Les Films De La Pleiade Movies

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

"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...

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...

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her...

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

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

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

Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a...

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where...