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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colin Firth

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Dieudonné

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

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise...

Genre: History

Cast: Pierre Vaneck

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

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurent Poitrenaux

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Féodor Atkine

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christine Gagnieux

The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Blagden

Genre: Documentary

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Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Evelyne Brochu

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Piat

Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emilia Schüle

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Coyle

North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lyna Khoudri

A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geography of Europe and sowed the seeds of a deep...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hans Henrik Wöhler

Genre: Documentary

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The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and made the reputations of Edward III and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janina Ramirez

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lorànt Deutsch

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lou Gala

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antoine de Suremain

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Gala