The amazing and epic story of how the Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was built from 1852 to 1870, thanks to the decisive impulse of the French Emperor Napoleon III; a story that is also that of the birth of a golden age for orchestral music, opera and ballet; of the rise of the urban bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.

This illuminating documentary examines the aftermath of Princess Diana's tragic death and the tense,...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées...

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determ...

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time tha...

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of Fra...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

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

This documentary about legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf begins at her birth (which was helped a...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...