Alain Dostie Trailers
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Total trailers found: 37
13 November 1998
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
14 September 2007
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs.
12 April 1991
A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.
26 May 1989
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic.
31 October 1985
A Québécois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest.
01 May 1988
A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
01 January 1968
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all.
01 December 1971
A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft.
12 May 1971
In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation.
30 September 1994
A dramatization of the abduction and murder of a Quebec government minister by a cell of The Quebec Liberation Front.
01 January 1969
Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.
01 January 1991
A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis.
01 November 1970
This short documentary offers an account of the epic bicycle ride of seventy girls and one man from Montreal to Vancouver.
11 November 1988
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East.
24 December 1971
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
29 September 1995
Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s.
04 February 1965
The conflicts between Jean, a penniless painter, and his brother Luc, a successful lawyer. Adapted from a novel by Réal Giguère, which revives the Thebiblical story of Cain and Abel.
01 January 1973
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
20 March 1975
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).
13 October 1970
Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
12 August 1967
Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France.
15 September 1975
An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.
01 January 1968
Documentary about the personal and professional life of La Bolduc, a singer of French Canadian music.
01 January 1972
Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a musical piece performed on the violin, harmonica and guitar or the accordion for over two hundred years.
23 January 1975
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.
01 January 1968
The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas.
01 January 1982
A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity.
15 June 1972
A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
04 April 1973
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
26 November 1993
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
27 March 1997
A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making him the scapegoat for a string of kidnappings.
01 January 1994
The undertaking of an enthusiastic group of scientists to transform an indoor cycle racing-track built for the 1968 Montréal Olympics into an ecological park.
11 February 1977
30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings.
27 March 1985
Elvis Gratton is back from Santa Banana. Now it's time to get ready for the holiday season. Our man is very busy.
27 December 1981
Robert Gratton is a small-town shopkeeper. A right-wing man, he has an unbounded devotion to Elvis Presley.
27 December 1983
Elvis Gratton wins the contest organized in memory of Elvis Presley, which earns him a trip to the Republic of Santa Banana.
01 January 1968
Documentary on the Acadian identity, featuring the music of Edith Butler, filmed in Canada, France, and Louisiana.