Yves Jacques

Yves Jacques

Born: May 10, 1956
in Québec City, Québec, Canada
Yves Jacques OC (born 10 May 1956) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.

Jacques was born in Quebec City in 1956. He studied theatre at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, and began acting on stage in both Quebec City and Montreal. He became more widely known to film and television audiences beginning in 1981 as a sketch performer in Télévision de Radio-Canada's annual Bye Bye New Year's Eve variety special, and soon began appearing more widely in film and television roles. To international audiences, he is best known as Claude, the gay academic in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions. On stage, he is noted for originating the role of Lydie-Anne in the premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Lilies.

He has been in several movies by French filmmaker Claude Miller, including Of Woman and Magic and Little Lili. His fame has continued to grow with films and theatrical productions in both France and Quebec. Since 2001, he has toured the world in two shows by Robert Lepage, Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachée de la lune) and Le Projet Andersen, where he played all the roles. Since 2018, he has appeared regularly in Mathieu Quesnel’s theatrical creations. More recently, he played in Aline by Valérie Lemercier, in Maria by Alec Pronovost, and in Chloé Robichaud’s Les jours heureux. In 2022, Yves Jacques played in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda (Les 12 travaux d'Imelda), co-starring playwright Robert Lepage and actress-signer Ginette Reno.

He was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication de France in February 2001, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009, for his performances in theatre, television and film, in Canada and abroad.

He is openly gay.

Source: Article "Yves Jacques" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Yves Jacques...

