Michel Brault Movies

  • 1958
    The Days Before Christmas

    The Days Before Christmas

    The Days Before Christmas

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    This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and...

    The Days Before Christmas
  • 1967
    Between Sweet and Salt Water

    Between Sweet and Salt Water

    Between Sweet and Salt Water

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    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.

    Between Sweet and Salt Water
  • 1964
    That Tender Age

    That Tender Age

    That Tender Age

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    A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite...

    That Tender Age
  • 1963
    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

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    At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their...

    Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
  • 1989
    Dead Man Out

    Dead Man Out

    Dead Man Out

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    A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior...

    Dead Man Out
  • 1963
    Take It All

    Take It All

    Take It All

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    A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young...

    Take It All
  • 1984
    Louisiana

    Louisiana

    Louisiana

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    Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have...

    Louisiana
  • 1971
    Acadia Acadia?!?

    Acadia Acadia?!?

    Acadia Acadia?!?

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    In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the...

    Acadia Acadia?!?
  • 1958
    Police

    Police

    Police

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    The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a...

    Police
  • 1962
    Children of Silence

    Children of Silence

    Children of Silence

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

    Children of Silence
  • 1961
    Wrestling

    Wrestling

    Wrestling

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    A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street...

    Wrestling
  • 1974
    Le son des français d'Amérique

    Le son des français d'Amérique

    Le son des français d'Amérique

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    27 shorts films about francophone traditional music in America.

    Le son des français d'Amérique
  • 1964
    The End of Summer

    The End of Summer

    The End of Summer

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    A 16 year old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Laurentians north of Montreal. She reminisces about...

    The End of Summer
  • 1958
    Washed Hands

    Washed Hands

    Washed Hands

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

    Washed Hands
  • 1962
    Visit to a Foreign Country

    Visit to a Foreign Country

    Visit to a Foreign Country

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

    Visit to a Foreign Country
  • 1959
    Jour de juin

    Jour de juin

    Jour de juin

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    Jour de juin
  • 1969
    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

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    Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all...

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
  • 2002
    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

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    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...

    Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
  • 1965
    Ville-Marie

    Ville-Marie

    Ville-Marie

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    Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film...

    Ville-Marie
  • 1962
    Alone or with Others

    Alone or with Others

    Alone or with Others

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    At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length...

    Alone or with Others