Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), Laurence Anyways (2012), Nanook of the North (1922), Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), I Confess (1953), Frozen River (2008), Congorama (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Quebec movies.
Storyline: This Canadian documentary portrays the 1990 showdown between the Mohawk Nation and the predominantly white Quebec town of Oka, which is intent on developing land deemed sacred by the native people. When members of the Mohawk tribe protest plans to expand a golf course into their territory, they form a barricade, leading to an armed standoff with provincial police that becomes increasingly tense, with the possibility of violence looming over the heads of everyone involved.
Plot Keywords: native, police officer, soldier, politician, tense, emotional, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Born Christmas Day 1960, Zac Beaulieu is the fourth of five sons of Gervais and Laurianne Beaulieu. Zac feels somewhat disconnected to his brothers, all of whom are different from each other. They include the bookworm Christian who is the eldest, the dumb jock Antoine who is third, and the youngest Yvan. But Zac has the most contempt for his second eldest brother, the shiftless druggie Raymond. To his devout Catholic mother, Zac is her miracle son, both for being born the same day as Jesus Christ (a fact which Zac has always hated), and because a Tupperware-selling mystic once told her that he has the power to heal. Laurianne has always coddled Zac, the two who have a special if unspoken bond. But Zac wants more to please his father, who wants more than anything in his sons that they grow up to be man's men and not sissies. As Zac goes through his mid-teens to early twenties, Zac isn't sure if he can live up to the ideals of either his mother or especially his father. A young man with stress-induced asthma, Zac just wants to be what he considers normal, which includes getting rid of his asthma. But more importantly, he wants to get rid of the underlying thoughts that he has and which most going through puberty have, but that for him are becoming more prevalent as he grows older.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: teen boy, father, mother, brother, intricate, touching, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The movie highlights ten years in the life of a literature teacher named Laurence who transforms himself into a woman after years of concealing his feelings. Her tremulous relationship with her family is further complicated by revealing herself to them while she struggles to find comfort with her significant other Frédérique. Though others may not initially accept or understand Laurence in her true form, those who knew her before her transformation still know her as Laurence, anyways.
Plot Keywords: girlfriend, fred, transgender woman, emotional, quebec, love, sex change ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit), and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.—<xaviermartin@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: inuit, father, mother, baby, spirited, striking, arctic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: orphan, uncle, storekeeper, adolescent, emotional, intricate, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Otto Keller and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Québec City, Québec. While robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt, he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan, he cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.
Plot Keywords: priest, lawyer, immigrant, dark, suspenseful, tense, quebec ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila - and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game.
Plot Keywords: mother, dog, young girl, widow, immigrant, emotional, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, and father of a future tennis champion, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec, in the town of Sainte-Cécile, and given up for adoption shortly afterward. In the summer of 2000, Michel goes there and finds a sleepy village that soon makes him want to run back home. There, he meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. On their way back to Montréal, an accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. Welcome to "Congorama."—Philippe Falardeau
Plot Keywords: engineer, inventor, writer, son, father, wife, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.—Isabel Piedmont <ipiedmon@indiana.edu>
Plot Keywords: jew, father, uncle, girlfriend, grandfather, gangster, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
Plot Keywords: doctor, young woman, love interest, wife, rival, war hero, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An unseen man recalls four days of his youth when he came of age. He is Simon, in mid teens, in awe of his father who's planned a robbery with the down-and-out Fury. Dad double-crosses Fury, using Simon in a switch of the bag of cash. Unknown to Simon, however, a bank guard later shoots dad dead and wounds Fury. Simon leaves Ontario, as planned, heading for a remote Québec town. When Fury discovers the money gone, he follow Simon with the aid of Simon's neighbor, Feather, who's been dad's lover. En route to Quebec, Simon is picked up by Chrystal, a wild woman who's just left her husband. They all meet beside a lake for a final sorting out of money and relationships.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: bank robber, teenager, bombshell, ex-girlfriend, partner, jealous man, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Plot Keywords: alcoholic, married man, husband, son, sister, dark, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the battle for New France, a man (David La Haye) falls in love with a young widow (Noémie Godin-Vigneau) suspected of witchcraft.
Plot Keywords: son, trapper, emotional, endearing, quebec, investigation, loss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A writer (Peter Cushing) gives a publisher (Ray Milland) three examples to sell his story about a conspiracy of cats.
Plot Keywords: cat, devil, writer, dark, quirky, united kingdom, quebec ...
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