Most Viewed From Les Films de la Pléiade

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

Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin.

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

A seventeen-year-old Spanish bullfighter needs to win to ensure his future career.

Lucien Clergue observes the formation of salt in a crust or in a filament on the surface of the water and follows the slightest movements, the...

Camargue, south of France. In the middle of the swamps, birds and bulls are the only inhabitants in one of the last surviving wildernesses in France.

A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.

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

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.

Revisiting the port of Le Havre, a young woman recalls a lost love from her previous time there. The whole harbour is visually and magnificently...

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

Guy Gilles' 1962 short on the wintertime in Paris.

A day in a little café of Paris.

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

A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life.