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.

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...

The life of the world's most famous avenue, day and night, as told by Maurice Pialat and Georges de Caunes.

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The...