Jean Lajeunesse
Actor · 1921 – 1991 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Jean Lajeunesse (July 17, 1921 - September 26, 1991) was an actor and writer known for Whispering City (1947), Réjeanne Padovani (1973) and Les brûlés (1959). He was married to Janette Bertrand from 1947 to 1981.
Movies13
Movie6.5DocumentaryThis short film showcases the city of Montreal on a summer's night. What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds. It is North America's second largest port and, after Paris, the world's largest French-speaking city. With its warehouses, offices, homes, clubs and amusement parks, the city serves as a bright backdrop for a happy couple out on the town.
Movie6.1AdventureFamilyThe adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.
Le père Chopin
1945 · 2 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaOvide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
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.
Movie3.3ComedyWhen Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
1974 · 8 votes
Movie10.0ComedyConrad is a notorious clumsy person who is struggling to keep his jobs. Luckily, blonde Gisèle, who is madly in love with him, manages to find him a job as a nurse at the very place where his father, Dr. Gagnon, works.
Pousse, mais pousse égal
1975 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A divorced man, father of a boy, gets together with a colleague from the office, mother of a little girl, which causes some conflicts.
Le diable à quatre
1987 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaThrillerAfter 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, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
Whispering City
1947 · 12 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe 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.
Réjeanne Padovani
1973 · 10 votes
Movie10.0DramaA health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.
Dubois et fils
1961 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaPioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
- Movie8.0
This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary debate, and Speaker of the Lower House, his heart was with the people being pillaged by the business elite. When legislation became the instrument of private advantage, Papineau brought government to a standstill. - NFB