Les Films De La Pleiade Movies

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

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

A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.

The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of j...

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 Brault,...

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

A documentary about the painter Mario Prassinos. Taking his inspiration from nature, particularly in the Alpilles region, this artist’s approach is to...

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

Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America.

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach...

Considered for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film (Animated).

This bitter and ironic satire illustrates the universal problems with youth and their revolt against the bourgeois establishment. The man becomes a sy...

Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee wh...

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

A day in a little café of Paris.

If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and difficult...