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 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.

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

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...

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...