Maurice Pialat Movies

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

During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is...

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire,...

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked...

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.

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)

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

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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