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

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

"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

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

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

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Brion

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Danièle Delorme

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

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

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

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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Berri

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

Genre: War

Cast: Robert Hirsch

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Aracheguesne

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nadine Ballot

Olivier and Françoise, newlyweds, have Chantal at their service, whose main function is to pretend to be his boss, while she takes care of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michèle Grellier

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Maurice Ronet

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