J. Léo Gagnon Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

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...

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

Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives. As her...

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

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...

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.

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...

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec...

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...

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