Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of historians. Why did King Francis I (1494-1547), who commissioned it, embark on this epic project in the heart of the marshlands in 1519? What significance did he want the castle to have? What role did his friend, Italian genius Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) play? Was he the architect or who was?
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
They call each other Emmanuel and Vladimir - but despite the informal tone, a fateful negotiation is...
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous ...
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi colla...
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker...
In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS....
This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...
Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own cust...
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist ...
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...
Catchy mix of farce and documentary. Portrait of a Berlin theatre company made up entirely of the ho...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.
A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to...
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent ...