French films Romance
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An In the 15th Century, two travelling musicians named Gilles and Dominique arrive at the castle of Baron Hugues, amid celebrations for the impending marriage between Hugues’ daughter Anne and a knight Renaud. The two musicians are in truth emissaries of the Devil, sent to disrupt the wedding for their own amusement...
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In the late 1930s, an apparently wealthy German, Werner von Krale, is involved in trafficking arms in the Far East. He agrees to supply a large consignment of arms to a Chinese General, arms which he intends to buy from an important dignitary in the town of Macao, Ying Tchaï. Unfortunately, Ying Tchaï expects to be paid in advance and von Krale does not have the money...
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Paris, 1887. Douce, a young woman of 17 years, lives with her invalid father, Engelbert de Bonafé, and her domineering grandmother, la comtesse de Bonafé. She is in love with her father’s steward, Fabien, and plans to elope with him. However, Fabien loves Douce’s private tutor and companion, Irène...
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Patrice travels to a remote island to find a young wife for his uncle Marc. There he meets a beautiful blonde named Nathalie, who agrees to return to the mainland to marry Patrice’s uncle, if only to escape her life of penury. The marriage takes place, to the chagrin of Patrice’s aunt Gertrude, who lives in Marc’s chateau with her timid husband and her malicious son...
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At a mountain resort in Haute-Provence, a naive young woman Michèle soon comes tired of the decadence and low moral standards of her fiancé, a drunken artist Roland, and his entourage. She is drawn to a young engineer, Julien, whose diligence and ideals appear to offer her a far better life......
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Philippe Clarence runs a successful fashion house in Paris, but he is also a shameful womaniser. When he learns that his fabric supplier, Daniel, is engaged to be married, he flirts with the future bride, Micheline. However, Micheline falls instantly in love with Philippe and, when Philippe himself realises he is in love...
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The composer Roland Samblaca returns to his home town Carcassonne in the South of France with his family. Whilst visiting an ancient castle, he meets and is enchanted by a young woman, Sylvie, who lives in the castle with her adoptive guardian, Monsieur Toulzac. A retired schoolmaster, Toulzac now occupies his time with his research into the ancient cult of a Christian sect of the Middle...
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Upset when her lover loses interest in her, a society lady, Helène, determines to have her revenge. She contrives for him to meet and fall in love with a former caberet dancer, Agnès, a woman who, unbeknown to Jean, has a reputation as a prostitute. Agnès, tired of men, is living in seclusion with her mother near the Bois du Bologne in Paris...
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Paris in the 1820s. Frederick LeMaître is a young romantic who dreams of becoming a great actor. His first job is in a mime show at the Funambules Theatre in the Boulevard du Temple. Here he meets and befriends a promising mime artist, Baptiste. Both men are in love with a former artist’s model, Garance, who also gets a job at the theatre...
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After a long stay in Switzerland, where he has been receiving treatment for epilepsy, a Russian prince, Muychkine, returns to Saint Petersburg. Impoverished and alone, the only person he can turn to is his distant relative, General Epantchine. The latter is presently preoccupied with his daughter Aglaé’s imminent marriage to the wealthy Totsky...
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A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son and his three daughters. One of his daughters, Belle, is exploited and maltreated by the other two, who are selfish and spiteful. One day, the merchant loses his way in a forest and finds himself in a strange castle. He picks a rose for his daughter Belle, causing the castle’s owner to appear...
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The pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her. To his chagrin, his adopted son, Jean, is also in love with Gertrude, even though he is shortly to be married to another woman. Jean’s fiancée is jealous of Gertrude and arranges for her to...
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February 1945. In the Paris underground, a manual worker, Jean Diego, meets a tramp who introduces himself as Fate. The tramp foretells that the worker will fall in love with a beautiful woman and that his next few hours will be very dramatic. To Jean’s incredulity the prophecy begins to come true when he meets Malou...
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In a small provincial town, Blanche Ferrand and her uncle own a shop which sells seed and birds. Blanche resents her drab milieu but has no difficulty attracting male suitors who might offer her an escape. One of these is Martin Roumagnac, a building contractor who falls passionately in love with Blanche as soon as he sees her...
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One evening, Migo, a dancer at a Montmartre nightclub, decides to take her revenge on her cheating boyfriend, Rodrigue. She fires two shots with her revolver, but she misses her target and instead wounds a passer-by, a man named Petrus. When the latter refuses to press charges, Rodrigue slips him a wad of cash, which, unbeknown to Petrus...
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Sylvia is an imaginative 16 year old girl who has fallen in love with the man in an old portrait – Alain de Francigny, her grandmother’s lover who died many years ago in a duel. She is upset when her father is forced to sell the painting to allow them to go on living in their old château. Amused by his daughter’s fantasies...
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Monsieur Sauvage returns to his home town, having left 20 years earlier following an incident in which he was shot by a friend, a rival for the woman he loved. Now director of a ballet company, Sauvage confronts his former friend to seek an explanation for what happened. He meets his former girlfriend, Genevieve, and finds that there is still a mutual attraction...
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Marthe Grangier, a nurse in a military hospital during the First World War, is pressurised into getting married by her parents. She has a relationship with a 17-year old student, François Jaubert, but passes him over when she grows tired of his selfishness and immaturity. Instead, she allows herself to be drawn into a loveless marriage with an army officer...
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Eve Charlier is poisoned by her husband, an unscrupulous state official, so that he can marry her younger sister. At the same moment that she dies, a political agitator, Pierre Dumaine is shot dead by a police informer on the eve of an uprising against the state. Eve and Pierre meet up in the afterlife, where they can observe the world of the living but cannot alter anything...
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Emile Clément is a middle-aged film-maker in 1920s Paris, with more than an eye for the ladies. His younger friend and employee, Jacques, is having less success with women, so Emile offers him some useful advice. One evening, Emile is accosted by a young woman, Madeleine, who has just arrived in Paris with the intention of meeting the film-maker...
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