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1. Québec-Montréal (2002)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Québec-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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Trogi | Stars: Patrice Robitaille, Jean-Phillipe Pearson, Stéphane Breton, François Létourneau
Votes: 1,841
2. The Year I Became a Liar (2009)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
Director: Ricardo Trogi | Stars: Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson, Gabriel Maillé
Votes: 2,041
3. Dodging the Clock (2005)
100 min | Comedy
For three men in their early thirties, the time has come to make a choice: Are they ready to have babies or not? Sébastien has one; Paul soon have one; Fred has none and doesn't want any. ... See full summary »
Director: Ricardo Trogi | Stars: Patrice Robitaille, Pierre-François Legendre, Jean-Phillipe Pearson, Catherine Proulx-Lemay
Votes: 1,259
4. Face Time (2010)
101 min | Comedy
Director: Yves Pelletier | Stars: David Savard, Isabelle Blais, Louis-José Houde, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc
Votes: 153
5. Funkytown (2011)
R | 132 min | Drama, Music
1976. Montreal. Eight people who wanted to see and be seen at the trendiest disco will be juggling fame and anonymity until they will be forced to make sober choices in an era when excess was the norm, and when disco was king.
Director: Daniel Roby | Stars: Patrick Huard, Justin Chatwin, Paul Doucet, Sarah Mutch
Votes: 923
6. Le colis (2012)
105 min | Comedy
Courrier à Montréal, Michel n'a pas ce qu'on appelle la vie facile. Criblé de dettes, toujours un peu dépassé par les événements, il vient en outre de se faire quitter par sa compagne. ... See full summary »
Director: Gaëlle d'Ynglemare | Stars: Emmanuel Bilodeau, Gildor Roy, Jean-Marie Corbeil, Evelyne de la Chenelière
Votes: 124
7. Karmina 2 (2001)
97 min | Horror, Comedy, Romance
Following the first Karmina, all the vampires need to take the special potion to be humans. The potion is made by Ghislain Chabot and sent to Transylvania for the others vampires. Chatbot's... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Pelletier | Stars: Gildor Roy, Yves Pelletier, Diane Lavallée, Robert Brouillette
Votes: 352
8. 2 Seconds (1998)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Laurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility.
Director: Manon Briand | Stars: Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone, Jonathan Bolduc, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 565
9. Karmina (1996)
110 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
In Transylvania, the 140 year-old vampire Karmina flees from the castle of her father on her wedding day arranged by her parents with Vlad. She travels to Montreal to meet her aunt ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Pelletier | Stars: Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier, France Castel
Votes: 698 | Gross: $0.37M
10. 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: 695 | Gross: $2.40M
11. Les aimants (2004)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
Back in town after years abroad, an idealistic woman takes upon herself to spruce up her blasé sister's sentimental life by fooling around with the messages she leaves her fiancé on the fridge.
Director: Yves Pelletier | Stars: Emmanuel Bilodeau, Isabelle Blais, Isabelle Cyr, Josée Deschênes
Votes: 625
12. Maelstrom (2000)
R | 87 min | Drama
After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau
Votes: 7,292 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Through the Mist (2009)
139 min | Biography, Music
In 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.
Director: Jean-Philippe Duval | Stars: Sébastien Ricard, Joseph Mesiano, Dimitri Storoge, Bénédicte Décary
Votes: 909
14. Histoires d'hiver (1999)
105 min | Drama, Family, Sport
An 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 ... See full summary »
Director: François Bouvier | Stars: Joël Dalpé-Drapeau, Denis Bouchard, Patrick Thomas, Mathieu Beaumier
Votes: 255 | Gross: $0.14M
15. 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: 8,694 | Gross: $1.90M
16. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 199,772 | Gross: $6.86M
17. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée
Votes: 34,111
18. 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
19. Polytechnique (2009)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier
Votes: 18,969
20. Gaz Bar Blues (2003)
115 min | Drama, Comedy
The owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.
Director: Louis Bélanger | Stars: Serge Thériault, Gilles Renaud, Sébastien Delorme, Danny Gilmore
Votes: 1,155 | Gross: $0.88M
21. The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
During 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.
Director: André Melançon | Stars: Cédric Jourde, Marie-Pierre A. D'Amour, Julien Elie, Minh Vu Duc
Votes: 2,077
22. 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: 7,331 | Gross: $0.61M
23. Babine (2008)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
During 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.
Director: Luc Picard | Stars: Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Luc Picard, Alexis Martin, Isabel Richer
Votes: 792
24. The Rocket (2005)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A 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.
Director: Charles Binamé | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton, Philip Craig
Votes: 5,450
25. 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: 3,183
26. Borderline (2008)
110 min | Drama
An 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.
Director: Lyne Charlebois | Stars: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Angèle Coutu, Sylvie Drapeau
Votes: 1,243
27. 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
28. 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
29. La vie après l'amour (2000)
104 min | Comedy
After 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.
