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List Of Quebec Films
This is a list of films produced and co-produced in Quebec, Canada ordered by year of release. Although the majority of Quebec films are produced in French due to Quebec's predominantly francophone population, a number of English language films are also produced in the province. 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s † Films under this header do not yet have confirmed release dates as of fall 2024. See also * Cinema of Quebec * Prix Iris * List of Quebec film directors * Culture of Quebec * List of French-language Canadian television series * List of Canadian films References External links List of the most popular Quebec films (theatrically) since 1985List of the most popular Quebec films in France (theatrically) since 2000 {{CinemaofCanada Films, List of Quebec Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Crossroads (1943 Film)
''At the Crossroads'' () is a 1943 Canadian film directed by Jean-Marie Poitevin and written by Paul Guèvremont. The first dramatic feature to be produced by a Quebec religious community, the Société des Missions-Étrangères du Québec, it was narrated by René Lévesque, the future premier of Quebec. Plot A young man, Jean Liber (Paul Guèvremont), who, at the end of his ''cours classique'', decides to leave his rich, happy family and his fiancée, Pauline (Denise Pelletier), in order to become a missionary in China. This story of his struggle, 'at the crossroads' between love and God's calling, is clearly a pretext for a film designed to encourage young men to enter missionary work. Production ''At the Crossroads'' was the first fictional feature-length film made in sound in Quebec. It was an adpatation of Guy Stein's ''La folle aventure''. Importance ''À la croisée des chemins'' was based on a religious drama by Guy Stein, ''La folle aventure'', which had been stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gury
Paul Gury was the stage name of Loïc (Louis-Marie) Le Gouriadec (May 11, 1888 - November 13, 1974), a French-Canadian film and theatre actor, director and writer. He was most noted as the director of three significant films in the early Cinema of Quebec. Career Born in Vannes, Morbihan, France, he emigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1907, and studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire Lassalle.Jean Marmier, "La carrière franco-canadienne de Loïc Le Gouriadec, homme de théâtre" in ''Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest'', Vol. 85, No. 4 (1978). pp. 631-640. In 1918, he became director of Montreal's Théâtre National. He wrote or cowrote a number of stage plays during this era, including ''Le Mortel baiser'', ''L'Homme au foulard blanc'', ''Les Dopés'', ''Les Esclaves blanches'' and a theatrical adaptation of Louis Hémon's novel ''Maria Chapdelaine''. He remained with the theatre until 1936, when he was succeeded as director by Rose Ouellette. In the 1930s, he began work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man And His Sin
''A Man and His Sin'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Paul Gury and released in 1949.Charles-Henri Ramond"Un homme et son péché – Film de Paul Gury" ''Films du Québec'', August 6, 2012. Adapted from Claude-Henri Grignon's 1933 novel ''Un homme et son péché'', the film stars Hector Charland as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Nicole Germain as Donalda Laloge, a village resident who was given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she is actually in love with her boyfriend Alexis Labranche (Guy Provost), and Ovila Légaré as the village priest Antoine Labelle. However, the film did not replicate the plot of the original novel, in which Séraphin's miserliness led directly to Donalda's death; instead, it tells a story in which Séraphin loans Alexis $200 to buy a farm, but then uses his power to prevent Alexis from getting a job to repay him so that Alexis will remain indebted and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Delacroix
René Delacroix (August 27, 1900 – June 11, 1976) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was most noted for a mid-career period from 1949 to 1954 when he was based in Montreal, during which he directed or co-directed several of the most important early feature films in the Cinema of Quebec.Michel Houle et Alain Julien, ''Dictionnaire du cinéma québécois'', Fides, 1978. The film '' Tit-Coq'', codirected with Gratien Gélinas, won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 5th Canadian Film Awards in 1953."On the Screen". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 1, 1953. Filmography *''La relève'' - 1932 *''Meute et kangourous...'' - 1935 *''Promesses'' - 1939 *'' Notre-Dame de la Mouise'' - 1941, writer only *'' The Murderer Is Not Guilty (L'assassin n'est pas coupable)'' - 1946 *''Gonzague'' - 1947 *'' The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill)'' - 1949, with Jean-Yves Bigras *'' The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie)'' - 1949, with Paul Vandenberghe * ''They Are Twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Yves Bigras
Jean-Yves Bigras (May 19, 1919 – August 17, 1966) was a Canadian film director and film editor, considered a pioneer in Quebec cinema. Bigras studied first at the University of Ottawa and then at Queen's University. From 1939 to 1942, he served in World War II as part of the RCAF. When he returned to Canada, he became one of the first French Canadians to be hired by the NFB and worked there as an editor until 1948. He was then hired to work in Renaissance Éducationnel, the children's education film section of Renaissance Films Distribution. It was here that he got to work on his first feature film, ''Le gros Bill'' (1949), co-directing with René Delacroix. Bigras moved on to direct three feature films himself, including ''La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre'' (1951), a big hit with audiences and a staple of Quebec Cinema. In 1953, he began working for Radio-Canada where he became one of its principal directors until his death in 1966. Selected filmography *'' The Grand Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Bill
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1949 In Film
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1949 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *April 26 – June 21 – Ealing comedies ''Passport to Pimlico'', ''Whisky Galore! (1949 film), Whisky Galore!'' and ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' are released in the UK, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. *November 15 – Following the prior year's Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court decision in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'', Paramount Pictures is split into two separate companies with the creation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for production-distribution and United Paramount Theaters for the theater operations. *December 21 – Cecil B. DeMille's ''Samson and Delilah (1949 film), Samson and Delilah'', starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Wilcoxon, receives its televised world prem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 In Film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1948 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States decide in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'' holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. * Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture. Awards Top ten money making stars Notable films released in 1948 United States unless stated # *'' 3 Godfathers'', directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne A *''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'', starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello *'' Act of Violence'', starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh *'' Adventures of Don Juan'', starring Errol Flynn *''Albuquerque'', starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton *'' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whispering City
''Whispering City'' (also known as ''Crime City'') is a 1947 Canadian black-and-white film noir directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918), Mary Anderson, and Helmut Dantine.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 239. It was filmed on location in Quebec City and Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada in both English and French. A French language version entitled ''La Forteresse'', with different actors but with the same director, was made simultaneously. Plot Taking place in Quebec City, the film tells the story of a lawyer and a patron of the arts, Albert Frédéric, who, earlier in life, caused a murder and made it look like an accident for financial gain. Later in life, a dying woman tells a reporter the tale of how she thinks the accident was actually murder. The young American reporter, Mary Roberts, begins investigating the case, unaware that the charming lawyer may be behind it all. Meanwhile, Michel L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 In Film
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, ''It Happened on Fifth Avenue''. *May 22 – ''Great Expectations'' is premiered in New York. *August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival. *November 24 – The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress votes 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten". *November 25 – The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 In Film
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, with ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' winning seven Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1946 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 14 - Charles Vidor's ''Gilda (film), Gilda'' starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford shows audiences one of the most famous scenes of the 20th century: Rita Hayworth singing "Put The Blame On Mame". *November 21 – William Wyler's ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell. *December 20 – Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful Life'', featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell (actor), Thomas Mitchell opens in New York. Awards 1946 films releases Notable films released in 1946 List of American films of 1946, United States unless stated A * ''Angel on My Shoulder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
