Movies: Gabriel Arcand

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a...

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a ma...

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry....

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

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, ...

Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up, drives his bus endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensi...

An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down....

Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so sh...

A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond....

A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in search of his wife's past and met a beautiful young doctor who introduced him to a patient with amnesia....

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

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin....

Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing of a novel. But Jean-Pierre is not really respecting the rules of the game......

It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the world, participating in all sectors who have made money in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution....

A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags....

In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite the...

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple....

In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return t...

Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning....

Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this feature film, Arthur Lamothe films the daily life of the Innu, the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated....