a woman for some time. Camille ... See full summary »
Director: Paule Baillargeon | Stars: Marianne Coquelicot Mercier, Denis Mercier, Tobie Pelletier, Sylvie Drapeau
Votes: 241
94. La Florida (1993)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy
Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading... See full summary »
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Rémy Girard, Pauline Lapointe, Yvan Canuel, Jason Blicker
Votes: 527 | Gross: $1.60M
95. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Votes: 3,918 | Gross: $1.57M
96. La liberté en colère (1994)
73 min | Documentary, History
Thirty years later, four members of what was Le Front de libération du Québec discussed why they create or participate in this revolutionary group. And their explanations are not without passion...
Director: Jean-Daniel Lafond | Stars: Pierre Vallières, Charles Gagnon, Francis Simard, Robert Comeau
Votes: 19
97. Octobre (1994)
97 min | Drama
A dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist abduction & murder of a government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.
Director: Pierre Falardeau | Stars: Hugo Dubé, Luc Picard, Pierre Rivard, Denis Trudel
Votes: 838 | Gross: $0.35M
98. Yes Sir! Madame... (1994)
75 min | Comedy
In his livingroom, Earl Tremblay shows us the movie of his life. The main character is bilingual and schizophrenic. He becomes a car salesman, and a host in a stripper club before he goes into politics.
Director: Robert Morin | Star: Robert Morin
Votes: 170
99. King of the Airways (1994)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Louis 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... See full summary »
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Martin Drainville, Zhenhu Han, Chantal Fontaine, Gilbert Lachance
Votes: 584 | Gross: $1.57M
100. Eldorado (1995)
104 min | Drama
It's summer and it's hot in Montreal, and we meet many people: Rita, the nice homeless girl, who moves to Roxan's house; Henriette, who falls in love with her neighbour, Lloyd, the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Pascale Bussières, Robert Brouillette, James Hyndman, Macha Limonchik
Votes: 335 | Gross: $0.55M
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