J. Léo Gagnon Movies

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

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

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

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

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

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She...

A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their...

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

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to...