Victor Désy
Actor · 1932 – 2017 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Movies16
Movie6.7Science FictionHorrorA scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Scanners
1981 · 1.4K votes
Movie6.3DramaMysteryWhen a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Agnes of God
1985 · 145 votes
Movie6.3HorrorScience FictionA young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into bloodthirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Rabid
1977 · 581 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerTV MovieAn American fashion designer is told that her husband has been killed in an air crash near France. However, she starts to believe that everything is not as it appears.
Illusions
1983 · 3 votes
Movie5.0DramaSet within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981 · 6 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCrimeBrowning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities (dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save the girl, and see justice done.
Oh! Heavenly Dog
1980 · 77 votes
Movie5.7MysteryCrimeA Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Movie3.3DocumentaryDramaDocuments a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child, the birth itself via Caesarean section, and her struggle to return to work and a social life, while still being a good mother.
Movie5.0ComedyA suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love.
Tulips
1981 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA 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 con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
1974 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaA doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.
Poussière sur la ville
1968 · 1 votes
Movie8.0FantasyFamilyNobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sent to a prison for children that is located on Slimer's Island and is run by the Hooded Fang, an ex-wrestler who outwardly hates children. Meanwhile, Child Power representatives the Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O'Toole try to find the prison's hidden location to help free the children.
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1978 · 6 votes
Movie10.0DramaWe witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
Il était une guerre
1959 · 1 votes
Movie4.7DramaRomancePierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.
Movie6.1DramaAn engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.
YUL 871
1966 · 9 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceA man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.