Michel Brault

1

Le direct avant la lettre

Jan 01, 2006

Le direct avant la lettre

2006 137 min 1 vues

Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new way of making cinema was born at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. This film relevantly retraces the history of a collective movement which revolutionized production and filming methods in Quebec and the world.

Documentary

1

Québec...?

Jan 01, 1967

Québec...?

1967 28 min 1 vues

Ce court métrage documentaire est un fascinant portrait du Québec urbain et rural à la fin des années 1960, alors que la province fait son entrée dans la modernité. L’œuvre collective réalisée pour le ministère de l’Industrie et du Commerce du Québec fait appel à plusieurs figures québécoises majeures, dont Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx et Gérald Godin.

Documentary

1

La beauté du geste

Feb 21, 2004

La beauté du geste

2004 97 min 1 vues

A documentary about the act of filmmaking.

Documentary

6

Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

May 30, 2002

Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

2002 83 min 2 vues

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion. Amidst the rise of French-Canadian identity and the political struggles of the '60s, Jutra was at the forefront of a group of artists dedicated to social change and attacking taboo.

Documentary

6.1

Capturing Reality

Nov 01, 2008

Capturing Reality

2008 90 min 8 vues

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?

Documentary

1

Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche

Jan 01, 1959

Télesphore Légaré, garde-pêche

1959 137 min 1 vues

Documentary

1

Fred Barry comédien

Jan 01, 1959

Fred Barry comédien

1959 30 min 1 vues

Documentary

5.8

Seul ou avec d'autres

Apr 12, 1962

Seul ou avec d'autres

1962 64 min 4 vues

Documentary

7.4

Pour la suite du monde

Aug 04, 1963

Pour la suite du monde

1963 106 min 15 vues

Documentary

7.4

Les ordres

Sep 27, 1974

Les ordres

1974 109 min 21 vues

Drama

4.2

Les noces de papier

Jan 01, 1989

Les noces de papier

1989 95 min 9 vues

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

Drama

5

Montréal vu par…

Nov 08, 1991

Montréal vu par…

1991 125 min 9 vues

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

Comedy

6.3

Rouli-roulant

Jul 01, 1966

Rouli-roulant

1966 15 min 10 vues

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.

Documentary

5.3

Mon amie Max

Nov 01, 1994

Mon amie Max

1994 106 min 6 vues

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?

Drama

7.2

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore

Mar 13, 1999

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore

1999 126 min 6 vues

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?

Action

7.2

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore

Mar 13, 1999

Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore

1999 126 min 6 vues

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?

Action

6.5

Geneviève

Oct 01, 1964

Geneviève

1964 28 min 8 vues

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.

Drama

5.6

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

Aug 12, 1967

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

1967 85 min 8 vues

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.

Drama

5.6

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

Aug 12, 1967

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

1967 85 min 8 vues

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.

Drama

5.6

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

Aug 12, 1967

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

1967 85 min 8 vues

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love.

Drama

5.6

Les raquetteurs

Jan 01, 1958

Les raquetteurs

1958 15 min 11 vues

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

Documentary

6

Les enfants du silence

Jan 01, 1962

Les enfants du silence

1962 24 min 1 vues

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style and intimate approach to the subject, the film focuses on the human rather than the technical side of the problem of hearing impairment.

Documentary

6.7

L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?

May 12, 1971

L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?

1971 118 min 3 vues

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people.

Documentary

6

Éloge du chiac

Jan 01, 1969

Éloge du chiac

1969 27 min 4 vues

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Documentary

6.4

La lutte

Jan 01, 1961

La lutte

1961 28 min 8 vues

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.

Documentary

6

Le beau plaisir

Jan 01, 1968

Le beau plaisir

1968 15 min 1 vues

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Documentary

6.1

Le temps perdu

Jan 01, 1964

Le temps perdu

1964 27 min 8 vues

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Documentary

4.1

Louisiane

Jan 25, 1984

Louisiane

1984 186 min 4 vues

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Drama

6.5

Québec-U.S.A. ou L'invasion pacifique

Mar 31, 1962

Québec-U.S.A. ou L'invasion pacifique

1962 27 min 2 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Documentary

5.8

Les mains nettes

Jan 01, 1958

Les mains nettes

1958 73 min 4 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Drama

6.3

C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand

Jun 18, 1987

C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand

1987 93 min 3 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Adventure

1

Salut Victor

Sep 24, 1989

Salut Victor

1989 83 min 1 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Drama

6

La Quarantaine

May 26, 1982

La Quarantaine

1982 105 min 1 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Comedy

6

Marie-Christine

Apr 07, 1970

Marie-Christine

1970 10 min 1 vues

Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.

