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Yves Jacques

Yves Jacques

Canadian actor
May 10, 1956 (67 years old)

Days of Happiness

V.O.: Les Jours heureux
Can. 2023. Drama by Chloé Robichaud with Sophie Desmarais, Sylvain Marcel, Nour Belkhiria. A conductor navigates between her career, led with an iron fist by her father and manager, and her love affair with a cellist, mother of a 5 year old boy.
Runtime: 118 min.

The Successor

V.O.: Le Successeur
Can. 2023. Drama by Xavier Legrand with Marc-André Grondin, Yves Jacques, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé. Recalled to Montreal for his father's funeral, the artistic director of a Parisian fashion house realizes that he may have inherited much worse than the fragile heart of the deceased.
Runtime: 107 min.

The 12 Tasks of Imelda

V.O.: Les 12 Travaux d'Imelda
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Martin Villeneuve with Martin Villeneuve, Robert Lepage, Michel Barrette. Before her hundredth birthday, a cantankerous widow, manipulative with her children and grandchildren, makes it her mission to put her life back in order.
Runtime: 104 min.

Katak, the brave beluga

V.O.: Katak, le brave béluga
Can. 2022. Animation by Nicola Lemay, Christine Dallaire-Dupont. A young beluga whale, unique in size and color, travels to the Arctic to fulfill the last wish of his dying grandmother: to find his childhood sweetheart.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 2020. Biography by Valérie Lemercier with Valérie Lemercier, Sylvain Marcel, Danielle Fichaud. Thanks to her mother’s determination and her manager’s wise advice, a young Quebecer becomes a global singing sensation.
Runtime: 126 min.

Forgotten Flowers

V.O.: Les Fleurs oubliées
Can. 2019. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Roy Dupuis, Yves Jacques, Christine Beaulieu. Inspired by the ghost of Brother Marie-Victorin and a journalist, a mead producer comes to the aid of Mexican workers exploited by a pesticide manufacturer.
Runtime: 102 min.
Lux. 2019. Thriller by Pol Cruchten with Martin McCann, Pascale Bussières, Yves Jacques. A police officer tracks down an activist who kidnapped the Canadian Minister of Environment and three industrialists, in order to try them on the Internet for crimes against the planet.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Hervé Mimran with Fabrice Luchini, Leïla Bekhti, Rebecca Marder. A top auto industry executive is forced to rethink his priorities after a stroke leaves him mute.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2017. Police comedy by Émile Gaudreault with Richard Berry, Waly Dia, Jacques Gamblin. To convince a lawyer to testify against his gangster client, two cops, a father and son at odds, infiltrate a filial therapy group.
Runtime: 92 min.

Father and Guns 2

V.O.: De père en flic 2
Can. 2017. Police comedy by Émile Gaudreault with Louis-José Houde, Michel Côté, Karine Vanasse. A Montreal detective, eternal rival of his cop father, infiltrates with his teammate a couples therapy group in which a mafia boss’s lieutenant and his wife have registered.
Runtime: 117 min.

Boundaries

V.O.: Pays
Can. 2016. Drama by Chloé Robichaud with Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Nathalie Doummar. A mediator is sent to a small island country on the Atlantic coast to settle a dispute with its neighbour Canada.
Runtime: 100 min.

Families

V.O.: Belles familles
Fr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche. While trying to get the sale of the family home approved, a businessman meets the daughter of his late father
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Claude Miller with Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier. In the 1920s, the daughter of rich landowners who is unhappily married to the heir of a neighbouring family has regrets that have serious implications.
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2011. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Marina Hands, James Thierrée, Maya Sansa. While making a film about the Trans-Canada train, a French videographer meets the Aboriginal doctor for whom her late artist husband had left her.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2011. Comedy by Kevin Tierney with Pascale Bussières, Gavin Crawford, Fred Ewanuick. For two weeks, various English-speaking Canadians and foreigners participate in a French immersion program in a village in the Saguenay.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Alain DesRochers with Rémy Girard, Pierre-François Legendre, Marie-Ève Milot. In order to avoid bankruptcy, a variety comedian reopens his summer theatre by reforming his old troupe, joined by his neglected son.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Last Escape

V.O.: La Dernière Fugue
Can. 2010. Drama by Léa Pool with Yves Jacques, Andrée Lachapelle, Jacques Godin. An elderly man suffering from Parkinson's disease asks his wife, eldest son, and grandson to secretly help him end his life.
Runtime: 90 min.

Immaculate

V.O.: Sans laisser de traces
Fr. 2009. Thriller by Grégoire Vigneron with Benoît Magimel, François-Xavier Demaison, Julie Gayet. On the eve of taking over management of his industrial group, a senior executive finds himself unwillingly involved in a murder case.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2008. Comedy by Catherine Castel with Aure Atika, Antoine de Caunes, Victoria Abril. Tired of doing all the family and household chores, a young advertising executive fakes an overseas assignment to force her husband to get more involved.
Runtime: 89 min.

