General Keller
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
Cardinal de Richelieu
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 to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
le président
As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker.
Commandant Le Kerlec
Antoine d'Hergemont
The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...
A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.
Julien
De vacaciones en el verano que cumple dieciséis años, en la casa de campo de su abuelo, Faustine, además de pasear y soñar, espía a sus vecinos, dos hermanos, Jean y Julien, sus hijos respectivos y la joven esposa de Julien. Observándolos, se familiariza con la vida y los ritos del amor. Soñando con Joachim, el hijo de Julien, comienza el despertar de su sensualidad. Antes de finalizar sus vacaciones, Faustine entra en la vida adulta, confrontando sus sueños y la realidad.
Lord David
A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of two children, a blind girl and a badly scared boy, who are rescued and looked after by a vagabond.
Mr. de Mortsauf
Jesuit
Dos trotamundos franceses que, desde las afueras de París, deciden ir de peregrinaje a Santiago de Compostela, conocen numerosos personajes y viven situaciones estrechamente vinculadas a las creencias religiosas
Fuscus, General Romano
Narra la lucha de los dacios, los primeros rumanos, contra las legiones romanas. El emperador Domiziano y el comandante de las legiones romanas en la Dacia, Furio, quieren el sometimiento total del país, mientras el senador Ezio prefiere la alianza. El asesinato de Ezio por un soldado de Decébalo, rey de los dacios, sirve de justificación para que Roma decida una represión armada.
Graf
Sévérine, una joven casada con un atractivo cirujano, descubre la existencia de la prostitución diurna. Impulsada por la curiosidad, ingresa en la casa de citas de Anaïs y termina acostumbrándose a llevar una doble vida. La aparición de Marcel, un delincuente que se enamora de ella, complicará la situación de la protagonista. En 2006 contó con una secuela, "Belle Toujours", dirigida por Manoel de Oliveira.
Serge
El jefe del Servicio de Inteligencia norteamericano en Europa relata la historia de tres operaciones de espionaje en las que participó.
Robinson Crusoe
Herzog von Montserrat
D' Artagnan and Porthos received the order of Richelieu, which protrudes as a powerful figure of the French church, a plot against the King of France Louis XIII. uncover. Disguised as a monk enters D' Artagnan the Church, in which the conspirators act. D' Artagnan, however, exposee and can only escape with the help of Porthos . Meanwhile the Duke of Montresant tried to force his ward to overwrite all their possessions to him, so that he can support the Flemish troops. The Duchess refused and is sent with her maid to Brescon. D' Artagnan and Porthos decide to follow the women…
Ulysses
Júpiter, resentido con Ulises por cegar a los Cíclopes, envía a Hércules en busca del héroe griego con la orden de entregarlo a Polifemo. Después de varios enfrentamientos, los dos son capturados por unas siniestras criaturas mitad hombre y mitad pájaro, pero logran escapar uniendo sus fuerzas... (FILMAFFINITY)
General Gustav von Neipperg
Peliocle
El héroe griego Darío (Rory Calhoun) se encuentra en Rodas disfrutando de unas jornadas de asueto. Pero su paz se verá perturbada por una revuelta de esclavos que luchan contra la opresión del perverso rey de la isla, que buscará la alianza de los fenicios para aplastar la rebelión.
Le maréchal Jean Lannes
En la batalla de Austerlitz (2-XII- 1805) Napoleón obtuvo una de sus más brillantes victorias contra las potencias absolutistas europeas. Más de tres décadas después de la publicación de su biografía sobre Napoleón, Abel Gance volvió a inspirarse en la figura de Bonaparte para dirigir esta épica y colosal reconstrucción de la batalla de Austerlitz (o de los Tres Emperadores), en la que Bonaparte derrotó a los austríacos y a los rusos. Fue producida por Alexander Salkind (Superman) y contó con un extenso reparto de estrellas internacionales.
John Bell
Dorothy Simmons sube al último tren, que sale de una China en guerra, rodeada de monjas y consagrada al cuidado de los ciudadanos. En el mismo tren se encuentra un fracasado periodista, que busca el último intento para contar una historia sensacional. Pero el tren, tras ser saboteado por parte de los revolucionarios, no puede seguir su camino, por lo que tendrán que refugiarse en un templo...
Fred Hersant
The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
Marc' Antonio
Octavio envía secretamente a su cónsul Curridio a Alejandría en un intento final de alcanzar la paz. En la ciudad, éste se encuentra con Berenice, una misteriosa y bella bailarina de la cual se enamora. En realidad, la bailarina es la reina Cleopatra que lleva una doble vida usando este nombre.
Georges Terdier
Roger Moretti es un padre de familia romano, parlachín, algo tosco y de clase media-baja, nada que ver con la clientela de clase alta que suele ir al complejo turístico de Cortina D'Ampezzo donde Roger ha ido con su hija, gracias al premio conseguido por ella en un concurso de la televisión. Sobreprotector con su hija preadolescente, intentará con poco éxito hacer amistad con una condesa que le mira por encima del hombro. También se cuentan las historias de más huéspedes del hotel; una diva del cine, un joven deportista que trata de conquistar a una mujer desatendida por su marido...
