Jean Lapointe Movies

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970...

A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.

Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still...

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the...

Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try...

A girl who comes from a long line of circus performers tries to fulfill her dream of going to private school.

A young man feels compelled to travel with his grand-father. The young man wants to find his father who ran away with the corpse of his ex-wife.

Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles.

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the...

Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of...

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on...

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...

Neglected by his father, William, a star college hockey player, also suffered harassment from his coach and some teammates. By chance of a visit to...

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.

Réal and François are two old buddies in their early 30s who reunite at last to unearth a time capsule bottle which contains their...

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia...

Blaise Dumas, war correspondent, covers an armed conflict in Eastern Europe. When he wakes from a temporary coma in his home town of Quebec City,...

Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to...