Denis Drouin
1916 - 1978
Il était une fois dans l'Est
André Brassard
Denise Filiatrault, Michelle Rossignol
Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
Once Upon a Time in the East
La gammick
Jacques Godbout
Marc Legault, Dorothée Berryman
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent New York City gangster, he leaps at the opportunity, ignoring the warnings of Montreal’s leading mob boss, who has forbidden local criminals from taking the assignment. Upon his return, Chico discovers he is being pursued from all sides, prompting an unlikely response: he calls a local talk radio show and starts revealing the mafia’s most carefully guarded secrets. As his revelations get more shocking, so do the tactics of his adversaries, culminating in a devastating gut punch of a finale.
The Mob
Le curé de village
Paul Gury
Rolland D'Amour, Denis Drouin
A convict on the run returns to his native village to see his daughter again, who believes him to be dead. The priest intervenes to avoid a scandal that would reflect on the young girl on the eve of getting married.
Le curé de village
Jusqu'au cœur
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Robert Charlebois, Mouffe
An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.
Straight to the Heart
Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Roger Fournier
Dominique Michel, Claude Michaud
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 man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
