Geneviève Bujold

Geneviève Bujold

Geneviève Bujold (born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian stage and screen actress, best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award. She made her TV debut with Le square (1963), a 60-minute TV film based on a play by Marguerite Duras, co-starring Georges Groulx. Her Canadian feature film debut was in Amanita Pestilens (1963). She appeared in Michel Brault's film Between Salt and Sweet Water (1967), then went to New York to play the title role in a production of Saint Joan (1967) for Hallmark Hall of Fame on American TV. Although she said she preferred film most and television least out of all the mediums, she received great acclaim for this including an Emmy nomination. In Canada, she starred in Isabel (1968), written and directed by her then-husband Paul Almond. It was one of the first Canadian films to be picked up for distribution by a major Hollywood studio. International recognition came in 1969, when she starred as Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott's film Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton. Producer Hal B. Wallis cast her after seeing her in Isabel. For her performance, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was released by Universal who signed her to a three-picture contract. Her other film credits include The Trojan Women (1971), Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978) with Michael Douglas, Murder by Decree (1979), Tightrope (1984) with Clint Eastwood, Choose Me (1984), and Dead Ringers (1988) with Jeremy Irons. She had supporting roles in The Adventures of Pinocchio (1995), The House of Yes (1997), Last Night (1998), You Can Thank Me Later (1998), Eye of the Beholder (1999), The Bookfair Murders (2000), Children of My Heart (2001) and Alex in Wonder (2001). Her later appearances include Jericho Mansions (2003), Finding Home (2004), Downtown: A Street Tale (2004), By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005), Disappearances (2006), Deliver Me (2006), The Trotsky (2009), For the Love of God (2011), Still Mine (2012), Northern Borders (2013), and Chorus (2015). She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in Saint Joan. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award For her portrayal of Irene in Still Mine. She won three Canadian Film Awards for Best Actress for her roles in the films Isabel, The Act of the Heart, and Kamouraska. She won a Prix Gemeaux Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Paper Wedding, and was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the film L'Emprise. She won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Murder By Decree, and was nominated for four more Genie Awards for her roles in Final Assignment, Dead Ringers, My Friend Max, and Last Night.

  • Title: Geneviève Bujold
  • Popularity: 10.072
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1942-07-01
  • Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Geneviève Bujold Movies

  • 1992
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    Oh, What a Night

    Oh, What a Night

    4.7 1992 HD

    During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.

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  • 1976
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    6.6 1976 HD

    A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

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  • 1966
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    The War Is Over

    The War Is Over

    6.4 1966 HD

    Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages...

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  • 1974
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    Earthquake

    Earthquake

    6.1 1974 HD

    Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

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  • 1978
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    Coma

    Coma

    6.7 1978 HD

    A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple...

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  • 1984
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    Tightrope

    Tightrope

    6.1 1984 HD

    Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the...

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  • 1969
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    Anne of the Thousand Days

    Anne of the Thousand Days

    7 1969 HD

    Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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  • 2005
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    By the Pricking of My Thumbs

    By the Pricking of My Thumbs

    6.314 2005 HD

    The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

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  • 1985
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    Trouble in Mind

    Trouble in Mind

    5.7 1985 HD

    The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.

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  • 1988
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    Dead Ringers

    Dead Ringers

    7.118 1988 HD

    Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has...

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  • 1997
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    The House of Yes

    The House of Yes

    6.2 1997 HD

    Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even more...

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  • 1979
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    Murder by Decree

    Murder by Decree

    6.4 1979 HD

    Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using...

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  • 1980
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    The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

    The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

    5.5 1980 HD

    The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.

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  • 1984
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    Choose Me

    Choose Me

    6.1 1984 HD

    Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose...

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  • 1976
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    Swashbuckler

    Swashbuckler

    6.1 1976 HD

    A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

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  • 1988
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    The Moderns

    The Moderns

    5.8 1988 HD

    Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and...

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  • 1975
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    Incorrigible

    Incorrigible

    6.3 1975 HD

    Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming...

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  • 1998
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    Last Night

    Last Night

    6.587 1998 HD

    Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

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  • 2007
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    Disappearances

    Disappearances

    4.7 2007 HD

    Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching...

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  • 2010
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    The Trotsky

    The Trotsky

    6.7 2010 HD

    Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early...

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  • 1971
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    The Trojan Women

    The Trojan Women

    6.1 1971 HD

    In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to...

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  • 1973
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    Kamouraska

    Kamouraska

    6.1 1973 HD

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

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  • 1966
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    King of Hearts

    King of Hearts

    6.9 1966 HD

    An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the...

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  • 2001
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    Alex in Wonder

    Alex in Wonder

    4.3 2001 HD

    A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.

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  • 1999
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    Eye of the Beholder

    Eye of the Beholder

    4.9 1999 HD

    A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

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  • 1996
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    The Adventures of Pinocchio

    The Adventures of Pinocchio

    5.3 1996 HD

    One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy...

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  • 2010
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    Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind

    Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind

    1 2010 HD

    A look behind-the-scenes at the making of the movie Trouble in Mind, featuring interviews from cast and crew members.

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  • 1967
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    The Thief of Paris

    The Thief of Paris

    6.7 1967 HD

    In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the...

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  • 2002
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    Chaos and Desire

    Chaos and Desire

    5.4 2002 HD

    Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to...

