Sylvie Pialat Movies

A 2003 documentary by Serge Toubiana and Sonia Buchman that catches up with the cast and location of Maurice Pialat's 'Passe ton bac d'abord'.

Mauritius. A love story begins between Pierre, a local employee, and Louise, a French tourist suffering from anorexia. He shows her another side of...

A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.

Maria raises her two sons, Ryan and Dario, on her own. The three of them run the shooting stand at a small traveling fair. After a motorcycle ride...

Anticipating eviction from her retirement home after the death of her son and sole provider, rebellious septuagenarian Émilie decides to take...

A Chinese couple, divorced for ten years, meet again in Paris to arrange the funeral of their only son. In this country that is completely foreign to...

In the tough neighborhood of Tepito, a boy faces the great Mexican dream: becoming a boxing champion.

Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for...

Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive...

Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the...

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the...

A devoted father working in film shares a magical bond with his daughter, but as she enters adolescence and falls into addiction, he takes her to...

Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.

In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that...

An American funeral director is recruited to a job in Paris.

A Jewish teenager manages to escape from the Nazis and finds refuge in the mountains where he takes part in an organized resistance movement along...

Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime...

In the 1960s, Evelyne, a 14-year-old teenager, reluctantly becomes her mother's confidante, who uses her as an excuse for romantic encounters with a...

Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.

Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own...