Monique Mercure

Monique Mercure

Born: November 14, 1930
Died: May 17, 2020
in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Monique Mercure, née Émond, was born 14 November 1930 in Montreal, Qc and died 16 May 2020 in Outremont, Qc. The career of this distinguished actress, among the most visible on Quebec and Canadian stages and screens, has broad international appeal. Performing some one hundred major theatre roles in French and English, her spirit, intensity and hearty laugh made a mark on several television series and award-winning films.

Movies for Monique Mercure...

It's the Heart That Dies Last
Title: It's the Heart That Dies Last
Character: Tante Pierrette
Released: April 14, 2017
Type: Movie
At 47, Julien is an eternal misfit with no real job. But now that he has published an autobiography recounting his childhood memories, a complicated relationship with his mother and troubling family secrets, success is knocking on his door. Julien and his mother have cut ties a long time ago and she doesn't know about the book. Living a sad and miserable life in a retirement home, she renews contact with her son to make up for lost time. But is that all there is to it?
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Marche avec moi
Title: Marche avec moi
Released: January 10, 2015
Type: Movie
In the old industrial neigbourghood St-Henri, the young and colorful Clara meets a clueless Latino-american man searching for the house of the book Bonheur d'occasion, written by Gabrielle Roy.
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Une nuit à la cinémathèque
Title: Une nuit à la cinémathèque
Released: May 5, 2014
Type: Movie
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Grande ourse : La clé des possibles
Title: Grande ourse : La clé des possibles
Character: La centenaire
Released: March 27, 2009
Type: Movie
To save his best friend, Louis-Bernard Lapointe has to transport himself to a parallel world to find the 'Key of Possibilities', a magical and legendary object that allow his user to visit an infinite numbers of universes where everything is possible.
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Twilight
Title: Twilight
Character: Madeleine
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
When Madeleine is diagnosed with Alzheimers, she makes two important decisions. One is to keep it from her family. The other is to revisit her beloved Gaspésie and relive, for one last time, the memories this evokes. Encountering Zoë, an emotionally disturbed young musician, Madeleine asks her to be her driver for the trip.
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Saint Martyrs of the Damned
Title: Saint Martyrs of the Damned
Character: Malvina 1
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
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Title: Providence
Character: Édith Beauchamp
Released: January 4, 2005
Type: TV
Providence is a Canadian French language drama television series which aired on Radio-Canada since January 4, 2005.
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Battle of the Brave
Title: Battle of the Brave
Character: Hortense
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: Il va y avoir du sport
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: TV
A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
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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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Albertine in Five Times
Title: Albertine in Five Times
Character: Albertine 70 ans
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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When Justice Fails
Title: When Justice Fails
Character: Pauline Wesson
Released: September 7, 1999
Type: Movie
A detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a beautiful district attorney (Marlee Matlin) who becomes a main suspect.
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Set Me Free
Title: Set Me Free
Character: Grand-Mère de Hanna
Released: February 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after the film's lead role, Hannah slowly begins to explore the confusing nature of her sexuality.
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The Red Violin
Title: The Red Violin
Character: Mme. Leroux (Montréal)
Released: September 10, 1998
Type: Movie
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Grace Gallagher
Released: May 14, 1998
Type: Movie
British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be repaired. She is convinced by the banker to take on the duties at the local hardware store to pay for the parts for her car and soon a romance between the two develops.
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Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier
Title: Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier
Character: Additional Cast
Released: May 22, 1995
Type: Movie
One of Canada's most remarkable families works tirelessly to aid displaced persons and refugees during the Second World War.
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La fête des rois
Title: La fête des rois
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Naked Lunch
Title: Naked Lunch
Character: Fadela
Released: December 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
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Montreal Stories
Title: Montreal Stories
Character: Dame Moufette
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
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Dans le ventre du dragon
Title: Dans le ventre du dragon
Character: Mireille
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
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A Question of Loving
Title: A Question of Loving
Character: Madeline
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
A drama of manners, spiced by light moments, describing the "love stories" of a mother and her daughter. The two women spend a summer together. Madeline, the mother, a professional, independent woman, begins a romantic relationship with an engineer after ending a previous relation. For her part, Renée, her 20-year old daughter, tries to see her father again and dreams of stable love.
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The Lady of Colours
Title: The Lady of Colours
Character: Soeur Supérieure
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
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The Blood of Others
Title: The Blood of Others
Character: Mme Klotz
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Les années de rêves
Title: Les années de rêves
Character: Aunt Yvette
