The best Marc Messier’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Marc Messier’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Marc Messier.
Jesus of Montreal
7.5/10
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.
When We Were Boys
6.2/10
Prequel to the popular Les Boys series about hockey featuring the characters as high school students.
The Boys
6.7/10
Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
Les Boys IV
5.1/10
Four years later, Stan invites his men closed in an outfitter retirement. Their goal: to face the team of the legends of the National League.
Aimé
Three sisters meet to empty out their late father's cluttered apartment. A disturbing and tiresome chore, filled with ghosts from the past. At the end of the day, it is still messy, but hearts and souls have been set free.
Les Boys II
6.2/10
Nos Boys sont de retour une année après leurs dernières aventures. Cette fois-ci, les joueurs de la ligue de garage la plus populaire du Québec se rendent en France, à Chamonix, pour participer à un tournoi international de hockey amateur.
Les Voisins
7.6/10
Three couples meet at one of them for a slide show evening. But nobody takes pleasure in this evening, where triumphs the banality of the exchanges: it is a socialization forced by the bonds of the neighborhood, devoid of empathy or sincerity.
Les Boys III
5.7/10
Trois années ont passées. Les Boys forment encore une belle équipe de hockey dans une ligue de garage. Leur entraîneur Stan, en France depuis trois ans, revient de son périple à la grande joie de ses troupiers. Cependant, un riche homme d'affaires apparaît dans le décor et les joueurs se sentent attirés par l'appât du gain jusqu'au point où les Boys affronteront... les Boys.
Dangerous People
3.8/10
It has kidnapped Roxane Labelle, a Canadian singer covered gold records and awards. To his captors, no question of release without payment of a large ransom. Father and manager of the star, Paul Labelle asks a small accountant do it. Easier said than done, especially the payer also has a large sum to the Mafia and, rapidly, what Québec account scoundrels, thieves and killers are chasing the fabulous bonanza.
Lance et compte
5.7/10
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
Bluff
6.8/10
Le Grand Départ
5.7/10
Jean-Paul, a successful plastic surgeon, separates from his wife and he sees his life turn upside down when everyone in his family blame him for all their troubles.
Le sphinx
6.1/10
A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
Grande ourse - La clé des possibles
5.9/10
To save his best friend, Louis-Bernard Lapointe has to transport himself to a parallel world to find the 'Key of Possibilities', a magical and legendary object that allow his user to visit an infinite numbers of universes where everything is possible.
Ça sent la coupe
5.9/10
Seven years ago, Max’s parents died in a car accident. Since then, the young man, now 35, has been treading water. He manages his father’s hockey memorabilia shop, lives in the apartment upstairs, and watches each and every Habs game with his friends. But he’s forced to take a hard look at his life when his girlfriend, Julie, leaves him, and his sister, Nathalie, comes back to town.
An Imaginary Tale
6.6/10
In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.
Sonia
A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.
Portion d'éternité
6.3/10
In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.
My Aunt Aline
5.4/10
Geneviève Saint-Louis, a bachelor and neurotic careerist, refuses any form of engagement. Her aunt Aline, a former cabaret singer, arrives at her home with the ulterior aim of avoiding placement in a reception center.
Wind from Wyoming
6.5/10
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress
