Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

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

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...

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,...

A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and...

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

The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of...

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

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

"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...

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless...

A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life.

A day in a little café of Paris.

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

A tragic spin on the futility of revolution, in cinema and elsewhere.

Jean-Michel Barjol, a friend of Jean Eustache, was a young rebel who threw himself into cinema with reckless abandon. In this short film about a...

A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.

Documentary-style drama about a young African boxer who comes to Paris to try for a boxing career.

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