Movies: J. Léo Gagnon
- 1947
Whispering City (1947)
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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 then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, wa...
- 1975
Normande (1975)
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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 confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does ...
- 1951
The 13th Letter (1951)
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A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman....
- 1963
Amanita Pestilens (1963)
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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....
- 1980
Fantastica (1980)
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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 falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a facto...
- 1973
The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
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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) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montrea...
- 1973
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
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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 his new superhighway....
- 1979
La Belle apparence (1979)
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- 1975
Before the Time Comes (1975)
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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 is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he...
- 1973
Kamouraska (1973)
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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 Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her...
- 1974
Orders (1974)
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A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec....
- 1980
Cordélia (1980)
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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 her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She ...
- 1972
Dirty Money (1972)
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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 $500. Hungry for more, Berthe hatches a plan to descend on Uncle Arthur’s remote country house and s...
- 1959
Les Brûlés (1959)
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Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression....
- 1981
The Plouffe Family (1981)
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The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II....
- 1977
The Angel and the Woman (1977)
The Angel and the Woman4.21977HD
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 woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mys...
- 1971
The Men (1971)
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Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both be...
- 1947
La forteresse (1947)
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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 then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, wa...
- 1976
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… (1976)
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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 Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think....
- 1952
Little Aurore's Tragedy (1952)
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A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and bec...