Guy de Maupassant

Damien and Nadia, 34, leave Paris with Chloé, their 8-year-old daughter, to settle in the provinces. Graphic designer for an events company, the first negotiated a full-time telework to follow his partner who has just been offered a position at the Rivière Research Institute where her friend and colleague Marion already works. The couple are expecting a child. But behind this new beginning hides a deaf threat that will soon implode the happiness of this seemingly perfect family.

Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down in questions, questions the sacredness of the family. Is this money hiding a heavy secret?

Based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. Was It a Dream? fallows a grieving young man visiting a graveyard. However, things do no go as planned upon arrival.

Normandía, 1819. Jeanne es una chica joven, inocente y repleta de sueños infantiles cuando regresa a casa tras acabar sus estudios escolares en un convento. Se casa con un vizconde local, Julien de Lamare, que no tarda en mostrarse como un hombre miserable e infiel. Poco a poco, las ilusiones vitales de Jeanne se desvanecen.

A modern adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story about a man and a woman sharing an unexpected encounter on a train as it travels through a beautiful and surreal landscape.

No tener recursos y pertenecer a una clase social inferior no tiene por qué ser un impedimento para triunfar en la vida, sobre todo si se tiene encanto, belleza física y mucha habilidad para moverse en ciertos ambientes. Es lo que le ocurre al joven y apuesto Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson). Después de ser destinado a Argelia como militar, ahora está dispuesto a abandonar esa dura vida y embarcarse en los placeres de la carne y el dinero. Su llegada a París será impactante, ya que, gracias a su natural encantó, embaucará a buena parte de las damas de la alta sociedad. Cuando se de cuenta del efecto que causan sus habilidades, decidirá sacarles el máximo provecho posible. Su objetivo, aprovecharse todo lo que pueda de sus amantes, todas mujeres hermosas que lo apadrinarán y lo convertirán en su querido.

The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of the 45-year-old resident of the ward, Mrs. Erme. The professor, Sophie’s mentor and the medical administrator of the facility, sees Sophie’s obsession with her faces and brings the two women together. As the doctor-patient relationship develops, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme shares her obsession with her face, and furthermore, discovers that Mrs. Erme’s illness is closely connected to this obsession. Through investigation and the torture of her own dreams, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme had a son, who at the age of ten died from chicken pox, while his mother was too afraid to ruin her face by getting infected by the disease.

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend, but then the necklace gets lost.

Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over her, he hires a village wise-woman, Palchowa, to tend to his Mother in her last moments.

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and lonely man. It doesn't take long for the young man to realize that his host is wacko and terrified of dying and is willing to take extreme measures to prevent this from happening. Though billed as a thriller, director Michael Ferry chose to focus on the inner thoughts and fears of the protagonists rather than exciting action sequences. All of the violence occurs off screen.

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.

Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.

When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a milkmaid. Later one of them dies in the battle, leaving the milkmaid in sorrow…

Three suburban virgins, eager to learn about sex, take their education into their own hands. When life gives them the opportunity to wet their appetites, will the reality live up to the fantasy?

La señora Oberst, mujer joven y de reprimida sexualidad, debe hacerse cargo de dos jóvenes sobrinas en su casa de campo. Ambas son muy abiertas en relación al sexo y ella se verá obligada a mediar con los granjeros de la zona para tenerlas satisfechas. Todo ello provocará las situaciones más inusuales. (FILMAFFINITY)

A César award winning short film based on the story from Guy de Maupassant depicts six tales from Normandy, alternately funny, moving and cruel.

Película compuesta por tres historias. En la primera, un náufrago llega a una isla paradisíaca y encuentra una mujer semidesnuda, juguetona y complaciente. En la segunda, un adolescente intenta recordar la letra de una canción de cuna, lo cual le conduce a fantasías sexuales y edípicas. En la tercera, un hombre rico en el París del siglo XIX contrata a una prostituta por una sola noche.

A un joven periodista se le da la oportunidad de convertirse en el editor de una revista de sexo duro. Para demostrar que es digno, sale en busca de historias atractivas y eróticas en todo el mundo, y termina involucrándose en desventuras sexuales donde quiera que va.

Berthe, a pretty young woman, has suffered from a mental disease since she was a child. A doctor has tried for years to understand her behavior and to teach her some basic notions such as those of time and emotional expression. But he also tends to use her as a guinea-pig and does not oppose her parents when they decide to marry her as a way to solve her problems. Unfortunately the cure proves worse than the disease as Berthe's husband, who soon tires of her, abandons her and leaves her more helpless than ever... —Guy Bellinger

Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents. What’s evident is Horn’s fascination for squared-off blocking and choreography, including a glimpse at a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice in minature. Star Adam Macadam brought on other members of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theater Company, many of whom would return to work on DOOMED LOVE. Featuring ancient costumes on loan from the Metropolitan Opera (repurposed from early twentieth century productions of Tosca and La Traviata), ELAINE aspires to high gothic on a shoestring budget. Horn and Meaney shot at locations including the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, the Frick, and the Carnegie Hall Cinema, then operated by Sid Geffen and Jackie Raynal – the programmers responsible for hosting the first-ever New York City screenings of films by Marguerite Duras, an influence on the filmmakers (alongside Daniel Schmid, Douglas Sirk and Alain Resnais.)

