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François Papineau

François Papineau

Canadian actor
December 24, 1966 (58 years old)
in theaters starting March 21th 2025 (QC)
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.

You Are Not Alone

V.O.: Vous n’êtes pas seuls
Can. 2023. Sentimental drama by Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien 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.
Runtime: 105 min.
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.
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.

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. 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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