Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite...

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...

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

A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.

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...

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...