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Micheline Lanctôt

Micheline Lanctôt

Canadian actor and director
May 12, 1947 (76 years old)
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.

The Nature of Love

V.O.: Simple comme Sylvain
Can. 2023. Sentimental comedy by Monia Chokri with Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Francis-William Rhéaume. Married for 10 years, a philosophy professor from Montreal has a burning passion with the carpenter who is renovating the couple's cottage in the Laurentians.
Runtime: 111 min.

Family Game

V.O.: Arsenault et Fils
Can. 2022. Mores drama by Rafaël Ouellet with Guillaume Cyr, Pierre-Paul Alain, Karine Vanasse. In Témiscouata, a journalist sparks a feud between a volunteer fireman and his brother, a notorious hothead, both from a family of poachers.
Runtime: 110 min.

Frontiers

V.O.: Frontières
Can. 2022. Drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Christine Beaulieu, Marilyn Castonguay. A farm woman from the Eastern Townships, who lives with her daughter and two sisters, comes to believe that the property is haunted by the spirit of her late father.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Mariloup Wolfe with Maripier Morin, Gilbert Sicotte, Paul Ahmarani. The editor of a fashion magazine is persuaded to enter the political arena where she is appointed Minister of Culture and crosses swords with the Minister of Finance.
Runtime: 118 min.
Can. 2020. Drama by Martin Laroche with Léane Labrèche-Dor, Micheline Lanctôt, Alexandre Landry. After a war in which her lover died before her eyes, an orderly develops a friendship with a disabled patient and tries to fall in love again.
Runtime: 123 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Laurent Lucas, Rose-Marie Perreault, Gabrielle Lazure. While in Montreal for a conference, a Spinoza scholar sees his life turned upside down after giving in to the advances of a student who had challenged herself to seduce him.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Ravenous

V.O.: Les Affamés
Can. 2017. Horror by Robin Aubert with Marc-André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Micheline Lanctôt. In a rural region isolated from the world, the paths of various individuals are crossed as they are chased by the undead.
Runtime: 96 min.
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Can. 2017. Comedy by Sophie Bédard Marcotte with Sophie Bédard Marcotte, Samuel Brassard, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé. During an emotionally difficult winter, with a space freighter threatening to crash to Earth, a young artist embarks on an unusual photographic project.
Runtime: 65 min.
Can. 2016. Thriller by Alain DesRochers with Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Antoine Desrochers, Madeleine Péloquin. Imprisoned for eight years for manslaughter, a widowed labourer escapes to save his teenage son, who has been recruited by his old enemy
Runtime: 96 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.

My Internship in Canada

V.O.: Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre
Can. 2015. Comedy by Philippe Falardeau with Patrick Huard, Irdens Exantus, Suzanne Clément. Learning that his vote would determine whether or not Canada would enter the war, an independent Member of Parliament consults the citizens of his vast northern Quebec riding.
Runtime: 108 min.
Can. 2015. Drama by Michael Rowe with Paul Doucet, Suzanne Clément, Lise Martin. A few banal incidents upset the already-precarious balance of a couple made up of a French-speaking Quebecer and a Russian newcomer.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 2014. Drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Brigitte Pogonat, Robin Aubert, Gabriel Oszeciuk. In the middle of winter, a lonely young woman offers hospitality to a homeless alcoholic who had taken up residence in the courtyard of her building.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2013. Psychological drama by Chloé Robichaud with Sophie Desmarais, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Geneviève Boivin-Roussy. Invited to participate in the track and field club of a major Montreal university, a middle-distance runner from Quebec City accepts help from a friend who is secretly in love with her.
Runtime: 95 min.

For the Love of God

V.O.: Pour l'amour de Dieu
Can. 2011. Sentimental drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Madeleine Péloquin, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Ariane Legault. In the late 1950s, a teenage girl discovers that a nun and a young priest are in love with each other.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2010. Mores comedy by Jacob Tierney with Emily Hampshire, Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman. The lives of three tenants in a Montreal apartment building are disrupted by the presence of a serial killer who is rampant in their neighborhood.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2007. Essay film by collectif with Isabelle Blais, Claude Gauthier, Micheline Lanctôt. Twenty-one poems dealing with happiness are put into images by eleven filmmakers.
Runtime: 91 min.
Can. 2007. Drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Micheline Lanctôt, Gabriel Gaudreault, Pascale Bussières. On one Halloween night in Montreal, a depressed female cab driver takes an autistic boy, whose parents are at the end of their rope, under her wing .
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2005. Crime drama by Stephen Surjik with Clark Johnson, Alisen Down, Micheline Lanctôt. A police detective with a troubled past and unorthodox methods investigates the death of an ex-military man by immolation.
Can. 2005. Psychological drama by Louise Archambault with Sylvie Moreau, Macha Grenon, Juliette Gosselin. A compulsive debt-ridden gambler arrives with her teenage daughter at the home of a childhood friend whose family life seems happy and comfortable.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2004. Psychological drama by Benjamin P. Paquette with Vlasta Vrana, Micheline Lanctôt, Darryl Hunter. A psychologically unstable 50-year-old man becomes the janitor of a building that he believes is home to a sinister cult.

