Ababouiné
Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Directed by André Forcier
Lilou Roy-Lanouette
Charlotte Saint-Amour
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Comedy · Drama
A young man joins a megachurch and struggles to speak in tongues - until the Pastor's daughter agrees to help him out.
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Drama
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Drama · Family
Widower Tripp Spence goes on the run from the IRS with his 12-year-old baseball-phenomenon son Derrick. They assume new identities and flee to Las Vegas, where Derrick, now known as Mickey, joins a team that makes it to the Little League World Series. But will fame give away his true identity?
5.82004
Comedy
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6.92018
Comedy · Drama
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9.01996
Drama
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Documentary · Comedy
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Drama · Romance
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Romance · Fantasy
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Drama
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7.12009
Drama
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
6.61983
Drama · Fantasy
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Comedy
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
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Thriller · Drama
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Comedy · Drama
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
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Comedy · Fantasy
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
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Fantasy · Drama
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6.02003
Drama · Comedy
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
6.12012
Drama · Thriller
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.
6.42024
Fantasy · Comedy
A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
6.72021
Comedy · Drama
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6.22010
Comedy · Drama
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Comedy · Drama
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
6.12021
Comedy · Drama
Hugo is 19 years old. Like every summer, he spends his holidays on an Atlantic island, in the small family house. But this year is different: Hugo has undergone a physical transformation and arrives with his girlfriend, Queen, a beautician whose lively chatter and long, glittery nails contrast sharply with the young man’s modesty and shyness. Before long, the couple becomes the focus of everyone’s attention.
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Comedy · Drama
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Comedy · Fantasy
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Drama · Comedy
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4.02016
Comedy · Drama
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3.82005
Documentary
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2.02007
Drama · Comedy
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Romance · Comedy
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4.91997
Comedy · Drama
A young man joins a megachurch and struggles to speak in tongues - until the Pastor's daughter agrees to help him out.
1.02014
Drama
Photos are no longer enough to nourish the memory of happy days... Poems are powerless to preserve lost love... To return to the place of ecstasy is to return to Eden... With risks and perils...
5.02023
Drama · Family
Widower Tripp Spence goes on the run from the IRS with his 12-year-old baseball-phenomenon son Derrick. They assume new identities and flee to Las Vegas, where Derrick, now known as Mickey, joins a team that makes it to the Little League World Series. But will fame give away his true identity?
5.82004
