Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle

O ano é 1671 e o rei Luís XIV (Julian Sands) vive em Versailles. No norte da França, o Príncipe de Condé (Julian Glover), enterrado em dívidas, planeja uma solução para fazer com que não só ele mas toda a província fique livre das dívidas: ele decide convidar o rei para passar um final de semana recheado de iguarias e entretenimento. Se o Príncipe conseguir cair nas graças do rei, toda a região será salva do desastre econônico. Porém, apenas um homem poderá preparar um banquete suntuoso e ainda cuidar da diversão real: François Vatel, o mordomo do Príncipe. Mas em meio a todo o trabalho resultante da preparação para a visita real, Vatel conhece a bela Anne de Montausier (Uma Thurman), uma candidata à dama da corte, e passa a disputá-la com Luis XIV. Ao mesmo tempo, Vatel se depara com a conflitante exarcebação do luxo pela corte, enquanto seu povo dá a vida para para sustentá-la.

Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. Olga, the elder sister, has opted for a reclusive life as the soul of the household. Her daughter, Sigga, is a young adolescent. The house harbors a finely balanced marriage between desire and memory—until Olga’s destiny tips the scales.

Em 1929, quando o Vietnam era uma colônia francesa, uma garota francesa cuja família passa por dificuldades financeiras se envolve com um homem de negócios chinês, iniciando uma tórrida relação apesar das restrições sociais de ambas origens. Baseado no romance semi-autobiográfico de Maugerite Duras.

Em Paris, no início da década de 30, o escritor Henry Miller forma um triângulo amoroso com sua mulher e sua amante, que sente atração pelos dois mas, apesar de casada, não se interessa muito pelo marido.

Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

The beginning of the 20th century. Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrendered complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.

At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...