J. Léo Gagnon Movies

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

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 factori...

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

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 con...

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

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...

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

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 confine...

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

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 a...

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 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 seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.

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) gr...

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 of his...

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 a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and Berthe are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of...

Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.

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