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France Castel

France Castel

Quebec actress, television presenter and radio host
August 31, 1944 (81 years old)

Cardboard City

V.O.: Ville Jacques-Carton
Can. 2025. Docufiction by André Forcier, Jean-Marc E. Roy with Jean-Marc Desgent, Pierre Curzi, Gaston Lepage. Anthropological and poetic essay on Ville Jacques-Cartier, a popular South Shore community that is now part of Longueuil.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Furies

V.O.: Les Furies
Can. 2025. Sports comedy by Mélanie Charbonneau with Gabrielle Côté, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, France Castel. An octogenarian founds a roller-derby club in her rural town, to prove that women's sports can also stir up the crowds.
Runtime: 107 min.
Can. 2025. Dramatic comedy by Stéphane E. Roy with Rémy Girard, France Castel, Alexis Comte. For the first time since his transition, a transgender lawyer is spending Christmas Eve with his family.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 2024. Drama by Renée Beaulieu with François Papineau, Antoine Desrochers, Emie Thériault. An entrepreneur and father of three struggles to keep his family together.
Runtime: 100 min.
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.

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.

On the Beat

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.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2001. Horror comedy by Gabriel Pelletier with Gildor Roy, Diane Lavallée, Yves Pelletier. A customs officer tries to recover the secret of a potion that allows vampires to keep their human form.
Runtime: 97 min.
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. A young architect poses as homosexual to a gay employer.
Runtime: 104 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1996. Horror comedy by Gabriel Pelletier with Isabelle Cyr, Robert Brouillette, Yves Pelletier. Fleeing a marriage imposed by her parents, a vampire finds refuge with her aunt who encourages her to become human again.
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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