Denys Arcand Movies

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

Artist and writer Marc Séguin offers his first film which is about a woman named Alice who steals paintings in order to reattribute them to...

Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman...

The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.

In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and...

When was Canada populated by Native Americans from the West? This film relates the discovery of the New World from the time of the Vikings, around...

This film establishes a parallel between the 1970 electoral campaign in Québec and the 1936 campaign dominated by Maurice Duplessis. It shows...

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...

From coast to coast, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Jacques Godbout films a documentary chronicle of the political...

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as...

A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.

In the seventeenth century, a grieving Portuguese nun writes to her lover, an officer in the French army, who abandoned her.

One evening a man watches eight movies simultaneously on television.

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length...

Three American tourists explore Quebec guided by an imaginative leader, in an atmosphere of health and good humor. Baroque incidents, romance, and...

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this film takes us into the wake of his story.

A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that...

Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....