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Maigret tend un piège
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Les sorcières de Salem
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. It will be the beginning of a series of witchcraft trials and a dark moment in American history.
Si Paris nous était conté
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 history.
Napoléon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Nana
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Marguerite de la nuit
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
Le fils de Caroline chérie
A young, innocent Brigitte Bardot plays the sister of the handsome French officer Juan D'Arandra. Close in a manner inappropriate of siblings, their attraction for each other tortures their souls, and sends them in a series of comic misadventures, that, through a strange twist of fate, brings them even closer.
La lumière d'en face
Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant.
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star.
Madame de...
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them.
Les dents longues
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
Ouvert contre X
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
Nez de cuir
L'histoire dramatique d'un jeune homme defigure pendant la Campagne de France et oblige de porter un masque dissimulant sa mutilation.
Le carrosse d'or
A small town of Central America in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Vice King gives her his magnificent golden coach. A young Spanish officer suggests the two of them settle down together among Indians. Ramon, a torero, offers her a share of his glory.
Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer
In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French colony, to fight malaria, which is ravaging the population. Administrator Leblanc takes a dim view of his arrival. But Albert can count on the devoted Marie Winter and Father Charles to assist him in his task.
Fanfan la Tulipe
Intrépide, fougueux, effronté et généreux, Fanfan la Tulipe, soldat dans l'armée du roi, part à la conquête de la gloire et du coeur de la belle Adeline, la fille du sergent recruteur.
Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country.
Le cap de l'espérance
Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends.
La poison
Paul Braconnier et sa femme Blandine n'ont qu'une seule idée en tête : trouver le moyen d'assassiner l'autre sans risque. Paul rencontre dans ce but un célèbre avocat qui lui explique comment procéder. Paul tue ensuite sa femme d'un coup de couteau dans le ventre, pendant qu'elle lui verse du poison...
Caroline chérie
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him.
Justice est faite
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Pattes blanches
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!
A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically.
Le secret de Mayerling
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.
Le diable boiteux
Evocation, avec tout l'esprit de Guitry mais aussi celui de Talleyrand, de la vie de ce dernier, qui passe du service de la republique à celui de Bonaparte et de celui de Napoleon à celui de la royauté, avec pour seul but la grandeur de la France.
L'aigle à deux têtes
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart.
D'homme à hommes
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Torrents
Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Desperate, Yann finds Sigrid in their childhood home in Savoy. Afraid of seeing their passion revive, he decides to leave with Léna for Africa.
Non coupable
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders, is dramatized.
Le diable au corps
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Marthe Grangier, infirmière fiancée à un soldat tombe amoureuse de François Jaubert, un lycéen de 17 ans. Leur amour passionnel va leur causer quelques ennuis...
La femme en rouge
Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
L'idiot
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world.
Le ciel est à vous
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Douce
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference.
Lettres d'amour
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Tempête
An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with eccentric outfits.
De Mayerling à Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek.
Mayerling
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
La chute de la maison Usher
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Allan arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.