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 rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

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

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

"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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Dim

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

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

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tahirou Koro

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

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

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Annie Girardot

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

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

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Virginie Vitry

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

Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Yanne

A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Renoir