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- DirectorMarc DugainStarsJoséphine JapyOlivier GourmetValérie BonnetonFelix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
- DirectorXavier GiannoliStarsBenjamin VoisinCécile de FranceVincent LacosteLucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJeanne BalibarGuillaume DepardieuBulle OgierIn Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- DirectorYves AngeloStarsGérard DepardieuFanny ArdantFabrice LuchiniColonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.
- DirectorRené Le HénaffStarsRaimuMarie BellJacques BaumerAn Empire colonel, left for dead on a battlefield, returns to Paris and finds his wife remarried.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsPierre BaillotGilette BarbierJean-Pierre BastidA shorter version of Out 1 (1971), however some of the omitted scenes of the long version are included.
- StarsYves RénierFrançois ChaumetteDenis ManuelIn 1819 Angoulême, ambitious young poet Lucien Chardon mingles with high society at Mme de Bargeton's salon. Dreaming of glory in Paris, he finds the capital city offers both fame and bitter disappointment.
- DirectorFernand RiversStarsFernand GraveySuzy PrimAndré Brunot
- DirectorJean-Daniel VerhaegheStarsAlexandra LondonJean CarmetDominique LabourierWhen 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.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsAlida ValliGualtiero TumiatiGiorgio De LulloEugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
- DirectorEmilio Gómez MurielStarsMarga LópezJulio VillarrealAndrea PalmaOn the day that Eugenia Grandet turns 21, her miserly father gives her a valuable gold coin, like every year. Carlos, Eugenia's cousin, arrives at the celebration with a letter. Thanks to the letter, the old Grandet finds out that his brother, Carlos's father, is bankrupt and is going to commit suicide, begging him to take care of his son, who does not know the content of the letter. Eugenia tries to comfort Carlos when he finds out about the death of his father, and they both fall in love. Grandet opposes the wedding of them because he believes that Carlos covets his daughter's money.
- DirectorPierre BillonStarsMichel SimonMadeleine SologneRenée AlbouyMichel Simon vehicle and Balzac adaptation: An escaped convict, putting on priest's garb, manoeuvres his way into 19tn century French society and pressures his young protege to marry for money, not love.
- DirectorJacques de BaroncelliStarsEdwige FeuillèrePierre Richard-WillmAimé ClariondThe Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against her.
- DirectorJean-Daniel VerhaegheStarsLaure DuthilleulRobin RenucciEdwige FeuillèreTold as a flashback, the story of the thwarted love of the Duchess de Langeais and the Marquis de Montriveau, when he comes to look for the Duchess in the convent where she hides, but also refuses to see him for reasons of religious faith.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsNorma TalmadgeAdolphe MenjouWedgwood NowellThe Duchess de Langeais has a love affair, as in the novel by H. de Balzac.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsGina ManèsMarcelle SchmittMadame DelaunayBased on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper steals from the merchant, but when he awakes in the morning he finds the merchant dead and his friend gone. When the stolen property is found on him he is arrested for the crime and executed. 25 years later the innkeeper's daughter relates the tale to a traveler, who in turn later relates it at a dinner party. At that party is Frederic Taillefer, the missing friend and murderer.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsFernandelFrançoise RosayMarie-Claire OliviaA group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsCharles BoyerClaire PréliaSuzanne DorisNolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns with his evil genius friend Gwenn la Taupe. The sea will be his judge.
- DirectorHenri CalefStarsJean MaraisMarcel HerrandPierre Dux
- DirectorPierre BlancharStarsPierre BlancharMicheline PresleGeneviève MorelThe French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara Biondi (Micheline Presle), whose peak years are shown in flashback. Clara finds herself victimized by blackmailer -- and former lover -- James de Poulet (Robert Vattier). As it turns out, she will do anything to keep her sordid past from husband Gerard de Clergue (Pierre Blanchar). Director Pierre Blanchar (who also appeared in the film) evidently felt that the flashback format was the best method to convey de Balzac's tricky narrative style.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsJean CarmetMichel BouquetMicheline BoudetFather Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
- DirectorJean-Daniel VerhaegheStarsCharles AznavourTchéky KaryoMalik ZidiA poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
- DirectorGuy JorréStarsCharles VanelBruno GarcinRoger JacquetThe play opens with an description of a boarding house in Paris.in which, the young Rastignac, being for high society,is fined with Goriot,who bankrupts himself to support his two well-married daughters but be rejected by them eventually.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsJetta GoudalLionel BarrymoreMary BrianIn a Paris boardinghouse, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all while hiding his own secret.
- DirectorRobert VernayStarsPierre RenoirClaude GéniaLise Delamare
- DirectorAndré CayatteStarsDanielle DarrieuxLise DelamareMonique JoyceGuy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court her but Guy is becoming suspicious so René has to find a way to deflect his friend's suspicion. He finally has an idea: he asks Lilian, a circus acrobat, to pose as his mistress. Lilian accepts and they embark on a series of eventful moments.
- StarsGeorges GéretBruno GarcinHolger LöwenadlerStory of crimes, love and high society scandals.