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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...