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...

This short documentary profiles Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal in 1959. The annual parade takes place every June 24th in memory of...

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love...

A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Ian Tracey plays 11-year-old Peter, who is plagued by demons and sent to an institution for setting fires. Peter escapes and hops a freight train...

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

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

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...

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...

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

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

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