Onyx Films

For the French film studio, see Method Animation.

Onyx Films was a film production business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1962 by Pierre Lamy and his brother André Lamy.^[1][2] Their films include Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce ('The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl'), a satire. Gilles Carle worked with the film company on several productions.^[3]

The Canadian Post Office and Royal Canadian Mounted Police had contracts with Onyx to make films in 1971.^[4]

The 2010 documentary film La vie privée d'Onyx ('The Very Private Affair of Onyx') directed by Denys Desjardins is about the company's history.^[5][6]

Filmography

• Pas de vacances pour les idoles ('No Vacation for Idols') (1965)^[7][8]
• Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce ('The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl') (1968)^[9]
• Deux femmes en or ('Two Golden Women') (1970)^[10][5]
• Les Males ('The Males') (1971)^[11]
• La Feuille d'Erable ('The Maple Leaf') (1971), a series directed by Aimée Danis, Gilles Carle, and other^[12]
• All Ears to Gaspé (1974), a documentary film about Quebec's Gaspé region.^[13][14] The film documents the lifestyle of the Gaspesie people in the area of fishing and tourism as well as the departure of young people.^[12][15]
• Carnaval d'hiver de Québec^[16]