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- The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- 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.
- 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 student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A guided tour - through historical periods - of the Louvre Museum with international celebrities and movie stars as hosts: Deborah Kerr, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert, Atsuo Nakamura, etc.
- 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.
- Inspired by the biblical legend, this movie retells the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon and the fight of the most beautiful pagan queen to awaken, in the ruler of Israel's heart, a love other than that of heavenly Jerusalem. Having come from her country (located in present-day Yemen) with a caravan and gifts to meet this king known for his wisdom and glory, the queen Balkis embarks on a seduction campaign that soon succeeds. However, she obscurely feels that she will have no real power over him until she breaks down this obstacle between them: his faith. But Balkis cannot understand the real nature of the covenant which unites Solomon to this God who reigns over his heart and mind. She multiplies her sensual traps, attacks diverse religious symbols, eventually coming to profane the Holy of Holies. When touching the Ark of the Covenant, she has to flee, shaken by the revelation of the Invisible and Almighty. On his part, after having felt exasperated by the silence of God and opposed his prophets, Solomon saves her from stoning by an angry crowd. At last they can unite in a truly heavenly embrace.
- Helped by his partner Liu and his mistress Lena, Tang seeks to seize the secret of an absolute weapon: the 327. Facing him, scientist Marbaud tries to counter his plans and to find, in a secret facility, the best defense against the 327.
- Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- '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.
- 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.
- This is a collection of thirteen stories by famous writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wrongly accused of the murder of his partner, a comic book publisher must, at the cost of a thousand adventures, find a 500-franc bank note, on which appears a message from an eluded woman, and which will allow him to prove his innocence.
- Follows the life of Jean-Roch Coignet, son of a peasant, and a self-made man, with an exemplary military career during sixteen campaigns alongside Napoleon Bonaparte, participating in forty-eight battles, without ever having been injured.
- 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.
- At the end of the 18th century, a poor, stubborn, and honest young man rose up socially. But the powerful and shady rulers watch and raise a thousand persecutions against him, so his life is transformed into an erratic chase for the truth.
- 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.
- 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.
- The story of an actual financial swindle that scandalised Parisian society in the early 1900s.
- 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.
- German biochemist Dr. Peter Lester, his wife and 15-year-old son Michael, become the victims of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company in Australia, as young Michael disappears from the heavily guarded research camp in the outback.
- Albert Malican is a former chief of police, now converted into a private detective, who conducts local investigations with the help of his son, Patrick.
- In Normandy, in 1919, the gardener of the Courseau family's estate discovers an abandoned newborn baby on his doorstep. He adopts him, and raises this mysterious child in the double intimacy of his own family and that of the aristocrats.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
- International gangsters who have stolen jewelry in Amsterdam toil to substitute them to the false gems used on stage by dancers of the Paris Opera soon leaving for a tour in Montreal, Canada, where the thieves hope to recover their jewels.