Nana de Varennes
Actor · 1887 – 1981 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Nana de Varennes, the renowned Canadian actress, was born on February 21, 1887, in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada, and lived until July 1, 1981, leaving behind a legacy in films like Le gros Bill and Les lumières de ma ville.
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Movie8.0MysteryCrimeOne night from which arise enigmatic corpses, police who understand nothing, improbable witnesses. Mysteries and inconsistencies are added to each other.
Une Nuit en Amérique
1975 · 2 votes
Movie4.0DramaA restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.
Child Under a Leaf
1974 · 6 votes
Movie9.0RomanceMusicA beautiful country girl and a seductive nightclub singer vie for the same good-looking man.
Les lumières de ma ville
1950 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThis movie tells the story of a father, a mother and their young boy who, to get out of misery, leave the village where they live to try their luck in Montreal.
Mon enfance à Montréal
1971 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaA misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife.
Movie5.4DramaHorrorA 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 becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Aurore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Movie8.0DocumentaryImages of love and freedom personified by a man who like to travel, a man who has made a profession of doing nothing and who constantly comes up against the structures of a society he rejects.
Ti-coeur
1969 · 1 votes
Movie3.3DramaA priest and nun, haunted by physical longings, leave their respective callings. Even after their desires are fulfilled they experience crisis of faith.
Movie7.0ComedyRosaire and Alex would do anything to seduce girls, but they are broke. In an attempt to escape their problem, they become willing to do anything to make some money.
Movie6.2DramaA tiny Quebec community is thrown into an uproar when a tall young Texan named Bill arrives to claim a farm he has inherited. Bill's inability to speak French, and his apparent unwillingness to learn the language, foments plenty of ill will in the community. The story is resolved with an abundance of warmth and humor, sometimes hokey, sometimes hilarious.
Le gros Bill
1949 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaPioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
Movie5.8DramaThe melodramatic story of a widow, Marie Paradis, as she becomes an elderly dependant. Taking charge is her daughter-in-law, the cruel and stingy Céleste. Marie answers to all the stereotypes of the traditional mother: she's generous, loving.
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