Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Karina

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Aznavour

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Damouré Zika

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Rouch

A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicolas Yumatov

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwige Feuillère

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oumarou Ganda

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

Genre: Documentary

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Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Piccoli

A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernadette Lafont

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Dux

This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lino Ventura

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dominique Paturel

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Dim

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jacqueline Coué

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Cocteau