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  • 2003
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    Jericho Mansions

    Jericho Mansions

    4.8 2003 HD

    A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.

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  • 1989
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    A Paper Wedding

    A Paper Wedding

    4.2 1989 HD

    A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

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  • 1968
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    Isabel

    Isabel

    5.2 1968 HD

    A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits.

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  • 1982
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    Monsignor

    Monsignor

    4.4 1982 HD

    The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market...

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  • 2012
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    Still Mine

    Still Mine

    6.8 2012 HD

    Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's...

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  • 1977
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    Another Man, Another Chance

    Another Man, Another Chance

    6.3 1977 HD

    Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild...

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  • 2006
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    Délivrez-Moi

    Délivrez-Moi

    5.4 2006 HD

    After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.

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  • 1976
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    Alex & the Gypsy

    Alex & the Gypsy

    4 1976 HD

    A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

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  • 1970
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    Act of the Heart

    Act of the Heart

    4 1970 HD

    A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

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  • 2003
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    Finding Home

    Finding Home

    5.2 2003 HD

    Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.

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  • 2004
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    Downtown: A Street Tale

    Downtown: A Street Tale

    1 2004 HD

    A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters,...

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  • 1989
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    Snake Treaty

    Snake Treaty

    1 1989 HD

    Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has...

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  • 1964
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    That Tender Age

    That Tender Age

    1 1964 HD

    A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite...

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  • 1974
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    Antigone

    Antigone

    1 1974 HD

    A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.

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  • 1976
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    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6 1976 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

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  • 1994
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    Mon amie Max

    Mon amie Max

    5.3 1994 HD

    Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen...

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  • 2008
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    The Memories of Angels

    The Memories of Angels

    8 2008 HD

    Montreal of another time is reborn into screen through images from a hundred of movies and shorts produced by the National Film Board of Canada while...

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  • 1972
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    Journey

    Journey

    1 1972 HD

    A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.

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  • 2013
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    The Legend of Sarila

    The Legend of Sarila

    4.4 2013 HD

    Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.

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  • 1964
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    Geneviève

    Geneviève

    6.6 1964 HD

    Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them...

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  • 1967
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    Between Sweet and Salt Water

    Between Sweet and Salt Water

    5.6 1967 HD

    A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.

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  • 1997
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    Dead Innocent

    Dead Innocent

    5.5 1997 HD

    Suzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a...

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  • 2015
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    Chorus

    Chorus

    6.2 2015 HD

    A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move...

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  • 2015
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    Northern Borders

    Northern Borders

    6.2 2015 HD

    In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers...

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  • 1980
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    Final Assignment

    Final Assignment

    4 1980 HD

    An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when...

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  • 1967
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    Saint Joan

    Saint Joan

    1 1967 HD

    A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her...

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  • 1955
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    French Cancan

    French Cancan

    7.1 1955 HD

    Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin...

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  • 1963
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    Amanita Pestilens

    Amanita Pestilens

    1 1963 HD

    A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.

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  • 2000
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    The Bookfair Murders

    The Bookfair Murders

    6 2000 HD

    Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade

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  • 2001
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    'Obsession' Revisited

    'Obsession' Revisited

    6.5 2001 HD

    A documentary about the making of 1976's "Obsession" featuring interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold...

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  • 2002
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    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

    6 2002 HD

    A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of...

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  • 2004
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    Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

    Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

    5 2004 HD

    This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable...

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  • 1993
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    An Ambush of Ghosts

    An Ambush of Ghosts

    6 1993 HD

    A teenage boy coming to grips with his mother's insanity forms an unlikely friendship with a classmate on the run for murder.

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  • 1981
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    Mistress of Paradise

    Mistress of Paradise

    5 1981 HD

    In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.

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  • 1990
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    False Identity

    False Identity

    5 1990 HD

    When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to...

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  • 1991
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    Rue du Bac

    Rue du Bac

    4.7 1991 HD

    Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but...

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  • 2014
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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    And the Oscar Goes To...

    6.97 2014 HD

    The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

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  • 1992
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    The Dance Goes On

    The Dance Goes On

    1 1992 HD

    Crazy Los Angeles. Work is an hour away, down a crammed six-lane freeway. It is always sunny, but the sun looks like a sickly blemish on the smog....

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  • 1964
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    La Fin des étés

    La Fin des étés

    1 1964 HD

    In this short fiction film, Marie has been living in the midst of a nightmare since the accident of Bernard, her brother. Clinging excessively to...

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  • 1998
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    You Can Thank Me Later

    You Can Thank Me Later

    4.5 1998 HD

    In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital...

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  • 2011
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    Pour l'amour de Dieu

    Pour l'amour de Dieu

    3 2011 HD

    Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit...

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  • 1970
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    Marie-Christine

    Marie-Christine

    6 1970 HD

    Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young...

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  • 1994
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    Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

    Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

    7.4 1994 HD

    A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends,...

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  • 1964
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    La terre à boire

    La terre à boire

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Devil's Toy

    The Devil's Toy

    6.3 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Marie-Christine

    Marie-Christine

    6 1970 HD

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  • 2002
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    Viens voir les comédiens

    Viens voir les comédiens

    1 2002 HD

    Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.

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  • 1965
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    Dim Dam Dom

    Dim Dam Dom

    6 1965 HD

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  • 1971
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    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    4.9 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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