Gilles Renaud

Peak Everything (2025)

Adam is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp's supplier's technical support line, he meets Tina, a radiant woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unex ...

Notre Dame de Moncton (2022)

Anna (Laurie Gagné) is going through a particularly stressful time: she is preparing to reconnect with Jason (Thomas Lapointe), the son she was forced to place for adoption almost 20 years ago. Unable to go through with this meeting, she takes refuge, cla ...

La Contemplation du mystère (2021)

Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed in a disturbing world of strange mystical codes, he learns that his father was tracking a huge buck with a ...

The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021)

A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image. ...

Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium. ...

Bad Seeds (2016)

Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a business relationship. After a difficult start, the men help each other grow marijuana. They happen to mee ...

The Auction (2013)

Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she does ...

Bernard the Great (2013)

It's Bernard's birthday, but he is not happy about it. In a strange world where adults are selfish and indifferent, his parents never accepted him as a child. Bernard doesn't want to grow up if it means to become like them. So he creates a suit that stops ...

All That You Possess (2012)

An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back into the family he had left behind, in this novelistic, beautifully modulated drama from acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Bernard Émond. ...

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. ...

I Will Go Out To The Field (2011)

I Will Go Out To The Fields is the story of Simon, an aging union worker worried by where the world is heading. During a simple visit in the countryside in the company of his son Francis, Simon in overwhelmed by his desire to start everything over. Francis ...

Cabotins (2010)

To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show. ...

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 Hair of the Beast (2010)

Takes place in 1665 in New France at a time when a part of Canada was colonialized by France. Joseph Côté escapes from a prison in order to avoid death by hanging. Moreover, while some colonial soldiers are chasing him, Joseph takes the identity of a Jes ...

Cadavres (2009)

Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to inve ...

Roméo et Juliette (2006)

Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he's been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal L ...

Le génie du crime (2006)

Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of crazy mafia boss. ...

Cheech (2006)

Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives. ...

The Secret Life of Happy People (2006)

A struggling architecture student falls for a free-spirited waitress who has a hidden agenda. ...

Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006)

When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from To ...

The Outlander (2005)

It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and parochialism, The ...

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)

Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical ...

Tideline (2004)

His father's untimely death sends young Wahab into an intense turmoil. Shaken by family feuds and what he discovers, he decides to bury his father in his native Lebanon. But the idea will prove no less trying in a country scarred by war where a new corpse ...

Gaz Bar Blues (2003)

This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. This movie relates all the small tragedies surrounding the gaz bar, such as hold-ups, competitio ...

The Woman Who Drinks (2001)

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for al ...

The Sex of the Stars (1993)

A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman. ...

Amoureux fou (1991)

When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married. Sarah's husband knows she will eventually get tired of Remy while his wife just can't let go. At first she ...

Le complexe d'Édith (1991)

Today, Edith is tired of being the favorite spectator of her parents, famous but somewhat outdated singers. She wants to sing too. But just as she decides to take the plunge, familiar demons come to revive her and remind her that there is only one singer i ...

Sous les draps, les étoiles (1989)

Le grand jour (1988)

A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding. ...

The Heart Exposed (1986)

When 24 year old apiring actor Mathieu meets and falls for 39 year old Jean-Marc who has just ended a seven year relationship, things are not all roses. In addition to their age difference there's the matter of Mathieu's five year old son from a previous m ...

The Lady of Colours (1985)

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basem ...

A Woman in Transit (1984)

Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns t ...

Appelez-moi Stéphane (1982)

Men and women gather at a Montreal suburban health clinic to create a theater show under the deceptive direction of a hammy actor. ...

A Day in a Taxi (1982)

Two men spend 24 hours driving around the outskirts of Montreal. ...

The Plouffe Family (1981)

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

The Red Kitchen (1980)

On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Pau ...

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 ...

The Handyman (1980)

One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal ...

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. ...

Anastasie oh ma chérie (1977)

Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the destructive invasion of family life. ...

Far Away From You, Darling (1976)

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

La piastre (1976)

Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Conquest (1973)

Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and intellectual discussions followed a brief mad love. ...

L'exil (1972)

Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, hap ...

Ô ou l'invisible enfant (1972)

Valérie (1969)

Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless dancer, Valerie quickly graduates to becoming a high-class hooker. After amassing a small fortune, she falls in love with an artist, a man who is more-than-wi ...