The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydi...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes ...

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of ...

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” suppose...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances rangin...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interview...

A legendary beauty salon that is sure to become a regular once you go!”Sir, would you like to have a...
Polish actress Stanislawa Uminska is put on trial in 1920s Paris for shooting her dying fiancé, and ...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, volunt...

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an anci...