Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

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

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

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dominique Paturel

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

Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Janine Magnan

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest...

Genre: Documentary

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A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicolas Yumatov

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

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

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tahirou Koro

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

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

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

This short film is a metaphore for the destruction of the indian culture by the 'white man'.

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

In a comparative study between different forms of calligraphy, the film traces parallels between modern Japanese painting and traditional Japanese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roger Blin

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Dim