Known for Directing
Christian Duguay (born 1957 in Outremont, Quebec) is a Canadian director. He directed the Emmy nominated miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, which aired on the CBC in May 2003. He is best known for directing the action films Screamers (1995) starring Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis and The Art of War (2000) starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Biehn. In 2009 he directed a television mini-series about Saint Augustine of Hippo. He latest project is a two-part mini-series about Pope Pius XII and the occupation of Rome by the Nazis during World War II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Duguay (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born
January 1, 1957 (age 69)
Birthplace
Outremont, Québec, Canada
Filmography
41 films, 17 shows


Ride Above
2022 · 1h 49m
country: Canada
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.


A Bag of Marbles
2017 · 1h 53m
country: Belgium
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.


Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
2015 · 1h 37m
country: France
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life.


Jappeloup
2013 · 2h 10m
country: Belgium
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian


Pope Pius XII
2010 · 3h 33m
country: Italy
Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.


Betwixt
2010
country: United States
Three teenagers learn of their true "changeling" nature and their uncertain, intertwined destinies after attending a secret summer rave in the woods.


Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
2010 · 3h 20m
country: Italy
Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69. Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.


Coco Chanel
2008 · 2h 19m
country: France
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.


Boot Camp
2008 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
A group of troubled teens are sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji. What their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed.


Lies My Mother Told Me
2005 · 1h 29m
country: Canada
Inspired by actual events, about a young girl and her mother, Laren Sims, a con-artist and master of disguises who steals the identities of other women and then turns to murder to protect her secrets.


Extreme Ops
2002 · 1h 33m
country: Germany
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.


The Art of War
2000 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threatened to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground — in effect, vanishing from his own life — as he tries to stop what could become World War III.


The Assignment
1997 · 1h 59m
country: Canada
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.


Screamers
1995 · 1h 48m
country: Canada
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.


Model by Day
1994 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.


Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story
1994 · 2h
country: United States
A San Francisco couple and their infant son are stranded in the snow-covered Nevada wilderness.


Adrift
1993 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
Katie and Guy take a sea cruise in their sailboat and discover a couple on a wrecked boat, victims of a brutal attack by their crew. They take Eliza and Nick on board. The new boarders appear nervous about returning to Honolulu, and when the boat's engines die and other little incidents occur, Katie and Guy start wondering whether the shipwrecked couple are what they appear to be.


Live Wire
1992 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.


Scanners III: The Takeover
1992 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.


Scanners II: The New Order
1991 · 1h 44m
country: Canada
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.