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.

Семнадцатилетняя Жанна покидает монастырь, в котором прошли её отроческие годы, и возвращается в имение Тополя, расположенное в Нормандии. Здесь она знакомится с сыном разорившегося дворянина Жюльеном, который пробудил ее сердце. Вскоре молодые люди сочетаются браком, но семейное счастье длится недолго.

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.

Жоржа влекут деньги, секс и власть. Обольстительная внешность и железные нервы карточного игрока, обворожительные манеры и когти хищника — и Париж, город порока и страсти, лежит у его ног…

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.

Вольная интерпретация новеллы Мопассана. Флорентина – молодая красивая замужняя женщина, которая страдает из-за отсутствие внимания со стороны мужа. Она ищет удовлетворение своих желаний на стороне. В это время их усыновленный сын снимает ее оргии на фотопленку и шантажирует её, заставляя заняться с ним любовью.

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?

Мадам Оберст имеет двух молоденьких племянниц, кои открыты в собственной сексуальности. Она пытается подыскать им молодых людей, и в результате все трое оказываются в самых всевозможных необычных ситуациях...

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

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

A young journalist is given the chance to become the publisher of a hardcore sex magazine. To prove himself worthy, he goes out in pursuit of sexy, erotic stories all over the world, and winds up getting involved in sexual misadventures everywhere he goes.

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.

An ageing judge's use of the death penalty comes back to haunt him.

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."

Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.

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

Три режиссера предложили три истории о проблемах современных им женатых мужчин. Мужчины страдают от эмансипации, давящего чувства ответственности и собственной ревности.

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.

Поль встречает в кафе Мадлен, между ними завязывается разговор — странный и внешне отвлеченный, как всегда бывает у Годара. Поль пишет стихи, увлекается левыми идеями, он интеллектуал и герой своего времени, поэтому остается в меньшинстве. Он только что отслужил в армии и воспринимает гражданку немного свысока. Это «женская», то есть уютная конформистская жизнь, где занимаются шопингом, строят карьеру поп-певицы и хотят походить на персонажей рекламы.

Поль встречает в кафе Мадлен, между ними завязывается разговор — странный и внешне отвлеченный, как всегда бывает у Годара. Поль пишет стихи, увлекается левыми идеями, он интеллектуал и герой своего времени, поэтому остается в меньшинстве. Он только что отслужил в армии и воспринимает гражданку немного свысока. Это «женская», то есть уютная конформистская жизнь, где занимаются шопингом, строят карьеру поп-певицы и хотят походить на персонажей рекламы.

This black comedy was adapted by Argentine director Ricardo Aleventosa from a sardonic story by Guy de Maupassant. A woman and her husband are faced with a dilemma when her aunt dies. In order to collect her inheritance, she must produce a daughter. The problem is that the woman's husband seems to be sterile. After they try every method to conceive, they resort to help from an outside source.

В первой новелле вернувшаяся домой с работы героиня, услышав телефонный звонок, снимает трубку и погружается в пучину кошмара. Замогильный голос обещает ей мучительную и скорую смерть, причем, когда она начинает в ужасе метаться по квартире, он сообщает ей обо всех её телодвижениях, как будто присутствуя рядом. Во втором сюжете в восточноевропейской глубинке старик-вурдалак безжалостно расправляется со своей многочисленной семьёй… И, наконец, в третьей истории, медсестра, похитившая перстень у мертвой старухи, очень пожалела затем о своём святотатстве.

После похорон судьи Саймона Кордье в руки его друзей попадает дневник, в котором он подробно изложил недавние события. Судья навестил в камере приговоренного к смертной казни преступника, без мотива совершившего несколько убийств. Тот казался человеком разумным, но продолжал утверждать, что убивать его заставляет некая потусторонняя злая сущность.

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.

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.

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.

По одноименному роману Ги де Мопассана. О головокружительной карьере молодого человека, преуспевающего в обществе благодаря своей наглости, ловкости и полнейшей беспринципности.

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.

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

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

Три истории об удовольствии. Первая — о скрывающем свой возраст за маской мужчине, который во время бала пытается ухлестывать за женщинами. Вторая — об управляющей публичного дома, которая везет своих работниц на причастие к племяннице. Третья — о художнике, который влюбляется в свою натурщицу.

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.

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.

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.

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

Чудесный летний день в сельской местности – семейство Дюфур вышло на прогулку. Мадам Дюфур и ее красотка-дочь флиртуют с повесами Анри и Родольфом. Для мадам это лишь легкое увлечение, юная Генриетта мечтает о большой любви. Последствия загородной прогулки аукнутся через много лет...

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.

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.

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.

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

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.

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.

Компания французских буржуа едет по оккупированной немцами территории в одном дилижансе с дамой полусвета…

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

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.

An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.

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.

Уилл Сандерсон живет в деревне, его родители владеют маленькой гостиницей, у него есть девушка. Жизнь спокойна и предсказуема. Но большие амбиции заставляют его уехать в большой город, он стремится сделать карьеру. Родители не препятствуют ему, мать дает ему на память медальон с миниатюрой - своим портретом. Удача сопутствует ему. Через пять лет он занимает высокий пост в корпорации, зарабатывает большие деньги, пользуется уважением. А между тем, дела его родителей совсем плохи, они на грани разорения, и банк угрожает отнять у них гостиницу - они в безвыходном положении. Обо всем этом Уилсону сообщает в письме его давняя возлюбленная Мэри. Конечно же любящий сын немедленно спешит помочь родителям и едет на родину.