Marie Brassard

Marie Brassard

Born: August 11, 1959
in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress, theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert Lepage and later for her own French and English theatrical pieces, which have been presented in many countries in the Americas, Europe and in Australia.

Movies for Marie Brassard...

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Title: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Character: Victorine
Released: October 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.
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Night Detour
Title: Night Detour
Character: (voice)
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
The story is set in a heavenly village on the Mexican west coast. To the west is the Pacific Ocean, immense, ominous, tumultuous, and on the opposite side is the jungle, lush, thick and populated by all sorts of animals. Violeta Martinez was born there.
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Mistral Spatial
Title: Mistral Spatial
Character: Pieuvre
Released: October 30, 2022
Type: Movie
The evening of his break-up with Cath, Sam is victim of an inexplicable phenomenon where he loses consciousness for few hours later. Could his heartbreak be related to the hypothesis of an alien abduction?
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Promenades nocturnes
Title: Promenades nocturnes
Character: Ethel
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband, Ethel retreats inward, doubting her loved ones, trying to make sense of the fabric of her reality. She has also begun wandering at night, each walk a more surreal and abstract adventure.
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Viking
Title: Viking
Character: Christiane Comte
Released: September 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Five people are recruited by the Viking Society to collaborate on the first manned mission to Mars. They were chosen because of the psychological similarities they share with the five astronauts who will travel to the red planet. These volunteers therefore form a B-team of alter egos who will experience the adventure in parallel, behind closed doors on Earth.
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The Twentieth Century
Title: The Twentieth Century
Character: Asbestos Miner
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.
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A Brother’s Love
Title: A Brother’s Love
Character: Lise Poitras
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
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août. septembre.
Title: août. septembre.
Released: March 31, 2019
Type: Movie
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Shambles
Title: Shambles
Released: August 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother's own turbulent downward spiral.
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La chute
Title: La chute
Character: Mother
Released: April 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Forbidden Room
Title: The Forbidden Room
Character: Mysterious Necklace Woman
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
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Le Cœur de Madame Sabali
Title: Le Cœur de Madame Sabali
Character: Jeannette
Released: October 5, 2015
Type: Movie
The film is centered on the strange, beautiful and emotional story of Jeannette Sabali. When her boyfriend Bruno stops making love with her, Jeannette begins an affair with a young co-worker (Francis LaHaye). Alas, it turns out that her heart problems are physical as well as metaphorical. When Jeannette inherits the heart of a deceased Malian woman, she’s befriended by her donor’s teenaged son (Youssef Camara), who’s convinced that she’s the reincarnation of his late mother. It turns out that he might just be on to something.
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Corbo
Title: Corbo
Character: Mignonne Corbo
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After befriending two young far-left activists, he joined the Front de Libération du Québec, an underground radical group. Jean, from then on, marches inexorably towards his destiny.
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The Embargo Project
Title: The Embargo Project
Character: Roberta
Released: May 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.
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Roberta
Title: Roberta
Character: Roberta
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.
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Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Title: Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Character: Marina St-Jean / Jackie
Released: September 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
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Ésimésac
Title: Ésimésac
Character: Babine
Released: November 10, 2012
Type: Movie
With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of a new railway line promises to connect Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to the rest of the world and brings the hope of abundance. Riopel, the hulking blacksmith, starts working on the railway track and convinces the locals to invest in his project rather than waste their time playing in the garden. Ésimésac’s big project flounders under the weight of metal. But can he really stop progress?
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Where I am
Title: Where I am
Character: mère
Released: October 13, 2012
Type: Movie
During a brutal Quebec winter, a teenage girl mourns her best friend killed in a car accident.
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Twice a Woman
Title: Twice a Woman
Character: Nurse
Released: May 1, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son and start a new life under a fresh identity.
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Vital Signs
Title: Vital Signs
Character: Céline Girandau
Released: October 5, 2009
Type: Movie
After losing a loved one, Simone decides to volunteer in a hospital and spends her days with terminally ill patients. However, other parts of her life soon begin to suffer as well.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Marjo
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
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Cadavres
Title: Cadavres
Character: Paulette
Released: February 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to investigate their mother's death, all in keeping with her TV role of police commissioner. But nothing is simple with the Marchildons. Between a dithering Raymond, the ghost of Solange who continues to haunt her children, and Angèle who's going crazy interviewing suspects, one more bizarre than the next, and the bodies that are filling up the basement, it's hard to keep their love straight. But then, love was always a little twisted in the Marchildon household.
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Babine
Title: Babine
Character: Madame Gélinas
Released: November 28, 2008
Type: Movie
The adventures of Babine, the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and narrowly evades death.
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Continental, a Film Without Guns
Title: Continental, a Film Without Guns
Character: Diane
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
The mysterious disappearance of a man affects the lives of four different people, all living in loneliness in the suburbs of Quebec: the wife of the missing person, an aging ex-gambler, a young receptionist who want to share her life with somebody, and a father looking to help his family.
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Congorama
Title: Congorama
Character: Madeleine Longsdale
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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Pig's Law
Title: Pig's Law
Character: Carole Massé
Released: October 5, 2001
Type: Movie
After inheriting a pig farm from their father, sisters Stephane and Betty do their best to keep the family business running. But while the very pregnant Betty is diligent about doing the work that needs to be done, Stephane can focus only on her crippling gambling problem, which has landed her in deep trouble with her creditors. Desperate for cash, she considers a dangerous option for repaying the debt … but will it work?
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Nô
Title:
Character: Hanako
Released: May 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Robert Lepage directed this Canadian comedy, filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepage's play The Seven Branches of the River Ota. In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World's Fair. Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act. The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets. Sophie learns she's pregnant and phones Michel. However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Meanwhile, in Montreal, Michael plots terrorist activities. Commenting on East-West cultural distinctions, the film intercuts between Quebec (in black and white) and Japan (in color).
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Le Polygraphe
Title: Le Polygraphe
Character: Lucie Champagne
Released: May 26, 1996
Type: Movie
In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect.