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.

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

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

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

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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

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

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

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

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

Documentary about the Parisian locations for the film by Louis Malle.

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...

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

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is cel...