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...

The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial...

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

While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a...

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

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

Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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