Janine Sutto

Acting

Janine Sutto

Born 1921-04-20 · Paris, France

Acting credits

Le père Chopin poster
6.5

A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values ​​and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.

Le père Chopin

1945

Winter Games poster
3.8

Three ski instructors are busier in accumulating love than in giving lessons so they spend more time in bed than on the slopes.

Winter Games

1971

Congorama poster
6.5

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.

Congorama

2006

Two Women In Gold poster
4.2

Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.

Two Women In Gold

1970

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

The Valley of Tears poster
5.7

Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and finds out who is the anonymous writer. This is how she establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker hired to paint the offices. A strange relation develops between these two persons who come from very different worlds. But after a while, Joseph abruptly disappears and Marie, overwhelmed by the mission fallen on her, starts a journey into the past, through a small village in Lebanon, in the heart of a bloodthirsty culture were lies the key of all the enigmas.

The Valley of Tears

2012

Route 132 poster
5.9

Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.

Route 132

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La mort d'un commis voyageur

1962

Kamouraska poster
5.9

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.

Kamouraska

1973

Le p'tit vient vite poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le p'tit vient vite

1972

The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds poster
3.0

While on his honeymoon, a man who suddenly becomes impotent, tries to recover his virility.

The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds

1974

The Capture poster
5.0

Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She’s managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted by her father’s violence.

The Capture

2007

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

Fanfreluche: Alice in Wonderland poster
NR

After reading Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', living doll Fanfreluche enters the extraordinary realm of Wonderland to embark on her own adventure.

Fanfreluche: Alice in Wonderland

1968

Guide de la petite vengeance poster
5.6

Bernard, an accountant in an upscale jewellery store, suffers from daily psychological abuse by his boss Vendôme. Thanks to his pal Robert, also victim of harassment by this cruel man, Bernard will toy with the consequence of a well-deserved retaliation at the expense of his boss. However, as not everything is perfect in this world, Bernard will also have to experience the sometimes less pleasant after effects of this ruthless act of revenge.

Guide de la petite vengeance

2006

Mission of Fear poster
6.5

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

Mission of Fear

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bonjour là, bonjour

1993

Master Cats poster
7.0

Rosaire and Alex would do anything to seduce girls, but they are broke. In an attempt to escape their problem, they become willing to do anything to make some money.

Master Cats

1971

Janine Sutto: 70 Years of Passion poster
NR

For more than 70 years, actress Janine Sutto, the grande dame of Québec theatre, has brought to the stage her passion for her art: portraying life.

Janine Sutto: 70 Years of Passion

2014

Huguette Oligny, le goût de vivre poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Huguette Oligny, le goût de vivre

2013