Les Films De La Pleiade Movies

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

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

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest...

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...

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

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 col...

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 f...

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

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

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover m...

The film shows the members of a voluntary association of young people from Upper Volta who work in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - first at their work, then at...

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

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise thei...

An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

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 housewo...

All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night af...

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

Etnographic documentary about lion hunting in Africa.

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 16-ye...

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 enamored...