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Waterloo (1970)
, 2h14Directed by Serge Bondartchouk
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy
In 1814, after 20 years of military glory Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of France, faces defeat at hands of the sixth coalition, the forces of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia. Facing certain defeat, Napoleon's marshals gather and demand that he abdicate. At first Napoleon violently refuses, but after hearing of the surrender of his last army he agrees.
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
, 1h57Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower (Gregory Peck) commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself "El Supremo" or "The Almighty" (Alec Mango), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush (Robert Beatty), "War breeds strange allies."
Ridicule (1996)
, 1h42Directed by Patrice Leconte
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about disabilities, Political films, Sign-language films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about language and translation, Films about royalty
Actors Bernard Giraudeau, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Dhéran
The film begins in 1783 with the Chevalier de Milletail (Carlo Brandt) visiting the elderly Monsieur de Blayac (Lucien Pascal), confined to his chair. He taunts him about his past prowess in wit and reminds him of how he humiliated him, naming him "Marquis de Clatterbang" when he fell over while dancing. He then urinates on the helpless old man.
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
, 2h19Directed by James Ivory
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones
Set in the period 1784–1789, the film portrays Jefferson when he was US minister to France at Versailles before the French Revolution. French liberals and intellectuals hope he will lead them away from the corruption of the court of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and toward a more democratic form of government. Although deploring the poverty of the common people, he embraces the riches of French culture and civilization. It is his first time abroad, and he takes advantage of the opportunity to extend his knowledge of liberal arts and science while absorbing the refinements France has to offer.
Conquest (1937)
, 1h53Directed by Clarence Brown, Gustav Machatý
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Leif Erickson
Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) launches an unsuccessful seduction of the Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo), who is married to a much older man (Henry Stephenson), but she resists until convinced that giving in will save Poland. After her husband annuls their marriage and Napoleon divorces the Empress Josephine, the pair are free to formalize their happy relationship, but Napoleon shocks her by announcing his decision to wed the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria for political reasons. While he doesn't expect it to impact his relationship with Marie, she leaves him, without ever telling him that she is expecting his child.
The Firefly (1937)
, 2h11Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell
Secret agent Nina Maria Azara (Jeanette MacDonald) is working undercover for the King of Spain (Tom Rutherford) as a singer known as the "Mosca del Fuego" or "Firefly." Despite her love for Captain Andre (Allan Jones), she tricks him so that his general will change the French defensive positions, thus allowing the Duke of Wellington to win the Battle of Vitoria. In the end Nina and Andre leave together for a new life in peace.
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
, 1h58Directed by Charles Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Escroquerie, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Adrien Brody, Joely Richardson, Christopher Walken
Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, orphaned at an early age, is determined to reclaim her royal title and the home taken from her family when she was a child. When she is rebuffed by Marie Antoinette and fails to achieve her goal through legal channels, she joins forces with the arrogant, well-connected gigolo Rétaux de Villette and her own wayward, womanizing husband Nicholas. They concoct a plan to earn her enough money to purchase the property.
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
, 2h8Directed by Jack Conway, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Z. Leonard, Val Lewton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment, French Revolution films
Actors Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Fritz Leiber, Basil Rathbone
On the eve of the French Revolution, Lucie Manette (Elizabeth Allan) is informed that her father (Henry B. Walthall) is not dead, but has been a prisoner in the Bastille for many long years before finally being released. She travels to Paris to take her father to her home in England. Dr. Manette has been taken care of by a friend, Ernest Defarge (Mitchell Lewis), and his wife (Blanche Yurka). The old man's mind has given way during his long ordeal, but Lucie's tender care begins to restore his sanity.
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
, 2h30Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, La cécité, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne, Frank Losee, Frank Puglia
Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton.
Scaramouche (1924)
, 2h4Directed by Rex Ingram, Rex Ingram
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lloyd Ingraham, Lewis Stone, Julia Swayne Gordon, William Humphrey
André-Louis Moreau (Ramon Novarro) loves Aline de Kercadiou (Alice Terry), the niece of his godfather, Quintin de Kercadiou (Lloyd Ingraham), and she him. However Quintin would prefer she married the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr (Lewis Stone), a middle-aged nobleman, rather than someone who does not even know who his parents are.
Reign of Terror (1949)
, 1h29Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd
Already the most powerful man in France, Maximilien Robespierre (Richard Basehart) wants to become the nation's dictator. He summons François Barras (Richard Hart), the only man who can nominate him before the National Convention. Barras refuses to do so and goes into hiding.
Napoleon (1927)
, 5h30Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes French war films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti
The scenario of the film as originally written by Gance was published in 1927 by Librairie Plon. Much of the scenario describes scenes that were rejected during initial editing, and do not appear in any known version of the film. The following plot includes only those scenes that are known to have been included in some version of the film. Not every scene described below can be viewed today.
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
, 3h2Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Ghost films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Iga Cembrzyńska, Kazimierz Opaliński, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Jan Machulski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek
During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.
Lloyd's of London (1937)
, 1h52Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith
On the last day of 1770, youngster Jonathan Blake (Freddie Bartholomew) overhears two sailors discussing something suspicious in his aunt's ale-house in a Norfolk fishing village. He persuades his more respectable best friend, Horatio Nelson (Douglas Scott), to sneak aboard the sailors' ship with him. They overhear a plot involving insurance fraud. When Jonathan decides to warn the insurers, Horatio cannot accompany him, because that same day he is invited to join the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Jonathan walks all the way to London to Lloyd's Coffee House, where the insurers conduct their business. Mr. Angerstein (Guy Standing), the head of one of the syndicates that make up Lloyd's of London, listens to him. Instead of a monetary reward, Jonathan asks to work at Lloyd's as a waiter. Angerstein teaches him that news, "honestly acquired and honestly shared," is the lifeblood of the insurance industry.
André Chénier (1911)
, 15minutesDirected by Louis Feuillade, Étienne Arnaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Léonce Perret, René Navarre, Renée Carl, Edmund Breon, Alice Tissot, René Alexandre
Évocation du poète André Chénier et de son parcours jusqu'à la guillotine.