Jean-François Casabonne

Acting

Jean-François Casabonne

Acting credits

The Revenge of the Woman in Black poster
6.0

A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings.

The Revenge of the Woman in Black

1997

Night Slice poster
9.0

Stuck in a depressing and mind numbing routine, Pierre decides to trade the sweaty atmosphere of the factory for the conditioned air of a hotel room. Locked up with three other tenants in a dreary and dim-lighted suite, he is forced into an idle and aimless lifestyle, no more fruitful than the mindless hustle and bustle he left behind — that is, until this oppressive dullness gives birth to an idea…

Night Slice

2020

A Paper Wedding poster
4.5

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

A Paper Wedding

1989

Cruising Bar 2 poster
5.7

Fifteen years later, the heroes from Cruising Bar may hardly have changed but the world around them most certainly has! For the Bull, reality is brutal. His wife of 30 years, sick of his infidelity, decides to show him the door. But the Bull, who has a positive outlook on life, isn't so easily defeated and fights for his survival. The Lion too faces a break-up when his girlfriend leaves. All alone, he's force to relearn the art of seduction. The Peacock, on the other hand, is trying to figure out his sexual identity with the help of a psychologist. As for the Earthworm, his long wait for a soulmate will, at last, be requited.

Cruising Bar 2

2008

Suzanne et Chantal poster
NR

Chantal (60 years old) picks up Suzanne (92 years old) to go to the hair salon where she works. Once there, Chantal is intercepted by her boss who asks her to give him what she owes him. But this week, she has no money for him... This week, she has a surprise for him.

Suzanne et Chantal

2022

The Fight poster
6.8

A coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young teenage boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.

The Fight

2007

The Fight poster
6.8

A coming-of-age saga set in the slums of Montreal as a young teenage boy comes to grips with the temptations of the street while hopelessly aspiring to become a professional wrestler.

The Fight

2007

The Bossé Empire poster
5.2

It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the world, participating in all sectors who have made money in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.

The Bossé Empire

2012

No artwork available
NR

In the seventeenth century, a grieving Portuguese nun writes to her lover, an officer in the French army, who abandoned her.

Letters of a Portuguese Nun

1991

My Enemies poster
NR

Devastated but furious after his girlfriend dumps him on a metro platform, 23-year-old Cedric takes off with his unfinished novel in his bag. Fate leads him to a large, rundown house owned by Isabelle, a onetime star pianist and faded beauty. Isabelle, now a lonely 76-year-old alcoholic, passes her days at her piano and with her group of eccentric boarders. From their first meeting, Cedric knows that Isabelle is the love of his life, and Isabelle realizes he is her last chance for love. Driven by their intoxicating passion for one another, they plunge headlong into a love affair where they are pushed to the brink of hate and death, even escaping reality to keep their love alive.

My Enemies

2015

Le Petit Prince – théâtre musical poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Petit Prince – théâtre musical

2020

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches poster
5.9

In the wake of their father’s death, two children gradually come to realize the perverse nature of their upbringing.

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

2017

Dissolution poster
NR

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

Dissolution

2024

Le Pouvoir Fantôme poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Pouvoir Fantôme

2025

Nelligan poster
3.8

This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.

Nelligan

1991

Pandora's Beauty poster
6.3

Not long after Vincent meets the vivacious Pandore at the Montreal port for a business meeting, the two are soon rolling around in a hotel room. Vincent's ardor cools for the lass when he learns of her ominous secret, and his button-down wife Ariane walks out on him.

Pandora's Beauty

2000

La chasse poster
NR

One autumn day, Germain and his son Mathieu visit their old family home where, twenty years before, a tragedy turned their lives upside down. What happened? Why are they returning to a place that has been abandoned all these years? The pieces of their story come together when Germain comes face to face with Nadeau, the former neighbor who has just been released from prison.

La chasse

2023

You poster
3.8

Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her husband, her son and her profession to live this frenzy through to its conclusion. A quest for freedom and change that sends Michèle on a turbulent drift, but remains, nevertheless, intimate and personal.

You

2007

Le propriétaire est un télescope poster
NR

When Jimon Sodoin loses his job at the newspaper Le Noir, he has no choice but to move into a new building with his wife Mérédith.

Le propriétaire est un télescope

2016

La cour des mirages poster
NR

Hypochondriac, germaphobe, and depressive, Jean-Marc Sumac leads a vacuum-packed life in a bland city. One morning, colorful imposters invade his neighborhood and steal his disinfectant. Determined to follow them, he will see his life changed forever.

La cour des mirages

2016

Vent de galerne poster
10.0

The year 1989 marked the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and a number of filmmakers put together movies intended to celebrate that event. This historical action drama, based on the book Sous le vent de galerne by Andre Guilloteau looks at some of the less well-known and unappealing consequences of the republican takeover. In 1793, the entire region of Vendee rose up in revolt against the republican French government. Instead of bringing relief from the heavy taxation imposed under the monarchy, the republican government actually raised taxes in the region, and to add insult to injury, also imposed a heavy burden of military conscription ("the draft") on it. In the story, the inhabitants of one of the villages of the region organize under their blacksmith and a local nobleman to fight the government forces, but before they can prepare for a proper battle, they are massacred.

Vent de galerne

1989

La Pharmacie de l'espoir poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Pharmacie de l'espoir

2005

Une vie pour deux poster
NR

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel, Une vie pour deux is inspired by real events, the discovery by the novelist's husband (director Jean-Pierre Ronfard) of the corpse of a young woman on a beach in Ireland in the late 1970s.

Une vie pour deux

2013