Screenplay: Maurice Pialat

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Hubert Deschamps · Monique Mélinand · Philippe Léotard · Nathalie Baye

Plot When cancer strikes the mother of the family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Michel Terrazon · Raoul Billerey · Maurice Coussonneau · Pierrette Deplanque

Plot A ten-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Sandrine Bonnaire · Dominique Besnehard · Maurice Pialat · Evelyne Ker

Plot 15-year old Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) is enjoying life, sneaking out to fool around with her boyfriend, flirting with sailors until two key events alter her life and drive her into...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Marlène Jobert · Jean Yanne · Christine Fabréga · Patricia Perangeli

Plot The film delves deeply into the last days of an affair between a married man and a young woman who have been together for six years.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Geraldine Pailhas · Antoine Pialat · Dominique Rocheteau

Plot Antoine is 4. His father Gerard leaves his mother Sophie. Gerard has a lot of mistresses, but never knows how to leave them. Sophie takes a new lover, Jeannot.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Sabine Haudepin · Philippe Marlaud · Annick Alane · Michel Caron

Plot In this grim slice-of-life film, the dead-end future of a number of young French teenagers living in a northern mining town is closely examined. Some lapse into debauchery, others enter...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Jacques Dutronc · Alexandra London · Bernard Le Coq · Gérard Sety

Plot The final 67 days of Van Gogh's life is examined.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Sandrine Bonnaire · Maurice Pialat · Yann Dedet

Plot Dossignan is a very zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Sophie Marceau · Richard Anconina · Pascale Rocard

Plot A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Gérard Depardieu · Guy Marchand · Humbert Balsan

Plot Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Paulette Malan

Plot Pialat's first film was the 8-minute short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage,...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Plot Maurice Pialat's second film was the relatively straightforward documentary Congrès eucharistique diocésain, very different in tone and style from his bleak, jarring first film. The film consists entirely of documentary...

Direction Patrick Grandperret

Cast Hande Kodja · Céline Sallette · Gianni Giardinelli · Anaïs de Courson

Plot 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. As for...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Plot 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. Pialat’s short film, La Camargue (1966) (6:07)...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Jacques Gripel

Plot Pehlivan is a call to fight in an ancient wrestling competition that lasts for 3 days. The film follows the wrestling event.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Plot A stylized, silent slapstick short that looks back to René Clair and forward to the work of Richard Lester.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Sophie Marin · Jacques Portet · Jean-loup Reinhold

Plot The suicide of a young couple's friend leads to estrangement, reflection and making a film.

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Pierre Asso

Plot A short film, forming part of a series of shorts looking at Turkey. This film takes in Istanbul; a city divided by the Bosphorus river and the effect this has...