![Gabriel Arcand](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/xOCGhxdgAwRUw8qaCv3A1X6ZARF.jpg)
Gabriel Arcand
Gabriel Arcand (born June 4, 1949) is a French Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand. He won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's award for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for his performance in Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe and at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Le Démantèlement, and the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Decline of the American Empire. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Les Plouffe and at the 20th Genie Awards for Post Mortem, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for Suzanne and at the 20th Genie Awards in 1999 for Le Grand serpent du monde.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.346 |
Birthday | 1949-06-04 |
Place of Birth | Deschambault, Québec, Canada |
Also Known As |
![Agnes of God](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m2QrxkojSmQb9k4DN6qhovDHLwD.jpg)
1985
![Agnes of God](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m2QrxkojSmQb9k4DN6qhovDHLwD.jpg)
Agnes of God
6.2/121
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to d...
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Agnes of God
![The Plouffe Family](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7JDOdpe0KySDhQyeMVj4bm3SRir.jpg)
1981
![The Plouffe Family](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7JDOdpe0KySDhQyeMVj4bm3SRir.jpg)
The Plouffe Family
6.643/14
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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The Plouffe Family
![The Decline of the American Empire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/j5Bi5lr7Z2tr9fEJI0YuS0AS2iG.jpg)
1986
![The Decline of the American Empire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/j5Bi5lr7Z2tr9fEJI0YuS0AS2iG.jpg)
The Decline of the American Empire
6.8/149
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre...
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The Decline of the American Empire
![A Wonderful Spell](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qodCR6p5aemO9fQPzyYgkBEj14F.jpg)
2004
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A Wonderful Spell
5.6/4
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming fl...
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A Wonderful Spell
![Post Mortem](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/npnnBcWEI8QiNxqdVuATpOsMeFS.jpg)
1999
![Post Mortem](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/npnnBcWEI8QiNxqdVuATpOsMeFS.jpg)
Post Mortem
7/4
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
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Post Mortem
![Karakara](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aJQt77i3hX1DFOeYaRfqLiT741u.jpg)
2012
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Karakara
1.5/2
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The co...
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Karakara
![The Auction](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2Sw3AEh9VMHnWFUQIeTrL8UIxOF.jpg)
2013
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The Auction
6.773/22
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses a...
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![The Revolving Doors](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/NaEmXg3bZo2otfkRWJfQRstdOr.jpg)
1988
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The Revolving Doors
5.9/7
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes s...
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The Revolving Doors
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1987
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La ligne de chaleur
5/2
In the dead of a cold Montreal winter, lonely, recently divorced Robert Filion learns his father has died in Florida. Robert and his son Maxime, trave...
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La ligne de chaleur
![Réjeanne Padovani](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/90txfudIofgPXkdjbzqHm4yJqSg.jpg)
1973
![Réjeanne Padovani](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/90txfudIofgPXkdjbzqHm4yJqSg.jpg)
Réjeanne Padovani
6.2/8
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 hi...
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Réjeanne Padovani
![Unfaithful Mornings](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sIPZn0xcze7gdjLvApturi3konX.jpg)
1988
![Unfaithful Mornings](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sIPZn0xcze7gdjLvApturi3konX.jpg)
Unfaithful Mornings
5.7/3
Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing o...
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Unfaithful Mornings
![Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tAcESzeU65qFttBukYIt8ldXUGO.jpg)
1984
![Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tAcESzeU65qFttBukYIt8ldXUGO.jpg)
Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
6.3/3
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman h...
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Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
![La vie secrète des gens heureux](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iI3YI8QDGBn059G2Ge46kCJaz7r.jpg)
2006
![La vie secrète des gens heureux](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iI3YI8QDGBn059G2Ge46kCJaz7r.jpg)
La vie secrète des gens heureux
7/2
Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas s...
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La vie secrète des gens heureux
![Gina](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m782u1RaX50zUA2gW5d0rydsS63.jpg)
1975
![Gina](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m782u1RaX50zUA2gW5d0rydsS63.jpg)
Gina
6.1/15
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
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Gina
![The Big Snake of the World](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1999
![The Big Snake of the World](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
The Big Snake of the World
5/2
This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through...
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The Big Snake of the World
![Bye, See You Monday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iYLTHqJJzSw9pnfQQG7nKby6wbm.jpg)
1979
![Bye, See You Monday](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iYLTHqJJzSw9pnfQQG7nKby6wbm.jpg)
Bye, See You Monday
4.2/4
Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share th...
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Bye, See You Monday
![Résonance](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/57JPl9dU4aMHO0OzRr213UK6OUK.jpg)
2021
![Résonance](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/57JPl9dU4aMHO0OzRr213UK6OUK.jpg)
Résonance
0/0
An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.
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Résonance
![Le toasteur](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1982
![Le toasteur](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Le toasteur
0/0
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Le toasteur
![L'âge de la machine](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1978
![L'âge de la machine](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
L'âge de la machine
0/0
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
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L'âge de la machine
![Thunder Drum](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/s0YIP81UVYjFRJYbCOIzCAvlq1s.jpg)
1983
![Thunder Drum](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/s0YIP81UVYjFRJYbCOIzCAvlq1s.jpg)
Thunder Drum
0/0
Three memories juxtaposed: that of an Innu, that of a Jesuit and that of the director. In this feature film, Arthur Lamothe films the daily life of th...
