
Acting
Denise Proulx
Born 1929-02-20 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Denise Proulx (February 20, 1929 – October 21, 1993) was an actress known for Les lumières de ma ville (1950), J'ai mon voyage! (1973) and La mercière assassinée (1958). She was also the voice of Wilma Flintstone (Délima Caillou) in the French-Canadian version of The Flintstones (Les Pierrafeu).
Acting credits
3.3A priest and nun, haunted by physical longings, leave their respective callings. Even after their desires are fulfilled they experience crisis of faith.
Virgin Lovers
1970
9.0A beautiful country girl and a seductive nightclub singer vie for the same good-looking man.
Les lumières de ma ville
1950
7.0Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction.
Amuse-gueule
1984
7.0Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Les vautours
1975
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Les indrogables
1972
8.0Images of love and freedom personified by a man who like to travel, a man who has made a profession of doing nothing and who constantly comes up against the structures of a society he rejects.
Ti-coeur
1969
3.9Theresa is an imaginative, rebellious orphan from Brooklyn, who has dreams of show business success. She tries outrageous schemes to launch herself into the public eye, until finally meeting a mentor, Sammy Cohen, whose own career fizzled as a result of alcoholism.
Hey Babe!
1983
7.0A 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 roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.
O.K.... Laliberté
1973
Two young adults discover love by a beautiful Montreal winter night.
Par une belle nuit d'hiver
1974
5.9A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Kamouraska
1973
6.6At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage.
J.A. Martin Photographer
1977
6.0A Parisian named Cartier living in Quebec City and employee of a major English Canadian insurance company is promoted to a job in Vancouver. He brings along his annoying and hyperactive Quebecquer wife and his two young kids. Rolling on a trailer van and with no knowledge of the English language, it becomes a Trans-Canadian wacky journey for the French-speaking family, and might influence Mr.Cartier to reconsider accepting this important position...
I've Had It
1973
5.0In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.
Far Away From You, Darling
1976
5.7A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
Red Eyes
1982
7.0Rosaire and Alex would do anything to seduce girls, but they are broke. In an attempt to escape their problem, they become willing to do anything to make some money.
Master Cats
1971
6.3Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
Françoise Durocher, waitress
1972
8.5A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
1976
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