Jean-Claude Lord

Directing

Jean-Claude Lord

Born 1943-06-06 · Montréal, Québec, Canada

Jean-Claude Lord (June 6, 1943 - January 15, 2022) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.  He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Troublemaker poster
8.0

A humanity student, Lucien is active in various extracurricular activities. Recognized by his peers, he represents other students in their challenge of college rules and the settlement of the fate of an incompetent professor. He ends up being thrown out of the school. After his mother's death, even though he dates Lise, a young woman with whom he does acting, he has to resist the advances of a homosexual whose death he will accidentally cause.

Troublemaker

1964

Visiting Hours poster
5.5

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Visiting Hours

1982

The Doves poster
5.3

The lives of two families in Montreal.

The Doves

1972

The Doves poster
5.3

The lives of two families in Montreal.

The Doves

1972

The Doves poster
5.3

The lives of two families in Montreal.

The Doves

1972

Deliver Us from Evil poster
4.3

André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games.

Deliver Us from Evil

1966

Deliver Us from Evil poster
4.3

André and his sister Lucille come from a wealthy family. Both seem attached to Georges, be charismatic, exuberant, charming and self-centered. A vicious man who hates his life and seems to take pleasure in manipulating others in squalid perverse games.

Deliver Us from Evil

1966

Covergirl poster
4.5

A moderately successful fashion model meets a wealthy entrepreneur who's determined to make her a superstar by controlling every aspect of her personal and professional life, but she's strong-minded and resistant to his methods.

Covergirl

1984

Mindfield poster
4.8

In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his “treatments” at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius. When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius’ criminal prosecutor raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.

Mindfield

1989

Second Chances poster
4.4

A college professor is pursued by a stalker two years after her actions led to a young woman's death.

Second Chances

2010

Bingo poster
7.0

A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.

Bingo

1974

Bingo poster
7.0

A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.

Bingo

1974

The Vindicator poster
4.6

An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.

The Vindicator

1986

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! poster
6.6

In the sixties, Eddie and the Cruisers were the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up...only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal, but his love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

1989

Out of Control poster
5.8

Against her father's wishes, a young female cop in Chicago pursues her dream of becoming a detective when she's brought on to investigate a major murder case.

Out of Control

2009

Secrets of the Summer House poster
4.2

A centuries old curse haunts a family summer house. When a young woman's husband inherits the house and is involved in a near-fatal accident, she realizes both he and her unborn son are at great risk, unless she can break the curse.

Secrets of the Summer House

2008

Landslide poster
4.8

An amnesiac finds his life in jeopardy as he gradually regains his memory.

Landslide

1992

Tadpole and the Whale poster
6.1

The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.

Tadpole and the Whale

1988

North Station poster
5.6

In 1950, in a small village called Northern Station, Samuel, a young mailman and his girlfriend, Évelyne, spend hours replying to letters that children have sent to Santa Claus. While delivering the letters on Christmas Eve, Samuel dies of cold in the forest. He finds himself in the magic land of Santa Claus, where he becomes an elf in charge of answering Santa’s mail. Fifty years later, Samuel opens a letter from Satia, a young girl from Northern Station who asks Santa Claus if he will save her grandmother, who is seriously ill. With the help of his friend, Howie, the young elf decides to go to the village for grant the child’s wish. However, it turns out that Satia’s grandmother is none other than Évelyne.

North Station

2002

Ring of Deceit poster
4.3

Madison Byrne is a beautiful young art expert who tries to help Jack Singer, a wealthy patron of her museum, unlock the mystery of an antique ring. This ring may or may not have belonged to his family before being lost in WWII. As she inches closer to the truth, the danger grows and Madison begins to suspect that Jack may not be as innocent as he appears. Could he be a murderer, bent on revenge or is someone else killing to keep a more sinister secret?

Ring of Deceit

2009

Toby McTeague poster
6.5

Toby is a teenager who doesn't care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race. He will have to undergo extensive training in order to win it.

Toby McTeague

1986

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

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

Chocolate Eclair poster
8.0

After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.

Chocolate Eclair

1979