J. Léo Gagnon
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Les Brûlés (1959)
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

Il était une guerre (1959)
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...

Séraphin (1950)
In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and...

La forteresse (1947)
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...

Les aventures d'une jeune veuve (1974)
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish...

Panique (1977)
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

Bye, See You Monday (1979)
Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share...

Normande (1975)
Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been...

The Men (1971)
Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a...

The Last Betrothal (1973)
After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die...

Amanita Pestilens (1963)
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.

Le père Chopin (1945)
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...

Night Cap (1974)
A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.

The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
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)...

Far from the Sun (1971)
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation...

Ordinary Tenderness (1973)
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.

Dirty Money (1972)
A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

La piastre (1976)
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (1976)
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… (1976)
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...

Whispering City (1947)
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...

The 13th Letter (1951)
A new doctor in a quiet Quebec town sparks rumors and accusations when anonymous letters allege an affair with a married woman.

Cordélia (1980)
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...

Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
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...

Before the Time Comes (1975)
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.

Fantastica (1980)
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...

Les « troubbes » de Johnny (1974)
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...

The Plouffe Family (1981)
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

Kamouraska (1973)
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

The Angel and the Woman (1977)
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...

Orders (1974)
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970...

Little Aurore's Tragedy (1952)
A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to...

Moonshine (1983)
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.

Rue des Pignons (1966)
Rue des Pignons was a French-Canadian TV series which ran from 1966 to 1977. Radio-Canada has reportedly lost most of the episodes of the series,...