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François Papineau

François Papineau

Canadian actor
December 24, 1966 (57 years old)
Can. 2024. Drama by Renée Beaulieu with François Papineau, Antoine Desrochers, Emie Thériault. Over a ten-year period, in the same house, three siblings, their parents and their paternal grandmother witness a succession of births, departures, returns, separations and deaths.
in theaters starting October 18th 2024 (QC)

You Are Not Alone

V.O.: Vous n’êtes pas seuls
Can. 2023. Sentimental comedy by Philippe Lupien, Marie-Hélène Viens with Pier-Luc Funk, Marianne Fortier, François Papineau. An anxious pizza delivery man, recently dating a beautiful young woman, is targeted by an alien posing as a cab driver.
Can. 2020. Thriller by Alberic Aurteneche with Emmanuel Schwartz, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Gilles Renaud. A 30-year-old Montrealer is plagued by frequent nightmares as he tries to shed light on the hunting accident that killed his father.
Runtime: 101 min.

CA$H NEXU$

V.O.: Cash Nexus
Can. 2019. Drama by François Delisle with Alexandre Castonguay, François Papineau, Evelyne Brochu. Forced to reconnect with his bourgeois family, a Montreal drug addict relives deep wounds that threaten everyone’s stability.
Runtime: 135 min.

14 jours, 12 nuits

V.O.: 14 jours 12 nuits
Can. 2019. Psychological drama by Jean-Philippe Duval with Anne Dorval, Leanna Chea, Ngoc Thoa. Concealing her true identity, a Quebec oceanographer meets in Vietnam the biological mother of the child she and her husband adopted 17 years earlier.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Benoît Pilon with Sébastien Ricard, Arnaud Vachon, Rémy Girard. In 1949 Charlevoix, a priest and educator leads his students in a search for the remains of a possible Viking colony from the turn of the year 1000.
Runtime: 125 min.

The Fireflies Are Gone

V.O.: La Disparition des lucioles
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Sébastien Pilote with Karelle Tremblay, Pierre-Luc Brillant, François Papineau. In an old industrial town in the Saguenay, an anti-social teenager develops an ambiguous relationship with her guitar teacher, 20 years her senior.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 2017. Drama by Benoît Pilon with Marie-Josée Croze, Natar Ungalaq, Christine Tootoo. In Iqaluit, a Montreal woman seeks to clarify the circumstances surrounding the supposedly accidental death of her husband.
Runtime: 102 min.

Bad Seeds

V.O.: Les Mauvaises Herbes
Can. 2016. Dramatic comedy by Louis Bélanger with Alexis Martin, Gilles Renaud, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez. Forced to flee Montreal, a mediocre actor and compulsive gambler is taken in by an old Abitibi farmer, who forces him into his illegal marijuana growing business.
Runtime: 108 min.
Can. 2016. Sketches by Éric Tessier, Stéphane E. Roy, Luc Picard, Ricardo Trogi, Jean-Philippe Duval, Micheline Lanctôt, Érik Canuel, Claude Brie, Marc Labrèche with Stéphane E. Roy, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Christian Bégin. The topics discussed in the lecture of a so-called communications expert are illustrated by nine stories, each featuring a member of his audience.
Runtime: 98 min.

Wild Run : The Legend

V.O.: Chasse-Galerie : La légende
Can. 2015. Fantasy by Jean-Philippe Duval with Francis Ducharme, Caroline Dhavernas, Vincent-Guillaume Otis. In the 19th century, the relationship between a lumberjack and a seamstress is compromised by the latter
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2012. Psychological drama by François Delisle with François Delisle, Jacqueline Courtemanche, Noémie Godin-Vigneau. An inmate's inner thoughts become entangled with those of his former spouse and his elderly mother.
Runtime: 85 min.

Wetlands

V.O.: Marécages
Can. 2011. Drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard. A teenager, who accidentally caused the death of his farmer father, is suspicious of a stranger who hangs around his mother under the guise of helping her.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 2011. Drama by Audrey Fouché with Déborah François, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hiroshi Abe. While reporting on the commemorative ceremonies of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, a French journalist discovers thephenomenon of death by loneliness.
Runtime: 82 min.
Can. 2010. Psychological drama by Catherine Martin with Guylaine Tremblay, François Papineau, Denis Bernard. Shattered by the murder of her only daughter, a woman leaves Montreal and moves to her family's country home, where she gives up all desire to live.
Runtime: 87 min.
Can. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Louis Bélanger with François Papineau, Alexis Martin, Sophie Bourgeois. Distraught over the accidental death of his son, a Montreal teacher is led by a scheming friend into commiting a series of robberies on the Lower River Road.
Runtime: 113 min.

Life Begins

V.O.: Une Vie qui commence
Can. 2010. Psychological drama by Michel Monty with Charles-Antoine Perreault, Julie Le Breton, François Papineau. Following the death of his doctor father by overdose, his son, who worshipped him, takes a box of pills that belonged to him without his mother
Runtime: 103 min.
Can. 2008. Comedy by Robert Morin with François Papineau, Georges Aubin, Ben Gibson. A fraudster flees to the Great North where a plane is waiting to take him to the Bahamas, all the while filming himself to leave a testimony for his two beloved daughters.
Runtime: 91 min.
Can. 2007. Psychological drama by Carole Laure with Catherine De Léan, Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières. In order to avenge her mother and younger brother, a young woman kidnaps her abusive father in the hope of changing him.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Louis Bélanger with Gilles Renaud, Patrick Drolet, Anne-Marie Cadieux. Holed up in a cheap motel, two small-time thugs who disobeyed orders by refusing to burn down a restaurant cause a series of deadly incidents.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 2004. Fantasy comedy by Claude Desrosiers with Guy Jodoin, Stéphane Crête, Claude Legault. In the year 2039, Quebec explorers look for a new planet that will be able to accommodate the human species.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2002. Essay film by Phyllis Katrapani with François Papineau, Jacinthe Laguë, Atanas Katrapani. A marine cartographer born in Montreal to a Greek father and a Turkish mother questions his cultural identity.
Runtime: 69 min.
Can. 2002. Sentimental comedy by Jean-Pierre Lefebvre with Lyne Riel, Sylvie Moreau, François Papineau. An unmarried secretary working for a publishing house indulges himself with daydreams while reading the manuscript of an erotic novel.

Tar Angel

V.O.: L'Ange de goudron
Can. 2001. Social drama by Denis Chouinard with Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Trudeau, Rabah Aït Ouyahia. An Algerian immigrant goes in search of his son, a young anarchist activist who has fled to northern Quebec.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Alain DesRochers with Réal Bossé, François Papineau, Jean Lapointe. Two teenage friends try to find a bottle buried fifteen years ago, in which they had written their plans for the future.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1999. Psychological drama by Johanne Prégent with Caroline Dhavernas, Sébastien Huberdeau, Anick Lemay. After learning shocking revelations about her past, a teenage girl flees to a sandy island in the Maritimes.

Stowaways

V.O.: Clandestins
Suis. 1997. Psychological drama by Denis Chouinard, Nicolas Wadimoff with Ovidiu Balan, Anton Kouznetsov, Moussa Maaskri. Illegal immigrants are trapped in a container after being smuggled onto a cargo ship bound for Canada.
Runtime: 98 min.

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