Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

Olivier and Françoise, newlyweds, have Chantal at their service, whose main function is to pretend to be his boss, while she takes care of the...

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

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

Two friends, a journalist and a scientist, plan to sail to Argentina for an expedition of discovery, but their plans are thrown into confusion when...

Some moments in the life of a young couple.

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed...

Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an...

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...

A example of Jean Renoir's talents as a director as he works Gisèle Braunberger into the right frame of mind.

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

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...

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

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing...

Jean-Michel Barjol, a friend of Jean Eustache, was a young rebel who threw himself into cinema with reckless abandon. In this short film about a...

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

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

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

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

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

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