Maurice Pialat Movies

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...

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

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

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

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.

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