MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Léa Pool

Léa Pool

Born in Switzerland in 1950, Léa Pool emigrated to Canada in 1975 and taught film-making from 1978 to 1983. Named “Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres de France” in 1994. Lives in Montreal.

Sign up to watch Free Léa Pool Movies

Movies Made By Léa Pool (21)

We'll Find Happiness (2025)

Saad, a young Moroccan illegal immigrant, is planning a perilous journey to Canada with Reza, his Iranian lover. In Montreal, Saad is called upon to save his beloved from certain deportation to Iran, where inevitable punishment awaits. ...

Watch Now

Hôtel Silence (2024)

Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents of the ...

Watch Now

Worst Case, We Get Married (2017)

Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it's love at first sight for her; the real kind, the on ...

Watch Now

Double Sentence (2017)

Most women in prison are mothers. When a mother is imprisoned, her newborn or her young child can remain with her in prison or they can be separated and taken in by a family member or by the State. These situations aren't without risk for the child. The fi ...

Watch Now

The Passion of Augustine (2015)

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

Watch Now

Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)

Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless women and men walk, bike, climb and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go ...

Watch Now

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 ...

Watch Now

Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)

in the summer of 1966, in Beloeil, Québec, where a young girl named Élise is enjoying summer vacation. Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Suddenly her mother leaves her family to pursue her journalism career in London. He ...

Watch Now

The Blue Butterfly (2004)

Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. ...

Watch Now

Lost and Delirious (2001)

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation. ...

Watch Now

Set Me Free (1999)

A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after the film's lead role, Hannah ...

Watch Now

Gabrielle Roy (1998)

Gabrielle's universe, one of Canada's most important French-language writers. ...

Watch Now

Desire in Motion (1994)

During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other. ...

Watch Now

Rispondetemi (1992)

As the paramedics pry her hand apart from her dead lover's grip a woman's life flashes before her eyes. Racing to the hospital the stunning skies and rooftops of Montreal from the back of the ambulance are inter-cut with the most exquisitely cinematic memo ...

Watch Now

Montreal Stories (1991)

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after for ...

Watch Now

The Savage Woman (1991)

Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the mountains discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her ...

Watch Now

Hotel Chronicles (1990)

A woman travels across the United States, confronting memory while observing American culture through its hotels and motels. ...

Watch Now

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. ...

Watch Now

Anne Trister (1986)

After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther ...

Watch Now

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 ...

Watch Now

Strass Café (1980)

Cinematographic poem. On grey images, in familiar yet unknown streets, Strass Café tells the story of the hopes and disappointments of a woman who speaks to herself, who also speaks to us. Another woman is mute, is she alone? Is she the same one? Maybe. A ...

Watch Now

Movies Starring Léa Pool (3)

Léa devant la caméra (2023)

Revisiting her film set photos, director Léa Pool reflects on her prolific career. The filmmaker left Switzerland at the age of 25 to settle in Quebec and embark on a surprising career. She reinvents herself from film to film, exploring themes that deeply ...

Watch Now

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers. ...

Watch Now

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema (2000)

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort ...

Watch Now