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France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years. Director Ridley Scott Stars Keith Carradine Harvey Keitel Albert Finney.
4. Le roi danse. 2000 1h 55m. 6.9 (2.4K) Rate. Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles.
- Napoléon (1927) Director: Abel Gance. The two most celebrated French historical films of the silent era could hardly be more different in their scope and impact.
- Les Misérables (1934) Director: Raymond Bernard. Scarcely less ambitious than Gance’s silent epic (and shot by the same man: Jules Kruger), Raymond Bernard’s four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of Victor Hugo’s mammoth 19th-century door-stopper is one of the major achievements of the early sound period – Hollywood wouldn’t attempt anything like this unwieldy duration as a talkie until Gone with the Wind in 1939.
- Les Enfants du paradis (1945) Director: Marcel Carné. During the Second World War, the Vichy government imposed a 90-minute maximum duration on any native film production – so the vast scope of historical projects like Napoléon and Les Misérables was actively prevented.
- Madame de… (1953) Director: Max Ophüls. We’re spoilt for choice when it comes to French period films of the 1950s, a decade when postwar nostalgia for the belle époque brought forth such all-timers as Jacques Becker’s Casque d’or (1952), Max Ophüls’ Le Plaisir (1952) and Jean Renoir’s French Cancan (1955).
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him. Director: Bille August | Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson. Votes: 43,106 | Gross: $14.10M. 8.
Apr 12, 2024 · Ranker Film. Updated April 12, 202465.4K views79 items. Ranked By. 3.9K votes. 772 voters. 2 reranks. Voting Rules. Vote up your favorite period films set in the 1800s and the Victorian era. Latest additions: Cabrini, The Peasants. Most divisive: The Revenant.
The Nun (French: La Religieuse) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Guillaume Nicloux. It is based on the 18th-century novel La Religieuse by French writer Denis Diderot . The film premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival . [2]
Apr 2, 2024 · Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution.
