Carole Laure

Morceaux de Cannes (2021)

We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship. And yet, Emmanuel Barnault's "Morceaux de Cannes" (Pieces of Cannes), by this leading expert on Ital ...

The Beautiful Beast (2006)

Louise, a widow, lives with her son Patrice and her daughter Isabelle-Marie in a house in the country. All her affection is directed towards her son, who is socially dysfunctional but very handsome. In contrast, Louise neglects her daughter, whom she consi ...

Mary's Sons (2002)

After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child. ...

Primitifs (2001)

Rats And Rabbits (2000)

A mad scientist and other misfits from the wrong side of the tracks are implicated in a grave-robbing and its aftermath. ...

Elles ne pensent qu'à ça... (1994)

Arrived in New York, Margaux went to the bedside of her daughter Jess, who tried to commit suicide. She lives with Vic, who no longer satisfies her sexually. His ex, his father and his best friend, reappear soon in the life of Jess. ...

Flight from Justice (1993)

An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling. ...

Thank You Satan (1989)

Nathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going to be put up for sale. Just about everything in her life is about to be shattered. So it makes a bit of sense that she is receptive to the possibility of selli ...

La vie en couleurs (1989)

Laura, 35 years old, is married to Ricardo, an Argentinean cameraman, political refugee in France. They have two little girls, Ariane and Amélie. Laura works in a printing company, as a machine operator. When democracy is re-established in his country, Ri ...

La nuit avec Hortense (1988)

In an abandoned house by the river, a man meets a woman. All night long, they try to love each other. ...

Sweet Country (1987)

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow. ...

Sauve-toi, Lola (1986)

Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is sup ...

Night Magic (1985)

Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his ...

Drôle de samedi (1985)

For Véronique and Pierre, it's a strange Saturday: unusual encounters and unpredictable events follow one after another... ...

The Surrogate (1984)

Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police are baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings. ...

Heartbreakers (1984)

Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue's best friend, works for his father's garment business and is still searching for a woman who's interestin ...

Stress (1984)

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue. ...

Kill the Referee (1984)

Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans. ...

Maria Chapdelaine (1983)

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and Fran ...

Croque la vie (1981)

Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married ...

Escape to Victory (1981)

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime. ...

An Assassin Passes By (1981)

The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he falls in love with one of his prospective victims - a weakness which, ...

Asphalt (1981)

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever. ...

Electric Blue 006 (1981)

Vanessa del Rio hosts this men's video magazine which features profiles on British photographer Suze Randall and transsexual adult film star Sulka, centerfold models Felicity (Michelle Bauer) and Terri (Barbara Peckinpaugh), celebrity nude Hazel O'Connor ( ...

Fantastica (1980)

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 factory f ...

Bye, See You Monday (1979)

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married ...

Dirty Dishes (1978)

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20. ...

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, pro ...

La Menace (1977)

Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meet ...

The Angel and the Woman (1977)

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 mysteriou ...

Born for Hell (1976)

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them. ...

Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)

After his younger sister is poisoned, a tough Ottawa cop embarks on a violent journey through Montreal to find her killer, which turns into a whirlpool of revenge and betrayal. ...

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (1976)

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer. ...

La Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975)

Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives. As her efforts to protect and hold together her improvised family intensify, the pressures of exploitation, evict ...

Sweet Movie (1974)

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery. ...

The Heavenly Bodies (1973)

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel. ...

The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)

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 Montreal, set ...

IXE-13 (1972)

A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him. ...

Series 4 (1972)

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achievin ...

The Apprentice (1971)

In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, ...

Mon enfance à Montréal (1971)

This 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. ...

Love Project (2014)

Love Project despicts the lives of young adults developing within the artistic community around a production by director Touga. These Millennials are living in an era where everything seems transient, torn between their dreams of absolute freedom and anxie ...

The Capture (2007)

Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She's managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted by her f ...

CQ2 (Seek You Too) (2004)

CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance. ...

Mary's Sons (2002)

After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child. ...