Gilles Carle Movies

In a lonely setting, a teenage girl dreams. She is bored, manifests childish rebellions: her nascent personality rears up and asserts itself. "Be our...

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.

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...

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...

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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