Guy L'Ecuyer

Guy L'Ecuyer

Born: July 26, 1931
Died: September 20, 1985

Movies for Guy L'Ecuyer...

Title: À plein temps
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: TV
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Maria Chapdelaine
Title: Maria Chapdelaine
Character: Capitaine
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Au clair de la lune
Title: Au clair de la lune
Character: Albert
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
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The Lucky Star
Title: The Lucky Star
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
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Fantastica
Title: Fantastica
Character: Pompier
Released: May 7, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Title: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Character: Master Fish
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Title: J.A. Martin Photographer
Character: Raoul
Released: May 26, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Title: Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Title: Parlez-nous d'amour
Character: Le maquilleur
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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Hot Water, Cold Water
Title: Hot Water, Cold Water
Character: Panama
Released: January 4, 1976
Type: Movie
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Title: Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Lies My Father Told Me
Title: Lies My Father Told Me
Released: September 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
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Tout feu, tout femme
Title: Tout feu, tout femme
Character: Le chef de pompiers
Released: May 27, 1975
Type: Movie
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 ...
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Cold Journey
Title: Cold Journey
Released: May 6, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Une Nuit en Amérique
Title: Une Nuit en Amérique
Character: Fred
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
One night from which arise enigmatic corpses, police who understand nothing, improbable witnesses. Mysteries and inconsistencies are added to each other.
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Les vautours
Title: Les vautours
Character: Joseph Bériault, the undertaker
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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Night Cap
Title: Night Cap
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A seemingly idle guy and an unprincipled girl to whom everything seems to come easily will see their lives sealed in a brutal way.
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Bar Salon
Title: Bar Salon
Character: Charles
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
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Le temps d'une vente
Title: Le temps d'une vente
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Title: Tu brûles... tu brûles...
Character: Son père
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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The Time of the Hunt
Title: The Time of the Hunt
Character: Willy
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
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The Appearance
Title: The Appearance
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
The appearance is a satirical comedy that mocks the small Quebec people and its excessive religiosity.
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The Christmas Martian
Title: The Christmas Martian
Character: Mr. Framer
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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The Men
Title: The Men
Released: March 3, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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The Merry World of Leopold Z
Title: The Merry World of Leopold Z
Character: Léopold Z. Tremblay
Released: November 19, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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La Corde au cou
Title: La Corde au cou
Character: Bozo
Released: November 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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Les 90 Jours
Title: Les 90 Jours
Character: Albert Métivier
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Il était une guerre
Title: Il était une guerre
Character: Réal, le soldat paniqué
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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.