Drama

1

Le Temps de l'avant

Apr 11, 1975

Le Temps de l'avant

1975 87 min 1 vues

Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young woman.

Drama

5.7

Les enfants de Néant

Apr 11, 1968

Les enfants de Néant

1968 45 min 3 vues

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant that has just opened where he enters a world of rote work. Fortunately he can go home to his farm every evening, far from the large urban centers where workers must usually live.

Documentary

6

Les enfants du silence

Jan 01, 1962

Les enfants du silence

1962 24 min 1 vues

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style and intimate approach to the subject, the film focuses on the human rather than the technical side of the problem of hearing impairment.

Documentary

5.3

À tout prendre

Aug 09, 1963

À tout prendre

1963 99 min 9 vues

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

Drama

6.7

L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?

May 12, 1971

L'Acadie, l'Acadie?!?

1971 118 min 3 vues

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people.

Documentary

7.4

Les ordres

Sep 27, 1974

Les ordres

1974 109 min 21 vues

In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people.

Drama

1

Le bras de levier et la rivière

Jan 01, 1973

Le bras de levier et la rivière

1973 26 min 1 vues

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of the lever in some applications of everyday life.

Documentary

6

Éloge du chiac

Jan 01, 1969

Éloge du chiac

1969 27 min 4 vues

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Documentary

7.4

Pour la suite du monde

Aug 04, 1963

Pour la suite du monde

1963 106 min 15 vues

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Documentary

5.7

Les enfants de Néant

Apr 11, 1968

Les enfants de Néant

1968 45 min 3 vues

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant that has just opened where he enters a world of rote work. Fortunately he can go home to his farm every evening, far from the large urban centers where workers must usually live.

Documentary

1

Le canot à Renald à Thomas

Jan 01, 1980

Le canot à Renald à Thomas

1980 58 min 1 vues

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional fashion, all the more remarkable because no blueprint is used. The film does not merely record a building tradition, it reveals the character of the craftsmen, who are influenced by a pre-industrial way of life underscored by spontaneity and wit.

Documentary

7.5

Les inconnus de la terre

Oct 02, 1992

Les inconnus de la terre

1992 41 min 1 vues

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which the makers unashamedly appear themselves. They include an interview with a lonely shepherd and one with three unmarried brothers who try to run the parental farm for better or worse. Notwithstanding the fact that this mode of interviewing has now become classical, les inconnus de la terre works rather refreshingly. The film is more than just an enumeration of problems. In an honest way it shows the ties of those involved to the land and to nature, in addition to being a plea for the modernization of French agriculture.

Documentary

5.6

Les raquetteurs

Jan 01, 1958

Les raquetteurs

1958 15 min 11 vues

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

Documentary

1

A Day in June

Jan 01, 1958

A Day in June

1958 23 min 1 vues

This short documentary profiles Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal in 1959. The annual parade takes place every June 24th in memory of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the patron saint of Québec. Candid shots of youngsters preparing their costumes for the festivities are partnered with a lively jazz soundtrack. All the Montrealers and out-of-town tourists featured in this film avidly participate in a public festivity that is dear to their hearts.

Documentary

1

Festival in Puerto Rico

Feb 07, 1961

Festival in Puerto Rico

1961 28 min 1 vues

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government. Part concert film, part tourism film, Festival in Puerto Rico offers viewers candid glimpses of mid-20th century Puerto Rico intercut with performance footage of Forrester and her husband, violinist-conductor Eugene Kash.

Documentary

5.7

Mourir à tue-tête

Sep 14, 1979

Mourir à tue-tête

1979 96 min 6 vues

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government. Part concert film, part tourism film, Festival in Puerto Rico offers viewers candid glimpses of mid-20th century Puerto Rico intercut with performance footage of Forrester and her husband, violinist-conductor Eugene Kash.

