Maurice Pialat Movies

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

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

In Brittany, facing the strongest tides in Europe, the world's first tidal power plant is being built. A documentary also known as The Rance Tidal...

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

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

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.