The narrator, who is expecting her train, following a funeral procession to care . He learns that the deceased was raped in her youth by a valet and was considered, not without hypocrisy, as an untouchable in his village.

Él es un duro juez famoso por su intransigencia. No tiene reparos de ningún tipo al condenar a un delincuente a pena de muerte. Durante una visita a España se ve involucrado en los acontecimientos que se desarrollan en el hotel en que él y su mujer se alojan. Una serie de asesinatos que él propone aclarar para condenar al responsable a la pena de muerte.

Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.

The plot is similar to the first part. The nieces and their aunt again get some men into bed.

Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."

Una mujer no tiene más objetivo en la vida que llegar lo más alto posible, sin importarle los medios para conseguirlo ni el daño que pueda hacerle a los demás. Sin embargo, a pesar del poder y la riqueza que va acumulando, hay algo que jamás alcanzará: la felicidad.

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Film compuesto por tres episodios independientes, que tienen en común la descripción de las vicisitudes de la vida conyugal en tono de comedia disparatada. En "El marido de Roberta" ella quisiera ser hombre; en "El marido de Olga" ella debe tener un hijo si quiere heredar una gran fortuna; y en "El marido de Attila" se aborda un caso de celos.

Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden.

Paul es un joven idealista que acaba de terminar el servicio militar. Conoce a Madeleine, una joven atractiva que aspira a ser cantante pop, y trata de conquistarla. Ambos salen juntos y terminan juntos en la cama, aunque con dos amigas de Madeleine, Elisabeth y Catherine.

Paul es un joven idealista que acaba de terminar el servicio militar. Conoce a Madeleine, una joven atractiva que aspira a ser cantante pop, y trata de conquistarla. Ambos salen juntos y terminan juntos en la cama, aunque con dos amigas de Madeleine, Elisabeth y Catherine.

Un matrimonio debe tener un hijo para cobrar una herencia, por lo que cuando ven que no lo logran piensan en la sustitución del hombre.

Tres cuentos de terror con mujeres amenazadas por llamadas misteriosas, vampiros en las estepas rusas y sangrientas venganzas: "El teléfono": una mujer, que vive sola, comienza a recibir inquietantes llamadas. Al otro lado del teléfono, una voz masculina profiere amenazas de muerte y de deseo. Aunque, en principio, todo parece una broma... "Los Wurdalak": el viajero ha encontrado el cadáver de un hombre apuñalado. También una sombría mansión y, entre sus habitantes, una bella mujer. Y esa noche se cumple el plazo: si el señor del lugar regresa pasada la medianoche vendrá convertido en Wurdalak, horrible ser sin vida que se alimenta de la sangre de sus víctimas... "La gota de agua": una anciana espiritista muere mientras intentaba comunicarse con el Más Allá. La enfermera que la atendió roba un valioso anillo al cadáver. A partir de ese momento sufrirá la venganza de la difunta...

En su lecho de muerte, un asesino confiesa que quiere morir, ya que hay algo más fuerte que su voluntad que le obliga a cometer terribles crímenes. Por desgracia, nadie le cree. (FILMAFFINITY)

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

A man developes an obsession with a wig.

Un ingeniero lleva a una prostituta al campamento maderero donde trabaja porque sólo se admiten a empleados casados.

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.

In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench.

Rosalie is young and pretty maid on the farm of the winemaker Jacob. She becomes pregnant with the servant Marko, who disappears with a gypsy singer, leaving Rosalie alone in her awkward situation.

Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Actress for this among other films.

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.

Amy es una mujer felizmente casada con James, un profesor. Pero su estabilidad se viene abajo cuando James, enamorado de una de sus alumnas, le pide el divorcio. Sola por primera vez en su vida, Amy debe hacer frente a su nueva situación de libertad. Entabla primero una relación platónica con un amable tendero local, mucho mayor que ella. Él también ha enviudado recientemente y se tienen el uno al otro para aligerar su intensa sensación de soledad. Más tarde Amy conoce a Howard en una galería de arte. Su relación tampoco será fácil. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him

Adaptación de tres cuentos del escritor francés Guy de Maupassant que versan sobre el placer: (1) Un hombre extraño, que asiste a un popular baile de máscaras en París, baila hasta caer extenuado. El médico que lo atiende descubre sorprendido que tras la máscara se oculta un anciano. Cuando lo acompaña a su casa, la esposa le cuenta al médico la triste historia del bailarín. (2) A Madame Tellier, que regenta un prostíbulo, la invita su hermano Joseph a la primera comunión de su hija. La Madame cierra el negocio y se traslada con sus pupilas a la lejana granja de Joseph para asistir a la ceremonia. Terminada la fiesta, regresan al prostíbulo en medio del regocijo de los hombres, que ya las echaban de menos. (3) Un famoso artista se enamora de su bella modelo Josephine. Sólo pinta retratos de ella y alcanza el éxito, pero su historia de amor tiene un final inesperado.

