Cinematography: Jean-Claude Labrecque

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Jean-Claude Labrecque. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Apprentice

1971 · Movie · 81 min. · Canada

Direction Larry Kent

Cast Steve Fiset · Susan Sarandon · Céline Bernier · Jean-Pierre Cartier

Plot In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college...

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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

1993 · Documentary · 119 min. · Canada

Direction Alanis Obomsawin

Plot This film documents the 1990 crisis when Native Americans of the Mohawk Nation blocked access to reserve land which was being appropriated against their will by the White community of...

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Feux-follets: Canada's National Folk Ensemble (S)

1966 · Documentary · 10 min. · Canada

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The Woman Who Drinks

2001 · Movie · 91 min. · Canada

Direction Bernard Émond

Cast Elise Guilbault · Luc Picard · Michel Forget · Fanny Mallette

Plot À la veille de ses derniers instants, une femme se remémore son passé d'alcoolique. Elle revoit toute sa jeunesse dont une cuite qui, à 46 ans, lui a coûté tout...

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Jusqu'au cou

1964 · Movie · 74 min. · Canada

Direction Denis Héroux

Cast Édith de Villers · Raymond Levasseur · Renée Lescop · Guy Dufresne

Plot A film lost in the excitement of the cinematographic production of its time. Funded by the Student Association of the University of Montréal (Canada), this is a film of sure...

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The Heavenly Bodies

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Donald Pilon · Micheline Lanctôt · Carole Laure · Jacques Dufilho

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

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Marie Uguay

1982 · Documentary · 56 min. · Canada

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Les maudits sauvages

1971 · Movie · 116 min. · Canada

Direction Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Cast Denis André · Rachel Cailhier · Jean-Pierre Cartier · Jacques Desnoyers

Plot A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

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Un jeu si simple

1966 · Documentary · 28 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Groulx

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Un air de famille

1963 · Documentary · 27 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Plot The everyday life of an ordinary Quebec family whose cycle is altered for a time by two unusual events, the marriage of Gilles and Suzanne and a little later a...

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André Mathieu, musicien

1993 · Documentary · 80 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Claude Labrecque

Cast Andre Mathieu · Jacques Languirand · André Gagnon · Vic Vogel

Plot Documentary that evokes the life of the pianist André Mathieu.

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60 Cycles (S)

1965 · Documentary · 17 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Claude Labrecque

Plot On your marks! Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2 400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days—a course longer than those of Italy, Belgium or Spain. The...

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Le règne du jour

1967 · Documentary · 118 min. · Canada

Direction Pierre Perrault

Cast Alexis Tremblay · Marie Tremblay · Léopold Tremblay · Marie-Paule Tremblay

Plot Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), the director 'Pierre Perrault' ask Alexis Tremblay if he agreed to travel with his wife Marie in the country of their...

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Canada the Land (S)

1969 · Documentary · 8 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Claude Labrecque · Rex Tasker

Plot A short film that shows Canada from coast to coast.

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Québec fête juin '75

1976 · Documentary · 66 min. · Canada

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Summit Circle

2007 · Movie · 89 min. · Canada

Direction Bernard Émond

Cast Guylaine Tramblay · Guy Jodoin · Gildor Roy · René-Daniel Dubois

Plot A blood-stained woman is arrested in front of a palatial home in a wealthy part of Montreal. She has just fired a hunting rifle at the house. Suffering from shock,...

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Entre la mer et l'eau douce

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault

Cast Claude Gauthier · Geneviève Bujold · Paul Gauthier · Denise Bombardier

Plot A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.

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Essai à la mille (S)

1970 · Documentary · 7 min. · Canada

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La nuit de la poésie 15 mars 1991

1991 · Documentary · 76 min. · Canada

Direction Jean-Claude Labrecque · Jean-Pierre Masse

Plot On March 15, 1991 in the Marie-Gérin-Lajoie Hall of the University of Quebec at Montreal, 20 poets take to the stage to recite their work to 3000 spectators and dozens...

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