Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program
Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and his first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Dolan has also directed music videos, notably with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination.
Dolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of the World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards.
Outside of his own films, he has also starred in films from other directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and It Chapter Two (2019).
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 23.921 |
Birthday | 1989-03-20 |
Place of Birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Also Known As | Xavier Dolan-Tadros, 자비에 돌란, Ксавье Долан, 그자비에 돌란, |
2009
I Killed My Mother
7.502/1071
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distress...
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I Killed My Mother
2011
Good Neighbours
5.5/98
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named V...
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Good Neighbours
2010
Heartbeats
7.1/991
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Mo...
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Heartbeats
2001
The Hidden Fortress
6.4/17
Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn.
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The Hidden Fortress
2014
Tom at the Farm
6.825/797
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressi...
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Tom at the Farm
2007
Mirrors
6.1/17
Julian is a melancholic teenager on holiday at the family cottage. His holiday gets a twist when a mysterious neighbor confuses him. A summertime com...
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Mirrors
2010
Lipsett Diaries
6/10
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into...
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Lipsett Diaries
2014
Miraculum
5.3/23
Sometimes, we're just waiting for a miracle. A nurse who is a Jehovah's Witness, grows fond of the miracle survivor of a plane crash. Two sexagenarian...
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Miraculum
2009
Suzie
5.7/3
Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50...
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Suzie
2014
Elephant Song
7.083/138
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
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Elephant Song
2008
Martyrs
7.3/2563
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child a...
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Martyrs
1997
Heads or Tails
6.6/18
A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, which causes many misunderstandings with his wife, and mother.
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Heads or Tails
2012
Laurence Anyways
7.652/831
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self...
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Laurence Anyways
2018
Boy Erased
7.032/1337
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay convers...
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Boy Erased
2019
Matthias & Maxime
7.112/455
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men w...
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Matthias & Maxime
2019
It Chapter Two
6.845/8414
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from...
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It Chapter Two
2018
Bad Times at the El Royale
6.836/3440
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful ni...
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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
Le cri du rhinocéros
5/1
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him....
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Le cri du rhinocéros
2011
Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
6.4/5
Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, i...
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Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
2021
Lost Illusions
7.441/469
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he...
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Lost Illusions
2017
Il était une fois... Mommy
6.8/2
In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this d...
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Il était une fois... Mommy
2016
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
6/1
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young C...
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2023
Toopy and Binoo The Movie
0/0
After an escalation of blunders, Toopy and Dorothy, a comical genie, accidentally make Binoo’s beloved stuffed animal, Patchy-Patch, disappear. The tr...
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Toopy and Binoo The Movie
2024
The Beast
6.568/37
In the not too distant future, a woman attempts to undergo a mind-altering procedure to erase her feelings of unhappiness and trauma.
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