Released: March 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Continuing a saga that began with his previous, 1978 film, Vautours director Jean-Claude Labrecque returns with the French Canadian, Louis Pelletier and puts him in the context of the growing separatist movement in the late 1960s in Quebec. At that time, supporters of an independent Quebec began to consolidate their power under the Parti Québecois -- and the story of Louis and his wife Claudette are meant to illustrate this watershed in Quebec's history. As the film begins, Claudette and Louis are about to get married -- and their wedding day significantly coincides with preparations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II. Years later, they are well-established in Montreal and are enjoying visits from their family -- and then their lives start to deteriorate. Louis is suddenly out of work, and as he faces the difficulties of finding another job -- and of living precariously -- he becomes more radical, less accepting of the status quo.
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Contrecoeur
Title: Contrecoeur
Character: Blanche Lavallée
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
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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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The Forties
Title: The Forties
Character: Fat Louise
Released: May 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.
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The Red Kitchen
Title: The Red Kitchen
Character: The mother
Released: May 29, 1980
Type: Movie
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
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Stone Cold Dead
Title: Stone Cold Dead
Character: Dr. Bouvier
Released: September 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
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Quintet
Title: Quintet
Character: Redstone's Mate
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
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The Song of Roland
Title: The Song of Roland
Character: Marie
Released: October 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
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The Third Walker
Title: The Third Walker
Character: Marie Blanchard
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Twins Etienne and Andrew are separated at birth--an error that years later will wrench apart two loving families.
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Title: J.A. Martin Photographer
Character: Rose-Aimée Martin
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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L'absence
Title: L'absence
Character: Estelle
Released: October 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Louise is a professional photographer and very successful in her job. But her father who had disappeared for many years resurfaced. He is very sick and would like to see his three daughters again. At the request of her father, Louise hesitates and then slips away. The reappearance of his father poses problems even in her life as a couple.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Title: Parlez-nous d'amour
Character: Madame Jeannot
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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For Better or For Worse
Title: For Better or For Worse
Character: Loulou
Released: September 15, 1975
Type: Movie
An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.
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Les vautours
Title: Les vautours
Character: Yvette Laflamme
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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L'amour blessé
Title: L'amour blessé
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
A lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their personal problems, she has to come to terms with her own.
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Title: La Petite Patrie
Character: Tante Julienne
Released: September 1, 1974
Type: TV
La Petite patrie was a French Canadian television programme from Quebec. It was broadcast between 1974 and 1976. This television serial of Claude Jasmin told the life of a district of Montreal formed by the quadrilateral of the streets Saint-Denis, Beaubien, St-Hubert and Bélanger the shortly after the war. The main character and narrator of this television serial was Clément Germain, adolescent of 17 years who lived in this district with his family. Through the memories of Clément, viewers discovered this neighborhood during the years of Duplessis; with its trams, its ice deliverymen, its guénillou and its anglophone Chinese launderer among others. At that time, bread cost 5 cents, Maurice Richard was at the peak of his glory and the Rivoli theatre had not yet been replaced by a Jean-Coutu.
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Once Upon a Time in the East
Title: Once Upon a Time in the East
Character: Belle-soeur
Released: May 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
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Backyard Theatre
Title: Backyard Theatre
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Backyard Theatre is a documentary about playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard’s flavourful brand of Quebec theatre, which captured the earthy wit and joual (slang) of Montreal's East End working-class neighbourhood. The film features impromptu improvisation by the cast of Les belles-soeurs and Demain matin, Montréal m'attend, two genre-defining plays.
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The Time of the Hunt
Title: The Time of the Hunt
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
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Françoise Durocher, Waitress
Title: Françoise Durocher, Waitress
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
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Mon oncle Antoine
Title: Mon oncle Antoine
Character: Alexandrine
Released: November 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
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Two Women In Gold
Title: Two Women In Gold
Character: Fernande Turcot
Released: May 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.
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Marie-Christine
Title: Marie-Christine
Character: Narrator
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
Title: Don't Let the Angels Fall
Character: Mrs. Pelletier
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
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Waiting for Caroline
Title: Waiting for Caroline
Character: Yvette
Released: June 21, 1967
Type: Movie
An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.
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Ça n'est pas le temps des romans
Title: Ça n'est pas le temps des romans
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Mission of Fear
Title: Mission of Fear
Released: May 20, 1965
Type: Movie
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.
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Take It All
Title: Take It All
Character: Barbara
Released: August 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.