Carole Laure

As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. (imdb)

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness... (imdb)

Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits.... (imdb)

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was. (imdb)

La Belle Bête is a powerful study of the conflict between beauty and ugliness, hate and love. The story revolves around three main characters. At the center, Patrice, a beautiful but mindless youth stands gazing at his image in the water. Around him move his ugly sister Isabelle-Marie, and his frivolous mother Louise, the first lost in love and hate for her brother's beauty, the second seeing it as an adornment for herself. (Allmovie)

Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of him, so he's seeing a psychotherapist who finds the anger and the impotence related. She recommends that Frank and Lee hire a mysterious European woman to lead them through fantasies intended to unlock passion and help them heal. (imdb)

The main character is unhappily married and has an affair. When his wife finds out, she lures his girlfriend to a cliff and throws herself of it, making the girlfriend look as her killer. The main character then tries to draw suspicion from his girlfriend to himself. It appears he wil succeed... (imdb)

A young woman is shot to death in the countryside. A worldly angel finds her and nurses her back to life. She has completely lost her memory and is therefore taught about the world by the angel. The two soon become lovers, but the woman desires to go to the city and learn about her past, which the angel forbids her from doing.

An urbanite couple who plan to relieve tiredness of the whole week on saturday, find themselves surrounded by a much more tiring environment.

In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest. (imdb)

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. (allmovie.com)

Two friends arrive at crossroads in their lives. Blue is a painter specializing, usually selling his images to porn magazines. Eli's father wants him to take over the family's undergarment business. Blue is given an opportunity to have his work featured in gallery showing as legitimate art if he can create enough new pieces. An ex-flame, Syd, brings out the jealous worst in Blue who's self-destructive behavior. (en.wikipedia.org)

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects. (nfb.ca)

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on the eve of the military takeover of 1973, Anna is livid. (imdb)

Michel, a referee, has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans. (imdb)

The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope. (imdb)

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.