Jacques Castelot

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the famous escapes

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

Angelique

In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of c...

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Bapti...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of hi...

Justice Is Done

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are...

Desert Assault

Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.

Nana

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in lov...

Lafayette

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of...

Obsession

Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-p...

Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

Émile Zola ou la Conscience humaine

The Gallant Musketeer

Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III,...

Before the Deluge

The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famou...

La Marseillaise

The early days of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens in Marseille and the...

The Invincible

In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets.

Time of the Wolves

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the...

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes...

Love Me Strangely

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first,...

Maya

Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is al...

Casta diva

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately...

Falling Point

Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay...

The Truth About Bebe Donge

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later...

The Baron of the Locks

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse...

Meeting in Paris

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she trie...

Trouble Among Widows

When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She...

Why America

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in A...

The Great Deception

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and h...

Vertigo For A Killer

Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to e...

December

In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French c...

The Two Orphans

A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.

Dishonorable Discharge

Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survi...

My Husband Is Marvelous

A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.

The Other Truth

Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical...

La Malibran

On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destin...

One Bullet Is Enough

After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.