Maurice Pialat Movies

Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratche...

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury t...

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

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

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)

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acqu...

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

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault,...

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. Composed over 36 y...

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

Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which r...

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.