Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Great Arch
2025
as Jean-Louis Subilon
1983. The biggest architectural competition in history, both anonymous and open, is launched under the impetus of a new socialist president, François ...
The Beast
2024
as Système intelligence artificielle (voice)
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past liv...
The Beast
2024
Co-Producer
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past liv...
Toopy and Binoo The Movie
2023
as Jacques-Henri (voice)
After an escalation of blunders, Toopy and Dorothy, a comical genie, accidentally make Binoo’s beloved stuffed animal, Patchy-Patch, disappear. The tr...
Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers’ popular children’s film series.
Charlotte
2022
Executive Producer
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...
Lost Illusions
2021
as Nathan d'Anastazio
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 ...
Smoothie
2020
Editor
Following a drunken evening, four friends discover the body of their fifth friend, Robin. For fear of reprisals from the police, they will try by all ...
Matthias & Maxime
2019
as Maxime
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...
Matthias & Maxime
2019
Director, Writer, Editor
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...
The Physics of Sorrow
2019
as (voice)
Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in C...
It Chapter Two
2019
as Adrian Mellon
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from ...
Relai
2019
Editor
As Mélanie tries to restore Benoit's self-confidence, they cross paths with Mehdi and Jeanne, a duo going through a crisis. For a brief moment, their ...
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
Director, Producer, Editor
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 ...
Le cri du rhinocéros
2018
as Self
Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him....
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
as Buddy Sunday
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...
Boy Erased
2018
as Jon
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...
Des hommes stylés
2018
as Self
Il était une fois... « Mommy »
2017
as Self
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...
It's Only the End of the World
2016
Director, Producer, Editor
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016
as Self
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young C...
Elephant Song
2015
as Michael Aleen
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Mommy
2014
Director, Writer, Editor
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Tom at the Farm
2014
as Tom
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...
Tom at the Farm
2014
Director, Editor, Screenplay
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...
Miraculum
2014
as Étienne Simard
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...
An Extraordinary Person
2013
Editor
A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity lead...
Laurence Anyways
2012
as Man at the Party (uncredited)
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...
Laurence Anyways
2012
Director, Editor, Screenplay
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...
Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
2011
as Julien (segment "Mirrors")
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...
Good Neighbours
2011
as Jean-Marc
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named V...
Lipsett Diaries
2010
as Narrator
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into...
Heartbeats
2010
as Francis
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...
Heartbeats
2010
Director, Costume Design, Editor
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...
I Killed My Mother
2009
as Hubert Minel
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...
I Killed My Mother
2009
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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...
Suzie
2009
as Punk
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...
Martyrs
2008
as Antoine
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...
Mirrors
2007
as Julien
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...
The Hidden Fortress
2001
as Michael
Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn.
Heads or Tails
1997
as Edouard
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.
Miles & Juliette
N/A
22-year-old Miles Davis embarks on a transformative trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls into a passionate romance with Juliette Gréco, the French si...
Untitled Xavier Dolan/Anne Dorval Horror Movie
N/A
Writer, Director
Xavier Dolan's next film will be a horror film set in France in 1895.