Gabriel Arcand

Gabriel Arcand

Born: June 4, 1949
in Deschambault, Québec, Canada
Gabriel Arcand (born June 4, 1949) is a French Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand. He won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for his performance in Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Le Démantèlement, and the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Decline of the American Empire. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Les Plouffe and at the 20th Genie Awards for Post Mortem, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for Suzanne and at the 20th Genie Awards in 1999 for Le Grand serpent du monde.

Movies for Gabriel Arcand...

Title: P.A.M. - Programme d'aspirant-moniteur
Character: Professeur
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: TV
The day after their first night in the forest, a small group of aspiring instructors wake up to find their two mentors missing. Jokes quickly give way to panic, then the lack of survival skills, hunger, thirst and fatigue get the better of the teenagers. They then realize that in an extreme context, each individual has the potential to turn into a monster.
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Résonance
Title: Résonance
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: Movie
An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.
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Maria Chapdelaine
Title: Maria Chapdelaine
Character: Le docteur
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River, north of Lake Saint-Jean. The Chapdelaines work tirelessly to push the limits of the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot dampen the warmth of family life, Maria, strong and full of hope, finds herself faced with major dilemmas. Thrust into the world of adults, Maria will suddenly be forced to decide on her future as a woman.
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She Who Wears the Rain
Title: She Who Wears the Rain
Released: October 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning.
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A Kid
Title: A Kid
Character: Pierre Lesage
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…Filled with secrets, this story about one man’s coming to term with the foreign family he never knew he had is complex with interconnected themes such as masculinity, family, paternity and filial devotion coiling in the layers underneath.
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Title: Au secours de Béatrice
Character: Monsieur P
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: TV
Béatrice Clément is a 48-year-old emergency room doctor. She is pretty, charming and at the top of her professional game. The only problem is, Béatrice hasn’t been feeling well. Having undergone every test available without any conclusive results, she is at the end of her rope. Finally, she overcomes her skepticism and agrees to visit a psychologist. Dr. P is gentle, attentive and compassionate. Despite Béatrice’s initial resistance, he slowly but surely gains her trust. Every week, Béatrice is confronted with patients who remind her of her own personal struggles. It is becoming clear that although she is fully in control of the ER, her private life is another matter entirely. In her drive for constant perfection and control, she is faced with comical and embarrassing situations, but also painful ones.
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Title: The Killer Inside
Character: Jean-Marc Beauchemin
Released: March 13, 2014
Type: TV
Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli.
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The Auction
Title: The Auction
Character: Gaby Gagnon
Released: November 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn't end up losing her house...
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Karakara
Title: Karakara
Character: Pierre
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.
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The Bossé Empire
Title: The Bossé Empire
Character: Antoine de Carufel
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the world, participating in all sectors who have made money in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.
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La vie secrète des gens heureux
Title: La vie secrète des gens heureux
Character: Professeur d'architecture
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses études en architecture avec succès, le jeune homme rencontrera Audrey, une belle ténébreuse qui lui donnera des ailes. Évidemment, le bonheur n'est jamais simple et la vie peut être parfois cruelle...
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Congorama
Title: Congorama
Character: Priest
Released: May 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
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A Wonderful Spell
Title: A Wonderful Spell
Character: Moïse
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French countryside after fleeing the institution they called home, Julien must deal with his father's extreme violence and his mother's rosy fantasies and once again form a family that society tries to forget.
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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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Chaos and Desire
Title: Chaos and Desire
Character: L'éditeur
Released: August 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...
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A House with a View of the Sea
Title: A House with a View of the Sea
Character: Fotografo
Released: August 28, 2001
Type: Movie
In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desperate act of violence tears them apart. It takes the brave intervention of a stranger to reunite them once again in the place of their dreams.
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The Big Snake of the World
Title: The Big Snake of the World
Character: Monsieur
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensible people who try to persuade him to settle down. For Tom has only one idea in his head: to once again head south, riding the waves of love and fate.
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Post Mortem
Title: Post Mortem
Character: Ghislain O'Brien
Released: March 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
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La fabrication d'un meurtrier
Title: La fabrication d'un meurtrier
Released: March 3, 1996
Type: Movie
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Blood of the Hunter
Title: Blood of the Hunter
Character: Yan Thoreau
Released: July 25, 1995
Type: Movie
In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake is a disturbed drifter who has murdered a man and has found a way to frame Jan for his crime. Jan is out tending to his traps when an Indian friend with psychic talents tells him Marie is in grave danger. Jan hurries back, but he has no idea just how serious matters are until he arrives home -- Jan is wanted by the law for a crime he didn't commit, while Blake is hiding out in his home, and has taken Marie hostage.
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Pour l'amour de Thomas
Title: Pour l'amour de Thomas
Character: Claude
Released: February 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as possible, rejecting self-pity and alienating his over-protective mother.
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Nelligan
Title: Nelligan
Character: Père Seers
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
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Easy in Mind
Title: Easy in Mind
Character: Théo
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
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The Revolving Doors
Title: The Revolving Doors
Character: Madrigale 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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Unfaithful Mornings
Title: Unfaithful Mornings
Character: L'homme au bonsaï
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing of a novel. But Jean-Pierre is not really respecting the rules of the game...
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La ligne de chaleur
Title: La ligne de chaleur
Character: Robert Filion 1
Released: May 26, 1987
Type: Movie
In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, travel to Florida for the funeral and then set out from Dixie with his late father's car for the return trip to Montreal.
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The Decline of the American Empire
Title: The Decline of the American Empire
Character: Mario
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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Agnes of God
Title: Agnes of God
Character: Monsignor
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
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Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Title: Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Character: Ovide Plouffe
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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Thunder Drum
Title: Thunder Drum
Character: Paul Lejeune
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this feature film, Arthur Lamothe films the daily life of the Innu, the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated.
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Le toasteur
Title: Le toasteur
Released: June 6, 1982
Type: Movie
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Georges Laflamme
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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The Plouffe Family
Title: The Plouffe Family
Character: Ovide Plouffe
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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Bye, See You Monday
Title: Bye, See You Monday
Character: Georges, the bartender
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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L'âge de la machine
Title: L'âge de la machine
Character: Hervé
Released: February 19, 1978
Type: Movie
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
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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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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Title: Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Character: Bum
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Title: Parlez-nous d'amour
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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Les vautours
Title: Les vautours
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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Gina
Title: Gina
Character: Le réalisateur
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Title: Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Character: Gabriel
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.
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Réjeanne Padovani
Title: Réjeanne Padovani
Character: Carlo Ferrara
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: Ti-bi
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.