Maurice Pialat Movies

Images of Parisian department stores serve as a backdrop for commentary portraying the coquettish Parisian woman.

Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with...

A Catholic holiday in a rural village in Auzelles, the filmmaker's native region in the Massif Central.

Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of...

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative...

The life of the world's most famous avenue, day and night, as told by Maurice Pialat and Georges de Caunes.

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.