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- A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
- A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
- A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
- Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes.
- In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy.
- This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.
- There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who's preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker's daughter. It's love at first sight.
- Very well documented, this series allows us to make a foray into the 13th century during the reign of Louis IX (future Saint-Louis) in France, where the daily life of a bourgeois family and the customs of the time are told with panache.
- Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...
- Brissot, an uneventful executive, sees his daily life turned upside down when he learns that he is part of a "cart". Considering himself the victim of injustice, he began a hunger strike at his workplace in order to force management to reinstate him. Quickly, supporters and opponents of the striker clash within the company, while the CEO and his deputy maneuver to expel him as quickly as possible. But the framework is changing, now the devil is in the box.
- Célestin, the organist in a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody-goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover--the Mother Superior's brother - To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée whom he's never even met yet.
- 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.
- Mathieu, a young intern at an Opera record label is sent to the childhood home of a young lyrical singer, Adeline, to interview her.