Screenplay: Michel Brault

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michel Brault. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


For Those Who Will Follow

1963 · Documentary · 105 min. · Canada

Direction Pierre Perrault · Michel Brault · Marcel Carrière

Plot At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing...

7.6

58 votes

7.6

58 votes

The Snowshoers (S)

1958 · Documentary · 14 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault · Gilles Groulx

Plot Les raquetteurs is a 1958 Direct Cinema documentary film co-directed by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx. The film explores life in rural Quebec, at a convention of snowshoers in Sherbrooke,...

6.0

38 votes

6.0

38 votes

Montreal Sextet

1991 · Movie · 125 min. · Canada

Direction Denys Arcand · Michel Brault · Atom Egoyan · Jacques Leduc

Cast Denys Arcand · Philippe Ayoub · Paule Baillargeon · Michel Barrette

Plot Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During...

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Les enfants de Néant

1968 · Documentary · 45 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault

Plot In Morbihan, one of the poorest region in the contemporary Bretagne. Joseph, a 33 years old peasant can no longer live only from the earth. He goes out to town...

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Orders

1974 · Movie · 109 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault

Cast Hélène Loiselle · Jean Lapointe · Guy Provost · Claude Gauthier

Plot A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

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L'Acadie, l'Acadie

1971 · Documentary · 118 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault · Pierre Perrault

Plot 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...

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Le beau plaisir (S)

1968 · Documentary · 15 min. · Canada

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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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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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The Long Winter

1999 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada

Direction Michel Brault

Cast Sébastien Gauthier · Martin Larocque · Frank Fontaine · Guy Héroux

Plot In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.

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