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Xavier Dolan has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Mommy.
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Mommy
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

Martyrs
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Lost Illusions
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Prime Video · Included

Heartbeats
2010 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 31%AMC+ · Included

Matthias & Maxime
2019 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 34%MUBI · Included

Elephant Song
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon

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 abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Dir. Pascal Laugier · With Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin

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.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye

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 night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Dir. Drew Goddard · With Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Lewis Pullman

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 distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud

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 tries to stay true to his dreams.
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel

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 Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan

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 with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas, Xavier Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk
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 conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
Dir. Joel Edgerton · With Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe

A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Dir. Charles Binamé · With Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, Carrie-Anne Moss

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay

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 aggressive brother.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy

Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or her own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three neighbors spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine.
Dir. Jacob Tierney · With Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman, Emily Hampshire

France, 1983. The biggest architectural competition in history is launched by the new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the open-call competition is surprisingly won by an unknown: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an architecture teacher from Copenhagen. Until then, the fifty-year-old Dane had built only four buildings: his home, and three small chapels.
Dir. Stéphane Demoustier · With Claes Bang, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud