Monique Mercure

Tekdüze bir hayatı olan böcek ilaçlayıcısı Bill aslında bir yazar olmak istemektedir. Ama geçindirmesi gereken bir evi, bakması gereken bir karısı vardır. Karısı Joan'ın evdeki böcek ilaçlarıyla kafayı bulduğunu ve bağımlı olduğunu öğrendiğinde Bill de ona katılacak ve gözünün önünde başka bir dünyanın kapıları açılacaktır.Bu sanrılarla bezeli fantastik dünya, yeni tanışacağı Dr. Benway'ın dev bir kırkayakın etinden elde ettiği bir uyuşturucuyu Bill'e tattırmasıyla daha da çılgın bir yere dönüşecektir. Artık etrafta dolaşan ve konuşan dev böcekler, karısının onu en yakın arkadaşları Hank ve Martin ile aldattığını kulağına fısıldayan ayaklı daktilo makineleri bu yeni gerçekliğin standartlarıdır. Bill, kafasına koyduğu bir içki şişesini vurmak isterken karısını öldürür * Daktilolar, bağımlılık, uyuşturucu, polisiye fantastik, toz toz toz, böcekler ve gerçekler! Gerçeküstü sinemacılığın neresine düşer bilemem ama seyredilesi bir deneyimdir.

17.yy İtalya'da ünlü bir keman ustası tarafından üretilen kırmızı bir kemanin şimdiki tarihe kadar başından geçenleri anlatan uluslararası bir yapım. Film tarot falı ile açılır, süresince falın anlattığı 'doğacak çocuğun' yerini kırmızı keman alır. Keman kırmızıdır çünkü 'doğacak çocuk' doğamamış annesiyle beraber ölmüştür, kanlarıyla da keman cilalanmıştır. Bu muhteşem Kanada, ABD, İtalya ortak yapımı film alışılmışın dışında çarpıcı bir öyküyle çıkıyor karşımıza.

Quebec, 1758... François Le Gardeur (David La Haye) cesur ve maceracı bir genç adamdır. Yıllar önce ailesini fazla burjuva ve kentli bulduğu için reddetmiştir. Ve o zamandan beri Amerikalı yerlileri ile birlikte ormanın içinde doğal bir yaşam sürmektedir. Bir av partisinden dönerken babasının sağlığının iyi olmadığı haberini alır. Quebec"e geri döner. Fakat geç kalmıştır. İkinci haber ise babasının yalnızca sağlığı değil parasal durumu da artık eskisi gibi değildir. Ona kalan miras kederden başka bir şey değildir.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

A young snack-bar waitress is propelled to supermodel status after meeting a photographer for a French fashion magazine.

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 job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.

When Madeleine is diagnosed with Alzheimers, she makes two important decisions. One is to keep it from her family. The other is to revisit her beloved Gaspésie and relive, for one last time, the memories this evokes. Encountering Zoë, an emotionally disturbed young musician, Madeleine asks her to be her driver for the trip.

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.

To save his best friend, Louis-Bernard Lapointe has to transport himself to a parallel world to find the 'Key of Possibilities', a magical and legendary object that allow his user to visit an infinite numbers of universes where everything is possible.

A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.

A friendless youngster (Michael Caloz) asks a cat goddess to help his feline friend.

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.

A drama of manners, spiced by light moments, describing the "love stories" of a mother and her daughter. The two women spend a summer together. Madeline, the mother, a professional, independent woman, begins a romantic relationship with an engineer after ending a previous relation. For her part, Renée, her 20-year old daughter, tries to see her father again and dreams of stable love.

Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.

At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?

Toby and his sister Liz live with their aunt and uncle, who take in Cambodian orphan Hoang while he awaits foster placement. The trio become fast friends, and, as they explore a nearby wood, encounter a retired engineer living in an abandoned freight car. Playing off Toby's already active imagination, the kids and the engineer use the train car to make a fantastic journey to Cambodia.

The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage.

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

A charming stranger changes a farm family in 1936 Manitoba after showing up, claiming to be a relative.

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

The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

La Petite patrie was a French Canadian television programme from Quebec. It was broadcast between 1974 and 1976. This television serial of Claude Jasmin told the life of a district of Montreal formed by the quadrilateral of the streets Saint-Denis, Beaubien, St-Hubert and Bélanger the shortly after the war. The main character and narrator of this television serial was Clément Germain, adolescent of 17 years who lived in this district with his family. Through the memories of Clément, viewers discovered this neighborhood during the years of Duplessis; with its trams, its ice deliverymen, its guénillou and its anglophone Chinese launderer among others. At that time, bread cost 5 cents, Maurice Richard was at the peak of his glory and the Rivoli theatre had not yet been replaced by a Jean-Coutu.

Providence is a Canadian French language drama television series which aired on Radio-Canada since January 4, 2005.