Xavier Dolan

Directing

Xavier Dolan

Born

1989-03-20 (37)

Place of birth

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

77 titles

Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and hi…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

The Great Arch poster
6.9

France, 1983. The biggest architectural competition in history is launched by the new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the open-call competition is surprisingly won by an unknown: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an architecture teacher from Copenhagen. Until then, the fifty-year-old Dane had built only four buildings: his home, and three small chapels.

The Great Arch

2025

Lost Illusions poster
7.4

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

Lost Illusions

2021

The Beast poster
6.3

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

The Beast

2024

Toopy and Binoo The Movie poster
8.0

After an escalation of blunders, Toopy and Dorothy, a comical genie, accidentally make Binoo’s beloved stuffed animal, Patchy-Patch, disappear. The trio immediately set out to find the fabulous land of “The Lost and Found” where Patchy-Patch is surely to be found. Along the way, the group meets twin seagulls looking for their father, and a magnificent Princess who has lost her dance partner. Together, and despite Toopy’s bumbling ways, they will try to find Patchy Patch and their lost loves.

Toopy and Binoo The Movie

2023

Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous poster
7.0

A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers’ popular children’s film series.

Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous

2023

2010s · 17 titles

It Chapter Two poster
6.8

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

It Chapter Two

2019

Bad Times at the El Royale poster
6.8

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Bad Times at the El Royale

2018

Boy Erased poster
7.0

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

Boy Erased

2018

Laurence Anyways poster
7.6

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Laurence Anyways

2012

Matthias & Maxime poster
7.1

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Matthias & Maxime

2019

Heartbeats poster
7.1

Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.

Heartbeats

2010

Tom at the Farm poster
6.8

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Tom at the Farm

2014

Boys On Film: Bad Romance poster
6.4

Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.

Boys On Film: Bad Romance

2011

Elephant Song poster
6.9

A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.

Elephant Song

2015

Good Neighbours poster
5.6

Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or her own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three neighbors spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine.

Good Neighbours

2011

The Physics of Sorrow poster
7.8

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

The Physics of Sorrow

2019

Miraculum poster
4.9

Sometimes, we're just waiting for a miracle. A nurse who is a Jehovah's Witness, grows fond of the miracle survivor of a plane crash. Two sexagenarians, a bartender and a parking lot attendant want to explore their forbidden passions. A conservative, well-off couple drown their disappointments in booze and gambling. And a man does his utmost to make amends for an irredeemable action, bringing us to a plane bound for Cuba. An ensemble film where every character affects the lives of others.

Miraculum

2014

Lipsett Diaries poster
6.2

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

Lipsett Diaries

2010

Le cri du rhinocéros poster
5.0

Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him. Do artists have an expiry date? Do we create our best works in our youth or, on the contrary, does experience allow us to develop a greater mastery of our medium? In this respect, are there important differences between the different forms of art such as music, cinema and literature?

Le cri du rhinocéros

2018

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible poster
6.0

Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

2016

Des hommes stylés poster
NR

The astute Loïc Prigent takes us on a guided tour of a men's dressing room that is less stuffy than it seems, with a refreshing touch of extravagance.

Des hommes stylés

2018

Il était une fois... « Mommy » poster
6.5

In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.

Il était une fois... « Mommy »

2017

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

Tout le monde en parle poster
4.7

Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them. 

Tout le monde en parle

2004

Tout le monde en parle poster
4.7

Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them. 

Tout le monde en parle

2004

En mode Salvail poster
2.0

What to expect: interviews, musical performances, a fierce band, surprising stories and most of all, guests who are more than happy to play along and follow Éric Salvail on his beautifully crazy tangents!

En mode Salvail

2013

Vlog poster
NR

A news bulletin covering the web! Each week, Dominic Arpin and his collaborators comment on and explain the most buzzed-about content.

Vlog

2007

Bye Bye poster
6.6

Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the past year.

Bye Bye

1968

En audition avec Simon poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

En audition avec Simon

2010

The Night Logan Woke Up poster
7.9

On a cold October night in 1991, an unspeakable event rocks a small town in Quebec, forever haunting a family who tries to hide their dark secret. Thirty years later these secrets buried deep in the past resurface, sending the family on an unstoppable pursuit of reconciliation.

The Night Logan Woke Up

2022

Happily Married poster
6.5

In 1974, in the quiet suburb of Sainte-Foy, two discontented couples bring their kids to summer camp. Once home, they must face the pitiful state their marriages are in. Unable to deal with their problems, they become the most infamous criminals in the history of organized crime in Quebec City.

