Jean-Louis Roux

Jean-Louis Roux

Born: May 18, 1923
Died: November 28, 2013
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Movies for Jean-Louis Roux...

C.R.A.Z.Y.
Title: C.R.A.Z.Y.
Character: Prêtre
Released: May 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
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Battle of the Brave
Title: Battle of the Brave
Character: Jean-Baptiste's Servant
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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Title: Viens voir les comédiens
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.
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The Courage to Love
Title: The Courage to Love
Character: Bishop Blanc
Released: January 24, 2000
Type: Movie
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
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The Third Miracle
Title: The Third Miracle
Character: Cardinal Sarrazin
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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For Hire
Title: For Hire
Character: Professor Gerald Lambert
Released: November 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Chicago cabbie Mitch Lawrence is a man whose dreams are starting to fade. His only shining light is his loving and pregnant wife. When one of his clients, author Lou Webber offers him money to eliminate a drug dealer who is stalking him, Mitch refuses. Days later, Mitch is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. He reconsiders Lou's offer, and for the sake of his wife and baby, eliminates the threat. But after that night, everything changes, Mitch's stomach pains disappear. The Drug dealer suddenly resurfaces in a crowd. Then events conspire to drag Mitch deeper into a game that proves that at the right price any man is for hire.
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Black List
Title: Black List
Character: Juge Armand Gagné
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: Movie
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...
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Mon amie Max
Title: Mon amie Max
Character: Père Berube
Released: November 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
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The Clean Machine
Title: The Clean Machine
Character: Pawnshop
Released: July 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly wrong when jealousy, sabotage, fraud, and a failed love story begin.
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Cargo
Title: Cargo
Character: Marcel
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Bye Bye Victor
Title: Bye Bye Victor
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organises field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.
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The Revolving Doors
Title: The Revolving Doors
Character: Monsieur Blaudelle
Released: May 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
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Tinamer
Title: Tinamer
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Tinamer is 27 years old when her mother dies. The funeral of this last one makes her relive certain events of her childhood which marked her forever.
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Title: Avec un grand A
Released: February 19, 1986
Type: TV
L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995. The series explores different complex sexual and taboo issues. Some notable subjects include: Rape, Teen Obsession, Age Difference in love, Homosexuality and Married, Schizophrenia, Spousal Abuse. The series lasted 7 years and was very popular in Quebec. It was written by Janette Bertrand.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Title: The Hotel New Hampshire
Character: Old Billig
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
A New Englander and his oddball family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
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The Emperor of Peru
Title: The Emperor of Peru
Released: December 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Two children deal with the arrival of a foster brother, a Cambodian refugee. All three of them discover a hermetic retired railway engineer living in the woods. Then the children find an abandoned locomotive and, with the help of the engineer, bring it back to working order.
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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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Chocolate Eclair
Title: Chocolate Eclair
Character: Père Prenant
Released: February 22, 1979
Type: Movie
After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.
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The Pyx
Title: The Pyx
Character: Keerson
Released: September 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
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The Story of Dr. Louise
Title: The Story of Dr. Louise
Character: Raymond
Released: December 12, 1949
Type: Movie
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.