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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.
- Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After the death of his controlling wife, a retiree decides to take the trip of his dreams to Tahiti, in French Polynesia. All he needs is the money. Poker and the strange complicity of a talking cat will be his best assets to raise funds.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 story of an actual financial swindle that scandalised Parisian society in the early 1900s.
- Follows the investigations of Inspectors Tarrant and Ascain who, within the Closed Cases Department, are trying to locate the criminals of unsolved cases. Viewers know, from the start of each story, the nature of the crime and its culprit.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the forest from which the dusky wolf emerges, Pierre and his friends (the bird, the duck, the cat) find themselves embroiled in a story that could go wrong, but where in the end the cunning little one gets the better of the big bad guy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inspired by the short stories of some science-fiction authors such as Theodore Sturgeon or Jean-Pierre Andrevon, six stories from everyday life which flirt with the world of the strange and the fantastic that is not hidden so far from us.
- 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.
- 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.
- World War I ends in a butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world, and from now on, the surviving French pilots are looking for their new place in the modern world.
- In this famous zoological fantasy composed in 1886, the Andre Tahon Puppets come to life with frenzy, accompanying the humorous musical suite of the looks, noises and movements of certain animals: the lion, kangaroos, hens, elephants, etc.
- Alice and Edgar, nicknamed "The Captain", lead a rather miserable existence. They are embittered by life and reject each other's failures.
- The arrival of an unruly young man in the football team of a small town in France is turning the life of the Mayor upside down. Some revelations about him may well cost him his re-election by a population averse to bribes and scandals.
- 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.
- 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.