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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Dim

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: War

Cast: Robert Hirsch

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

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

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

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