Omertà or Omertà, The Code of Silence is a Quebec television series of 11 forty-five minute episodes, created by Luc Dionne and aired from January to April 1996 on Radio-Canada. In France, the series aired on France 3 in 1998.
A second season, titled Omertà II – The Code of Silence, had 14 forty-five minute episodes and was broadcast between September and December 1997 on Radio-Canada.
A third season, titled Omerta, The Last Men of Honor, had 13 episodes and was broadcast from January to April 1999, on Radio-Canada.
The show is a series of interviews between Josélito Michaud and guests aboard the Orford Express, the train traveling between Magog and Sherbrooke (in Quebec, Canada). Having experienced a significant event (bereavement, illness, accident, etc.), the guests share the way they have turned the page or given new meaning to their lives.
On April 1st, 1986, Jean-Guy Lavigueur, an unemployed blue-collar worker and his family won 7.6 million dollars. At the time, it was the largest amount ever won at Loto-Quebec's 6/49 weekly draws. What should have been the beginning of a fairytale for the family turned rapidly into a nightmare...
Back in the 1970s, we see a young Louise who is crazy in love with Vincent, a rebellious activist. Along the way, Louise will have to give up some of her political ideals and make some difficult sacrifices. Today, Louise has become a formidable businesswoman at the head of Nocturne, her perfume empire that owes much of its success to her top-selling perfume Nuit Blanche. Everything changes when, at an evening reception celebrating her success, Louise dies alone in her garden. Is it murder or an accident?
The life of Léon, a half-sighted man, was turned upside down when his mother died. Since retrograde skydiving is part of the biological son's family, it is not the same. Fortunately, since you are in Florence, you look at it further and the way more, because just like lazy everything is different.
Steff, Mimi, Claude and Isa moving together, without husband, with their seven children in a big house for a year, in order to evacuate the frustrations of everyday life.
How well do you really know your kids? In this game show hosted by Pierre Hébert, three sets of parents try to predict what their 6- to 8-year-old child will do when confronted with a range of unusual situations. The family with the most correct predictions goes on to the final round!
Marc, Louis and Gaétan work as doormen in a fictional nightclub called The Manhattan. The new owner wants to give the bar an upscale makeover and the three friends are stuck having to deal with this hip new work environment, with riveting consequences.
Les Intrépides, is a France-Quebec TV series for children, released between 1993 and 1996, that ran for 52 episodes.
The series is about adventures of two kids; Julie Boileau and Tom Miller, whose parents got married and that made them step-siblings. Tom and Julie run their own radio station for kids and help its listeners to resolve their - often criminal - adventures and problems.
When Sebastian, a young orphan living in the Alps, meets Belle, a huge white Great Pyrenees, they set off together on a series of fantastic adventures around the mountains.