Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war...

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

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...

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...

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

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

Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been...

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

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die...

A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.

A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their...

A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.

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)...

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 of...

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

After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and Berthe are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of...

Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.

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

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...

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...

When Dr. Pearson comes to a quiet Quebec town to set up his medical practice, he attracts the notice of Cora, whose husband, Paul, is the town's...

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for...

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

The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.

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 and...

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...

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

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

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec...

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

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.