Movies: Micheline Lanctôt

The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity....

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete wi...

Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence....

Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in....

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ott...

Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by human sexuality. On earth, Christmas, 1999, Jacques, who's dying of cancer, meets Sophie, pregnant and abandoned. Her babies and his death are due in the ...

Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend Julien once a week. She hangs out a lot at the dance studio in her building... Louise decides to offe...

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Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted of rape....

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Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his daughter by a sinister cult. Wallowing in self-pity for years, he decides to commit suicide. However, the manner in which he decides to suicide is quit...

Lucie sees Eloi, a homeless man, freezing to death in the alley, and takes him in. Living together proves to be difficult until Lucie's charity restores Eloi's humanity and her emotional maturity....

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared....

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As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash to the Earth, Claire is going through a difficult Winter....

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After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier....

A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and financial woes on the day he decides to return to the sky....

Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question : "How much is too much?"...

Ruth is the story of a painful adolescence. Ruth decides on a whim to leave her small village in the Bas Saint-Laurent for the "real world" of the big city, Montreal. There she meets up with her brother, Jean-Paul. Her many lovers range from one-nigh...