Nos belles-sœurs
Title: Nos belles-sœurs
Released: July 11, 2024
Type: Movie
Movie adaptation of the popular play by Michel Tremblay.
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The Successor
Title: The Successor
Character: Dominique Duchesne
Released: November 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.
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Days of Happiness
Title: Days of Happiness
Character: Yves
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick. She has to face up to her emotions and decide whether she wants to successfully combine her career with her love affair with Naëlle, a recently separated cellist and mother of a young son.
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Testament
Title: Testament
Character: Emmanuel d'Argenson
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-year-old single man, has lost all his bearings in this society. He lives in a retirement home located in a heritage building, managed with care and precision by Suzanne. Their peace is shaken by the arrival of young activists who demand the destruction of a historic fresco. Overwhelmed by an era dominated by political correctness, Jean-Michel will regain faith in humanity with the birth of an unexpected love.
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Katak: The Brave Beluga
Title: Katak: The Brave Beluga
Character: Cyrano (voice)
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, Katak departs on a perilous journey to the Great North.
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Imelda 7: Pipo
Title: Imelda 7: Pipo
Character: Vétérinaire
Released: December 23, 2022
Type: Movie
With the help of daughter Diane, Imelda brings her dog Pipo to a veterinarian. As Diane digs deeper into her mother's personal life, however, an untold secret from the past resurfaces.
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The 12 Tasks of Imelda
Title: The 12 Tasks of Imelda
Character: Vétérinaire
Released: September 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Imelda, a larger-than-life character inspired by the director's grandmother, sets herself on a quest to settle old scores before celebrating her 100th birthday.
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Embrasse
Title: Embrasse
Character: Yves Saint Laurent
Released: March 26, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Paris Paris
Character: Fabioli
Released: January 4, 2022
Type: TV
One day, a tunnel opens up between Philippe's basement in Paris, Ontario and Paris, France. Here's a chance for Philippe, caught up in a midlife crisis, to escape his quiet life and go wild and crazy in the City of Light.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: Yves Jacques
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: Movie
When Maria thinks she's at the bottom of the barrel, she discovers that this barrel has a double bottom: no job, no money, no worthy accomplishment and now a dying mother begging her to do something with her life. before his death! She has no other choice but to get back in hand and find a career ... But what can she do with a 7-year-old BAC in communication and no work experience? Believe it or not, she can become a substitute in a high school! Thus, Maria, 30, as responsible and stable as a 14-year-old teenager, returns to high school in the role of the one to whom she threw pieces of erasers: the replacement. Too jaded teachers, rebellious teenagers, intimidated or not sufficiently denounced, she will be confronted with the reality of teachers and young people today and, who knows, may discover a vocation.
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Title: Ça fait la job
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2021
Type: TV
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La face cachée de la Lune
Title: La face cachée de la Lune
Released: February 6, 2021
Type: Movie
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Le chemin de Noël
Title: Le chemin de Noël
Released: December 23, 2020
Type: Movie
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Aline
Title: Aline
Character: Présentateur deuxième TV
Released: November 19, 2020
Type: Movie
A fictionalized biopic of Aline Dieu, a multitalented singer from a musically inclined family.
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Night Slice
Title: Night Slice
Character: Antoine
Released: November 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Stuck in a depressing and mind numbing routine, Pierre decides to trade the sweaty atmosphere of the factory for the conditioned air of a hotel room. Locked up with three other tenants in a dreary and dim-lighted suite, he is forced into an idle and aimless lifestyle, no more fruitful than the mindless hustle and bustle he left behind — that is, until this oppressive dullness gives birth to an idea…
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Title: Benezra reçoit
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Happily Married
Character: Le Consigliere
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: TV
In 1974, in the quiet suburb of Sainte-Foy, two discontented couples bring their kids to summer camp. Once home, they must face the pitiful state their marriages are in. Unable to deal with their problems, they become the most infamous criminals in the history of organized crime in Quebec City.
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Forgotten Flowers
Title: Forgotten Flowers
Character: Marie-Victorin
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
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Title: Bonsoir bonsoir!
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: TV
Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.
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Ca$h Nexu$
Title: Ca$h Nexu$
Character: Michel
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Jimmy is trapped in a spiral of street drug addiction and withdrawal. One day, Jimmy is forced to get back in contact with his family. The pariah’s return to the pack reawakens old demons in his elder brother Nathan.
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Title: L'effet Wow
Character: Self
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Cette année-là
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: TV
A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significant year in history, they revisit a cultural event of a previous era and compare it with today’s yardstick. The hosts and their guests examine subjects that link the chosen year to what’s hot in cultural circles right now.
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Title: En tout cas
Released: January 8, 2018
Type: TV
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Father and Guns 2
Title: Father and Guns 2
Character: Bernard
Released: July 14, 2017
Type: Movie
A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is experiencing intense denial towards the fact that he is growing older. An incredible opportunity arises when Martin Germain, the lieutenant of the Mafia’s leader, and his girlfriend sign up for a bootcamp for couples. As Marc and Alice sign up for the therapy, Jacques invites himself in by pretending to be the psychologist's assistant.
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Title: Y'a du monde à messe
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: TV
Public figures from different backgrounds meet each week. At first glance, these guests would seem to have little in common. However, something does unite them all: an event or experience that they have graciously agreed to share that justifies their seat at the same table. As the program unfolds, their shared history is gradually revealed.
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False Confessions
Title: False Confessions
Character: Dubois
Released: April 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.
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Father Son Therapy
Title: Father Son Therapy
Released: December 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
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Boundaries
Title: Boundaries
Character: Francis Perreault
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
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Title: Les échangistes
Character: Self
Released: April 4, 2016
Type: TV
Host Penelope McQuade welcomes three celebrities each evening, along with two different swapping contributors who will intervene, make critical comments and spice up the conversations!
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Everything would be fine. Maurice had made up his mind. He had made a list: pick a date, announce his retirement, sell the car, see old friends, and empty the garage. Then, die with dignity.
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Title: Ti-Mé Show
Character: Self - Guest Star
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: TV
Each week, in front of a fired-up audience, personalities from all areas come on Ti-Mé’s show for an hour of comedy and quirks. A variety show where interviews, sketches, musical performances and surprising presentations are intertwined. Ti-Mé is interested in everyone but is not impressed by anyone.
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An Eye for Beauty
Title: An Eye for Beauty
Character: Pascal Montambault
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
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Grace of Monaco
Title: Grace of Monaco
Character: M. Delavenne
Released: April 22, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
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Title: The Killer Inside
Character: Martin Champagne
Released: March 13, 2014
Type: TV
Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli.
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Darling Trap
Title: Darling Trap
Character: Nolan Smith
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia...
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Title: Entrée principale
Character: Himself
Released: September 9, 2013
Type: TV
In this off-the-wall lifestyle magazine, host André Robitaille and his band of contributors report on the latest and greatest the scene has to offer.
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Anna et Otto
Title: Anna et Otto
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Otto and Anna, a brother and sister in their twenties, separated by the divorce of their parents, live on two continents. The vagaries of life keep them apart.
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La danse de l'albatros
Title: La danse de l'albatros
Character: Jacques
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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Thérèse
Title: Thérèse
Character: L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
Released: May 27, 2012
Type: Movie
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
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Laurence Anyways
Title: Laurence Anyways
Character: Michel Lafortune
Released: May 18, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
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French Immersion
Title: French Immersion
Character: Pierre-Émile
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.
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Title: Bar ouvert
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: TV
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See How They Dance
Title: See How They Dance
Character: George Bliss
Released: August 3, 2011
Type: Movie
