Willie Lamothe
Actor · 1920 – 1992 · Quebec, Canada
Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe CM (January 27, 1920 - October 19, 1992), a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec. One of the pioneers of French language country music, he recorded over 500 songs, both originals and translated renditions of English language country music hits, over the course of his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willie Lamothe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie4.9DramaThis 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 Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
Movie4.1ComedyA large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
Movie5.2DramaThe lives of two families in Montreal.
Movie7.0DramaWesternInvited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend.
Mustang
1975 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Bingo
1974 · 11 votes
Movie6.1DramaComedyBernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
Movie6.5ComedyA bank clerk is driven by his brother-in-law in many adventures.
Movie7.0DramaThe 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 his values and characteristics.
- Movie9.0DramaComedy
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
Movie6.0DramaThe story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For these three Quebecers are, in a way, us, as we have been rendered by a society in search of itself.
Trois fois passera
1973 · 2 votes