J. Léo Gagnon

J. Léo Gagnon

Movies for J. Léo Gagnon...

Au clair de la lune
Title: Au clair de la lune
Character: Alfred
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
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The Plouffe Family
Title: The Plouffe Family
Character: Rosario le bedeau
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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Fantastica
Title: Fantastica
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In this Canadian made oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
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Cordélia
Title: Cordélia
Released: February 7, 1980
Type: Movie
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 her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
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Bye, See You Monday
Title: Bye, See You Monday
Character: The man with the dog
Released: August 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married lover who, every Friday evening, rushes off to a home that has been forsaken for a while, saying: "Bye, see you Monday"...
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La Belle apparence
Title: La Belle apparence
Released: March 30, 1979
Type: Movie
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Panique
Title: Panique
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
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The Angel and the Woman
Title: The Angel and the Woman
Character: Father
Released: April 7, 1977
Type: Movie
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 woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.
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La piastre
Title: La piastre
Character: Rosaire Tremblay, the father
Released: April 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
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Hot Water, Cold Water
Title: Hot Water, Cold Water
Character: Ouvrier
Released: January 4, 1976
Type: Movie
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Title: Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Character: The uncle
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
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Normande
Title: Normande
Character: Le sculpteur
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.
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Before the Time Comes
Title: Before the Time Comes
Released: April 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.
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Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Title: Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Released: December 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
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Orderers
Title: Orderers
Character: The Grocer
Released: September 27, 1974
Type: Movie
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
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Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Title: Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Character: Le cardinal
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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 funny adventures.
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Noël et Juliette
Title: Noël et Juliette
Character: L'oncle
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Pigs Are Seldom Clean
Title: Pigs Are Seldom Clean
Character: Hubert Tremblay
Released: November 15, 1973
Type: Movie
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
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The Last Betrothal
Title: The Last Betrothal
Character: Armand Tremblay
Released: September 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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 anywhere other than at home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.
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Kamouraska
Title: Kamouraska
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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Ordinary Tenderness
Title: Ordinary Tenderness
Character: Widower
Released: April 4, 1973
Type: Movie
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
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Des armes et les hommes
Title: Des armes et les hommes
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Réjeanne Padovani
Title: Réjeanne Padovani
Character: Georges Bouchard, Road Minister
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
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Dirty Money
Title: Dirty Money
Character: Oncle Arthur
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
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Far from the Sun
Title: Far from the Sun
Character: Léo
Released: December 24, 1971
Type: Movie
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
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The Men
Title: The Men
Released: March 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy arises.
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Title: Rue des Pignons
Character: Lieutenant Adam
Released: September 6, 1966
Type: TV
Rue des Pignons was a French-Canadian TV series which ran from 1966 to 1977. Radio-Canada has reportedly lost most of the episodes of the series, only managing to trace about 35 of the 427 episodes from 1966 to 1977. The program's theme song was composed and recorded by Pierre Brabant who also played much of the show's background music.
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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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Les Brûlés
Title: Les Brûlés
Character: Le père de famille
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
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Il était une guerre
Title: Il était une guerre
Character: Père de Marcel
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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Little Aurore's Tragedy
Title: Little Aurore's Tragedy
Character: Le médecin
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
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The 13th Letter
Title: The 13th Letter
Character: Dr. Helier (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When Dr. Pearson comes to a quiet Quebec town to set up his medical practice, he attracts the notice of Cora, whose husband, Paul, is the town's other doctor, and Denise, eldest daughter of the family in whose house he lodges. When an unknown person begins writing letters attacking Dr. Pearson and Cora for having an affair, a complex web of rumors, lies and accusations begins to ensnare nearly everyone in town.
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Séraphin
Title: Séraphin
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and settled on a piece of land. Everyone joins forces to take their revenge on the hateful Séraphin.
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Whispering City
Title: Whispering City
Character: Butler
Released: November 20, 1947
Type: Movie
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 then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
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The Fortress
Title: The Fortress
Released: April 22, 1947
Type: Movie
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 then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.