Acting
Gilles Pelletier
Born March 22, 1925 · Québec, Canada
Died September 5, 2018 · aged 93
No biography available.
Known For
I Confess · 1953I Confess
★ 7.11953
MovieDramaThriller
When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him. Torn between faith and self-preservation, he faces public scandal and trial for a crime he cannot reveal the truth about.
The Barbarian Invasions · 2003The Barbarian Invasions
★ 7.02003
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Les vautours · 1975Les vautours
★ 7.01975
MovieDramaComedy
Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Days of Darkness · 2007Days of Darkness
★ 6.42007
MovieComedyDrama
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?
Poussière sur la ville · 1968Poussière sur la ville
★ 8.01968
MovieDrama
A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.
Seducing Doctor Lewis · 2003Seducing Doctor Lewis
★ 6.92003
MovieDramaComedy
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
Anatomie · 2014Anatomie
2014
MovieDrama
A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.
Noël Blank · 2003Noël Blank
★ 10.02003
MovieDrama
A man with Alzheimer's disease leaves home to enjoy Christmas with his family.
Filmography
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L'Héritage · 1987L'Héritage
★ 7.01987
SeriesDrama
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