J. Léo Gagnon Movies

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970...

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a...

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure)...

In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and...

Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives. As her...

A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to...

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

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...

In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets...

A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec...

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share...

A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war...