Guy L'Écuyer

Amuse-gueule (1984)

Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction. ...

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 ...

Moonshine (1983)

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino. ...

The Lucky Star (1982)

In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs. ...

Hot Dogs (1980)

Mr. Clean is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force. ...

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 ...

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978)

Nobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sen ...

J.A. Martin Photographer (1977)

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage. ...

Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie (1976)

In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple. ...

Talk About Love (1976)

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows. ...

La fleur aux dents (1976)

Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang… (1976)

A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think. ...

A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (1976)

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer. ...

Lies My Father Told Me (1975)

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work. ...

Tout feu, tout femme (1975)

Tout feu, tout femme tells how Isabelle, a nursery instructor and, above all, a student in Psychology, does everything to cure François, a firefighter by profession, of his unhealthy fear of women. How does she go about it? ... Why not surround her with p ...

Cold Journey (1975)

In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry. ...

Une Nuit en Amérique (1975)

One night from which arise enigmatic corpses, police who understand nothing, improbable witnesses. Mysteries and inconsistencies are added to each other. ...

Les vautours (1975)

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. ...

Bar Salon (1974)

Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood. ...

Night Cap (1974)

A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way. ...

Le temps d'une vente (1974)

Tu brûles... tu brûles... (1973)

A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father's pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags. ...

Trois fois passera (1973)

The story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For ...

The Time of the Hunt (1972)

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip. ...

The Appearance (1972)

The appearance is a satirical comedy that mocks the small Quebec people and its excessive religiosity. ...

Élisa 5 ou les inquiétudes d'Élisa (1972)

The Christmas Martian (1971)

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Rope Around the Neck (1965)

A misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife. ...

Il était une guerre (1959)

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, ...

Les 90 Jours (1959)

Moonshine (1983)

A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino. ...