Biography: Gilles Carle |
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Cast: Michael Biehn
Length: 95min
In this period thriller set near the turn of the century, Jan Thoreau (Gabriel Arcand) is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie (Alexandra Vandernoot) in a small community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake (Michael Biehn) is...
Length: 100min
Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and...
The Other Side of the Law (1995)
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow
Length: 100min
In this tale of drama and adventure based on a novel by James Oliver Curwood, a man becomes obsessed with revenge after his wife is sexually assaulted by another man. He kills the rapist, but soon finds he's wanted by the law, and spends the next ten...
Length: 97min
In this home-grown sex farce that takes place in a small Quebec town just before the commencement of World War II, a trio of very handsome and willing women show that they are able to suffer almost any indignity in their quest to satisfy their men...
Tags: Social History Spirituality & Philosophy Mythology Religions & Belief Systems
Length: 72min
In this largely French-language documentary, the genesis of North American (Canadian and U.S.) ideas of the devil is explored. Among those interviewed are rural priests and learned scholars in the U.S. and Canada. Some allege that the purpose of this...
Length: 93min
The heroine of this action film is an airline pilot who used to be an aerial acrobat who dresses like a high-fashion model. Her two children have been killed by a drunk driver who practices voodoo on the side. The voodoo alcoholic is married to an...
Length: 84min
The title of this documentary, Quebec, Une Ville literally translates as "Quebec, a city." However, one suspects that something has been lost in that translation. This film explores the past and present of that most troublesome of Canadian provinces...
Cast: Gilles Carle Nick Mancuso Carole Laure Claude Rich Jean-Pierre Aumont Jean Richard
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama Romance
Length: 108min
Strict behavior codes and the struggle to eke out a living provide a backdrop to this romantic drama set at the turn of the 20th century in rural, northern Quebec. Maria Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) returns to the home of her parents in a remote...
Tags: Sports & Recreation Biography
Length: 79min
Chess and the best players of the game are the focus of this video which examines and analyzes players such as Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi and Bobby Fischer. ~ All Movie Guide
Cast: Stéphane Audran Daniel Ceccaldi Emile Genest
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 237min
The Plouffe Family, aka Les Plouffe, is a Canadian assault to the kidneys directed by Quebec's "critic's darling" Gilles Carle. The film covers seven years (1938 through 1945) in the lives of the French/Canadian Plouffe clan. Emile Genest is the one...
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