François Dompierre

Wandering Eye (2011)

Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When he is found b ...

All The Days Before Tomorrow (2007)

Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It's Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes. ...

Nearest to Heaven (2002)

People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and w ...

Alice's Odyssey (2002)

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

Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)

When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates. ...

Stardom (2000)

A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models. ...

Traitor or Patriot (2000)

This feature documentary is a portrait of Adélard Godbout, the largely forgotten man who was Premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944. During his office, Godbout helped lay the groundwork for the Quiet Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s: instituting compulsory ...

Laura Cadieux II (1999)

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

The Long Winter (1999)

In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority. ...

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. ...

The Seat of the Soul (1997)

This Canadian science-fiction film takes place at the beginning of the 20th Century in an unnamed city where eager Jules is a member of a scientific team researching the secrets of immortality. The scientists uncover a buried pyramid containing an embalmed ...

The Fate of America (1997)

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose version of this historic event should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction? We also meet Ba ...

The Ideal Man (1996)

Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other.... ...

Vanished (1995)

Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost unthinkable tragedy. ...

Mon amie Max (1994)

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adv ...

Once Upon a School Night (1991)

Two children find themselves trapped in their school, the day before Christmas Eve. Their vigilance and resourcefulness are no match for the locked doors, barred windows and the snowstorm that, by causing a power outage, deprives them of light and heat. Wo ...

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. ...

The Revolving Doors (1988)

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long ...

The Kid Brother (1987)

Going through life without legs, 12-year-old Kenny is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs. He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny's paren ...

Charles and François (1987)

A touching story of the friendship between a grandfather and his grandson, this is a film about aging and death. Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman combines 3-D and cut-out animation techniques to create a very dramatic and moving film. The story follows C ...

Rendezvous in Montreal (1987)

Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart. ...

The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with t ...

The Alley Cat (1985)

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked b ...

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 Blood of Others (1984)

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. ...

Derrière l'image (1978)

This feature-length documentary analyzes television newscasts and, as a result, takes a look at the news industry as a whole. By tackling five major themes – the script, the stars, the show, the actors and telecracy – it elucidates and demystifies cert ...

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… (1976)

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. ...

Bound for Glory (1975)

In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the French population was mostly unanimous against the obligation to go to ...

The Mob (1975)

Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François "Chico" Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent New York City gangster, he leaps at the opportunity, ignoring the warnings of Montreal's leading mob bos ...

O.K.... Laliberté (1973)

A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got. ...

IXE-13 (1972)

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

10 Miles/Hour (1970)

This short documentary offers an account of the epic bicycle ride of seventy girls and one man from Montreal to Vancouver. Their ultimate goal is to raise money in order to fund their trip to Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. ...

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. ...

Deliver Us from Evil (1966)

André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games. ...

Allegro Ma Non Troppo (2019)

The Fall of the American Empire (2018)

A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns t ...

Poverty and Other Delights (1996)

Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel's only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story ...

Mon amie Max (1994)

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adv ...