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Jean-Claude Lord

Jean-Claude Lord

Canadian film director and screenwriter
June 6, 1943 (January 15, 2022)
Can. 2014. Documentary by Flavie Payette Renouf, Jean-Claude Lord. Communicator, politician, soap opera author and feminist champion, Lise Payette discusses her career with her granddaughter Flavie and journalist Sophie Thibault.
Runtime: 79 min.
Can. 2013. Documentary by Jean-Claude Lord. The director gathers arguments in favor of decriminalizing prostitution from nude dancers, escorts, masseuses and social workers.
Runtime: 108 min.
Can. 2010. Thriller by Jean-Claude Lord with Melissa George, Ryan Scott Greene, Quinn Lord. Now a teacher, a former journalist is caught up in her past and the serial murder case she was investigating that destroyed her career.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2010. Documentary by Jean-Claude Lord. Meetings with parents of children with ""invisible"" mental illnesses, including Guy Lafleur, who has a son with Tourette Syndrome.
Can. 2009. Crime drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Laura Vandervoort, Chris Kramer, Amy Sloan. While evidence seems to incriminate a corrupt police officer, a criminologist trying to solve a murder is thrown off track by a detective.
Runtime: n/d
Can. 2009. Thriller by Jean-Claude Lord with Rebecca Mader, Cameron Bancroft, Claudia Ferri. An art expert helping a museum patron solve the mystery surrounding an antique ring comes to suspect that the patron is up to no good.
Runtime: 90 min.

Summer House

V.O.: Secrets of the Summer House
Can. 2008. Thriller by Jean-Claude Lord with Lindsay Price, David Haydn Jones, Sadie Leblanc. After the death of her father-in-law, an artist discovers that a curse hangs over the men in her family.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2002. Tale by Jean-Claude Lord with Xavier Morin-Lefort, Benoît Brière, Roxane Gaudette-Loiseau. After perishing in the forest during a snowstorm, a young letter carrier becomes an elf in charge of answering Santa's mail.
Runtime: 111 min.

Glissement de terrain

V.O.: Landslide
G.-B. 1992. Drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Anthony Edwards, Tom Burlinson, Joanna Cassidy. While trying to reconstruct his past, a young geologist with amnesia finds himself at the centre of confrontations between the inhabitants of a small village.
Can. 1989. Thriller by Jean-Claude Lord with Michael Ironside, Lisa Langlois, Christopher Plummer. A detective tries to win a case of scientific experimentation to which he was subjected by the CIA.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1989. Musical drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Michael Paré, Marina Orsini, Bernie Coulson. A rock singer who was believed to be dead starts composing again.
Runtime: 103 min.

Tadpole and the Whale

V.O.: La Grenouille et la baleine
Can. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Claude Lord with Fanny Lauzier, Denis Forest, Marina Orsini. A young couple help a little girl who has a special affinity with marine life to fight against potential developers.
Runtime: 91 min.
Can. 1985. Adventures by Jean-Claude Lord with Yannick Bisson, Winston Rekert, Liliane Clune. In a remote northern village, a teenager sets out to replace his father in a dog sled race.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1984. Science-fiction by Jean-Claude Lord with David McIlwraith, Teri Austin, Richard Cox. A scientist uses the organs of a colleague to create a monster with murderous instincts.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1982. Mores drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Jeff Conaway, Irena Ferris, Cathie Shirriff. The meteoric rise of a young model in the New York fashion world.
Can. 1981. Thriller by Jean-Claude Lord with Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl.
Runtime: 105 min.

Chocolate Eclair

V.O.: Éclair au chocolat
Can. 1978. Psychological drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Lise Thouin, Jean Belzil-Gascon, Colin Fox. A young boy resents the intrusion of a man into the life of his single mother.
Runtime: 104 min.

Panic

V.O.: Panique
Can. 1977. Social drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Paule Baillargeon, Jean Coutu, Lise Thouin. Chemicals from a pulp mill contaminate the drinking water of a large city, causing the illness and death of several children.
Runtime: 96 min.

Talk About Love

V.O.: Parlez-nous d'amour
Can. 1976. Mores drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Jacques Boulanger, Monique Mercure, Benoît Girard. The disenchantments of the host of a television variety show.
Runtime: 127 min.
Can. 1973. Social drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Réjean Guénette, Anne-Marie Provencher, Gilles Pelletier. A college student, outraged by a labour dispute in which his father is involved, gets drawn into a terrorist plot.
Runtime: 112 min.

The Doves

V.O.: Les Colombes
Can. 1972. Mores drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Jean Besré, Lise Thouin, Jean Duceppe. The son of a rich lawyer marries a young singer from a working-class background.
Runtime: 116 min.

Deliver us from Evil

V.O.: Délivrez-nous du mal
Can. 1966. Psychological drama by Jean-Claude Lord with Yvon Deschamps, Guy Godin, Catherine Bégin. A rich family's son has a troubled friendship with a lousy journalist.
Runtime: 80 min.

Killjoy

V.O.: Trouble-fête
Can. 1964. Psychological drama by Pierre Patry with Lucien Hamelin, Louise Rémy, Yves Létourneau. A young student in revolt questions the traditional values that are passed on to him.
Runtime: 80 min.

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