Jean Marchand

Acting

Jean Marchand

Born 1951-04-22 · Sorel, Quebec, Canada

Jean Marchand is a French Canadian stage, film and television actor and pianist, best known for playing the role of the high-strung music teacher Rolland Montmorency, aka M. Musique, on Unité 9, the acclaimed television series about a woman's penitentiary, for four years from 2012 to 2015.

Acting credits

Solo poster
5.7

Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Olivier and a cold relationship with his mother, who's just returned after fifteen years.

Solo

2023

Desire in Motion poster
4.7

During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.

Desire in Motion

1994

Boris Without Beatrice poster
6.5

Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.

Boris Without Beatrice

2016

L'Albero poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Albero

2023

Y rester poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Y rester

2024

PORNOMANIA poster
NR

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.

PORNOMANIA

2023

La Corrivaux poster
9.0

A teleplay about Marie-Josephte Corriveau, a French-Canadian woman executed by the British in 1763 for the murder of her second husband, Louis Dodier.

La Corrivaux

1995

Jesus of Montreal poster
6.8

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Jesus of Montreal

1989

The Surrogate poster
4.9

Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police are baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.

The Surrogate

1984

Aurore poster
7.5

After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

Aurore

2005

Ghost Town Anthology poster
6.2

It is a small village somewhere in Quebec with only 215 inhabitants. When young Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the villagers’ tranquil and regulated existence is thrown out of step. People are decidedly reluctant to talk about the accident. Time seems to lose all meaning. Snowy, frosty winter days stretch out into infinity. Mysterious figures emerge from the fog and commit strange acts. But what seems strange is sometimes more familiar than one might suspect.

Ghost Town Anthology

2019

Shadows in an Empty Room poster
5.8

After his younger sister is poisoned, a tough Ottawa cop embarks on a violent journey through Montreal to find her killer, which turns into a whirlpool of revenge and betrayal.

Shadows in an Empty Room

1976

Trudeau poster
8.2

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Trudeau

2002

Laura Cadieux II poster
5.0

Laura Cadieux and her friends are taking a cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday.

Laura Cadieux II

1999

Where Souls Go poster
4.5

Eighteen-year-old Anna has been diagnosed with an incurable terminal illness and has chosen to end her life on her own terms. With only fifteen days remaining, her final wish is to reconnect with her older half-sisters, Ève and Éléonore, from whom she has been estranged ever since their father went to prison. The three sisters must confront their painful past and rediscover the bond of sisterhood before time runs out.

Where Souls Go

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jeu de mémoire

2023

Mars and April poster
5.6

In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.

Mars and April

2012

Next Floor poster
7.1

During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.

Next Floor

2008

It's Your Turn, Laura poster
5.4

Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.

It's Your Turn, Laura

1998

Dissolution poster
NR

Elderly inmates are dying mysteriously one after another in their prison cells.

Dissolution

2024

Craque la vie! poster
7.5

Between her four children, her husband, her job at the hardware store, and the creditors on her back, Hélène leads a life that dangerously resembles a makeshift camp in a constant state of emergency. She muddles through as best she can.

Craque la vie!

1994

No artwork available
9.0

Denis comes out of a love affair that disturbs him a lot. One day he meets Simone in the university cafeteria and he immediately understands that she is the woman of his life. But Simone is not the type to fall into the arms of the first comer!

Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie

1993

The Yellows poster
6.0

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.

The Yellows

2014

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un autre homme

1989