Rita Lafontaine Movies

Making of documentary filmed over months of rehearsal and experimentation between director André Brassard and the cast to flesh out Michel...

Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only gets to see her poetry-quoting married boyfriend...

Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and...

A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.

Pierre is in love with two women and has a stable relationship with both of them. His wife, all by herself, makes him feel whole. However, he has the...

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they...

Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being...

A twelve year old loses his doctor father to an overdose.

Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often...

Soho, an aspiring young woman of about 30, lives on the fringe with all those who, like her, believe that one day they will be a famous writer, a...

A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can...

“Fiction is a letter that I’m writing to myself to make sense of the world.” These are the words of Michel Tremblay and the opening...

Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of...

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of...

Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together,...

A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a...

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the...

In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

Noémie, sept ans bientôt huit, passe beaucoup de temps avec sa voisine, Madame Lumbago, puisque ses parents sont très...