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Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to...

Genre: History

Cast: Lambert Wilson

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer

Genre: Documentary

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On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Denner

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jérémie Renier

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François-Régis Gaudry

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernard Farcy

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tristan Delus

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryan Mandrake

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Auclair