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.

Rosario queda desvalida tras la muerte de su padre y el engaño de su novio. Decide abandonar Ciudad de México y emigrar a Veracruz, donde se convierte en una enigmática prostituta que "vende placer a los hombres que vienen del mar". Allí, ella buscará a su hermano perdido. Tras una noche de pasión con Alberto, un marinero, el destino le revela una cruel sorpresa.

Un extorsionador intenta aprovecharse de una mujer que perdió un collar que había tomado en préstamo sin permiso.

In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.

El escritor Georges Duroy (George Sanders) pasa por un momento difícil cuando se encuentra con su antiguo compañero de regimiento, Charles Forestier, quien le invita a trabajar con él en su periódico. Duroy no tarda en hacerse un lugar con la ayuda de Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak), la esposa de Charles, y pronto tendrá tiempo para dedicarse a enamorar a mujeres bien posicionadas, con lo que se abrirá paso en el éxito que tanto ansía.

Una familia pasa un domingo a orillas del Sena. Mientras los hombres duermen la siesta, unos jóvenes remeros invitan a la madre y a la hija a dar un paseo en barca; un paseo que se convertirá en algo más que una inocente excursión fluvial. Mediometraje de 40 minutos basado en un relato de Guy de Maupassant, en el que Renoir hace un homenaje a su padre, el pintor impresionista Pierre Auguste Renoir. Sus cuadros son mostrados en el film para suscitar una reflexión sobre las relaciones entre cine y pintura.

The story closes in Paris in January 1871, at the height of the siege, and introduces the main character, Monsieur Morissot, a watchmaker who has enrolled in the National Guard. Morissot, who is bored, hungry, and depressed, is walking along the boulevard when by chance he bumps into an old friend, Monsieur Sauvage, with whom he used to go fishing before the war. The two old friends reminisce over several glasses of absinthe in a café;, talking wistfully of the pleasant Sunday afternoons they used to spend fishing on the banks of the Seine before the war. Tipsy from the absinthe, the friends, for want of anything else to do, decide to go fishing in their old spot, and having obtained a laissez-passer from their officer, walk along the river to Argenteuil, a few miles west of the city, in the no man's land between the French and Prussian lines.

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.

1870. En la Francia ocupada durante la Guerra Franco-prusiana, una joven lavandera comparte un coche con varias personas de rango superior. Pero cuando uno de los oficiales prusianos requisa el carruaje, las distintas categorías sociales entran en juego dejando a un lado los valores tales como la integridad moral y la ética. La lavandera, llamada Mademoiselle Fifi por uno de los más brutales oficiales, les hará frente para intentar detenerles en sus arrogantes y despóticos actos contra el humillado pueblo francés.

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away with him and his son. Finally, not considering the right to deprive Pierre of his father, she gives up. Twenty years pass, Pierre has grown up, he suspects his little brother, Jean, of just being his half-brother. His suspicions gnaw at him, his mother confesses to him her past fault. Faced with this confession, Pierre will abandon the one who sacrificed her life for him.

Un esposo afligido intenta descubrir la verdad detrás del suicidio de su esposa, lo que lo lleva a descubrir una trágica historia de infidelidad y redención.

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

Basada en 'Bola de Sebo', la historia de Maupassant que también inspiró 'La diligencia' de John Ford, 'Oyuki, the Virgin' es la historia de un grupo de personas que tratan de huir de una batalla escapándose en un carruaje de caballos. Cuando son atrapados por el enemigo, ofrecen a una prostituta que viaja con ellos a modo de trato para salvarse.

A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...

Rosario, una joven campesina, se entrega por amor a su novio sin sospechar que él la engaña con otra. La decepción y el dolor por la muerte de su padre hacen que la joven huya a Veracruz y se convierta en prostituta. Una noche, Rosario conoce a Alberto, un marino del cual queda prendada. Tras pasar una noche de amor juntos, el destino les depara una cruel sorpresa.

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.

La joven Mary Ann Wagner promete al oficial austríaco Paul Hartman que contraerá matrimonio con él, lo que enfurece a Nika Turgenov, un oficial ruso. Cuando estalla la guerra austro-rusa, el pueblo donde vive Mary Ann es conquistado por los rusos.

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and arrested.

After the funeral of his wife, a colonel returns to find a letter written by her.

A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to replace it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but the Kendricks never learns the truth; Husband and wife struggle for years to pay off the huge debt.

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.