A Secret

V.O.: Un Secret
Fr. 2007. Drama by Claude Miller with Patrick Bruel, Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier. In 1962, a Jewish boy learns disturbing secrets about his family from a neighbor.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Girl from the Chartreuse

V.O.: La Petite Chartreuse
Fr. 2005. Drama by Jean-Pierre Denis with Olivier Gourmet, Marie-Josée Croze, Bertille Noël-Bruneau. A lonely bookseller undertakes the rehabilitation of an eight-year-old child, who became mute after he hit her with his van.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2005. Melodrama by Luc Dionne with Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc, Serge Postigo, Marianne Fortier. In rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century, a carpenter's second wife becomes increasingly abusive against her young stepdaughter.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2004. Dramatic comedy by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa with Roschdy Zem, Marie-Josée Croze, Scali Delpeyrat. A naval officer discovers by chance that a movie star is the young woman he was briefly married to 16 years earlier.
Runtime: 109 min.

The Barbarian Invasions

V.O.: Les Invasions barbares
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. A wealthy young financier tries to ease the last days of his father, an academic dying with cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2003. Mores drama by Claude Miller with Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin, Nicole Garcia. Professional and romantic crossroads between a famous actress, an established director, an apprentice filmmaker and an aspiring actress.
Runtime: 104 min.

Wedding Night

V.O.: Nuit de noces
Can. 2001. Mores comedy by Émile Gaudreault with François Morency, Geneviève Brouillette, Pierrette Robitaille. The misadventures of a young couple who go to Niagara Falls with their friends and family to get married.
Runtime: 92 min.

Betty Fisher and Other Stories

V.O.: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
Fr. 2001. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Mathilde Seigner. A mentally unstable woman kidnaps an unloved child to replace her romance novelist daughter's dead child.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2000. Biography by Claude Goretta with Claude Rich, Dominique Labourier, Florence Vignon. In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of L
Runtime: 100 min.

Life After Love

V.O.: La Vie après l'amour
Can. 2000. Sentimental comedy by Gabriel Pelletier with Michel Côté, Sylvie Léonard, Patrick Huard. When his wife leaves him after 20 years of marriage, a man tries by any means necessary to bring back meaning to his life.
Fr. 1999. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Anne Brochet, Mathilde Seigner, Annie Noël. Sharing a room in a neurology unit with two other patients, a student is intrigued by the bizarre behavior of one of them.
Runtime: 79 min.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

V.O.: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre
Fr. 1999. Drama by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica. In 1850, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a man condemned to death became the prot
Runtime: 112 min.

Class Trip

V.O.: La Classe de neige
Fr. 1998. Psychological drama by Claude Miller with Clément van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan, Yves Verhoeven. During a winter school trip, a child drags a friend into his very morbid world of nightmares.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1996. Crime drama by Marion Sarraut with Pierre Mondy, Alain Doutey, Bruno Madinier.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Michel Lang with Charles Aznavour, Annie Cordy, Yves Jacques.

The Life of Charles Pathe

V.O.: V'là l'cinéma ou le roman de Charles Pathé
Runtime: 104 min.

Louis 19

V.O.: Louis 19, le roi des ondes
Can. 1994. Comedy by Michel Poulette with Martin Drainville, Agathe de la Fontaine, Dominique Michel. A modest salesperson wins a contest of which the prize is a 24 hour-live broadcast of the winner's daily life.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 1993. Psychological drama by Robert Favreau with Élizabeth Bourgine, Andrée Lachapelle, Judith-Emmanuelle Lussier. The mother, wife, and daughter of a car accident victim have their lives turned upside down when he remains in a deep coma.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1992. Psychological drama by Jean-Yves Laforce with Diane Jules, Yves Jacques, Dorothée Berryman. A gay comedian and a charming woman welcome their singer friend back from an alcohol rehab center.
Fr. 1990. Comedy by Michel Lang with Alain Doutey, Élisa Servier, Yves Jacques. An archaeologist who has been charged with bringing a pre-Columbian statue back to France meets a journalist during a stay in the jails of South American revolutionaries.

The Lover

V.O.: Milena
Fr. 1990. Biography by Véra Belmont with Valérie Kaprisky, Stacy Keach, Gudrun Landgrebe. In 1920, a young woman abandons her medical studies and moves to Vienna where she spends time in the milieu of artists and writers.
Runtime: 139 min.

Ding & Dong

V.O.: Ding et Dong, le film
Can. 1990. Comedy by Alain Chartrand with Serge Thériault, Claude Meunier, Raymond Bouchard. Two mischievous actors inherit a large sum of money with which they set out to open a theatre to perform a classic by Corneille.
Runtime: 96 min.

Jesus of Montreal

V.O.: Jésus de Montréal
Can. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay. A young actor, solicited by a religious man to renovate the presentation of a dramatic Stations of the Cross, creates a revised version of the passion of Christ.
Runtime: 120 min.

The Decline of the American Empire

V.O.: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Can. 1986. Mores comedy by Denys Arcand with Dominique Michel, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi. Having met for a meal in a villa in the country, four couples find their love lives put into perspective.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1985. Police comedy by Alexandre Arcady with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall. An ingenious bank robbery is committed in Montreal, but obstacles make it difficult for the criminals to escape to the airport.
Runtime: 112 min.

Murder in the Family

V.O.: Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Can. 1984. Mores drama by Denys Arcand with Gabriel Arcand, Jean Carmet, Anne Létourneau. In 1950, the owner of a jewelry store in Quebec City is wrongly accused of murdering his wife.
Runtime: 107 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.

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