Films modernes Québécois
This is a list of films that were made in Quebec. If you wish an immersion into Quebec's culture and/or cinematography, here are my suggestions.
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- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsVanessa ParadisKevin ParentHélène FlorentA love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsMaxim GaudetteSébastien HuberdeauKarine VanasseA dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
- DirectorLuc DionneStarsMarianne FortierSerge PostigoHélène Bourgeois LeclercAfter 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.
- DirectorSophie DupuisStarsJoakim RobillardJean-François BoudreauGuillaume CyrMaxime is a miner with a troubled past. After an explosion at his mine, Maxime attempts to find redemption by saving his fellow miners.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalXavier DolanFrançois ArnaudA semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsIrdens ExantusCaroline TrudelPatrick HuardAn idealistic young Haitian travels to rural Quebec to intern for an independent Member of Parliament when a national debate erupts that finds the MP holding the tie-breaking vote.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMylène MackayMilya Corbeil GauvreauMickaël GouinInspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.
- DirectorChloé RobichaudStarsSophie DesmaraisJean-Sébastien CourchesneGeneviève Boivin-RoussyThe film is about the pursuit of a goal and tackles the anxieties of a young athlete who lives only for the race.
- DirectorPhilippe FalardeauStarsMohamed FellagSophie NélisseÉmilien NéronAt 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.
- DirectorLuc PicardStarsMilya Corbeil GauvreauHenri Richer-PicardAnthony BouchardMontreal, October 1970. Twelve-year-old Manon's family is on the verge of collapse; she and her little brother Mimi are about to be placed in Foster Care. Manon is incensed. Inspired by the current political crisis, she comes up with a plan and takes an old woman hostage to demand the right to choose her own future. With the help of her two cousins Martin and Denis, they leave the city with Mimi and the old woman, determined to find refuge where they can all be happy and free. Gripping, tender and moving, Cross My Heart is a vibrant story portraying the weaknesses and betrayals of adulthood as seen through the eyes of children.
- DirectorÉmile GaudreaultStarsMichel CôtéLouis-José HoudeBenoît BrièreTwo touring comedians make fun of a socially shy cook named Roger, not knowing he's actually a serial killing madman. Waking up in a cage the next day, they soon realize their only way to save themselves is to teach Roger how to be funny.
- DirectorMonia ChokriStarsAnne-Élisabeth BosséPatrick HivonEvelyne BrochuSophia, an unemployed academic, is forced to change the way she thinks and lives her life when Karim, her beloved brother, falls in love.
- DirectorKim NguyenStarsRachel MwanzaAlain Lino Mic Eli BastienSerge KanyindaSomewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
- 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.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.
- DirectorSophie DeraspeStarsCindy-Mae ArsenaultPatrice BissonnetteEnrica BoucherElie, a young woman from the city, has come to a remote North Atlantic island. It's the spring thaw, and she is here to convalesce and get to know the community. The annual seal hunt is in full swing, and Elie feels both drawn to and repelled by the men engaged in it. In this isolated world, people's lives and deaths are shaped by the brute forces of nature. Elie's presence arouses curiosity and mistrust. Maria, the village matriarch and den mother, seeks to uncover the secret reason behing Elie's visit. Wolves explores the profound need for belonging.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorSophie DeraspeStarsNahéma RicciRachida OussaadaNour BelkhiriaA modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.
- 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.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsAnne DorvalAntoine Olivier PilonSuzanne ClémentA widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
- DirectorSophie LorainStarsRomane DenisAnthony TherrienRose AdamThree teenage girls explore their first taste of freedom: Charlotte, the recently heartbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love - all three smitten by the guys at the "Toy Depot."
- DirectorSébastien PiloteStarsKarelle TremblayPierre-Luc BrillantFrançois PapineauA frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother's influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.
- 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.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsMelvil PoupaudEmmanuel SchwartzSuzanne ClémentA drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
- DirectorMaxime GirouxStarsMartin DubreuilHadas YaronLuzer TwerskyIn Félix and Meira, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds.
- DirectorRobert FavreauStarsLuc PicardFatou N'DiayeCéline BonnierIn April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMaxim GaudetteKarelle TremblayValerie CadieuxAfter the death of his father, an artisan does his best to raise and nurture his dynamic daughter.
