Les Films de la Pléiade Populær film

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

Sjanger: Romance

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

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,...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Charles Aznavour

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

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Anna Karina

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

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

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Jean Yanne

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

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Caroline Dim

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

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil

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

Sjanger: 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...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Jean Rouch

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...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Oumarou Ganda

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Lino Ventura

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

Sjanger: War

Cast: Robert Hirsch

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Bernadette Lafont

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

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Brion

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Annie Girardot

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...

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Virginie Vitry

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

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Michel Piccoli

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...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Dux

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

Sjanger: Music

Cast: François Reichenbach