The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
• September 15th, 2021 • 0h 53min
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Overview
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
You Can’t Watch This
Released on: 2019-05-15
Documentary
Peer through the lens of a high profile political dissident, banished from the online world. After i...
The Elephant Man
Released on: 1980-10-09
Drama, History
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
Adrift at Sea
Released on: 1983-12-03
History, Drama
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hoju...
Ludwig
Released on: 1973-03-07
Drama, History
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...
Under Capricorn
Released on: 1949-09-08
Drama, History
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of t...
Jerome's Secret
Released on: 1994-09-23
Drama, History
In 1863, when a legless, shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast, he's taken to the home of J...
To Walk Invisible
Released on: 2016-12-26
Drama, History
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these re...
Paul Auster: What If
Released on: 2019-02-12
Documentary, TV Movie
A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, a...
Mirror
Released on: 1975-03-07
Drama, History
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Anna and the King
Released on: 1999-12-16
Drama, Romance, History
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Ailey
Released on: 2021-07-23
Documentary
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and thro...
Zoofobia
Released on: 2022-11-03
Documentary, Animation
The tragic death of a polar bear triggers the end of the Buenos Aires Zoo. A superhero lover lawyer ...
Yo, Ocaña
Released on: 2024-06-26
Documentary, History
A portrait of the Spanish painter José Pérez Ocaña (1947-83), who used transvestism and performances...
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Released on: 2023-04-13
Documentary
May Pang lovingly recounts her life in rock & roll and the whirlwind 18 months spent as friend, love...
Madame Bovary
Released on: 1991-03-03
Romance, Drama, History
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
Dreams of Love
Released on: 1970-10-22
Drama, History
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unkn...
Gangs of New York
Released on: 2002-12-14
Drama, History, Crime
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...
Finding Forrester
Released on: 2000-12-21
Drama, History
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...