Happiness Is a Sad Song

V.O.: Le Bonheur c'est une chanson triste
Can. 2004. Psychological drama by François Delisle with Anne-Marie Cadieux, Miro, Frédérick de Grandpré. An unemployed advertising executive decides to conduct a survey on happiness among people on the street.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 2004. Drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Micheline Lanctôt, Dan Bigras, Patrick Huard. Two advertisers lock themselves away for nine days to come up with a slogan for the Canadian army.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2003. Psychological drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Sylvie Drapeau, Frédérick de Grandpré, Shanie Beauchamps. Intercepted near Quebec City, a mother in shock after killing her child is taken home to Montreal by a police officer who knows nothing about her crime.
Runtime: 88 min.

How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause

V.O.: Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause
Can. 2002. Mores comedy by Sébastien Rose with Paul Ahmarani, Micheline Lanctôt, Lucie Laurier. The romantic and family problems of a 30-year-old student who still lives with his domineering mother and sister.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 2002. Mores drama by Nicholas Kinsey with Katya Gardner, Micheline Lanctôt, Lowell Gasoi. During a stay with her family in Albania, a Canadian woman is fascinated by her aunt who lives like a man.

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.

A Hero's Life

V.O.: La Vie d'un héros
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 1994. Psychological drama by François Delisle with Ariane Frédérique, Frédéric Teyssier, Emmanuel Bilodeau. A seventeen-year-old girl leaves her native village to settle in Montreal, where she experiences a variety of unsatisfying relationships.
Runtime: 70 min.

Two Can Play

V.O.: Deux Actrices
Can. 1993. Psychological drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Pascale Bussières, Pascale Paroissien, Louise Latraverse. One day, a young daycare worker is visited by a stranger who claims to be her older sister.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Micheline Lanctôt with Sylvie Catherine Beaudoin, Robert Toupin, Lorraine Pintal. A painter married to a filmmaker questions her social status at a school reunion.

The Heat Line

V.O.: La Ligne de chaleur
Can. 1988. Psychological drama by Hubert-Yves Rose with Gabriel Arcand, Simon Gonzalez, Gerard Parkes. A divorced man, on his way to pick up the body of his father who just died in Florida, becomes obsessed with his memories to the point of neglecting his son.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1987. Documentary by Micheline Lanctôt.
Runtime: 73 min.
Can. 1984. Psychological drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre Fauteux. The problems of two teenage girls who suffer from the indifference of the world around them.
Runtime: 90 min­.

The Handyman

V.O.: L'Homme à tout faire
Runtime: 99 min.

The Coffin Affair

V.O.: L'Affaire Coffin
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 1978. Mores drama by Paul Lynch with William Smith, Micheline Lanctôt, Brian Clarke. A wrestling fan joins a traveling troupe and becomes an audience favorite.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 1976. Mores comedy by Jean-Guy Noël with Claude Maher, Micheline Lanctôt, Suzanne Garceau. A musician and his girlfriend, who have taken refuge in the Magdalen Islands with stolen money plan their escape to California.
Runtime: 83 min.
Can. 1974. Dramatic comedy by Ted Kotcheff with Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden. In the Jewish milieu of Montreal, a cab driver
Runtime: 119 min.
Fr. 1974. Psychological drama by Jean-Charles Tacchella with Jean-Luc Bideau, Micheline Lanctôt, Lou Castel. Following the murder of his wife, a young executive goes on an adventure with the aim of committing suicide.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1973. Moral study by Aimée Danis with Micheline Lanctôt, Luc Durand, Olivette Thibault. A seemingly fulfilled mother is forced to leave her family for a while to try to find new meaning in her life.
Runtime: 56 min.

Noël and Juliette

V.O.: Noël et Juliette
Can. 1973. Dramatic comedy by Michel Bouchard with Reynald Bouchard, Esther Auger, Micheline Lanctôt. A dreamer, unfit for work, saves a desperate young woman from suicide and takes her home with him.
Runtime: 87 min.

The True Nature of Bernadette

V.O.: La Vraie Nature de Bernadette
Can. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard. A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her home to live in the countryside with her young son.
Runtime: 96 min.

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