Director: Gabriel Pelletier | Stars: Michel Côté, Sylvie Léonard, Patrick Huard, Yves Jacques
Votes: 465 | Gross: $1.80M
30. 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
31. La moitié gauche du frigo (2000)
90 min | Comedy
Christophe 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Paul Ahmarani, Stéphane Demers, Geneviève Néron, Jules Philip
Votes: 564
32. 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: 583 | Gross: $1.57M
33. Les Boys (1997)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Ever wanted to know what guys say when they get together? This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team. Every male stereotype is analyzed, comically of ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Saia | Stars: Marc Messier, Rémy Girard, Patrick Huard, Serge Thériault
Votes: 2,253 | Gross: $4.60M
34. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,022 | Gross: $3.43M
35. Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Unrated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Jean-François Pouliot | Stars: David Boutin, Lucie Laurier, Raymond Bouchard, Dominik Dagenais
Votes: 5,476 | Gross: $0.49M
36. Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario-Quebec border.
Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Michel Beaudry, Patrice Bélanger, Pierre Boudreau, Sarain Boylan
Votes: 13,152
37. Congorama (2006)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
An eccentric Belgian inventor travels to Québec to search for his family, which uncovers a secret history between two seemingly unrelated people.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudia Tagbo
Votes: 1,221
38. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,405
39. Father and Guns (2009)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Father and son, both cops, who despise each other must unite and infiltrate a Father/Son therapy retreat in order to make an important biker gang leader fall and save a brother cop who's been kidnapped.
Director: Émile Gaudreault | Stars: Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Rémy Girard, Caroline Dhavernas
Votes: 2,050
40. 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
41. Wake Up, Mes Bons Amis! (1970)
117 min | Documentary
Film-essai sur une question cruciale : la notion d'appartenance à un pays. Sentimentalisme attardé ou réalité psychologique profonde si l'on croit qu'elle trouve racine dans le coeur de ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Didier Dufour, Maurice Chaillot, Benjamin Simard, André Lepage
Votes: 57
42. 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
43. Soft Shell Man (2001)
102 min | Drama, Romance
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Director: André Turpin | Stars: David La Haye, Isabelle Blais, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Chantal Giroux
Votes: 855
44. Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx
Votes: 21,183 | Gross: $2.01M
45. Un royaume vous attend (1976)
110 min | Documentary
Long métrage documentaire sur l'Abitibi agricole. Ce film est un véritable plaidoyer pour la terre et pour un genre de vie plus humain en face d'une société devenue froide et insensible.
Director: Pierre Perrault | Stars: Daniel Lalancette, Christiane Lalancette, Monique Lalancette, Hauris Lalancette
Votes: 31
46. My Daughter, My Angel (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
As he navigates through porn sites without the knowledge of his wife, Germain comes across a video of his only daughter announcing her impending live performance. The political advisor of ... See full summary »
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault | Stars: Michel Côté, Karine Vanasse, Dominique Leduc, Laurence Leboeuf
Votes: 1,050
47. Aurore (2005)
115 min | Drama
After her mother's sudden death, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed stepmother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Director: Luc Dionne | Stars: Marianne Fortier, Serge Postigo, Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, Yves Jacques
Votes: 1,692
48. Camping sauvage (2004)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
A man falls for a woman while he is hiding among campers to elude his criminal pursuers.
Directors: André Ducharme, Guy A. Lepage, Sylvain Roy | Stars: Guy A. Lepage, Sylvie Moreau, Normand D'Amour, Benoît Girard
Votes: 673 | Gross: $3.81M
49. L'incomparable mademoiselle C. (2004)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Richard Ciupka | Stars: Marie-Chantal Perron, Pierre Lebeau, Michel Laperrière, Mylène St-Sauveur
Votes: 138
50. Premier juillet, le film (2004)
90 min | Comedy
The story of three different people who are facing the problems of moving on a July 1, the traditional moving day in Quebec.
Director: Philippe Gagnon | Stars: Frédéric Bélanger, Christian Brisson-Dargis, Anne Bellerose, Bénédicte Décary
Votes: 196
51. Nuit de noces (2001)
92 min | Comedy
Florence and Nicolas live happily together. Until Nicolas' sister points them to a contest in which they win the first prize; an all-expenses-paid wedding at Niagara Falls.
Director: Émile Gaudreault | Stars: François Morency, Geneviève Brouillette, Pierrette Robitaille, Jacques Girard
Votes: 431
52. Laura Cadieux... la suite (1999)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Denise Filiatrault | Stars: Katherine Adams, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Raymond Bouchard, Gregory Charles
Votes: 226 | Gross: $0.78M
53. It's Your Turn, Laura (1998)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.
Director: Denise Filiatrault | Stars: Ginette Reno, Pierrette Robitaille, Denise Dubois, Samuel Landry
Votes: 324 | Gross: $1.63M
54. Les Boys II (1998)
120 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Stan and his team are back. This time, they will meet in Chamonix to compete in an international hockey championship.
Director: Louis Saia | Stars: Marc Messier, Rémy Girard, Patrick Huard, Serge Thériault
Votes: 1,557 | Gross: $5.97M
55. Pas de répit pour Mélanie (1990)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen.
Director: Jean Beaudry | Stars: Marie-Stéphane Gaudry, Kesnamelly Neff, Madeleine Langlois, Vincent Bolduc
Votes: 122
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