J. Léo Gagnon Movies

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure)...

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

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a...

In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and...

Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives. As her...

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share...

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish...

A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather...

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets...

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to...

A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to...

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation...

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She...