Columbarium 2012

Following the mysterious death of his dad, Mathew, a Wall Street financial engineer, has to build a columbarium by the family cottage with his younger brother Simon.

La Florida 1993

Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...

Shabbot Shalom! 1992

The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.

Hold-up 1985

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...

Maria Chapdelaine 1983

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.

Scandale 1982

The Plouffe Family 1981

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

L'Arrache-cœur 1979

A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother.

Parlez-nous d'amour 1976

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

La piastre 1976

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

Orders 1974

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