Gilles Carle

Moi j'me fais mon cinéma (1999)

Pudding chômeur (1996)

Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and misanthropes. ...

Blood of the Hunter (1995)

In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake is a disturbed drifter who has murdered a man and has found a wa ...

The Other Side of the Law (1994)

With two shots from a rifle, the life of a man and his young son are forever changed. Jurgen Prochnow stars in this chilling tale of a man who is forced to seek justice on his own after his wife is brutally raped. ...

The Postmistress (1992)

In 1935, in a Quebec village, a boy observes with curiosity the little intrigues of the adult world. ...

The Devil in America (1990)

Stories and legends about the devil in the past and actual populations of the North America. ...

50 ans (1989)

A series of very brief clips celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada. ...

Skybolt (1986)

A young pilot witnesses the unintentional murder of her two sons (by a rich, drunken couple driving carelessly) and, following a court's decision not to press criminal charges, she decides to get her revenge. ...

Maria Chapdelaine (1983)

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and Fran ...

The Great Chess Movie (1982)

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fisc ...

The Plouffe Family (1981)

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II. ...

Fantastica (1980)

In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory f ...

The Machine Age (1978)

A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage. ...

The Angel and the Woman (1977)

Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysteriou ...

La Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975)

Working as a pharmacy clerk while dreaming of escape through dance, Normande St-Onge supports a household of dependent and unstable relatives. As her efforts to protect and hold together her improvised family intensify, the pressures of exploitation, evict ...

The Heavenly Bodies (1973)

A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to establish a brothel. ...

The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, set ...

The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a r ...

The Males (1971)

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and ...

Red the Half Breed (1970)

The illegitimate son of an Indian woman and a French Canadian man leaves home and is attacked when he tries to return. ...

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (1968)

When a sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their sister. ...

The Merry World of Leopold Z (1965)

A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work. ...

The Big Swim (1964)

This short documentary shows Canada's top swimmers in training for the 1964 Olympic Games. Under the critical eye of coach Ed Healy, they practice long hours in the gym and in the pool to build strength and stamina. ...

Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun (1964)

In a lonely setting, a teenage girl dreams. She is bored, manifests childish rebellions: her nascent personality rears up and asserts itself. "Be our star," suggests a director of women's pages. What will this flight to the world of work bring to Solange? ...

Percé on the Rocks (1964)

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec's Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the most photographed natural phenomenon on Canada's East Coast. Shot in the 1960s, the film has a very psychedelic feel to it ...

The Rink (1963)

This short, silent film captures a Sunday afternoon at a community skating rink. Iconic Quebec director Gilles Carle has the camera follow toddlers learning to skate, young girls flashing their skates and boys decked out in the colours of their favourite h ...

The Big Swim (1963)

Shows Canada's top swimmers in training for the 1964 Olympic Games. In gymnasium and pool, under the critical eye of coach Ed Healy, they practise long hours to build strength and stamina. Their first test, shown in the film, was at the 1962 Canadian Swimm ...

Un air de famille (1963)

Sociological study of the Quebec family seen through two important life events, namely a marriage and a death. ...

One Sunday in Canada (1961)

One Sunday in Canada visits an Italian community in the northwest sector of Montreal, where about half of the city's 150,000 Italians live. ...

Manger (1961)

This documentary explores the economic, sociological, and cultural aspects of food systems and consumption in a major city, focusing on the disconnect between food production and consumption. ...

Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire (2005)

Gilles Carle, the prolific director of such movies as La vraie nature de Bernadette and Maria Chapdelaine, has been struggling against Parkinsons disease with dignity for about fifteen years. Based on Carles last script completed in 2000, entitled 'Mona MC ...

Moi j'me fais mon cinéma (1999)