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France Castel

France Castel

Quebec actress, television presenter and radio host
August 31, 1944 (80 years old)
Can. 2024. Dramatic comedy by Harrison Houde with Emmanuel Bilodeau, Dakota Daulby, Christie Burke. A young man documents his father's efforts to combat his fentanyl addiction.
Can. 2024. by Stéphane E. Roy with Rémy Girard, France Castel. Accompanied by an eccentric female friend, an eternal black sheep resolves to spend Christmas Eve with his family.
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.

I Will Not Starve

V.O.: Non morirò di fame
It. 2022. Drama by Umberto Spinazzola with Michele Di Mauro, Chiara Merulla, Jerzy Stuhr. A former Michelin-starred chef, who has been homeless for several years, recovers his taste for the culinary arts and tries to reconnect with his daughter.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2020. Drama by Éric Tessier with Rémy Girard, Julie Le Breton, Karelle Tremblay. A history teacher, who is losing his memory, is placed under the care of a rebellious and somewhat lost young girl.
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 77 min.

When Love Digs a Hole

V.O.: Quand l'amour se creuse un trou
Can. 2018. Sentimental drama by Ara Ball with Robert Naylor, France Castel, Patrice Robitaille. While studying in eleventh grade under his mother's supervision, a rebellious teenager falls madly in love with his 70-year old neighbor.
Runtime: 89 min.
Can. 2013. Psychological drama by Annie Molin Vasseur with France Castel, Mario Saint-Amand, Isabelle Laurier. A photographer makes daily visits to her former lover who has fallen into a coma, hoping to keep him alive through her stories.
Runtime: 83 min.

The Rythme In Me

V.O.: Sur le rythme
Can. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Charles-Olivier Michaud with Mylène St-Sauveur, Nico Archambault, France Castel. Against her parents' wishes, a young woman gives up her medical studies to pursue her passion for dance.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2011. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Paolo Noël, Roy Dupuis, Céline Bonnier. The members of a working class Longueuil family oppose an unscrupulous developer, married to one of the clan
Runtime: 86 min.

The 3 Little Pigs

V.O.: Les 3 P'tits Cochons
Can. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Patrick Huard with Claude Legault, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Paul Doucet. While their mother lies in hospital in a deep coma, three brothers experience various marital and extramarital misadventures.
Runtime: 122 min.
Can. 2004. Psychological drama by Marie-Jan Seille with France Castel, Isabelle Leblanc, Nathalie Mallette. Out of friendship, a hairdresser in her fifties tries to alleviate the suffering of a terminally ill young woman with AIDS.
Runtime: 80 min.

My Only Love

V.O.: Je n'aime que toi
Can. 2003. Sentimental drama by Claude Fournier with Michel Forget, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Dorothée Berryman. A successful writer falls in love with a prostitute and uses her tormented life as material for a new novel.
Can. 1998. Psychological drama by Jacques Leduc with Annie Girardot, France Castel, Michel Ghorayeb. Feeling death approaching, a sixty-year-old nurse decides to erase all material traces of her existence.
Runtime: 97 min.

Heads or Tails

V.O.: J'en suis!
Can. 1997. Mores comedy by Claude Fournier with Roy Dupuis, Patrick Huard, Albert Millaire.
Runtime: 104 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1996. Horror comedy by Gabriel Pelletier with Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier.
Runtime: 110 min.

A Wind from Wyoming

V.O.: Le Vent du Wyoming
Can. 1994. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, François Cluzet, Marc Messier. A young girl, whose lover was robbed by her mother, decides to seduce a French writer whom her sister covets.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 1992. Sentimental drama by Richard Ciupka with Mitsou, Patrick Labbé, Thierry Magnier. A teenager who dreams of becoming a filmmaker falls in love with a girl his own age who demands unconditional love from him.
Runtime: 99 min.

An Imaginary Tale

V.O.: Une Histoire inventée
Can. 1990. Sentimental comedy by André Forcier with Jean Lapointe, Louise Marleau, Charlotte Laurier. A woman with multiple lovers and her daughter who has just come out of a relationship both pursue the same trumpet player.
Runtime: 91 min.

Straight for the Heart

V.O.: À corps perdu
Can. 1988. Psychological drama by Léa Pool with Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta. Upon his return from an exhausting trip to Central America, a photographer is painfully aware of the breakup of the m
Runtime: 92 min.

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