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- When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship.
- The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- The student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge.
- Roi Mystère, aka the King of the Catacombs, lives underground in the ossuary and tunnels of Paris. He defies the police of Napoleon III, has a clandestine army bringing together thugs and beggars and plots to satisfy a 20-year-old revenge.
- The tonic and tender story of Zita, a prostitute, and Titane, a young African kid left by the roadside, who meet by purely coincidental timing. A truly complicit duet that embarks on a modern day fairy tale filled with humor and tolerance.
- In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
- Au début de la colonie en Nouvelle-France, la jeune Amérindienne Shehaweh est enlevée par des guerriers Ouendats. Des Blancs viennent à son secours et la confient à Marguerite Bourgeoys qui la baptise et entreprend son éducation. Devenue jeune femme, elle est déportée en France par le marquis de Tracy et présentée à la cour de Louis XIV. Après avoir désobéi à sa protectrice, elle est enfermée à la Pitié-Salpêtrière. Quelques années plus tard, elle revient en Nouvelle-France en tant que fille du roy et se voit forcée de se marier. Après deux ans de mariage, elle quitte son mari et tente de convaincre Frontenac de lui permettre de retourner parmi les siens.
- Inspector Lavardin, a deadpan police detective known for his unkind manners, conducts his investigations in his own particular way, not always to everyone's taste.
- A group of young New Zealand school boys find themselves adrift at sea in the South Pacific, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where, threatened by pirates, they must learn to get along together to survive.
- Heinrich von Alternberg returns home to find that the estate his father has left him is penniless. The non-conformist German count decides to adopt a more everyday appellation of Henry Altern and earn his keep through private detective work, discovering he has a knack for it. Often, he's aided by his ex-wife, journalist Lisa Prentice.
- When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
- A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
- Christophe, a French photographer is in Ireland on an assignment. After being beaten up by three brothers, members of the rugby team he is photographing, he discovers that a one night stand with Spring, an Irish girl, ten years ago didn't remain without consequences, and that he is the father of her child. Christoph returns to Ireland with a friend, determined to meet his son. He falls for the boy's mother once again and is determined to marry her. But Spring has other ideas.
- Sam, a wealthy and stylish international adventurer, teams up with Sally, a former dancer, who becomes his wife. Together, they experience multiple adventures, involving them in conflicts with manifold traffickers and dangerous mobsters.
- Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
- After her husband's accidental death, a 50-something ex-lawyer returns to service, but as an investigating judge. In addition to this new job, she must grapple with the problems of daily life and a bad relationship with her son.
- Over several generations, the history of French Algeria, from 1830 to 1962, is told through the saga of two families of settlers living in the region of Algiers.
- In 1867, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the adventures of the revolutionary count Mathias Sandorf who, having escaped an attack which cost the life of his wife, returns years later to take revenge on his political enemies.
- Diverse adaptations of the master of Gothic fantasy by great directors. In late 19th Century New England, love stories are often evil. Victims are confronted with vengeful specters or their own delusions, fruits of their psychotic madness.
- The story of the creation of the Suez Canal and of the man who made it possible: French diplomat and visionary entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps.
- Widow of a chief of police, Miss, a smart fifty-something, is now leading her own investigations with the help of her faithful friend Honoré.
- A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove that the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. With his friend, French explorer and natural scientist Martial de Sassenage, Thomas Waghorn leaves London in October 1829 with the aim of reaching Bombay in India in three months. The owner of a shipping line fears for his company's future should the two adventurers succeed, so he sends his agents to delay them along their way.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the second part where the boys find themselves stranded on the island.
- A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism, theater or politics, the trait is fierce and portraits without concession.
- In Paris, a parking enforcement officer is tired of handing out tickets. While walking the city's streets, she finds herself embroiled in intrigues and decides to act alone in her investigations to the exasperation of her department head.
- During the Dutch Golden Age, we follow the journey, schemes, and adventures of Antonello, a young Napolitan painter, from Italy to Holland, in search of the manufacturing secrets of the Flemish oil painting.