Drama

7.4

Un pays sans bon sens!

Nov 26, 1970

Un pays sans bon sens!

1970 117 min 8 vues

Essay-film on a crucial issue: the notion of belonging to a country. Lingered sentimentalism or deep psychological reality if one believes it is rooted in the heart of man? The action here takes place in the context of a nation that seeks: the French Canadians, and other people without a country: the Indians of Quebec, the Bretons of France. And here is the fundamental question posed: what are the "viable" peoples whose "maturity" allows them to "give" the autonomy and territory? And what is the environment that people can call "their country"?

Documentary

6.5

Québec-U.S.A. ou L'invasion pacifique

Mar 31, 1962

Québec-U.S.A. ou L'invasion pacifique

1962 27 min 2 vues

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.

Documentary

1

Tickets s.v.p

Jan 01, 1973

Tickets s.v.p

1973 9 min 1 vues

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger. The passenger appears on screen himself to describe his bid to have tickets requested in French as well as in English. What ensued, and how even the railway president became involved, is illustrated with wit and humor.

Animation

5.6

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

Aug 12, 1967

Entre la mer et l'eau douce

1967 85 min 8 vues

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger. The passenger appears on screen himself to describe his bid to have tickets requested in French as well as in English. What ensued, and how even the railway president became involved, is illustrated with wit and humor.

Drama

7

Golden Gloves

Jan 01, 1961

Golden Gloves

1961 28 min 2 vues

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx film shows three Montreal boxers in training. In behind-the-scenes interviews they talk about their ambitions and what prompted them to take up the sport. - NFB

Documentary

5.5

Entre tu et vous

Mar 31, 1970

Entre tu et vous

1970 65 min 4 vues

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx film shows three Montreal boxers in training. In behind-the-scenes interviews they talk about their ambitions and what prompted them to take up the sport. - NFB

Drama

6

Le beau plaisir

Jan 01, 1968

Le beau plaisir

1968 15 min 1 vues

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Documentary

7.3

Les bons débarras

Feb 28, 1980

Les bons débarras

1980 120 min 13 vues

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Drama

1

Le son des français d'Amérique

Nov 01, 1974

Le son des français d'Amérique

1974 757 min 1 vues

27 shorts films about francophone traditional music in America.

Documentary

1

Seven Surprizes

Jan 01, 1963

Seven Surprizes

1963 77 min 1 vues

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars in Your Life," "Corral," "Wrestling," and "Neighbors."

1

Mouvement perpétuel

Aug 22, 1949

Mouvement perpétuel

1949 15 min 1 vues

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman.

1

Mouvement perpétuel

Aug 22, 1949

Mouvement perpétuel

1949 15 min 1 vues

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman.

1

Mouvement perpétuel

Aug 22, 1949

Mouvement perpétuel

1949 15 min 1 vues

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman.

7.4

Pour la suite du monde

Aug 04, 1963

Pour la suite du monde

1963 106 min 15 vues

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman.

Documentary

1

Poussière sur la ville

May 03, 1968

Poussière sur la ville

1968 93 min 1 vues

A doctor living in a small mining town discovers that his dissatisfied young wife is having an affair with a truck driver.

Drama

1

Les Montréalistes

Jan 01, 1965

Les Montréalistes

1965 28 min 1 vues

Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montreal of today.

Documentary

1

Le bras de levier et la rivière

Jan 01, 1973

Le bras de levier et la rivière

1973 26 min 1 vues

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of the lever in some applications of everyday life.

Documentary

1

Félix Leclerc, troubadour

Jan 01, 1959

Félix Leclerc, troubadour

1959 27 min 1 vues

In the film, produced for the series "Young Scientists", for the CBC, a group of young people on vacation share the discovery of the application of the lever in some applications of everyday life.

Documentary

6.4

La lutte

Jan 01, 1961

La lutte

1961 28 min 8 vues

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.

Documentary

6.4

La lutte

Jan 01, 1961

La lutte

1961 28 min 8 vues

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.

Documentary

1

La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes

Aug 19, 1964

La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes

1964 80 min 1 vues

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.

Drama

7.2

Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

Oct 20, 1961

Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

1961 91 min 102 vues

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.

