Acting
Gilbert Comtois
Born August 15, 1937
Died May 19, 2021 · aged 83
No biography available.
Known For
Hold-up · 1985Hold-up
★ 6.11985
MovieComedyCrime
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
Orders · 1974Orders
★ 7.31974
MovieDramaHistory
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Scandale · 1982Scandale
★ 4.01982
MovieComedy
La Florida · 1993La Florida
★ 5.81993
MovieComedy
Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
The Plouffe Family · 1981The Plouffe Family
★ 6.91981
MovieDrama
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
L'Arrache-cœur · 1979L'Arrache-cœur
★ 9.01979
MovieDrama
A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother.
Maria Chapdelaine · 1983Maria Chapdelaine
★ 6.21983
MovieDrama
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Shabbot Shalom! · 1992Shabbot Shalom!
★ 10.01992
MovieComedyDrama
The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.