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Thunder Drum
![A Kid](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fKcANo9s8vpCLZpD5RctEoIr9bc.jpg)
2016
![A Kid](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fKcANo9s8vpCLZpD5RctEoIr9bc.jpg)
A Kid
7/94
Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblin...
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A Kid
![The Coffin Affair](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oFyXnK6pdnwNukOhIk0krflPsew.jpg)
1980
![The Coffin Affair](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oFyXnK6pdnwNukOhIk0krflPsew.jpg)
The Coffin Affair
0/0
In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on tourism and investment, Prime minister Maurice Dupl...
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The Coffin Affair
![Dirty Money](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wqVuFSGqRpVMI1Ds5iPNe28SwZ5.jpg)
1972
![Dirty Money](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wqVuFSGqRpVMI1Ds5iPNe28SwZ5.jpg)
Dirty Money
6.2/4
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the...
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Dirty Money
![Suzanne](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wTbqNK4K8XY0nZTrR2ikN3o814R.jpg)
1981
![Suzanne](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wTbqNK4K8XY0nZTrR2ikN3o814R.jpg)
Suzanne
4/3
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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Suzanne
![Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/stEESpIJhFDECoIn0vgRwxa23lB.jpg)
1976
![Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/stEESpIJhFDECoIn0vgRwxa23lB.jpg)
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
5/6
In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.
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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
![Tu brûles... tu brûles...](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gtPwYUCNbxi01SZHQnijj4BGPfA.jpg)
1973
![Tu brûles... tu brûles...](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gtPwYUCNbxi01SZHQnijj4BGPfA.jpg)
Tu brûles... tu brûles...
4.2/4
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving...
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
![Congorama](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vR92CiqJG5dj6m7389B1M6fPCPc.jpg)
2006
![Congorama](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vR92CiqJG5dj6m7389B1M6fPCPc.jpg)
Congorama
6.6/18
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child w...
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Congorama
![Panique](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7eSTvCIYLCuKTgU8x5z3I1o05EF.jpg)
1977
![Panique](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7eSTvCIYLCuKTgU8x5z3I1o05EF.jpg)
Panique
5.3/3
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
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Panique
![Parlez-nous d'amour](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4YPPxPH1GiGBCT0wSWXVotuTlGL.jpg)
1976
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Parlez-nous d'amour
8/1
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
![La fabrication d'un meurtrier](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rdQyG9gy8C4OZHm16I2RWWkz23f.jpg)
1996
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La fabrication d'un meurtrier
0/0
A psychiatrist tells his story to a police detective investigating a murder. He went to Bulgaria in search of his wife's past and met a beautiful youn...
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La fabrication d'un meurtrier
![Nelligan](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zmTaEpGJWFp4JAwZld2FBt0Ybeb.jpg)
1991
![Nelligan](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zmTaEpGJWFp4JAwZld2FBt0Ybeb.jpg)
Nelligan
3/2
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled thro...
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Nelligan
![Pour l'amour de Thomas](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sA3JB8CKkSgOX3SnoE9g21lIYSO.jpg)
1995
![Pour l'amour de Thomas](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sA3JB8CKkSgOX3SnoE9g21lIYSO.jpg)
Pour l'amour de Thomas
0/0
A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as possible, rejecting self-pity and alienating his over-...
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Pour l'amour de Thomas
![Les vautours](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ianNP3Ovikpe6tt5CvxWaXsQnSZ.jpg)
1975
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Les vautours
6/3
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 Sicot...
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Les vautours
![She Who Wears the Rain](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aJgQkTxjOeMRB2QmifeoiDk275a.jpg)
2019
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She Who Wears the Rain
5/1
Immersed in a world halfway between reality and a dream, Agnes will have to confront her mourning.
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She Who Wears the Rain
![Chaos and Desire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ipsbc2Gvt1ihdmFjYG7tFGdpFp2.jpg)
2002
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Chaos and Desire
5.4/19
Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to...
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Chaos and Desire
![Maria Chapdelaine](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vkdITEw7yrL6EV16Uxzdpt1HUbi.jpg)
2021
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Maria Chapdelaine
6.375/8
In 1910, Maria Chapdelaine, a young girl of seventeen, lived with her family on the banks of the Péribonka River, north of Lake Saint-Jean. The Chapde...
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Maria Chapdelaine
![The Bossé Empire](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fIhnaNAMmsXvgSKyYeSf854T28I.jpg)
2012
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The Bossé Empire
5.2/4
It follows the career of a man who starts from scratch and became one of the richest men in the world, participating in all sectors who have made mone...
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The Bossé Empire
![A House with a View of the Sea](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2kMOxW3RIykFsa5AUADnkmpwM6H.jpg)
2001
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A House with a View of the Sea
5.8/5
In the foothills of the Andes, the dreams of a widowed father and his son shelter their quiet relationship from the cruelty of neighbors, until a desp...
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A House with a View of the Sea
![Blood of the Hunter](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8HPeBFaITu7mf65NngmOJ2gNuH5.jpg)
1995
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Blood of the Hunter
0/0
In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small community in the...
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Blood of the Hunter
![Easy in Mind](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ed3Go0agqHfafb8G0pNZmjM6x3E.jpg)
1989
![Easy in Mind](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ed3Go0agqHfafb8G0pNZmjM6x3E.jpg)
Easy in Mind
0/0
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
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