Yvon Leroux

Yvon Leroux

Born: April 22, 1929
Died: February 12, 2010
in Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada

Movies for Yvon Leroux...

Windigo
Title: Windigo
Character: Rogatien Côté
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Native Americans clash with the Canadian government as they struggle for independence in this factual Canadian drama set in Quebec during the summer of 1990. Eddie Laroche, a rebellious native leader spawned a national crises when he and his supporters declared the independence of Aki territory in a far-flung area of northern Quebec. He refused to negotiate without the presences of television cameras to record his people's plight. Jean Fontaine was the reporter assigned to the story and much of the film is told from his viewpoint. To reach Laroche's land, negotiators, government officials, and the film crew had to travel by boat. Fontaine is initially cynical and reluctant to do the story, but after he spends time on the boat interviewing it's passengers, his cynicism has dissolves and he realizes he is faced with the presentations of a terribly complex situation. His dilemma provides a main focus for the film.
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Title: Chambres en ville
Character: Père de Pete
Released: September 7, 1989
Type: TV
This serial portrays the lives of young people in a student residence. Louise, who owns the house, has had to play every role imaginable, including mother, nurse, confidant, psychologist and probation officer. With their affection for Louise, it's no wonder they come back every year. Some manage to stand on their own two feet, but Louise is always there for them.
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Title: Poivre et sel
Character: Benoit
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Title: J.A. Martin Photographer
Character: Hector
Released: May 26, 1977
Type: Movie
The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
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O.K.... Laliberté
Title: O.K.... Laliberté
Character: Le beau frère
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.
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Kamouraska
Title: Kamouraska
Character: Policier
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
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The True Nature of Bernadette
Title: The True Nature of Bernadette
Character: Agriculteur (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1972
Type: Movie
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 run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.
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The Christmas Martian
Title: The Christmas Martian
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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Deliver Us from Evil
Title: Deliver Us from Evil
Released: July 28, 1966
Type: Movie
André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games.
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Amanita Pestilens
Title: Amanita Pestilens
Character: Neighbour
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Il était une guerre
Title: Il était une guerre
Character: Ouvrier
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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 factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
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Les Brûlés
Title: Les Brûlés
Character: l'ivrogne
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.