Direction: Claude Jutra
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Claude Jutra. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
My Uncle Antoine
1971 · Movie · 104 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Jacques Gagnon · Lyne Champagne · Jean Duceppe · Olivette Thibault
Plot Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store...
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96 votes
6.6
96 votes
A Chairy Tale (S)
1957 · Movie · 10 min. · Canada
Direction Norman McLaren · Claude Jutra
Cast Claude Jutra
Plot A young man wishes to sit down on a plain white chair in order to read. The chair resists this whole idea strenuously. Finally the young man admits defeat and...
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292 votes
6.2
292 votes
The Wordsmith (TV)
1979 · Movie · 72 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Saul Rubinek · Jonathan Barrett · Matt Birman · Sharon Lewis
Plot Mervyn Kaplansky, a writer in Montreal aspires to sell his debut novel while navigating his relationships with his landlords Mr. and Mrs. Hersh and his love interest Molly
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Visit to a Foreign Country
1962 · Documentary · 27 min. · Canada
Direction Michel Brault · Claude Jutra
Plot 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...
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The Devil's Toy (S)
1966 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Plot This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a...
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Surfacing
1981 · Movie · 89 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Joseph Bottoms · Kathleen Beller · R.H. Thomson · Margaret Dragu
Plot A young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.
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The Beachcombers (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 30 min. · Canada
Direction Don S. Williams · Bruno Gerussi · Alan Simmonds · Rex Bromfield
Cast Bruno Gerussi · Robert Clothier · Joe Austin · Jackson Davies
Plot The adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in Gibsons, British Columbia.
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Kamouraska
1973 · Movie · 124 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Geneviève Bujold · Richard Jordan · Marcel Cuvelier · Suzie Baillargeon
Plot Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska...
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La dame en couleurs
1985 · Movie · 112 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Paule Baillargeon · Ginette Boivin · Claude Desjardins · Lisette Dufour
Plot In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this...
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Marie-Christine (S)
1970 · Movie · 10 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Geneviève Bujold · Monique Mercure
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Pour le meilleur et pour le pire
1975 · Movie · 117 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Pierre Dufresne · Jerry Fielden · Roger Garand · Marie-Maude Grenier
Plot This scathing and surreal comedy about marriage and married life is now one of the most successful fictions on the subject. However, it is very badly received, both by the...
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By Design
1982 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Patty Duke · Sara Botsford · Saul Rubinek · Sonia Zimmer
Plot A lesbian couple working as fashion designers in Canada ask their photographer to be the father of their child.
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Québec fête juin '75
1976 · Documentary · 66 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra · Jean-Claude Labrecque
Cast Jean Carignan · Yvon Deschamps · Raoul Duguay · Louise Forestier
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Wow
1970 · Documentary · 94 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Danielle Bail · Philippe Dubé · Michèle Mercure · Dave Gold
Plot Nine teenagers are interviewed about social and cultural issues and then get to act out their dreams and fantasies.
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Les mains nettes
1958 · Movie · 73 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Jean Brousseau · Monique Chailler · Teddy Burns Goulet · Micheline Guérin
Plot An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.
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Wrestling (S)
1961 · Documentary · 28 min. · Canada
Direction Michel Brault · Marcel Carrière · Claude Fournier · Claude Jutra
Plot Follows the professional wrestling scene in Montreal and observes the before, during, and after portions of a major show and the spectators who are enthralled by it.
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Take It All
1964 · Movie · 99 min. · Canada
Direction Claude Jutra
Cast Claude Jutra · Johanne Harelle · Victor Désy · Tania Fédor
Plot The liaison of a 'good family' young man with a black model. The portrait of some young intellectuals at the beginning of the sixties.
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For the Record (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 60 min. · Canada
Direction Peter Pearson · Don Haldane · Claude Jutra · Francis Mankiewicz
Cast Heath Lamberts · Mavor Moore · David Gardner · Kenneth Welsh
Plot A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially-relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most...
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