Denise Filiatrault

Sisters and Neighbors! (2024)

The story of Germaine Lauzon, a housewife who wins a million stamps which, she believes, will allow her access to happiness and a new world that she has dreamed of for so long. But her joy will make some people jealous... ...

Filiatrault : Parcours d'une légende (2022)

Compulsive Liar (2019)

Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon's self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching ...

It's the Heart That Dies Last (2017)

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 ...

Filiatrault (2013)

Laurence Anyways (2012)

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self. ...

Alisée (1993)

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 ...

The Horse Trader’s Daughter (1990)

An Irishman falls in love in turn-of-the-century Quebec (in Canada). ...

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte (1988)

Les Tisserands du pouvoir (1988)

The Razor's Edge (1985)

Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighbor ...

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)

Ovide 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 hi ...

Effraction (1983)

During a robbery that goes wrong, Valentin Tralande kills his accomplices and bank customers. ...

The Plouffe Family (1981)

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

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 ...

15 Nov (1977)

A look at November 15, 1976, the date the Parti Québécois seized power in the provincial elections, a victory that gave rise to an unprecedented outburst of joy at the Center Paul-Sauvé, a place where PQ sympathizers gathered. ...

The Late Blossom (1977)

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate. ...

Far Away From You, Darling (1976)

In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage. ...

Mado (1976)

A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute. ...

Gina (1975)

A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room. ...

Les beaux dimanches (1974)

Once Upon a Time in the East (1974)

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 an ...

Bedmania (1974)

A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant. ...

By the Blood of Others (1974)

In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town ...

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 ...

Backyard Theatre (1973)

Backyard Theatre is a documentary about playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard's flavourful brand of Quebec theatre, which captured the earthy wit and joual (slang) of Montreal's East End working-class neighbourhood. The film features impr ...

Le p'tit vient vite (1972)

Les indrogables (1972)

Bittersweet Memories (2004)

1952, Québec - Alys Robi, vocalist at the top of her popularity and recognized worldwide, was interned in spite of herself, by her father. Medical authorities prescribe her the only cure for a possible cure: the lobotomy. Under the bright lights of the op ...

Alice's Odyssey (2002)

After reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale. ...

Laura Cadieux II (1999)

Laura Cadieux and her friends are taking a cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday. ...

It's Your Turn, Laura (1998)

Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections. ...

Far Away From You, Darling (1976)

In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage. ...