Gilles Carle Movies

Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been...

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...

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...

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)...

A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and...

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

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

A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his...

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...

Gilles Carle, the prolific director of such movies as La vraie nature de Bernadette and Maria Chapdelaine, has been struggling against Parkinsons...

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...

Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a...

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

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

On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The feature...

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...

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

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the...

When a sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for...

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...