Les Films De La Pleiade Movies

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of...

A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a...

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel...

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...

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

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

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

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

This film brings to life a vanished world: that of the Warsaw Ghetto, destroyed by the Nazis after the 1944 uprising. Two authentic "reconstruction"...

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...

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...