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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Solange dans nos campagnes (S)
1964 · Movie · 26 min. · Canada
Direction Gilles Carle
Cast Dominique Bourgeois · Hervé Brousseau · Paul Gélinas · Ovila Légaré
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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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