Maurice
En la Costa Azzurra se desarrollan varias historias. La de Giovanna, que llega de Roma con su marido, Alberto, para hacer una prueba cinematográfica. La del periodista Gino, que viene para entrevistar al gran empresario Carsoli. La de la famosa actriz estadounidense Rita, en busca de su enésimo marido. La de Leopoldo y Angelina, de vacaciones desde Sicilia, quienes se encontrarán con su paisano Nicola. Muchas historias diferentes que tienen en común una cosa: nada sale como se esperan los protagonistas.
Marcus Valerius, Roman Consul
oma, 272 d.C. El emperador Aureliano quiere acabar con la resistencia del reino de Palmira, gobernado por la hermosa e inteligente Zenobia, y envía como embajador al cónsul Marco Valerio, quien, tras sortear todo tipo de intrigas, conseguirá que Palmira pase a ser provincia del Imperio,y Zenobia rinda pleitesía al emperador, pero no como prisionera sino como su esposa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Asclepio
Durante el siglo II d..C. las fronteras del Imperio Romano se extienden hasta los límites del mundo conocido en aquel entonces. El tribuno Marco Numidio, que lleva una vida ociosa en su villa de Roma, debe ir a Armenia, donde una revolución de gladiadores le está creando no pocos quebraderos de cabeza al viejo gobernador. Pero en Telifonte, la capital de Armenia, le espera una corte llena de víboras, entre las cuales está la princesa Amira.
Michel Dumartin
Charly
In Marseille Father Hermann has created a home for the ex-prostitutes to accommodate a new start to a better life. But it does not take long to arouse the anger of the pimps, and especially of Charly, one of the "bosses" who uses are criminal means to convince those that dare to fight his rules and territory. But several of the girls and women are not afraid of Charly and his gang. They have all been to the bottom of existence. But father Hermann is running out of resources.
Mister John
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Shark
En un país hispanoamericano, Shark, un aventurero europeo, se enfrenta a la represión encabezada por el capitán Ferrero. Tras varias peripecias, Shark huye en una embarcación con la prostituta Djin, el rebelde Castin, el padre Lizzardi y la joven María. En la huida, los prófugos tendrán que enfrentarse a los peligros de la selva amazónica y a las pasiones que se desatan entre ellos.
Doctor Valerio
Ángela está casada con el doctor Valerio. Vive en una pequeña ciudad de Córcega. Un día sufre un mareo en la calle y llama a la fábrica en la que su marido cura a un obrero que ha sufrido un accidente de trabajo. Ángela no puede entender que su marido se ocupe tanto de los pobres y la deje a ella abandonada. Al ver a su mujer en tal estado, le aconseja que se vaya con su familia a Niza.
L'inspecteur Bério
Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
Raoul de Bragelonne
Raoul De Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Lucio Falengo
La condesa de Castiglione fue considerada la mujer más bella del mundo. Una de las más célebres amantes de Napoleón III. Llegó a París con 19 años, pues su primo Cavour, primer ministro del rey Víctor Manuel II de Cerdeña y Piamonte, la induce para conquistar a Luis Napoleón III, con el propósito de conseguir el apoyo del soberano francés a la causa piamontesa.
Giustiniano
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Louis XIV jeune
Durante un paseo, Luis XIII descubre un lugar encantador y decide construir en él una casa de campo que se convertirá en el Palacio de Versalles. Éste será el escenario en el que se sucederán, desde el reinado de Luis XIV (1661-1715) hasta la Revolución de 1789, una serie de intrigas amorosas y políticas protagonizadas por importantes personajes de la corte francesa.
D'Artagnan
Adaptación de la primera parte de la archifamosa novela de Dumas. En esta versión los elementos cómicos predominan sobre los dramáticos. D'Artagnan, con la ayuda de sus amigos Athos, Porthos y Aramis y su incondicional Planchet, tendrá que defender la reputación de la reina, la española Ana de Austria, frente a las turbias intrigas del Cardenal Richelieu y sus colaboradores, Rochefort y la peligrosísima Milady de Winter.
Didier Guéret
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
Jupiter' L'inconnu, escapee from the psychiatric asylum
A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
Caio Silvio
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
The Black Prince
Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.
Marceau Le Guen
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Jacques Lebreton
Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
Le sergent Léon Bouvard
The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
Lysias
In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
Marc Lanson
Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise this action.
Jean Fabien
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
Pierre Kerjean
When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
Alain Fontenay
Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
François Martineau
At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.
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.
Le capitaine Georges Dubreuil
Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
Ali
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Lieutenant Claude Legrand
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Bernard Dalban
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, envies Blondine her happiness and tells her that a secret lies hidden in her husband's name. Blondine tries to discover it but, before she does, the Prince is imprisoned by an ogre. Blondine must face goblins, imps, and the water djinni before she can deliver her captive Prince.
Le vicomte Pierre d'Haussy de Villefort
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
René Bergerin
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Lucien Chardon aka Vautrin
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Julien
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Bernard
A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.
Olivier de Verrières
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
Jean de Vaugelas (uncredited)
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Jean de Vaugelas
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...