Quebec Movies

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.

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.

In 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.

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.

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 hockey cards, played street hockey with his friends, tried skating and ice hockey for the first time in his life, but was most fascinated with his local national league team, the Montréal Canadiens, and its star player, Henri Richard. He dreamed of growing up and working for the Canadiens franchise. But a more immediate goal was to get tickets to one of their games, using M. Richard and his banker father, Hervé, as possible conduits to that goal. He also remembers his school life from that year, with the arrival of pot smoking free thinking hippie Ron Richardson as the new English teacher, and dreading home room with strict Mlle. Chouinard, who he eventually learned too had a human side. But he learned that there may be a couple of things more important than hockey: family, and the opposite sex.

In Montreal, the wanderings of two urban homeless, Marcel, an old timer and Joseph, who just landed in the big city. Both philosophers and resourceful nice bums roam the streets of the metropolis in search of Stanley, the only friend of Marcel and who has not been heard of since a long time. Throughout their adventures, the two men forged an unbreakable friendship. Will they find Stanley before it's too late?

Deux soeurs, Stéphane et Bettie Brousseau risquent de perdre la porcherie, héritée de leur père, qu'elles opèrent ensemble. Joueuse compulsive, Stéphane a de la difficulté à épargner. Elle vend à Riendeau, son ex-mari, les plants de pot qui ont été semés et ont poussé dans son champ de maïs. Elle pense utiliser la commission de cette transaction pour payer rapidement ses dettes et éviter la saisie. Quand Paquette et son complice trafiquant se rendent compte que la culture a été vendue, ils kidnappent les soeurs Brousseau. Ils ignorent qu'un couple de Châteauguay attend l'enfant dont Bettie est la mère porteuse. Lorsque les deux parents s'installent à demeure pour aider Bettie à accoucher, l'entreprise des bandits devient périlleuse.

In the middle of the night, in the Quebec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.

While a maximum-security prison gears up for its annual party with performers and strippers, the event is overshadowed by disciplinary actions, family turmoil, and an inmate's meticulous planning for a high-stakes escape.

The last three days in the life of a notorious criminal as seen through the eyes of eight different people.

Zachary is confused about his sexuality and is in conflict with his Catholic upbringing which alienates his parents. Forcing himself to like girls, Zachary also has to cope with his older brothers, who don't make his life any easier.

A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

A young woman is forced to marry an old greedy man to save her father from bankruptcy although she has promised her heart to another man.

The owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.

Ovide's wife Rita continues to flirt with other men after marriage. Unhappy Ovide falls for Marie but can't divorce due to his Catholic beliefs. He breaks up with Marie and plans a trip with Rita, hoping to reconcile, but cancels.

Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.

The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.

The oldest daughter of an impoverished Montreal family, Monique Sparvieri vows to find a way to get out of the ghetto in which she lives. Abandoned by Michael, the love of her life, Monique finds herself alone again when her second husband, Gaston, is sentenced to ten months in prison. While many other women her age are still dreaming of Prince Charming, Monique takes her own destiny in her hands. She and her new love, Gerald Simard, plan a series of bank robberies. Intoxicated by passion and success, Monique isn't afraid of anything and she wants to make sure that her children don't experience the same miserable upbringing as she did.

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.

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 questions about existence. Highway 20 forms the backdrops for the sometimes hilarious, sometimes complicated situations between three south-bound friends who discuss ideal love, the quest of romance between two ambiguous office colleagues, the appearance of passion from a pictures perfect couple versus the daily-grind suffered by another young couple and their pending break up. The two hours in transit along the winding thoroughfare of love set a collision course of grating simultaneous reality-checks and deep reflections about where life has taken you and the roads that it will take you on in the future.

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.

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.

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

This is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.