Maurice Pialat Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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