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Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in Quebec. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village....
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Français
Description
The extraordinary story of Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, whose tireless fight on and off the ice ignited, and forever changed, a generation. As a young boy from blue collar Québec, Richard had a dream to play in the National Hockey League. Beneath his soft-spoken, working class exterior burned a passion that transformed this young factory worker into "The Rocket." In the 1950s pre-helmet days of hockey, facing constant discrimination, The Rocket...
3) Incendies
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 438
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Follows the happenings of a struggling Québec mining town during Christmas in the 1940s through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old boy.
Publisher
Alliance Vivafilm
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Film based on the events that occurred on 6 December 1989, at Montreal's Polytechnique School, the movie tells us about that specific day through the eyes of two students, Valérie and Jean-François, whose lives have been changed forever, when a young man entered the school with one idea in mind: kill himself and take with him as many women as possible.
6) Falcon Lake
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Bastien and Chloé spend their summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec, haunted by a ghost legend. Despite the age gap between them, the two teenagers form a singular bond. Ready to overcome his worst fears to earn a place in Chloé's heart, the holiday becomes a turbulent pivotal moment for the young boy.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Nicole is adrift after college graduation, working a dead-end summer job and spending evenings with her best pal, Veronique. When her older brother Remi unexpectedly returns with his bandmates in tow, disrupting the girls' half-baked summer, it becomes clear to Nicole that something must and will change.
8) Beans
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
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