Maurice Pialat Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...