Micheline Lanctôt

Where Souls Go (2025)

Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted of rape. ...

You Are Not Alone (2024)

Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling f ...

The Nature of Love (2023)

Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it's love at first sight. Opposi ...

Frontiers (2023)

Diane Messier lives on a farm in the Eastern Townships, near the American border, with her daughter Sarah and her two sisters, Carmen and Julie. Following a tragic accident, Diane feels constantly threatened and even believes her house is haunted. Worried ...

Arlette (2022)

Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-Amour becomes, overnight, Minister of Culture. She succeeds by her look and her daring in creating a real buzz around Culture. ...

Arsenault and Fils (2022)

The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost for several generations in Témiscouata, Quebec. The return to the fold of Anthony, the impetuous youngest of the family, then the arrival of Émilie, a radio host wh ...

Laughter (2020)

As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she's in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as a ...

The Devil's Share (2018)

Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting clips from nearly 200 films from the National Film Board of Canada archives, director Luc Bourdon reinterprets the historical record, offering us a new and ...

Winter Claire (2017)

As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash to the Earth, Claire is going through a difficult Winter. ...

Ravenous (2017)

In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them. ...

Boundaries (2016)

Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited. ...

Nitro Rush (2016)

Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal organization. Desperate to get him out of this situation, Max escapes from prison. He discovers that Theo and his best friend Charly have fallen under the control of Daphne, an ...

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, ...

My Internship in Canada (2015)

Guibord is an independent Member of Parliament who represents Prescott-Makadewà-Rapides-aux Outardes, a vast county in Northern Quebec. As the entire country watches, Guibord unwillingly finds himself in the awkward position of holding the decisive vote t ...

Early Winter (2015)

The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity. ...

The Yellows (2014)

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town. ...

Maternel (2014)

Sarah Prefers to Run (2013)

When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, her suburban mother is fearful of the change and refuses to help financially. But Sarah's roommate knows that they will get a grant if they marry. Sarah agree ...

Pour l'amour de Dieu (2011)

Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mo ...

Good Neighbours (2011)

Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or h ...

Score (2011)

Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question : "How much is too much? ...

Suzie (2009)

Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This ...

Happiness Bound (2007)

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets. ...

A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2005)

Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his daughter by a sinister cult. Wallowing in self-pity for years, he decides to commit suicide. However, the manner in which he decides to suicide is quite pecu ...

Familia (2005)

When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter's burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreaking results. ...

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery (2005)

Everybody's guilty of something and Detective Stephen Tree has to use his gut to figure if their guilt is worth his time. Tripping the Wire goes beyond the classic whodunnit. It's a story of loyalty, betrayal and the secrets people will die for - or kill f ...

Happiness is a Sad Song (2004)

The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with her mini-cam, collecting testimonials on the subject of happiness. She meets a medley of characters whom she engages in engrossing, thought-provoking discuss ...

The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to c ...

How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (2003)

Jean-Charles has an unusual relationship with his mother. He can't break free of her influence even when writing his master's thesis, made up of interviews with the several hundred men who have slept with her. Jean-Charles can identify -- he's one of them. ...

Heaven (2000)

Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by human sexuality. On earth, Christmas, 1999, Jacques, who's dying of cancer, meets Sophie, pregnant and abandoned. Her babies and his death are due in the spring ...

The Long Winter (1999)

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

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. ...

Streetheart (1998)

Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offer an h ...

The Revenge of the Woman in Black (1997)

A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings. ...

Heads or Tails (1997)

A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, which causes many misunderstandings with his wife, and mother. ...

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 ...

The Coffin Affair (1980)

In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Duplessis decided to make an example accusing Wilbert Coffin. ...

A Scream from Silence (1979)

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape. ...

Blood & Guts (1978)

A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away. ...

Blood Relatives (1978)

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary. ...

Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie (1976)

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple. ...

Child Under a Leaf (1974)

A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover. ...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way ...

Voyage to Grand Tartarie (1974)

After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier. ...

Noël et Juliette (1973)

The Heavenly Bodies (1973)

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel. ...

The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a r ...

Une manière de vivre (2019)

Colette's life is shattered when her husband dies in a mysterious road accident. This may bring her closer to her daughter Gabrielle, a young bulimic woman who works as a luxury escort. The latter begins to take a strong interest in Joseph, a Belgian philo ...

9 (2016)

According to the text of Stéphane E.Roy Nine slices of life. Nine stories that intertwine. A satirical comedy. Marc Gauthier, creator of the new "Dare Communic-Action ©" alleged communication guru, offers a new approach. But there will always be a gap be ...

Others (2015)

Lucie sees Eloi, a homeless man, freezing to death in the alley, and takes him in. Living together proves to be difficult until Lucie's charity restores Eloi's humanity and her emotional maturity. ...

Pour l'amour de Dieu (2011)

Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mo ...

Suzie (2009)

Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This ...

Les Guerriers (2004)

Two men who are trying to sell a life in uniform to young people fall victim to their own wrath in this allegorical drama. ...

Le Piège d'Issoudun (2003)

A Hero's Life (1994)

A Canadian couple reunites with the German POW they befriended during World War II. ...

Two Can Play (1993)

Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence. ...

Onzième spéciale (1988)

La ligne de chaleur (1987)

In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to ...

Sonatine (1984)

Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide. ...

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 ...

A Token Gesture (1975)

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared. ...