Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "french-aristocrat"

1. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

G | 84 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.

Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart

Votes: 479,621 | Gross: $218.97M

2. The Beast (1975)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti

Votes: 5,347

3. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud

Votes: 69,700 | Gross: $14.28M

4. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron

Votes: 24,873

5. Delicious (2021)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, History

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising talented young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first ever restaurant.

Director: Éric Besnard | Stars: Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe, Guillaume de Tonquédec

Votes: 5,647

6. Ridicule (1996)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche

Votes: 8,182 | Gross: $2.50M

7. Bluebeard (1944)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel

Votes: 2,134

8. The Blancheville Monster (1963)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror

The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.

Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Gérard Tichy, Leo Anchóriz, Ombretta Colli, Helga Liné

Votes: 837

9. Caravan to Vaccares (1974)

PG | 98 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But... See full summary »

Director: Geoffrey Reeve | Stars: David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi

Votes: 443

10. The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)

110 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Knight Godefroy de Montmirail and squire Jacquouille are stranded in 1793. Using trickery to break free from their shackles, both perilously partake in the Montmirail family's run away in the quest for an exiting time-shift.

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Franck Dubosc, Karin Viard

Votes: 4,733

11. Erotic Symphony (1980)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A nobleman and his two lovers - a teenage boy and a runaway nun - plan to kill his mentally fragile wife.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Susan Hemingway, Armando Borges, Mel Rodrigo

Votes: 404

12. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Countess de Saint-Fiacre, having received a terrible anonymous letter predicting her imminent death, summons Commissioner Maigret in the hope that he can protect her and save her from a secret ill-wisher.

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Jacques Morel

Votes: 1,508

13. The Swashbuckler (1971)

Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Michel Auclair

Votes: 1,659

14. Louis XV, le soleil noir (2009 TV Movie)

90 min | History

How Louis XV, a young king loved by his people, sensitive to the artistic and intellectual turmoil of his century (that of the Enlightenment), will end his reign in decay and hatred? Only fifteen years after his death, it's the Revolution.

Director: Thierry Binisti | Stars: Vinciane Millereau, Stanley Weber, François Berland, Féodor Atkine

Votes: 216

15. Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause! (1970)

80 min | Comedy, Crime

Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Jean Le Poulain

Votes: 580

16. Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)

152 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The history of the palace of Versailles from its founding to the present.

Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jeanne Boitel

Votes: 635

17. Count Your Blessings (1959)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Grace hastily marries a French aristocrat during WWII, but is separated by circumstance from him for almost nine years. And when reunited, Charles's philandering causes them to divorce and ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier, Martin Stephens

Votes: 387 | Gross: $1.77M

18. Voltaire (1933)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire ... See full summary »

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen

Votes: 244

19. Slamený klobouk (1972)

88 min | Comedy

Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. The owner of the hat is a married woman who, at the time, is in the embrace of a French officer, ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Iva Janzurová, Vladimír Mensík, Stella Zázvorková

Votes: 149

20. Psychopompos (2018)

16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana (Michaela Dolinová) and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it.

Director: Lucie Gukkertová | Stars: Martin Hudec, Michaela Dolinová, Jared Doreck, Riwaa Nerona

Votes: 45

21. The Secret of a Great Narrator (1972)

101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Alexandre Dumas Sr. is a charming but poor young man who comes to Paris in the 1820s and enters the service of the king. He is hired as a scribe, and from the moment he picks up a pen for the first time, his fate is sealed.

Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Martin Stepánek, Petr Stepánek, Otakar Brousek, Jana Hlavácová

Votes: 40

22. The Hawk (1917)

50 min | Drama

The Hawk, Count George De Dazetta, preys upon society with the aid of his beautiful wife. She seems to be in love with a young French nobleman, who is the real aggressor in this triangle. ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Scardon | Stars: Earle Williams, Ethel Grey Terry, Denton Vane, Julia Swayne Gordon

23. White Lies (1920)

50 min | Drama

Sisters Josephine and Rose De Beaurepaire have so successfully hidden the family's dire financial situation from their mother that when Colonel Raynal arrives to take possession of their ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Gladys Brockwell, William Scott, Josephine Crowell, Evans Kirk

24. The Secret Orchard (1915)

Drama

The sound of merry voices and the clinking of wine glasses came through the closed door of a child's room in an apartment situated in a quarter of Paris where night life predominates and ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Cleo Ridgely, Blanche Sweet, Edward MacKay, Gertrude Kellar

25. Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun (2020)
Episode: Dating (2020)

TV-MA | 18 min | Comedy

The guys score a date and chat about clothes. Zach exaggerates details about a night out and Broden gets a hardcore haircut. And: The Hunk and the Dork.

Director: Max Miller | Stars: Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, Tipper Newton

Votes: 279

26. First Dates (2013– )
Episode: Episode #9.6 (2017)

47 min | Reality-TV, Romance

Can dancing accountant Robert sweep French aristocrat Gladys off her feet? Jack-the-Lad Joey and fashion blogger Jodie had a chance meeting before their date.

Director: Dave Symmons | Stars: Brian Protheroe, CiCi Coleman, Merlin Griffiths, Fred Sirieix

Votes: 8