Happily Married

2020

Les Appendices poster
NR

A frenzied series of wacky sketches, surprising and unexpected.

Les Appendices

2009

No artwork available
NR

A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.

Club social

2008

PaparaGilles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

PaparaGilles

2014

Omertà, la loi du silence poster
8.6

Omertà or Omertà, The Code of Silence is a Quebec television series of 11 forty-five minute episodes, created by Luc Dionne and aired from January to April 1996 on Radio-Canada. In France, the series aired on France 3 in 1998. A second season, titled Omertà II – The Code of Silence, had 14 forty-five minute episodes and was broadcast between September and December 1997 on Radio-Canada. A third season, titled Omerta, The Last Men of Honor, had 13 episodes and was broadcast from January to April 1999, on Radio-Canada.

Omertà, la loi du silence

1996

Taxi payant poster
NR

Passengers in a specially outfitted taxi are surprised and offered the chance to win money by correctly answering a series of general knowledge or trivia questions on the way to their destination.

Taxi payant

2009

Hot Ones Québec poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hot Ones Québec

2024

Star Académie poster
5.7

Star Académie is the biggest musical phenomenon on television. During the week, the Quotidienne follows the journey and training of the candidates at the Academy and on Sunday evening, it's time for Variété in the company of the greatest singers from here and elsewhere!

Star Académie

2021

Rétroviseur poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rétroviseur

2017

Les recettes pompettes poster
1.0

Each Week, Éric Salvail invites a new "drinking buddy" to join him in making a recipe that must resemble the original as much as possible, while downing increasing numbers of shots and glasses of wine. This sizeable challenge naturally leads to fits of laughter, surprising confessions … and a few broken glasses!

Les recettes pompettes

2015

Les bobos poster
9.0

Two bourgeois-bohemians struggle to stay on the cutting edge of trends and fashion while never sacrificing a single ounce of comfort, style or social conscience.

Les bobos

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fan fini

2018

Anatane: Saving the Children of Okura poster
9.0

The dictator in power wants to turn the young male children of the planet into docile and easily manipulated beings. a young hero, forced to leave his home, goes on a quest from Paris to Okura, where the boys are kept prisoners

Anatane: Saving the Children of Okura

2018

L'Été indien poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Été indien

2014

Behind the camera

It's Only the End of the World poster
7.2

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

It's Only the End of the World

2016

It's Only the End of the World poster
7.2

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

It's Only the End of the World

2016

It's Only the End of the World poster
7.2

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

It's Only the End of the World

2016

Mommy poster
8.2

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Mommy

2014

Mommy poster
8.2

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Mommy

2014

Mommy poster
8.2

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Mommy

2014

Laurence Anyways poster
7.6

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Laurence Anyways

2012

Laurence Anyways poster
7.6

The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

Laurence Anyways

2012

I Killed My Mother poster
7.4

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

I Killed My Mother

2009

I Killed My Mother poster
7.4

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

I Killed My Mother

2009

I Killed My Mother poster
7.4

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

I Killed My Mother

2009

Matthias & Maxime poster
7.1

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Matthias & Maxime

2019

Matthias & Maxime poster
7.1

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Matthias & Maxime

2019

Matthias & Maxime poster
7.1

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.

Matthias & Maxime

2019

Heartbeats poster
7.1

Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.

Heartbeats

2010

Heartbeats poster
7.1

Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.

Heartbeats

2010

Heartbeats poster
7.1

Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.

Heartbeats

2010

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan poster
6.9

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2019

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan poster
6.9

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2019

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan poster
6.9

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2019

Tom at the Farm poster
6.8

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Tom at the Farm

2014

Tom at the Farm poster
6.8

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Tom at the Farm

2014

Tom at the Farm poster
6.8

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Tom at the Farm

2014

Le Horla poster
NR

An adaptation of the classic 1880 short story Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant about a man who believes he has come under the influence of an invisible supernatural entity called the Horla.

Le Horla

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Le Horla poster
NR

An adaptation of the classic 1880 short story Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant about a man who believes he has come under the influence of an invisible supernatural entity called the Horla.

Le Horla

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Le Horla poster
NR

An adaptation of the classic 1880 short story Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant about a man who believes he has come under the influence of an invisible supernatural entity called the Horla.

Le Horla

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Lean On Me poster
NR

BELL short film for their new "Connection is Everything" brand platform. Bringing to life a human-centric and emotional vision through a bold, cinematic approach.

Lean On Me

2025

Lean On Me poster
NR

BELL short film for their new "Connection is Everything" brand platform. Bringing to life a human-centric and emotional vision through a bold, cinematic approach.

Lean On Me

2025