Documentary

5

Montréal vu par…

Nov 08, 1991

Montréal vu par…

1991 125 min 9 vues

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.

Comedy

5.8

Sans pitié

Dec 19, 1986

Sans pitié

1986 106 min 175 vues

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.

Action

5.2

Threshold

Sep 19, 1981

Threshold

1981 97 min 15 vues

Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.

Drama

6.9

Mon oncle Antoine

Nov 12, 1971

Mon oncle Antoine

1971 105 min 45 vues

Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.

Comedy

6

Normetal

Jan 01, 1960

Normetal

1960 18 min 1 vues

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community where all roads lead to the pithead. Dweller of two worlds, the copper miner's life is one of contrasts. A mile underground are the rock face, the clattering drills, the dust of explosions; above ground, all the familiar activities of a small town. - NFB

Documentary

6.3

Le temps d'une chasse

Oct 06, 1972

Le temps d'une chasse

1972 98 min 6 vues

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community where all roads lead to the pithead. Dweller of two worlds, the copper miner's life is one of contrasts. A mile underground are the rock face, the clattering drills, the dust of explosions; above ground, all the familiar activities of a small town. - NFB

Drama

6.1

Le temps perdu

Jan 01, 1964

Le temps perdu

1964 27 min 8 vues

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community where all roads lead to the pithead. Dweller of two worlds, the copper miner's life is one of contrasts. A mile underground are the rock face, the clattering drills, the dust of explosions; above ground, all the familiar activities of a small town. - NFB

Documentary

5.6

Les raquetteurs

Jan 01, 1958

Les raquetteurs

1958 15 min 11 vues

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

Documentary

1

Police

Jan 01, 1958

Police

1958 30 min 1 vues

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.

Documentary

8

La Punition

Mar 10, 1962

La Punition

1962 58 min 1 vues

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.

Drama

1

The Days Before Christmas

Jan 02, 1958

The Days Before Christmas

1958 30 min 1 vues

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

Documentary

6.1

Kamouraska

Jul 18, 1973

Kamouraska

1973 175 min 8 vues

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

Drama

1

Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

Mar 03, 2000

Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

2000 50 min 1 vues

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

Documentary

1

Alfred DesRochers, poète

Jan 01, 1960

Alfred DesRochers, poète

1960 137 min 1 vues

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

Documentary

6

Éloge du chiac

Jan 01, 1969

Éloge du chiac

1969 27 min 4 vues

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Documentary

7.4

Les ordres

Sep 27, 1974

Les ordres

1974 109 min 21 vues

Taking the form of a conversation between a young teacher at a French school in Moncton and her students, the film shows how hard it is for francophones to preserve their language in a society where English is everywhere and has been for centuries.

Drama

1

Préambule

Jan 01, 1969

Préambule

1969 19 min 1 vues

History

1

Un cri au bonheur

Sep 28, 2007

Un cri au bonheur

2007 91 min 1 vues

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.

Documentary

7.2

Dead Man Out

Mar 12, 1989

Dead Man Out

1989 87 min 4 vues

A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.

Crime

6.1

La tête de Normande St-Onge

Oct 30, 1975

La tête de Normande St-Onge

1975 117 min 9 vues

A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.

Drama

1

Shabbot Shalom!

Sep 04, 1992

Shabbot Shalom!

1992 82 min 1 vues

The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.

Comedy

1

À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre

Sep 05, 1962

À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre

1962 27 min 1 vues

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.

Documentary

6

Festival Panafricain d'Alger

Jan 01, 1969

Festival Panafricain d'Alger

1969 110 min 2 vues

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.

Documentary

8

Le jeu de l'hiver

Jan 01, 1962

Le jeu de l'hiver

1962 14 min 1 vues

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot change. From tiny tots to human polar bears the film leaves no doubt that, in the eyes of many Canadians, winter may offer more attractions than summer.

Documentary

1

Jour de juin

Jan 01, 1959

Jour de juin

1959 137 min 1 vues

Documentary

1

Les p'tites vues

Jun 27, 2007

Les p'tites vues

2007 min 1 vues

A series that features footage shot by amateur Quebec filmmakers from the 1920’s to the 60’s.

Documentary