A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Maxime Dupont
Released: January 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.
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Cabotins
Title: Cabotins
Character: Lady Moon
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Les enfants de la télé
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: TV
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The Last Escape
Title: The Last Escape
Character: Andre
Released: February 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinson’s Disease and heart failure. His life reduced in every way, the end approaches and there are unhappy memories of his once violent and authoritarian past. But his wife, ten children and many grandchildren try to maintain a semblance of the Christmas season.
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Les figures
Title: Les figures
Character: Jean
Released: October 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A heartbroken mother running around in the park and asks for her missing 6-year-old son.
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Title: En direct de l'univers
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 2009
Type: TV
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You'll Miss Me
Title: You'll Miss Me
Character: André, le coiffeur
Released: June 10, 2009
Type: Movie
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
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48 Hours a Day
Title: 48 Hours a Day
Character: Arnaud
Released: June 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
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A Secret
Title: A Secret
Character: Le commandant Beraud
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
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Title: Curieux Bégin
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Mafiosa
Character: Mathieu Zamponi
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: TV
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
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Twice Upon a Time
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Doctor Trudeau
Released: November 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair haven't seen each other in thirty years.
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Title: L'État de Grace
Character: Bertrand Saint-Amor
Released: September 27, 2006
Type: TV
L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president.
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Aurore
Title: Aurore
Character: Curé Leduc
Released: July 8, 2005
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
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Let's Be Friends
Title: Let's Be Friends
Character: Germain
Released: February 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Waiter
Released: December 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Title: H2O
Character: Québec Premier Marcel Coté
Released: October 31, 2004
Type: TV
H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope, with former politician Belinda Stronach making a cameo appearance. Written by Gross and John Krizanc and directed by Charles Binamé, it was nominated for five Gemini Awards and four DGC Craft Awards. It won one Golden Nymph Award for best actor.
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Ordo
Title: Ordo
Character: Richard Féraud
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli. But, more than her name, everything about Louise seems to have changed. Ordo decides to meet Estelle again, after all these years, to know what it's all about...
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Title: Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: TV
Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them. 
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The Barbarian Invasions
Title: The Barbarian Invasions
Character: Claude
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
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Little Lili
Title: Little Lili
Character: Serge
Released: August 27, 2003
Type: Movie
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Title: Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Character: Notaire Le Potiron
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
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Title: Napoleon
Character: Lucien Bonaparte
Released: October 7, 2002
Type: TV
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.
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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 Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: François Berger / Babette Brown
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Title: Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Character: René le Canadien
Released: September 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
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Wedding Night
Title: Wedding Night
Character: Bernard
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Florence and Nicolas live happily together. Until the sister of Nicolas them points to a contest you get to win the first prize, a wedding with all expenses paid in Niagara Falls. Without thinking twice, decide to marry. Following on from then occur a series of inexplicable events that will make their relationship is complicated by the discovery of the extravagances of his family
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Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
Title: Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
Released: January 20, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.
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Requiem contre un plafond
Title: Requiem contre un plafond
Released: January 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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Via crucis
Title: Via crucis
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
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Life after love
Title: Life after love
Character: Docteur Bilodeau
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: Movie
After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
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Of Woman and Magic
Title: Of Woman and Magic
Character: le docteur Fish
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman. The third episode from "The Blindfold" by Siri Hustvedt.
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Title: The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Character: le contre-amiral
Released: April 19, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
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Le bogue de l'an 2000
Title: Le bogue de l'an 2000
Character: Hubert Hyves
Released: December 31, 1999
Type: Movie
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Memories Unlocked
Title: Memories Unlocked
Character: Mortimer
Released: March 24, 1999
Type: Movie
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
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Changement de cap
Title: Changement de cap
Character: Cariou
Released: February 22, 1999
Type: Movie
During a cruise, two women marked by life become friends.
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Class Trip
Title: Class Trip
Character: The Visitor
Released: September 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
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Title: Ces enfants d'ailleurs
Character: Jerzy Pawlowski
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
The story of a Polish family during the Second World War.
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Title: Belle Époque
Character: Augustin
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: TV
It all begins when Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), famous builder of the moving sidewalk for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, saves the life of the beautiful Alice Avellano (Kristin Scott Thomas), whom her husband, who has gone mad, was trying to strangle. Lucien Lachenay is himself threatened by a group of anarchists who have instructed a young worker, Alphonse (Benno Fürmann), to suppress him. Alphonse messes up the job, but Lucien, impressed by his inexhaustible energy and thirst for knowledge, agrees to be his mentor instead of handing him over to the police. In the years that follow, Lucien, Alphonse, Alice and the young and attractive Laure (Isabelle Carré) will face the game of rivalry, betrayal and reconciliation.
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Louis 19, King of the Airwaves
Title: Louis 19, King of the Airwaves
Character: Michel Gobeil
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back.
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The Evening Traveler
Title: The Evening Traveler
Character: Arthur
Released: October 25, 1993
Type: Movie
1993 TV movie
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Title: La Petite Vie
Character: Hubert Hyves
Released: October 16, 1993
Type: TV
La petite vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom aired by Radio-Canada from 1993 to 1999. In total, 59 episodes were created plus 3 specials, two for Christmas and one for New Year's 2000. It is to date the only Canadian TV show to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995.
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Montreal Stories
Title: Montreal Stories
Character: Accessoiriste studio
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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Milena
Title: Milena
Character: Max Brod
Released: July 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
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Duplex
Title: Duplex
Character: Albert
Released: January 12, 1991
Type: Movie
An archaeologist who has been charged with bringing a pre-Columbian statue back to France meets a journalist during a stay in the jails of South American revolutionaries.
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Ding et Dong : Le film
Title: Ding et Dong : Le film
Character: Jigi
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
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Jesus of Montreal
Title: Jesus of Montreal
Character: Richard Cardinal
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
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The Decline of the American Empire
Title: The Decline of the American Empire
Character: Claude
Released: June 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
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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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Hold-up
Title: Hold-up
Character: Hostage 400 $
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
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Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Title: Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Character: Bob
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
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Title: Poivre et sel
Character: Pierrot Séguin
Released: September 12, 1983
Type: TV
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Red Eyes
Title: Red Eyes
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: Movie
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
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Title: Bye Bye
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: TV
Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the past year.