Movies: J. Léo Gagnon

  • 1975
    Normande

    Normande (1975)

    Normande

    6.11975HD

    Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does ...

    Normande
  • 1951
    The 13th Letter

    The 13th Letter (1951)

    The 13th Letter

    5.61951HD

    A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman....

    The 13th Letter
  • 1947
    Whispering City

    Whispering City (1947)

    Whispering City

    4.81947HD

    After 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, wa...

    Whispering City
  • 1980
    Fantastica

    Fantastica (1980)

    Fantastica

    5.91980HD

    In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a facto...

    Fantastica
  • 1973
    The Death of a Lumberjack

    The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)

    The Death of a Lumberjack

    4.71973HD

    This 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 Montrea...

    The Death of a Lumberjack
  • 1979
    La Belle apparence

    La Belle apparence (1979)

    La Belle apparence

    51979HD

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    La Belle apparence
  • 1972
    Dirty Money

    Dirty Money (1972)

    Dirty Money

    6.21972HD

    After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and Berthe are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of $500. Hungry for more, Berthe hatches a plan to descend on Uncle Arthur’s remote country house and s...

    Dirty Money
  • 1980
    Cordélia

    Cordélia (1980)

    Cordélia

    6.81980HD

    In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She ...

    Cordélia
  • 1959
    Les Brûlés

    Les Brûlés (1959)

    Les Brûlés

    01959HD

    Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression....

    Les Brûlés
  • 1974
    Orders

    Orders (1974)

    Orders

    7.41974HD

    A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec....

    Orders
  • 1963
    Amanita Pestilens

    Amanita Pestilens (1963)

    Amanita Pestilens

    01963HD

    A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard....

    Amanita Pestilens
  • 1981
    The Plouffe Family

    The Plouffe Family (1981)

    The Plouffe Family

    6.61981HD

    The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II....

    The Plouffe Family
  • 1977
    The Angel and the Woman

    The Angel and the Woman (1977)

    The Angel and the Woman

    4.21977HD

    Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mys...

    The Angel and the Woman
  • 1976
    Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

    Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… (1976)

    Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…

    01976HD

    A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think....

    Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
  • 1971
    The Men

    The Men (1971)

    The Men

    4.91971HD

    Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both be...

    The Men
  • 1973
    Réjeanne Padovani

    Réjeanne Padovani (1973)

    Réjeanne Padovani

    6.21973HD

    The 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
  • 1945
    Le père Chopin

    Le père Chopin (1945)

    Le père Chopin

    51945HD

    A 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...

    Le père Chopin
  • 1973
    The Last Betrothal

    The Last Betrothal (1973)

    The Last Betrothal

    5.51973HD

    After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere other than at home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him....

    The Last Betrothal
  • 1975
    Before the Time Comes

    Before the Time Comes (1975)

    Before the Time Comes

    01975HD

    Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he...

    Before the Time Comes
  • 1973
    Noël et Juliette

    Noël et Juliette (1973)

    Noël et Juliette

    5.71973HD

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    Noël et Juliette