Les Films de la Pléiade Popular Movie

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,...

genus: Drama

cast: Charles Aznavour

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

genus: Drama

cast: Anna Karina

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Jacques Dumesnil

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

genus: Romance

cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Caroline Dim

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Jean Cocteau

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

genus: Drama

cast: Edwige Feuillère

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Jean Rouch

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Jean Yanne

Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite...

genus: Comedy

cast: Lino Ventura

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

genus: War

cast: Robert Hirsch

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Pierre Dux

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Annie Girardot

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Oumarou Ganda

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Françoise Brion

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Michel Piccoli

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...

genus: Drama

cast: Claude Berri

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Damouré Zika