Claude Jutra Movies

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

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...

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.

This feature-length documentary brings together six of the rare television interviews given by Gilles Groulx between 1966 and 1983. Through these...

Ada was a brilliant and crazy girl before her lobotomy. Afterwards she becomes stupid and easily controlled. A friend on the inside tries to help her...

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.

Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s,...

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of...

When a sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for...

Short film about the underground part, both geographical and social, of the city of Montreal, through the obsession of a business magnate for a young...

In this French Canadian film, the lives of teenagers are examined in fantasy sequences and through the use of documentary interviews. Prompted by...

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning...

An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger in Niamey, during a ritual...

This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned...