Guy L'Ecuyer
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 26, 1931
Deathday: September 20, 1985
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Tout feu, tout femme
1975-05-27
Tout feu, tout femme
Overview: Tout feu, tout femme tells how Isabelle, a nursery instructor and, above all, a student in Psychology, does everything to cure François, a firefighter by profession, of his unhealthy fear of women. How does she go about it? ... Why not surround her with pretty girls to divide her fear? His plans are so successful that ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-27
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Il était une guerre
1959-02-01
Il était une guerre
Overview: 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 factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Lies My Father Told Me
1975-09-26
Lies My Father Told Me
Overview: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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The Christmas Martian
1971-12-01
The Christmas Martian
Overview: A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.
Genres: Family Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1978-12-01
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Overview: Nobody ever listens to Jacob, so he always has to repeat himself. A trip to the grocery store leads to a misunderstanding and Jacob falls asleep hiding in a park. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in trouble for insulting the store clerk. He is sent to a prison for children that is located on Slimer's Island and is run by the Hooded Fang, an ex-wrestler who outwardly hates children. Meanwhile, Child Power representatives the Intrepid Shapiro and Fearless O'Toole try to find the prison's hidden location to help free the children.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Time of the Hunt
1972-10-06
The Time of the Hunt
Overview: A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Moonshine
1983-03-03
Moonshine
Overview: A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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The Men
1971-03-03
The Men
Overview: Two incredibly primitive backwoods types have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy arises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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Bar Salon
1974-01-01
Bar Salon
Overview: Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Appearance
1972-03-17
The Appearance
Overview: The appearance is a satirical comedy that mocks the small Quebec people and its excessive religiosity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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The Merry World of Leopold Z
1965-11-19
The Merry World of Leopold Z
Overview: On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Gilles Carle (The Death of a Lumberjack), The Merry World of Leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-19
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The Lucky Star
1982-05-28
The Lucky Star
Overview: In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Cold Journey
1975-05-06
Cold Journey
Overview: In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Trois fois passera
1973-02-02
Trois fois passera
Overview: The story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For these three Quebecers are, in a way, us, as we have been rendered by a society in search of itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-02
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Hot Dogs
1980-09-26
Hot Dogs
Overview: Mr. Clean is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Night Cap
1974-01-01
Night Cap
Overview: A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
1976-10-08
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Overview: In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the US with his ditzy girl friend and another couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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La Corde au cou
1965-11-04
La Corde au cou
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-04
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
1973-04-12
Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Overview: A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of fantasy, imagination, and visual and sound gags.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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J.A. Martin Photographer
1977-05-26
J.A. Martin Photographer
Overview: The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Les 90 Jours
1959-01-01
Les 90 Jours
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Une Nuit en Amérique
1975-04-16
Une Nuit en Amérique
Overview: One night from which arise enigmatic corpses, police who understand nothing, improbable witnesses. Mysteries and inconsistencies are added to each other.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Parlez-nous d'amour
1976-09-23
Parlez-nous d'amour
Overview: A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Maria Chapdelaine
1983-04-27
Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
1976-01-13
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Overview: A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-13
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Les vautours
1975-03-20
Les vautours
Overview: Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Fantastica
1980-05-07
Fantastica
Overview: In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-07
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Le temps d'une vente
1974-01-01
Le temps d'une vente
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
1976-01-04
A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
Overview: In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Élisa 5 ou les inquiétudes d'Élisa
1972-01-01
Élisa 5 ou les inquiétudes d'Élisa
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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