Louis Seigner

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at...

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The Accursed Kings

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rul...

L'Eclisse

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo...

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...

This Special Friendship

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is...

Molière pour rire et pour pleurer

Mr. Klein

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the mi...

The Truth

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a...

Le Corbeau

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusin...

La Comédie-Française

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman nam...

Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to ba...

The President

At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, del...

Special Section

In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government...

Obsession

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

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis X...

Lucrèce Borgia

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Luc...

It Happened at the Inn

An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.

Revenge

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

Homeland

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led...

The Seven Deadly Sins

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Behind These Walls

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resist...

The Possessors

Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an...

Girls of Today

Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges...

The Spies

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the...

Asphalt

Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destinatio...

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...

The Most Wanted Man

A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a g...

Pasha

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in...

The Magistrate

Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her...

Maya

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

Holiday for Henrietta

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path...

We Are All Murderers

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former...

Creezy

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative governm...