Benoît Girard

Acting

Benoît Girard

Born 1932-01-26 · Montréal, Québec, Canada

Benoît Girard (January 26, 1932 – March 25, 2017) was an actor known for Nuremberg, Les rescapés and Minuit, le soir.

Acting credits

Brutalités amoureuses poster
3.0

Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She talks to David, the owner, about her past: drugs, psychiatric hospital, murder of a nurse. Her friends show up and throw a party, which gets out of hand.

Brutalités amoureuses

1972

Pudding chômeur poster
5.5

Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and misanthropes. The story roughly centers on the adventures of Yo-Yo, a young woman who is first seen acting as a high priestess for a ceremony involving the miraculous healing powers of the little boy Alphonse.

Pudding chômeur

1996

Happy Camper poster
5.6

Pierre-Louis Cinq-Mars is a successful stockbroker. Everything in his life is well-ordered -- stock investments, luxury car, the latest computer, stylish and tasteful clothes...well-ordered to the point of being utterly predictable. Jackie Pigeon, the owner of the Camping Pigeon campground, is a go-getter who always gets her way. She conducts her business with a sure hand and everything at the campground runs smoothly. Her life is the complete opposite of Pierre-Louis's -- she's rather messy, of modest means, wears flamboyant and sexy clothes...everything in her life hovers on the edge of bad taste. Two people from completely different worlds whose paths would not normally have been fated to cross.

Happy Camper

2004

The Rocket poster
6.9

The story of Quebec's most beloved hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.

The Rocket

2005

Les 90 Jours poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Les 90 Jours

1959

Felix and Meira poster
5.6

A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.

Felix and Meira

2015

Father and Guns poster
6.3

To save the life of fellow cop kidnapped by a biker gang, a father and a son who cannot stand the sight of each other infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy for fathers and sons. Their biggest challenge is to survive the therapy without killing each other.

Father and Guns

2009

A Family Secret poster
5.4

A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.

A Family Secret

2006

Amanita Pestilens poster
6.5

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.

Amanita Pestilens

1973

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La mort d'un commis voyageur

1962

Shooting Star poster
6.6

Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.

Shooting Star

2005

The Forties poster
7.5

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation.

The Forties

1982

Games of the Heart poster
8.0

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.

Games of the Heart

2001

Des souris et des hommes poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Des souris et des hommes

1971

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film poster
7.4

The movie chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for a new planet to welcome humankind. The seven crew members venture outside their own galaxy to explore other star system in search of a new planet large enough to sustain 6 billion people. The few habitable planets encountered are ultimately abandoned either because they are already occupied (emphasizing the wrongdoing of invading other civilizations and cultures), or because upon closer inspection they are found to have other problems (cow-sized mosquitoes, high radiation levels, dog overpopulation, unsuitable living environment, ...).

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, le film

2004

Talk About Love poster
9.0

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

Talk About Love

1976

Il était une guerre poster
10.0

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.

Il était une guerre

1959

No artwork available
7.0

Dans un petit village de France près de Reims, Jean Rivière, un journaliste canadien, descend dans le seul hôtel de l'endroit. Ce soir-là on vient de découvrir, dans sa boutique, baignant dans son sang, la mercière assassinée In a small village in the French countryside, a traveling canadian journalist finds the hostess of the small hotel dead, victim of murder, and begins investigating along with a local magistrate.

La mercière assassiné

1958

Panique poster
6.0

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

Panique

1977