Maurice Pialat Movies

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Pialat roams Pigalle, a two-faced neighborhood frequented at night by cabaret patrons and during the day by local residents.