Denys Arcand — Director (17)

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Alone or with Others (1962)
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other title: Seul ou avec d'autres
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.

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Poverty and Other Delights (1996)
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other title: Joyeux Calvaire
Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel’s only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story to tell, his hope to share.

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Testament (2023)
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other title: 遗·言
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-year-old single man, has lost all his bearings in this society. He lives in a retirement home located in a heritage building, managed with care and precision by Suzanne. Their peace is shaken by the arrival of young activists who demand the destruction of a historic fresco. Overwhelmed by an era dominated by political correctness, Jean-Michel will regain faith in humanity with the birth of an unexpected love.

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Montreal Stories (1992)
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丹尼斯·阿康特 / 米歇尔·布洛尔特 … actor: 丹尼斯·阿康特 / Philippe Ayoub …
other title: 蒙特娄六重奏 / Montréal vu par... …
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.

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Gina (1975)
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丹尼斯·阿康特 actor: 塞莉娜·洛梅 / 克洛德·布朗夏尔 …
other title: 吉娜 / 지나 …
Gina is a stripper at a popular local club. Everybody loves her and wants her. One night, a feared gang enters her motel room and gang-rape her violently. Soon afterward, she asks the services of criminals to help her exact revenge on those who attacked her.

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Love & Human Remains (1993)
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other title: 爱欲残骸
内容简介: 本片是一部围绕90年代一群20出头的年轻人寻找爱情与价值的黑色喜剧。剧情重心在大卫和凯笛这两个人物上。大卫是个放弃了演艺生涯的同性恋侍应;凯笛则是个书评人,也是大卫的前度情人。他俩的生活与大卫的朋友、还有凯笛的密友纠缠不清。与此同时,一个连环杀手在他俩住所的附近引起莫名其妙的恐慌……

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The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
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other title: 金钱的胜利 / La chute de l'empire américain …
A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns the money will be looking for it. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker recently released from jail might get him out of trouble.

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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Le déclin de l'empire américain
丹尼斯·阿康特 actor: 多米妮克·米歇尔 / 多萝蒂·贝里曼 …
other title: 末日美利坚 / Le déclin de l'empire américain …
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.

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The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
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★ 7.7 18 ratings
Denys Arcand / 德尼·阿尔康 actor: Rémy Girard / 雷米·吉拉德 …
other title: Les invasions barbares / 老爸的单程车票 …
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

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The Age of Ignorance (2007)
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丹尼斯·阿康特 actor: 黛安·克鲁格 / 埃玛·德·科内 …
other title: 夜色无边 / L'âge des ténèbres …
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?