Denis Héroux

Directing

Denis Héroux

Born — Died

1940-07-15 — 2015-12-10

Place of birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Denis Héroux (July 15, 1940 – December 10, 2015) was a Canadian film director and producer.

Known for

Quest for Fire poster
7.0

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.

Quest for Fire

1981

Atlantic City poster
6.8

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Atlantic City

1980

Louisiana poster
4.7

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.

Louisiana

1984

Violette Nozière poster
6.7

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Violette Nozière

1978

The Park Is Mine poster
5.6

A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.

The Park Is Mine

1986

The Uncanny poster
5.8

Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

The Uncanny

1977

Film credits

Behind the camera

Quest for Fire poster
7.0

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.

Quest for Fire

1981

Atlantic City poster
6.8

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Atlantic City

1980

Louisiana poster
4.7

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.

Louisiana

1984

Violette Nozière poster
6.7

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Violette Nozière

1978

The Park Is Mine poster
5.6

A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.

The Park Is Mine

1986

The Uncanny poster
5.8

Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

The Uncanny

1977

Blood Relatives poster
5.7

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

Blood Relatives

1978

Born for Hell poster
5.6

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.

Born for Hell

1976

Born for Hell poster
5.6

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.

Born for Hell

1976

Jig-Saw poster
5.6

Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the deceased is not his son, but an individual who was using his passport. Dupree begins a frantic search for his son, who happens to be wanted by the local mob.

Jig-Saw

1979

The Blood of Others poster
5.2

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

The Blood of Others

1984

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris poster
4.8

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

1975

C'est jeune et ça sait tout ! poster
3.2

When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.

C'est jeune et ça sait tout !

1974

The Bay Boy poster
5.7

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girlfriend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

The Bay Boy

1984

Water War poster
9.0

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.

Water War

1998

I've Had It poster
6.0

A 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

No Vacation for Idols poster
10.0

A film between reality and fiction about a popular singer, played by Joël Denis, idol of that time. He is surrounded by a host of great actors and real and famous characters from the 60s.

No Vacation for Idols

1965

Here and Now poster
4.4

A young Montreal woman has an affair with a famous French author, and the experience helps to teach her a number of things about life and love.

Here and Now

1970

Virgin Lovers poster
3.3

A 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

The Plouffe Family poster
6.9

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

The Plouffe Family

1981

Valérie poster
4.4

Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless dancer, Valerie quickly graduates to becoming a high-class hooker. After amassing a small fortune, she falls in love with an artist, a man who is more-than-willing to overlook Valerie's sordid past.

Valérie

1969

Pousse, mais pousse égal poster
10.0

Conrad is a notorious clumsy person who is struggling to keep his jobs. Luckily, blonde Gisèle, who is madly in love with him, manages to find him a job as a nurse at the very place where his father, Dr. Gagnon, works.

Pousse, mais pousse égal

1975

Alone or with Others poster
6.7

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or with others" is often considered the first indepent film of Québec.

Alone or with Others

1962

A Few Acres of Snow poster
9.0

In 1837, in Quebec, against a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the sentimental drama of Simon de Bellefeuille and Julie, the chosen one of his heart, destined for another.

A Few Acres of Snow

1972

Seven Times a Day poster
3.3

A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.

Seven Times a Day

1971

Seven Times a Day poster
3.3

A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.

Seven Times a Day

1971

There's Always a Way to Find a Way poster
6.5

A bank clerk is driven by his brother-in-law in many adventures.

There's Always a Way to Find a Way

1973

Un enfant comme les autres... poster
10.0

A documentary about the early career of Québec child star René Simard.

Un enfant comme les autres...

1972

Jusqu'au cou poster
7.5

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.

Jusqu'au cou

1964

Jusqu'au cou poster
7.5

The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.

Jusqu'au cou

1964