Claude Jutra Movies

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...

A UCLA student film by Steve Wax. A poetic mood piece dealing with the death of an old man's spirit of romance and self-esteem. Award winner: 1967...

Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto...

Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early...

The photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns...

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

An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.

In the early 1940's, Canada is a country at war and Florentine is a young woman, from a very poor family, looking for love. She meets two suitable...

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style...

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...

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 Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they...

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

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

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx...