Here is a short list of some movies shot in the Montreal metro:

Title	Year	Director	Actors	Station(s)
Sonatine	1984	Micheline Lanctôt	Pascale Bussières	Henri-Bourassa Plamondon
Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal)	1989	Denys Arcand	Lothaire Bluteau	Place-Saint-Henri
Joyeux calvaire	1996	Denys Arcand	Lorne Brass	LaSalle
The Jackal	1997	Michael Caton-Jones	Richard Gere, Bruce Willis	Lionel-Groulx Radisson
C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux	1998	Denise Filiatrault	Ginette Reno	Beaudry McGill Place-des-Arts Jean-Drapeau
Maelström	2000	Denis Villeneuve	Marie-Josée Croze	Acadie
Les dangereux	2002	Louis Saïa	Stéphane Rousseau, Véronique Cloutier	unknown
Levity	2002	Ed Solomon	Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst	unknown
Recyclage	2004	Pierre Anthian	Bernard Fortin, Geneviève Rioux	Berri-UQAM

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Richard Gere and Bruce Willis in The Jackal
Images (c)1997 Universal City Studios Inc.
Ginette Reno and Pierrette Robitaille in C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux
Images (c)1997 Cinémaginaire

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The metro has run all night on only two occasions:

• 3 March 1971, due to the Blizzard of the Century;
• 31 December 1999, to serve revellers celebrating the turn of the millennium.

Two million people used the metro on 11 September 1984 to see the Pope in Jarry Park.

The metro's characteristic peanut smell is the oil used to treat the trains' brake shoes.

The brake shoes for the metro trains are made of solid, Quebec-grown yellow birch. To reduce scorching and wear on the shoes, they are treated with peanut oil, which has a very high burning point (so high, in fact, that used brake shoes cannot be incinerated.) What you smell, then, is hot peanut oil.

In recent years, to further improve efficiency, the braking routine has been changed, and the engines are now adjusted to brake more easily and reduce wear on the shoes. The smell has therefore reduced in intensity.

In the metro, there are...

71 trains at rush hour 606 train cars at rush hour 6000 support tires 6000 guide tires

290 escalators 2 moving sidewalks 681 turnstiles 275 transfer machines

400 ticket takers 150 janitors 160 surveillance officers 286 train operators

300 km of rails 50 000 rolling parts 190 switchers 120 000 guide rail insulators

and much more...