- DirectorAnaïs Barbeau-LavaletteStarsOmri IlanLionel CalniquerGil DesianoA Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
- DirectorDany PapineauStarsMirianne BrûléDany PapineauJessica MalkaMarie Deschamps, a 20 year old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada. Her journey will bring her up to Whistler, British Columbia, where she will meet other young people a little lost, just like her. Somewhere out West, these people and this adventure will change her life forever.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsGabriel D'Almeida FreitasXavier DolanPier-Luc FunkHidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.
- 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.
- DirectorXavier DolanStarsXavier DolanMonia ChokriNiels SchneiderThe story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.
- 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-Carl BoucherStarsPier-Luc FunkAntoine DesRochersSimon PigeonFilmed over a period of 7 years, it tells about a group of suburban friends getting together during the summers. They reflect on their futures, their ambitions and their sexual desires. We meet up with them 5 years later, then 1 year later. Flashwood, a story of youths trying to find the course of their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorChloé RobichaudStarsEmily VanCampMacha GrenonSerge HoudeEmily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
- DirectorFrancis LeclercStarsJustin Leyrolles-BouchardJulien LeclercRoy DupuisFidèle au roman, le film relate le dernier été du jeune Félix Leclerc dans la maison familiale de La Tuque, au Québec, tout juste avant qu'il quitte la région pour aller étudier à Ottawa. Plusieurs péripéties dramatiques, épiques ou plus légères s'enchaînent. Autant d'événements qui donneront à Félix l'occasion de sortir progressivement de l'enfance. Nous sommes dans les années 1920's. Leclerc a alors 12 ans.
- DirectorFrançois BouvierStarsFrançois LétourneauGilbert SicotteJulie LeBretonPaul is a cartoonist who lives with his girlfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999. His in-laws, the Beaulieus, are a large, joyful clan composed of siblings, grandchildren and a much loved patriarch named Roland who constantly reminds Paul that he has yet to marry his daughter. When Roland fades with ill health, the family bands together and Paul projects his own devotion by doodling several portraits of his ailing father-in-law.
- DirectorMariloup WolfeStarsGuillaume Lemay-ThiviergeÉric BruneauLaurence LeboeufA look in the lives of three friends, Charles, Manu and Raphaël, living and working in a skydiving center. In their own way, they will struggle to deal with issues that life puts in their paths.
- 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.
- DirectorDenise FiliatraultStarsPascale BussièresMichel BarretteSerge Postigo1952, Québec - Alys Robi, vocalist at the top of her popularity and recognized worldwide, was interned in spite of herself, by her father. Medical authorities prescribe her the only cure for a possible cure: the lobotomy. Under the bright lights of the operating room, Alys sees her 28-year life flash before her eyes. At age 13 she left alone to conquer the big city, Montreal, under the name Alys Robi. She first worked at the National Theatre with "La Poune" who takes her under her wing and then joined the cast of John Grimaldi. She met Olivier Guimond, her first love. Ambitious, she leaves to live a professional and romantic relationship with Lucio Asgotini who will eventually break her heart. Alys Robi charm a whole generation with her Latin rhythms such as "Tico Tico" and "Besame Mucho". She has conquered the world and Hollywood where MGM's desire and the American press call her a "Goddess". Alys Robi embodies the American dream, a story of triumph, glory, love, but also a story that hides a terrible truth that will change everything.
- DirectorErik CanuelStarsJean-Nicolas VerreaultAnick LemayGilles RenaudA stranger knocks on Didace his door. As he refuses to name himself, he is nicknamed the Survenant. Didace soon realized that this stranger, in addition to being a good worker, is a cheerful fellow who brings life to a house.
- DirectorDenise FiliatraultStarsSophie LorainMartin DrainvillePierrette RobitailleAfter reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale.
- DirectorRenée BeaulieuStarsBrigitte PoupartVincent LeclercNathalie CavezzaliRevealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
- DirectorFélix RoseStarsPaul RoseJacques RoseRose Rose Doré-In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte, triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec (Canada). Fifty years later, Félix Rose is trying to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such acts.
- DirectorLouise ArchambaultStarsAndrée LachapelleGilbert SicotteRémy GirardThree elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women - A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.