Marcel Sabourin

Beaupré the Giant (2025)

Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8'3" height. Gone too young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body will take more than 80 years to find its way ...

At the End of Nothing at All (2024)

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this film takes us into the wake of his story. ...

Testament (2023)

A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism. ...

L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho! (2023)

Victoire (2023)

Victoire Du Sault, founder of the shoemaking business that made the fortune of the Dufresne family, navigates a forbidden love triangle that holds a devastating family secret which threatens to surface and leave a trail of woe in its wake. ...

Niagara (2022)

A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their fifties who will have to reconnect after the death of their father who died prematurely from an unfortunate Ice Bucket Challenge. ...

Dying Alive (2021)

Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like ...

F*ckin' Coffin! (2021)

May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied by his daughter, little Lucy, he decides to go investigate in his native Saguenay against the backdrop of ...

The Sticky Side of Baklava (2021)

The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France. ...

Charlebois à Ducharme (2021)

I, Barnabé (2020)

I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man's existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from a mysterious bird and is forced to reconsider his life. ...

Ange & Ovni (2018)

YUL (2018)

LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation (2017)

Sigismond Imageless (2016)

Sigismond Langlois is submitted to a psychiatric evaluation on account of his violent behavior. He just turned 18, and pretends he was born with no image. Throughout the questionnaire, he recounts the peculiar existence of a young man who never saw himself ...

Mathieu (2016)

Ego Trip (2015)

Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with his family. In an effort to regain the love and respect of his audience, Marc's agent decides to send him, ...

Henri Henri (2014)

Henri was raised by religious in a convent and lived with them until the women, now elders, moved, leaving him alone. Henri fixes lamps. Since his young age, he's been replacing burned light bulbs and illuminates people's lives. After following signs, he f ...

Broken Face (2014)

Loik, a disfigured sailor, is posted to a remote lighthouse with Morlaix, a tyrannical head keeper. But soon, the two men find themselves besieged by a strange storm. ...

Un après-midi avec Paolo (2014)

Ben comes to volunteer for the first time at Paolo's retirement home, but something strange is going on there. ...

Another House (2013)

Mathieu Roy's L'Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle aged photo-jour ...

Amsterdam (2013)

Three friends go on a fishing trip. Well ... that's what everyone believes. ...

Mars and April (2012)

In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur ...

Clouds Over the City (2009)

Jean-Paul is a public servant, tired of toiling at his soul-destroying job. As a writer, he feels out of touch with the times and longs for inspiration. ...

Messmer : le fascinateur (2009)

Magique (2008)

Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world. ...

Truffle (2008)

Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles. ...

My Aunt Aline (2007)

Geneviève Saint-Louis, a bachelor and neurotic careerist, refuses any form of engagement. Her aunt Aline, a former cabaret singer, arrives at her home with the ulterior aim of avoiding placement in a reception center. ...

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 ...

Shooting Star (2005)

Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours. ...

White Skin (2004)

Two roommates discover that the family of one of their girlfriends is populated with vampires. ...

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and adv ...

Ne dis rien (2001)

Preludes (2000)

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as ...

See You in Toronto (2000)

Jean Pierre Lefebvre's short comments on history and film's role in it. ...

Memories Unlocked (1999)

In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier. ...

Julie and Me (1998)

Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes impossible to deny in spite of intentions to the contrary. ...

Now or Never (1998)

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the sky. ...

Lilies (1997)

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau finds himself forced to watch a play put on by Simon and the other inmates depicting the two men's youths. ...

L'oreille d'un sourd (1996)

A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged French Canadian black comedy. Leon, the con-artist makes his living cheating Catholic bingo players by hosting bogus religious pilgrimages. H ...

L'homme perché (1996)

Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau (1995)

Two decades after Ezekiel Hart is denied his seat in the assembly, Louis-Joseph Papineau's government enacts religious tolerance laws in Lower Canada. ...

Wind from Wyoming (1994)

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. ...

Trial at Fortitude Bay (1994)

Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosecutor Daniel Metz seeks the maximum sentence possible under Canadian law, but Gina comes to understand the ...

La fête des rois (1994)

Benjamin, a 10 year-old boy, lives with his mother Charlotte since his dad, Christophe, left. Charlotte is expecting a child from Henri, but is hesitant to tell her son, whom doesn't know about his soon-to-be stepfather. The day of the Epiphany, Benjamin a ...

The Hitman (1991)

After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeonin ...

The Horse Trader’s Daughter (1990)

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

Sous les draps, les étoiles (1989)

Lessons on Life (1989)

A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves. ...

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 ...

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. ...

S As in... (1984)

One day Jean-Baptiste Beauregard (Pierre Curzi) does not go out to face work or daily activities, instead he daydreams about the women in his past, about his teenage years, his failed marriage, and even his boyhood desires. His mental images follow each ot ...

Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths (1982)

An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own. Her teenaged granddaughter seizes the opportunity to go too. ...

Château de cartes (1980)

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 ...

Cordélia (1980)

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is jud ...

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977)

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women. ...

J.A. Martin Photographer (1977)

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage. ...

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. ...

Mustang (1975)

Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend. ...

Gina (1975)

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

Eliza's Horoscope (1975)

A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes looking even among her odd rag tag group roommates. ...

Bingo (1974)

A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign. ...

Par une belle nuit d'hiver (1974)

Two young adults discover love by a beautiful Montreal winter night. ...

Les « troubbes » de Johnny (1974)

A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures. ...

The Last Betrothal (1973)

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere other than at home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him. ...

L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) (1973)

Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women. ...

Taureau (1973)

A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the intolerance of the other villagers when the mentally-challenged son falls in love with the schoolteacher. ...

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 ...

Des armes et les hommes (1973)

The Time of the Hunt (1972)

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip. ...

Dirty Money (1972)

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry. ...

The Wise Guys (1972)

In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two fight back, accidentally killing a policeman and becoming outlaws in the process. ...

Far from the Sun (1971)

The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics. ...

The Christmas Martian (1971)

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party. ...

Those Damned Savages (1971)

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries. ...

Two Women In Gold (1970)

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Th ...

The House of Light (1969)

A married couple engage themselves in conversations about love, death and life as the scenery changes behind them. ...

Don't Let It Kill You (1967)

A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life. ...

The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (1965)

An atmospheric mood piece photographed in the winter at the giant dam built by Hydro Quebec in the northern wilds of the province. The story concerns a worker's wife, who is bored with her dreary existence in the wilderness. She walks around in the snow ...

Mission of Fear (1965)

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert. ...

Smaragdin (1960)

Smaragdin was selected at the Annecy Festival in 1960 and constitutes an astonishing contribution to the history of experimental animation cinema in Quebec and Canada. Carried by a text by Lucile Durand (Louky Bersianik), narrated by a young Marcel Sabouri ...

Now or Never (1998)

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the sky. ...

Cordélia (1980)

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is jud ...

J.A. Martin Photographer (1977)

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage. ...

Les « troubbes » de Johnny (1974)

A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures. ...

Don't Let It Kill You (1967)

A 30-year old man is forced out of his inert and absent-minded existence when it's complicated by the three women in his life. ...