Gilles Groulx Movies

A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it.

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN,...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the...

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

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

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

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose...

This experimental feature-length drama by Gilles Groulx follows three main characters who embody different attitudes about consumerism. A window onto...

A road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal....

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier...

This short 1964 documentary depicts the national sport of French Canadians: hockey. Seen "from the inside" this seemingly simple game turns out to be...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the...

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war...

The 4,000 inhabitants of the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon describe it as a caillou—a tiny rock on which they live, lost in the...