J. Léo Gagnon Movies

In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and...

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their...

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a...

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970...

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

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

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)...

A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.

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...

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...

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...

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She...

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

A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share...

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war...

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...