The Crime of Ovide Plouffe(1984)

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe is a French-Canadian drama that follows a man trapped between duty and desire. Ovide's marriage to Rita has grown hollow—she openly flirts with other men while he struggles in silence. When he falls for Marie, Ovide faces an impossible choice: his Catholic faith forbids divorce, yet staying married means abandoning the woman he loves. He ends his affair with Marie and attempts to salvage his marriage by planning a trip with Rita, only to cancel at the last moment. The film explores the quiet desperation of a man suffocated by convention, unable to escape the constraints of religion and social expectation that bind him to an unhappy life.