Jacques Godbout Movies
- 1975
The Mob
The Mob6.71975HD
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000...
- 1966
YUL 871
YUL 8715.7141966HD
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...
- 1978
Derrière l'image
Derrière l'image01978HD
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...
- 2000
Traitor or Patriot
Traitor or Patriot02000HD
This feature documentary is a portrait of Adélard Godbout, the largely forgotten man who was Premier of Quebec from 1939 to 1944. During his...
- 1962
September Five at Saint-Henri
September Five at Saint-Henri01962HD
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...
- 1964
Huit témoins
Huit témoins01964HD
Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency through the stories of eight young people who...
- 1968
Kid Sentiment
Kid Sentiment5.51968HD
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...
- 1967
Urbanissimo
Urbanissimo61967HD
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...
- 1994
L'affaire Norman William
L'affaire Norman William01994HD
- 1964
Fabienne sans son Jules
Fabienne sans son Jules01964HD
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...
- 1974
Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Les « troubbes » de Johnny01974HD
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...
- 1992
The Black Sheep
The Black Sheep71992HD
From coast to coast, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Jacques Godbout films a documentary chronicle of the political...
- 1972
IXE-13
IXE-135.61972HD
A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him.
- 1988
Alias Will James
Alias Will James01988HD
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...
- 1997
The Fate of America
The Fate of America01997HD
Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose...
- 1963
Rose et Landry
Rose et Landry01963HD
A young African couple discusses the influence of the West on their traditions. They discuss at length love, polygamy, bourgeois marriage, the...
- 1979
Feu l'objectivité
Feu l'objectivité01979HD
Investigation into political journalism in Quebec. Mainly focusing on English-speaking journalists in the press gallery at the National Assembly and...
- 2000
Anne Hébert, 1916-2000
Anne Hébert, 1916-200002000HD
Jacques Godbout takes us into the world of Anne Hébert, a woman he considered his spiritual sister and who had only one raison...
- 1987
Last Resort
Last Resort01987HD
This feature length documentary by Jacques Godbout tackles a topic all too rarely explored in the media: terrorism in Canadian society. From Montreal...
- 1979
Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin
Two Episodes from the Life of Hubert Aquin01979HD
Documentary on the life of Hubert Aquin. Alive, he was a dazzling and extraordinary character. Dead, he is already legendary. From his legend,...