Screenplay: Gilles Carle

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


L'âge de la machine

1977 · Movie · 28 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Gabriel Arcand · Sylvie Lachance · Willie Lamothe · Jean-Pierre Saulnier

Plot In 1933, a policeman have to bring back a prisoner from Senneterre in Abittibi to Montreal in the south of the province of Quebec. He soon find out that his...

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Maria Chapdelaine

1983 · Movie · 107 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Carole Laure · Nick Mancuso · Claude Rich · Amulette Garneau

Plot A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and...

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Les Plouffe

1981 · Movie · 227 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Gabriel Arcand · Rémi Laurent · Pierre Curzi · Juliette Huot

Plot The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

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Fantastica

1980 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Carole Laure · Lewis Furey · Serge Reggiani · Claudine Auger

Plot In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an...

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La guêpe

1986 · Movie · 93 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Chloé Sainte-Marie · Warren Peace · Donald Pilon · Ethne Grimes

Plot A young pilot witnesses the unintentional murder of her two sons (by a rich, drunken couple driving carelessly) and, following a court's decision not to press criminal charges, she decides...

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La vie heureuse de Léopold Z

1965 · Movie · 68 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Guy L'Ecuyer · Paul Hébert · Suzanne Valéry · Monique Joly

Plot A worker, called in a hurry to remove the snow in the city street, try to buy his remaining gifts in the tumult of Christmas eve without quitting his work.

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Equinox

1986 · Movie · 83 min. · Canada

Direction Arthur Lamothe

Cast Jacques Godin · Marthe Mercure · Ariane Frédérique · André Melançon

Plot An unjustly condemned man released from prison after having served his sentence reunites with his granddaughter, taking her on a tense journey to the island of his youth and the...

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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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Red the Half Breed

1970 · Movie · 103 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Daniel Pilon · Geneviève Robert · Gratien Gélinas · Fernande Giroux

Plot A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who...

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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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Moi, j'me fais mon cinéma

1999 · Documentary · 75 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Plot The filmmaker Gilles Carle evokes his life, his childhood, his work, his favorite actors and women he loved. He also tells her fantasies and the influences it has undergone.

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The Postmistress

1992 · Movie · 97 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Chloé Sainte-Marie · Nicolas François Rives · Steve Gendron · Michèle Richard

Plot In 1935, in a Quebec village, a boy observes with curiosity the little intrigues of the adult world.

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The True Nature of Bernadette

1972 · Movie · 115 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Micheline Lanctôt · Donald Pilon · Reynald Bouchard · Robert Rivard

Plot A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against...

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Percé on the Rocks (S)

1964 · Documentary · 10 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Plot An ironical look at the little tourist town of Percé and its natural rock formation. Three young women go through the place making fun of the summer people but also...

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O Picasso

1985 · Documentary · 81 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle · Camille Coudari

Cast Chloé Sainte-Marie · Fernando Arrabal · Pascal Aubier · Salvador Dalí

Plot A look at the life and works of Picasso.

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The Death of a Lumberjack

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Carole Laure · Willie Lamothe · Daniel Pilon · Pauline Julien

Plot Marie Chapdelaine leaves her rural Quebec village and travels to Montreal to find her estranged lumberjack father who disappeared seven years ago. She meets Armand St-Amour, a former friend of...

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L'ange et la femme

1977 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Carole Laure · Lewis Furey · Jean Comptois · Joe Elsnor

Plot Love story between a woman who is brutally murdered and the angel who resurrects her.

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In Trouble

1968 · Movie · 85 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Julie Lachapelle · Jack Cohen · Katerine Mousseau · Daniel Pilon

Plot A sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried; her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their...

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Les mâles

1971 · Movie · 113 min. · Canada

Direction Gilles Carle

Cast Donald Pilon · René Blouin · Andrée Pelletier · Katerine Mousseau

Plot A student and a woodcutter living in the wood since a year and a half, lacking a woman, kidnapped a nurse working in the near village. Well, she didn't dislike...

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