Michel Forget

Michel Forget

Born: February 27, 1942
in Montreal, Québec, Canada

Movies for Michel Forget...

Testament
Title: Testament
Character: Lecteur de journal dans le bar
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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The Sticky Side of Baklava
Title: The Sticky Side of Baklava
Character: Jocelyn
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.
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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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Nous sommes les autres
Title: Nous sommes les autres
Character: Jean-Claude L'espérence
Released: November 7, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Feux
Character: Lionel Grenier
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
Claudine Grenier and Marc Vézina are reunited by chance after more than 30 years. When she was a teenager, Claudine used to babysit Marc. The boy was secretly madly in love with her until one day, his mother died in a fire that started immediately after Claudine left the house. Now, convinced that Claudine is the love of his life, he wants to win her heart, despite the fact that they are both married with children. Charmed and touched by Marc's interest in her, as she approaches 50, will Claudine allow herself a fling, a brief affair before returning to her normal life?
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Character: Husband
Released: February 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Ben's not as sharp as he once was. Thank god he's got his wife around to look out for him. But something's not right. Something seems to be lurking in the shadows and this time it's up to him to figure it out.
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An Eye for Beauty
Title: An Eye for Beauty
Character: Roger Savard
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
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Lance et compte
Title: Lance et compte
Character: Gilles Guilbault
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: Movie
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
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Title: Les enfants de la télé
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: TV
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The Child Prodigy
Title: The Child Prodigy
Character: Animateur Radio
Released: May 28, 2010
Type: Movie
On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
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Saint Martyrs of the Damned
Title: Saint Martyrs of the Damned
Character: Maire
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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Aurore
Title: Aurore
Character: Nérée Caron
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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My Only Love
Title: My Only Love
Character: Georges Guérin
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: Movie
The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.
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Title: Sucré salé
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2002
Type: TV
Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.
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The Woman Who Drinks
Title: The Woman Who Drinks
Character: Joe Belley
Released: March 9, 2001
Type: Movie
On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.
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The Haven
Title: The Haven
Character: Gustave Blain
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
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Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Title: Heritage Minutes: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Character: General Store Owner
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier and the beginnings of his passion for engineering.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Romeo Mongrain
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
Title: Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
Character: Valmore Lambert
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Title: Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Character: Valmore Lambert
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Lance et Compte
Character: Gilles Guilbeault
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: TV
Lance et Compte is a series of Quebec téléromans revolving around a Quebec City ice hockey team. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and revival series on TQS in 2001 and on TVA from 2004 to the present. The first season was filmed in both French and English, the English version appearing on CBC Television as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously in English on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. The series was scripted by Réjean Tremblay and Louis Caron for the first season, and by Tremblay and Jacques Jacob after that. Following the end of the regular series, a number of television movies continued to air into the 1990s. A new generation of the series started to air in 2001 and a movie was made in 2010.
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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 Tin Flute
Title: The Tin Flute
Character: Azarius Lacasse
Released: August 28, 1983
Type: Movie
In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable men, a nice soldier from a good and wealthy family, and an ambitious self-centered engineer. She must decide whether she wants to follow her head or her heart...
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Contrecoeur
Title: Contrecoeur
Character: Maurice St-Pierre
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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Title: Du Tac au Tac
Character: Mario Duquette
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Pleasure Is My Right
Title: Pleasure Is My Right
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
Nadine, a young and rich Parisian girl, is sent to the boarding school by her mother. But Nadine is bored and desperately looking for physical pleasure. Accused of having a relationship with a lesbian, she is fired. She then prostitutes herself, but her life changes when she meets a nice boy.
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Orderers
Title: Orderers
Character: Policeman
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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Title: La Petite Patrie
Character: Roland
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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Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Title: Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Character: Un troisième
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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Des armes et les hommes
Title: Des armes et les hommes
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie