
Acting
Micheline Poitras
Acting credits
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Le Piège d'Issoudun
2003
5.2Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises but she is scared to death of taking the plane. Once in Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start...
Romaine 30° Below
2009
5.9A dramatic comedy that invites us to an eventful reunion between three high school friends. As the evening progresses, the young thirtysomethings form an increasingly discordant trio.
Lines of Escape
2022
5.3It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.
The Torrent
2012
6.0After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child.
Mary's Sons
2002
3.3A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart.
The Book of Eve
2002
5.8This is the story of Gerard, an man who miraculy survived to an explosion that destroyed his appartment and killed a lot of people. During the next days, he tries to find out why he survived and why others died.
8:17pm, Darling Street
2003
5.2After losing a loved one, Simone decides to volunteer in a hospital and spends her days with terminally ill patients. However, other parts of her life soon begin to suffer as well.
Vital Signs
2009
3.0Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail?
Pour l'amour de Dieu
2011
5.5During the Christmas holiday season, Félix and Céline find themselves working as volunteers for the drive-home service Opération Nez Rouge. Right from the first, Félix falls for Céline. But Céline doesn't feel the same way: she can't forget the fact that Félix once wrote a scathing review of her first piece of writing, crushing her literary ambitions in the process. Worse, Félix doesn't even remember her name. Céline decides to take her revenge. Just as things seem to be going from bad to worse for Félix, Céline realizes that he is vulnerable, tender... and madly in love with her. She is ready to surrender to love... but a chance encounter causes her to wonder whether Félix isn't playing some twisted love game.
Red Nose
2003
6.2Two men bond as one recovers from an attack and the other deals with the impending death of his grandmother.
Novena
2005
7.0Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother's own turbulent downward spiral.
Shambles
2017
7.9Vera and Zak meet by chance and it's crazy love. The two lovebirds settle in a decayed house at the end of a row, where little Yanna comes into the world. They raise their child in a spirit of total freedom, without constraint. Zak often leaves his family to find his family, gypsies who do not like him to meet a woman from the city. When Vera's parents arrive unexpectedly at home, they will jeopardize the already fragile balance of the trio.
Jouliks
2019
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Ice Cold
2003
A particularly active Don Juan agrees to collaborate with a film crew in the production of a documentary about his exploits.
C'est arrivé près de chez nous
1996