- Wild passions, adventure, stormy love destiny and beautiful scenery, just few elements from this dazzling saga about life of Chateaubriand, one of the French greatest writers.
- After the death of his uncle, Georges, a shy young man, inherits an old sailboat even if he knows nothing about the sea. With the help of his very sly cousin Florence, and a few friends, he decides to put the ship back afloat in Aquitaine.
- The fate of five former student friends, from 1937 to 1969, as their youthful utopian hopes in brotherhood between the nations and a better society will be shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War and then the Cold War.
- Albert (Michael York), a distinguished art dealer lives in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky (Florinda Bolkan). In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose (Charlotte Valandrey), the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her. He leaves for Paris. To resolve the mystery. To assist in the search, he enlists the help of his friend, Jean (Bernard Fresson) the boy who he fought for Rose's love. To begin their search, their only due is an enlargement of the photograph of the couple kissing. From the small details of the photograph, Albert finally finds the identity of the boy kissing Rose in the photograph. He goes to meet him and the man recounts his last days with Rose, had told him that someone was stalking her. From the conversation, Albert intuitively feels that the stalker must be his friend, Jean. Among the photographs which Mrs. Labronsky had given him, Albert finds in the background of a photo, Jean's face while he tries to be inconspicuous. When Albert confronts him, Jean confesses that he had kidnapped Rose in order to have her, and in desperation he had killed her and hidden her body.
- An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
- Over several generations, the story of an aristocratic French family spanning the 20th Century, from the two World Wars to the social and political upheavals of May 1968. Facing adversity, old Duke Sosthène tries to keep traditions alive.
- The spirit of this series is very unusual but not fantastic. In these stories, the unusual is capricious everyday life, offbeat realism, that is to say that the facts are ordinary until the moment when the situation slips into the unusual.
- Follows the peregrinations of a modern day adventurer, Raner, a former gangster presumed dead, who hides himself under the identity of Mr. Duvallier, a wealthy patrician determined to improve the lot of humanity.
- Mandrin, a brigand from a province in southeastern France, is at the head of a band of thieves who rob the tax officers of King Louis XV and distribute the money to the poor. Inspiring revolt, he quickly takes the lead of an imposing army.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the first part where the group of boys find themselves adrift at sea.
- At the start of the 1930s, when Europe is hit by an unprecedented economic, social and political crisis, the destinies of two families, one from the bourgeoisie and the other from the working class, intertwines insidiously.
- Alice and Edgar, nicknamed "The Captain", lead a rather miserable existence. They are embittered by life and reject each other's failures.
- The tragic destiny of Lucien Leuwen, a Republican lieutenant and son of a rich Parisian banker, in love with a young and charming widow, Ms. Bathilde de Chasteller, a Royalist from the aristocracy, under the reign of King Louis-Philippe I.
- Returning home after the end of the Napoleonic wars and the defeat of Waterloo, a former soldier of the Grande Armée tries to his life while his family is persecuted during the restoration. He then sets on getting revenge on the murderer of his younger brother by infiltrating a dangerous organization.
- During a vacation by the sea, two middle-class women, initially distant, bond with a deep friendship. They become so accomplices that they end up ganging up against their macho husbands. How far will they go in this battle of the sexes?
- At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry de Monfreid, a famous French adventurer living in East Africa, decides to create a company to collect pearl oysters on the shores of the Red Sea.
- The secret drawer - the series. Colette, a woman who has just suddenly lost her third husband in a plane crash, discovers that he had contracted a large debt without her knowing it. Colette must then investigate who her husband really was.
- A reporter who had his heyday in the Vietman War, leaves for Karmak, a country at war, where he hopes to obtain proof of the use of chemical weapons against the civilian population, as arrangements are made for a conference on disarmament.
- The story of an actual financial swindle that scandalised Parisian society in the early 1900s.
- In each adventure of this anthology series, a great detective, hero of international crime novels, leads the investigation in his own famous way: Nick Carter, Sherlock Holmes, Auguste Dupin, Slim Callaghan, Mr. Lecoq, Inspector Wens, etc.