Maurice Pialat Movies

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments – Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian...

A self-centered man with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son and the boy's mother.

Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for...

Filmed in Paris in 1964, this documentary short follows two fifteen-year-old girls from the city’s 16th arrondissement as they move through...

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The...

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...

Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina, who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the...

In Noirmoutier, Agnès Varda shoots her eighth film, Les Créatures, starring Catherine Deneuve, under the watchful eye of Maurice Pialat.

Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood).

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)

A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.

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

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against...

In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he...

A report celebrating Lyon, a young and vibrant city that has managed to preserve the vestiges of its ancient past.

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