Movie List for "canada"

Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (1998) Crime Drama Thriller Movie

A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program. Year 1998.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Robert Morin
Writer: Robert Morin
Actors: Jacqueline Bousquet, Marcel Chouinard, Manuel Freitas

Le retour de l’immaculée conception (1971) Drama Movie

L’action se déroule dans l’est de Montréal et s’attarde sur de «grands enfants» qui traînent dans les tavernes, les appartements miteux, les fonds de cours et les trottoirs. Parmi les personnages, deux types de femmes opposées, pl… Year 1971.

Generes: Drama
Director: André Forcier
Writer: André Forcier
Actors: Jacques Chenail, André Forcier, Julie Lachapelle

A Scream from Silence (1979) Drama Movie

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 … Year 1979.

Generes: Drama
Director: Anne Claire Poirier
Writer: Marthe Blackburn, Anne Claire Poirier
Actors: Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie

Mustang (1975) Drama Movie

Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend. Year 1975.

Generes: Drama
Director: Marcel Lefebvre
Writer: Gilles Gauthier, Marcel Lefebvre
Actors: Willie Lamothe, Claude Blanchard, Luce Guilbeault

Resurrection (1999) Crime Drama Horror Movie

Chicago homicide detectives Prudhome and Hollingsworth are assigned to investigate a murder. Both become entangled in the plot of a serial killer whose goal is to recreate the body of Christ. Year 1999.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Horror
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Writer: Brad Mirman, Christopher Lambert
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mike Anscombe, Jeff J.J. Authors

Les mâles (1971) Comedy Movie

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 whole village is involved in a man hunt or i… Year 1971.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Gilles Carle
Writer: Gilles Carle
Actors: Donald Pilon, René Blouin, Andrée Pelletier

Water (2005) Drama Movie

Set in colonial India against Gandhi’s rise to power, it’s the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia’s feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents. Year 2005.

Generes: Drama
Director: Deepa Mehta
Writer: Deepa Mehta, Anurag Kashyap
Actors: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas

La dame en couleurs (1985) Drama Movie

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel worl… Year 1985.

Generes: Drama
Director: Claude Jutra
Writer: Claude Jutra, Louise Rinfret
Actors: Paule Baillargeon, Ginette Boivin, Claude Desjardins

Antigone (1962) Classic Movie

Adapted from Jean Anouilh’s play (1942), the drama reveals the fight between the idealist Antigone and her rigid uncle, Creon, over the proper burial of Antigone’s brother, Polynices, with elliptical references to Nazi occupied Franc Year 1962.

Generes: Classic
Director: Louis-Georges Carrier
Writer: Jean Anouilh
Actors: Louise Marleau

Exit (1986) Drama Movie

Marie sits at her piano through many long hours, composing. Suddenly, a different music rings out in the room–a piece John, her first love, had been working on before he died in a plane … Year 1986.

Generes: Drama
Director: Robert Ménard
Writer: Claudette Messier, Monique H. Messier
Actors: Louise Marleau, Louise Portal, Michel Côté, Pierre Curzi

J.A. Martin photographe (1977) Drama Movie

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. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama
Director: Jean Beaudin
Writer: Jean Beaudin, Marcel Sabourin
Actors: Marcel Sabourin, Monique Mercure, Marthe Thierry

Marie s’en va-t-en ville (1987) Drama Movie

A young girl who is being abused at home runs away to the seamy side of Montreal where she makes friends with a prostitute who helps her to survive the urban jungle. Year 1987.

Generes: Drama
Director: Marquise Lepage
Writer: Marquise Lepage
Actors: Robert Boivin, Frédérique Collin, Genevieve Lenoir

Bonheur d’occasion (1983) Drama Movie

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 e… Year 1983.

Generes: Drama
Director: Claude Fournier
Writer: Claude Fournier, Marie-José Raymond, Gabrielle Roy
Actors: Mireille Deyglun, Pierre Chagnon, Michel Forget