Napoleon Bonaparte and his Age in the Movies

How could Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and thus of attack, can he dream up to loosen his jailers' grip? On Saint Helena, the far-flung island chosen by his enemies, Napoleon fights a mysterious battle, his last and most important, and one that history has kept secret all these years.

Una película sobre la juventud del general francés y su carrera militar temprana.

Napoleón Bonaparte pasa de ser un general sin sueldo consumido por la ambición a convertirse en el hombre más poderoso de Europa gracias a su coraje y a su amor a la patria; después, su caída y su exilio.

Durante el exilio de Napoleón en Santa Elena, algunos leales contratan a un parecido para intercambiar lugares con el emperador. Mientras el impostor vive lujosamente en la isla, el verdadero Napoleón regresa a París para retomar el trono.

The story of Tyrolean folk hero Andreas Hofer, who led his people in their resistance against the occupation of their country by Bavarian troops in the year 1809.

Francia, 1801. Por un incidente menor, el teniente d'Hubert, menudo y educado, se ve obligado a batirse en duelo con el irracional e impetuoso teniente Feraud. El altercado da lugar a muchísimos duelos que se prolongan durante años.

Con el declive de todo lo que ha luchado por conseguir, el conquistador Napoleón Bonaparte y su ejército se enfrentan a los británicos en la batalla de Waterloo.

Durante las guerras napoleónicas, un intrépido capitán británico presiona a su barco y tripulación hasta el límite, en busca de un formidable barco de guerra francés que navega por Sudamérica.

In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.

Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications.

La soule is the name of a bag full of sand used as a football and of the game itself. That game has no rule; it's a mix of football, boxing and wrestling. Death can occur so accidentally, so unpunished as it happened so often. Well a match is ceduled in a village and a horse thief responsible for the death of many soldiers of Napoleon will play. So their lieutnant intend to play either.

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?

La relación agitada de Napoleón con Rusia, incluida su desastrosa invasión de 1812, sirven como escenario para las complicadas vivencias personales de dos familias aristocráticas.

La aristocracia rusa se prepara para la invasión francesa en vísperas de 1812.

Onegin hereda la finca de su tío y se muda allí desde San Petersburgo. Se hace amigo de su vecino, Lensky, y conoce a Tatyana a través de él. Ella se enamora de Onegin pero él solo quiere amistad.

Las tumultuosas relaciones de Napoleón con Rusia, incluida su desastrosa invasión de 1812, sirven de telón de fondo a las enmarañadas vidas personales de cinco familias aristocráticas rusas.

In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and fiery passion. They lived together for 28 years, 18 of these living in sin, 10 a married couple. Christiane's rival, Charlotte von Stein, a former favorite of Goethe, begins plotting and scheming against her. Christiane puts up with countless insults and humiliations like having to 'disappear' with their son into the servants' quarters and to stay at home on official occasions. Goethe marries her when she saves his life during an attack by plundering Napoleonic soldiers. Her new social position as Goethe's wife is resented and envied by all. When she is openly attacked by the snooty, jealous people, Goethe is only half-hearted in coming to her defence. But she stays with him for he is her great love, even when she turns to the charms of many youthful admirers...

Una multitud llena las calles de Viena para rendir homenaje al genio Ludwig Van Beethoven. En su testamento, ha legado todo lo que poseía a una mujer desconocida, su amor inmortal. La única pista para descubrir su identidad es una carta.

El pintor Francisco Goya se enfrenta a un escándalo cuando su musa es acusada de herejía.

Un relato ficticio del último año de vida de Beethoven.

Film about the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), concentrating on his ardent affair with Susette Gondard.

La inteligente y luchadora hija de un pintor fallecido comienza a ascender en una sociedad que aleja a las mujeres del reconocimiento.

La ascensión de Becky Sharp desde orígenes humildes a la alta sociedad y su posterior caída se relata en el contexto de las Guerras Napoleónicas en la Inglaterra y Europa de la era de la Regencia.

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess