Jacques Godbout Movies

  • 2000
    Traitor or Patriot

    Traitor or Patriot

    Traitor or Patriot

    02000HD

    This feature documentary is a portrait of Adélard Godbout, the largely forgotten man who was Premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944. During his...

    Traitor or Patriot
  • 1962
    September Five at Saint-Henri

    September Five at Saint-Henri

    September Five at Saint-Henri

    01962HD

    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...

    September Five at Saint-Henri
  • 1966
    YUL 871

    YUL 871

    YUL 871

    5.81966HD

    An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the...

    YUL 871
  • 1972
    IXE-13

    IXE-13

    IXE-13

    5.61972HD

    A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him.

    IXE-13
  • 1968
    Kid Sentiment

    Kid Sentiment

    Kid Sentiment

    5.51968HD

    Between fiction and documentary, Jacques Godbout's feature film takes a critical look at the Quebecois youth of the 1960s. Kid Sentiment, it is the...

    Kid Sentiment
  • 1967
    Urbanissimo

    Urbanissimo

    Urbanissimo

    61967HD

    A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours...

    Urbanissimo
  • 1962
    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

    01962HD

    This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

    Strangers for the Day
  • 1992
    The Black Sheep

    The Black Sheep

    The Black Sheep

    71992HD

    From coast to coast, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Jacques Godbout films a documentary chronicle of the political...

    The Black Sheep
  • 1988
    Alias Will James

    Alias Will James

    Alias Will James

    01988HD

    This feature-length documentary tells the incredible story of Ernest Dufault, a.k.a. Will James, a French-Canadian man who became one of the most...

    Alias Will James
  • 1975
    The Mob

    The Mob

    The Mob

    6.71975HD

    Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000...

    The Mob
  • 1978
    Derrière l'image

    Derrière l'image

    Derrière l'image

    01978HD

    This feature-length documentary analyzes television newscasts and, as a result, takes a look at the news industry as a whole. By tackling five major...

    Derrière l'image
  • 1974
    Les « troubbes » de Johnny

    Les « troubbes » de Johnny

    Les « troubbes » de Johnny

    01974HD

    A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather...

    Les « troubbes » de Johnny
  • 1979
    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin

    01979HD

    Documentary on the life of Hubert Aquin. Alive, he was a dazzling and extraordinary character. Dead, he is already legendary. From his legend,...

    Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin
  • 1987
    Last Resort

    Last Resort

    Last Resort

    01987HD

    This feature length documentary by Jacques Godbout tackles a topic all too rarely explored in the media: terrorism in Canadian society. From Montreal...

    Last Resort
  • 2000
    Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

    Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

    Anne Hébert, 1916-2000

    02000HD

    Jacques Godbout takes us into the world of Anne Hébert, a woman he considered his spiritual sister and who had only one raison...

    Anne Hébert, 1916-2000
  • 1963
    Rose et Landry

    Rose et Landry

    Rose et Landry

    01963HD

    A young African couple discusses the influence of the West on their traditions. They discuss at length love, polygamy, bourgeois marriage, the...

    Rose et Landry
  • 1997
    The Fate of America

    The Fate of America

    The Fate of America

    01997HD

    Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose...

    The Fate of America
  • 1994
    L'affaire Norman William

    L'affaire Norman William

    L'affaire Norman William

    01994HD

    L'affaire Norman William
  • 1964
    Fabienne sans son Jules

    Fabienne sans son Jules

    Fabienne sans son Jules

    01964HD

    She is a nightclub entertainer, in her way a highly successful exponent of her art, but there are moments when the admiration of her Montréal...

    Fabienne sans son Jules
  • 1982
    Un monologue Nord-Sud

    Un monologue Nord-Sud

    Un monologue Nord-Sud

    01982HD

    Un monologue Nord-Sud