Les Films De La Pleiade Movies

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,...

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

Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he...

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts...

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...

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil.

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

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...

During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend...

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.

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

"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...

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

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...

An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.

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

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

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...

If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and...

An essay film critiquing post-war France's urban developments – Pialat states that modernity and suburban convenience have limited Parisian...