Naked Childhood(L'Enfance nue)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
France · 1969
1h 23m
Director Maurice Pialat
Starring Michel Terrazon, Raoul Billerey, Pierrette Deplanque, Marie-Louise Thierry
Genre Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
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.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
La Haine
In the banlieues of France, the immigrant populations' resentment simmers away -- until it starts to boil.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 1995
- Director Mathieu Kassovitz
- Cast Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Souleymane Dicko, Héloïse Rauth
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)
Perversion --- at its absolute best.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, France, Germany • 2001
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Golden Coach
(Le carrosse d'or)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1952
- Director Jean Renoir
- Cast Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante, Duncan Lamont, George Higgins
- Genre History, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
Graduate First
(Passe ton bac d'abord)
For a group of teenage friends, sex and drugs provide temporary distraction from the final exams that will decide their future.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Canada • 1978
- Director Maurice Pialat
- Cast Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron, Christian Bouillette, Jean-François Adam
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
We Won't Grow Old Together
(Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1972
- Director Maurice Pialat
- Cast Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Harry-Max, Jacques Galland, Macha Méril, Christine Fabréga
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Painting
(Le Tableau)
Three friends in an unfinished painting seek out the artist to complete his work.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Canada • 2011
- Director Jean-François Laguionie
- Cast Jean Barney, Chloé Berthier, Julien Bouanich, Serge Faliu, Thierry Jahn
- Genre Animation, Fantasy
- Available on Fandango At Home, Apple TV, Tubi TV, Hoopla
The Mystery of Henri Pick
(Le Mystère Henri Pick)
A skeptic sets out to uncover the truth about a novel taking over France by an unknown, possibly dead author.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2019
- Director Rémi Bezançon
- Cast Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz, Bastien Bouillon, Philypa Phoenix
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Easy to read as a bitter rebuke to The 400 Blows, but this tragic film traces its own path and is mining its own demons, similar to Pialat's own purposeful diversions from the New Wave