Andrée Lachapelle

And the Birds Rained Down (2019)

A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that swept through Northern Ontario at the turn of the 20th century. But before she arrives, she learns that Boychuck has just perished. Survivors of t ...

The Passion of Augustine (2015)

The nuns of a musical convent work hard in order to prevent the religious school from closing. ...

The Meteor (2013)

Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching eighty, visits him every week. Suzanne, Pierre's current wife, has moved on since he was sent away. Each character gives us a frank account of a period in the ...

Route 132 (2010)

Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption. ...

The Last Escape (2010)

Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinson's Disease ...

La belle empoisonneuse (2007)

Homer Angelopoulos Lacroix, 25 years old, sees his life fall apart the day the accident place on the road, the beautiful and mysterious Roxanne. Therefore, the destiny of our two heroes will cross that of a great actress, a blind man, a philanthropist mani ...

A Family Secret (2006)

A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father. ...

Daniel and the Superdogs (2004)

A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Danie ...

La pension des étranges (2004)

Games of the Heart (2001)

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday. ...

Albertine in Five Times (2000)

Cap Tourmente (1993)

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footste ...

Léolo (1992)

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell. ...

Nelligan (1991)

This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic ...

Moody Beach (1990)

A man and a woman, who are both trying to run away from the banalities of life, fall in love. ...

...Comme un voleur (1990)

A garagist must take care of his sick mother and irresponsible brother. ...

Dans le ventre du dragon (1989)

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 Dav ...

Jesus of Montreal (1989)

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church. ...

Laura Laur (1989)

Straight for the Heart (1988)

Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him. ...

Happy Memories (1981)

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier. ...

Dear Father (1979)

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy whe ...

Les beaux dimanches (1974)

Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)

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

YUL 871 (1966)

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age. ...

Rope Around the Neck (1965)

A misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife. ...

Caroline (1964)

Twenty-four year old Montréaler Caroline works as a sales representative for a telephone company. She's married to Claude, the two who have a young son. On their fourth wedding anniversary, about which Claude seems to have forgot or doesn't care, Caroline ...

Hands of History (1994)

This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardinal-Schubert are First Nations artists who seek to find a continuum from traditional to contemporary forms of expression. These e ...

Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986)

This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. Taken from his home at the age of 4 due to family problems, he spent the rest of his 17 short years moving in and out of 28 foster homes, gro ...