A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
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A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.
A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente where small-town hysteria may just lead to one of the century's most wanted criminals.
Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes to Paris to denounce these abuses.
Fascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
With her nose buried in her books, a librarian broods bitterly over her failure in love. But a theft of jewelry will suddenly give her the perfect opportunity to win back her lover's heart and get rid of her rival. Will she take the plunge?
Blanche was raped in her adolescence by a servant, a cowherd named Baptiste. Her family, anxious to hide the shame that this scandal has cast on their reputation, locks the young girl in their manor, thinking that four walls are enough to silence the mockery. One day, Blanche, whom the whole country nicknames "Madame Baptiste", tries to commit suicide, consumed by the painful memory she carries within her. A man saves her and, charmed by the woman who now owes him her life, he asks her to marry him, thus defying the moral barriers set by public opinion. Life now seems happy for Blanche, but one day, at the agricultural show, the insult comes again: "Madame Baptiste!"...
Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by beasts who behave like humans. She changes size, is invited to a wacky tea-time party and becomes a witness to a momentous trial conducted by the Queen of Hearts.
Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.
A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".
Perdican, his studies completed, returns to his family castle at the same time as Camille, returning from the convent where she was raised. The two young people are promised to each other, but the young girl appears distant. Out of spite, Perdican courts Rosette, a peasant girl, Camille's foster sister who, for her part, announces her plan to take the veil. Perdican announces his marriage to Rosette. On the eve of the wedding, Camille and Perdican finally confess their love to each other. But Rosette, who heard everything, commits suicide, which separates the two lovers forever.
A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.
Adaptation of the Racine play. Titus, Roman Emperor, is torn between his love for the captive Queen Bérénice and his duty to marry a Roman.
Three vignettes and a musical interlude showcase acclaimed auteur Jean Renoir's eclectic range at the end of his career: the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless; an opera-like story of a woman obsessed with polishing her floors; Jeanne Moreau performs 'When Love Dies'; and an elderly man and his young wife coming to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
Spain, 16th century. The beautiful Dona Sol inspired a deep passion in Hernani, banished from the kingdom. Unable to live without her, he defies the ban and finds her in secret. Several rivals threaten the idyll. She is to marry her uncle, Don Ruy Gomez, and is also loved by the young King of Spain himself, Don Carlos.
A young miller takes under her protection an orphan brought up by an old woman.
Two retirees decide to extend their vacation beyond the usual date, near a lake where they own a villa. From that moment on, everything becomes hostile: the butcher stops delivering meat, there is no milk, their electricity is cut off, and their car is sabotaged. Don't we want to show them that when your time is up, on vacation or in life, it's not a good idea to linger and that you have to disappear?
The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The victim happens to be none other than Schmied, the new police inspector who had just been appointed to replace Baerlach, the old police captain.
Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role in the adventure serial.
Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.
In 1898, strange things happen in a castle not far from the small village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Twenty years earlier, the castle had been abandoned due to some nefarious dealings there but a shepherd sees smoke coming out of the chimney, which stirs up the village with whispers Chort (a demon) is now occupying the place. Count Franz de Télek, a visitor to the area, becomes intrigued by all this turmoil and decides to investigate. Made for French television and based on the 1892 Jules Verne novel of the same name.
A modern variation on the myth of Faust, the film features Henri Faust, an influential man at the head of a gigantic financial empire. One day, the Devil himself visits her. The Evil One offers him a range of happiness, youth, love, fortune, power; but Faust has everything he wants and he refuses the pact offered to him. However, a fault exists and the Devil will know how to discover it.
In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.
An elderly woman would like some company as her son is off venturing foreign lands and seducing women from lands afar. Her resident priest who seems to live in the same château as her does not agree and seems to have preconceptions and superstitions as to a family curse.
Adèle lives in the shadow of her husband, Ferdinand, a painter. After her father's death, they leave the provinces for Paris. She refines his paintings and comforts him. Thanks to her brushstrokes, Ferdinand discovers fame and success. And love in all this? Sacrificed on the altar of creation...
With fierce originality, this powerful adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Acclaimed actress Genevieve Bujold skillfully combines elements of zealotry and idealism in her affecting portrait of Antigone. Jean Anouilh's retelling of "Antigone" stages the inescapably wrenching central confrontation between Antigone and Creon by presenting Bujold and Fritz Weaver seated at a long, executive-suite table--a hallmark of Anouilh's play.
French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
A documentary portrait of Dominique Sanda, the fashion model-cum-actress who became an international star and sex symbol with the release of Robert Bresson's "Une Femme Douce" (1969).
Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.
During a 9-month trip, the Cousteau team will explore the longest river on the planet: the Nile. It flows north to the Mediterranean, crosses half a continent and over 7000 years of history. On its shores, civilizations have built marvels of architecture. Kingdoms rose and then fell, each person's destiny still intimately linked to that of the river... without anyone having mastered it. The Calypso team studies life around the Nile, which has remained almost unchanged since the time of the pharaohs.
French TV movie.
The title and subtitle of this French miniseries are “Six Times Two; Over and under the media”. The “six” refers to the fact that there are six episodes; the “two” has a double meaning.
After serving as an embassy secretary in London at the end of 1787, a position he didn't exactly enjoy, the poet André Chénier returns to Paris. When the Revolution breaks out, he becomes enthusiastic about it, and never ceases to express his love of liberty and high principles. But he also speaks out against excesses and troublemakers. For her part, the beautiful Aimée de Coigny, who has just divorced the Duc de Fleury, leads a dissolute life. In 1793, the Convention decides to put "the Terror on the agenda". Aimée de Coigny and her new lover, Casimir de Montrond, are arrested. At the Saint-Lazare prison, their life together is preserved. Six months later, Chénier is arrested and imprisoned. Dazzled by the young woman's beauty, the poet dedicates his most beautiful verses to her. But Aimée remains unmoved by his love.
Thanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his childhood. But he is obsessed by the memory of this house, because the owners were, one by one, victims of an evil spirit. With a troupe of actors, he attempts to reconstruct the dramatic scenes he witnessed.
In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
Two roommates discover an extra personal space that they have never known. Things become complicated when they allow two other close friends to share the space, and the ensuing snowball effect of their invitees bringing family to live in the room.
An American traveling in Europe suddenly disappears, and his daughter, married to an eminent scientist, receives a letter asking her to go to Antwerp, which she does with her young son. Both are about to disappear. OSS 117 is asked by his superiors to solve these mysterious disappearances.
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
In Bastia and the surrounding area, a deceived husband kills his rival in anger. But are things as simple as they seem?
It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear in his films: "Courtyard side on the field side", then "Saint, martyr and poet". She will also sing for "Repeated absences" and "The garden that tilts".