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Follows Gordon Kinski, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, who goes with his girlfriend and chef Sophie Tremblay to her hometown of Quebec City where she is testing for the Michelin 3-star restaurant of super-chef Ruby Collins.

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.

Jean-Marc Leblanc (Labrèche), a desperate civil servant, escapes reality as we know it by imagining himself as the hero in imaginary adventures.

Set in the frozen world of a post-apocalyptic 2144, a young warrior girl raised by a polar bear must fight to survive after she is captured and escapes from a brutal rival tribe.

Four friends establish a contract stipulating they have to leave their respective girlfriends at the same time. If one of them violates the pact, he has to pay a thousand dollars to the three others.

Kim, Fred, and Justine are three friends in their mid-thirties who, despite having had a privileged life, feel discontent with their current situation.

Three Virginies - a teacher juggling work and life, a new PE teacher with family issues, a student with overbearing mom - intersect as school faces closure. Former students reunite amid turmoil.

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

-"Avec un grand A" (or "L'Amour avec un grand A") is a collection of several Quebec (Canada) tele-dramas written by Janette Bertrand in 52 episodes (50-minute), broadcast between February 19, 1986 and March 22, 1996 on Radio-Québec.

Fanny is a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her detached Uncle Jonathan when her grandmother enters a nursing home. As Jonathan prepares for an organ recital of music by Bach, he tries to provide a proper environment for his young niece. Fanny collects other animals in addition to her pet skunk Broccoli with the help of her upstairs neighbor Sean.

Sophie and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties, go to Schefferville to settle the estate of Sophie's father's cottage, a former miner in this almost ghost town. There, Sophie meets up with Réjean, her uncle, also a former miner. But when a tragic incident involving Réjean occurs on the spot, with Mathieu as the only witness, the trip takes an unexpected turn. Forced to stay longer than expected while the police investigation gets underway, the couple finds itself isolated from the rest of the world, singled out, in contact for a rare time with the complex reality of the Aboriginal people. Sophie and Mathieu see their relationship in jeopardy, each taking an opposite path in their reaction to this oppressive situation, in this closed-door setting in the great outdoors.

Victor Novak is a substitute teacher; he makes replacements in the four corners of France. Each encounter with a new class confronts him with difficult situations and problems, which he tries to solve.

On 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.

Cette émission explore le passé télévisuel de ses invités, en extirpant des archives des moments glorieux (et moins glorieux) de leurs carrières.

Four high school students from different backgrounds run their school radio station while juggling academic, family, and social lives. Their clashing personalities create electric, explosive situations leading to humor.

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.

The magazine "Rumeurs" needs an editor-in-chief. Esther Bérubé boasts of being able to bring Benoît Dumais, a renowned sports journalist whom she has never met. This will turn things upside down for all.

-Retired watchmaker of the Plateau Mont-Royal (Montreal, Canada), Charles-Henri Lamontagne is a widower and father of many children. Still energetic, authoritarian and stubborn as a mule, he rarely admits his wrongs and tends to control his children's lives as if they were small, which sometimes leads to conflicts that Charles-Henri has a hard time resolving. In the end, it is for fear of being bored that he governs the lives of his sons, daughters, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law in this way.

Dans la ville de Montréal, un célèbre concours de chant (Idole instantanée), dont le gagnant enregistre son premier album, présente quatre finalistes. Quand le gagnant de l'an passé, Simon Sirois (Claudine Mercier) doit s'occuper de sa mère malade alors qu'il aurait préféré aller à Las Vegas pour rencontrer Céline Dion, les quatre finalistes (toutes interprétées par Claudine Mercier), les femmes sont Catherine « Cat » Painchaud, mère au foyer de trois enfants ; Manon Lemieux, fille unique d'un couple qui sacrifie leur travail pour l'aider a réaliser son rêve ; Daphnée Bérubé, rouquine travaillant dans un centre d'exercices pour personnes âgées ainsi que Mimi Dubé, fille qui vit avec ses parents dans un petit village paisible. Alors que les quatre femmes, encouragées par leur entourage, sont toutes déterminées à remporter Idole Instantanée 2, les Femmes devront toutefois surmonter certains obstacles afin d'arriver à leur but. Ces quatre jeunes femmes rêvent de devenir une vedette immédiate en remportant le concours Idole instantanée 2. On suit donc, en parallèle, les quatre protagonistes pendant les 24 h précèdant la grande finale télévisée de la compétition. Le film 'Idole instantanée' aborde deux facettes de la télé-réalité. Tout d'abord l'aspect tentatuculaire et monstrueux du phénomène; son omniprésence médiatique et notre impossibilité d'y échapper. Ensuite, le mariage parfait, la fusion totale entre le voyeurisme des télespectateurs et l'exhibitionnisme des participants de ces émissions.

Nathalie Lapointe, a journalist and single mom of three, faces a recurrence of cancer she had been recovering from for two years, disrupting her life and creating new challenges for her family.

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 family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide whether she wants to follow her head or her heart.

The faith of a caring physician and an unquestioningly religious youth is shaken to the core when the pair is inexplicably brought together.

-A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their fifties who will have to reconnect after the death of their father who died prematurely from an unfortunate Ice Bucket Challenge.

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?

A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.