Sous le soleil de Pialat TrailerMaurice Pialat, l'amour existe TrailerUnder the Sun of Satan Trailer
Maurice Pialat (21 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as being "realist", though many film critics acknowledge that it does not fit the traditional definition of realism.
Total trailers found: 47
01 January 1985
A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.
01 January 1964
Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television.
31 January 1969
Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood).
01 January 1964
Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire, originating in the games the soldiers would play to entertain themselves in between battles.
01 January 1951
Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
20 December 1974
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 rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
04 September 1969
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer.
16 November 1983
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs.
03 September 1980
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
30 October 1991
After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health.
22 January 1969
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
04 September 1985
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs.
30 May 2007
A documentary about the life and career of Maurice Pialat produced by his widow, the accomplished film producer Sylvie Pialat.
14 December 1982
Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
01 January 1958
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 New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots.
01 August 1987
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
08 May 1974
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline.
03 May 1972
Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
31 October 1995
A self-centered man with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son and the boy's mother.
14 September 1978
A slice of life of a group of young working class friends in a Northern French village coming to the end of their school years and embarking upon adult life.
11 February 1960
An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments- Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian freedom and widened class gaps.
31 December 1958
Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for Pialat, a psychological/gothic thriller of sorts.
01 January 1962
During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is enamored of the prostitute he was with earlier in the evening.
31 January 1983
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn )
28 June 2006
Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina, who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event.
01 January 1957
Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with his coworkers.
11 February 1976
In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud).
18 October 2021
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 to achieve it.
01 January 1966
A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.
01 January 1964
Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color.
01 January 1964
All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it.
01 January 1965
In Noirmoutier, Agnès Varda shoots her eighth film, Les Créatures, starring Catherine Deneuve, under the watchful eye of Maurice Pialat.
27 August 1964
Filmed in Paris in 1964, this documentary short follows two fifteen-year-old girls from the city’s 16th arrondissement as they move through leisure, conversation, and social encounters.
01 January 1965
A quick look at Auvers-sur-Oise, the place where Vincent Van Gogh spent the final months of his life and where he and his brother were both buried.
01 January 1964
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 images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul.
01 January 1964
La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance.
01 January 1966
In Brittany, facing the strongest tides in Europe, the world's first tidal power plant is being built.
01 January 1965
The life of the world's most famous avenue, day and night, as told by Maurice Pialat and Georges de Caunes.
01 January 1965
Pialat roams Pigalle, a two-faced neighborhood frequented at night by cabaret patrons and during the day by local residents.
01 January 1966
A report celebrating Lyon, a young and vibrant city that has managed to preserve the vestiges of its ancient past.
01 January 1965
Images of Parisian department stores serve as a backdrop for commentary portraying the coquettish Parisian woman.
01 January 1966
Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.
01 January 1953
A Catholic holiday in a rural village in Auzelles, the filmmaker's native region in the Massif Central.
