A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.

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. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Dans un petit village de France près de Reims, Jean Rivière, un journaliste canadien, descend dans le seul hôtel de l'endroit. Ce soir-là on vient de découvrir, dans sa boutique, baignant dans son sang, la mercière assassinée In a small village in the French countryside, a traveling canadian journalist finds the hostess of the small hotel dead, victim of murder, and begins investigating along with a local magistrate.

Stories and legends about the devil in the past and actual populations of the North America.