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Dunkirk
2017 film by Christopher Nolan
Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001 film by Christophe Gans
Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012 film by Laurent Tirard
Macbeth
2015 film directed by Justin Kurzel
Day of the Falcon
2011 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Pan Tadeusz
1999 film directed by Andrzej Wajda
Mon oncle Benjamin
1969 film by Édouard Molinaro
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 film by Bertrand Tavernier
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise
18-minute film by André Calmettes and Charles Le Bargy (1908)
Dien Bien Phu
1992 French film
Un amour de Swann
1984 film by Volker Schlöndorff
Famous Love Affairs
1961 anthology film by Michel Boisrond with four parts
Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth
1912 film
One Nation, One King
2018 film directed by Pierre Schoeller
The Crime Is Mine
2023 film directed by François Ozon
Chouans!
Chouans! is a 1988 French historical adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, and Lambert Wilson. Loosely based on the 1829 novel Les Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, the film is about a woman who must choose between two brothers on opposite sides of the French Civil War of 1793. For her performance in the film, Sophie Marceau received the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Marquise
1997 film directed by Véra Belmont
Dilili in Paris
2018 animated feature film directed by Michel Ocelot
Dacii
1967 film by Sergiu Nicolaescu
Fabiola
1949 film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
The Count of Monte Cristo
1961 film by Claude Autant-Lara
Colonel Chabert
1994 film by Yves Angelo
Massacre at Marble City
1964 film by Paul Martin
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956 film by Sacha Guitry
The Last Mistress
2007 film by Catherine Breillat
L'Auberge rouge
1923 film by Jean Epstein
A Roman Orgy
1911 film by Louis Feuillade
The Royal Exchange
2017 film by Marc Dugain
Venere Imperiale
1962 film by Jean Delannoy
Le Miracle des loups
1924 film by Raymond Bernard
Kolonel Bunker
1996 film by Kujtim Çashku
Les Aventures de Robert Macaire
1925 film directed by Jean Epstein
Yoshiwara
1937 film by Max Ophüls
La Fayette
1961 film by Jean Dréville
Du Guesclin
1948 film by Bernard de Latour
William Tell
1903 film by Lucien Nonguet
The Revenge of Roger
1946 film by André Cayatte
La Dame aux Camélias
1934 film by Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
The Battle
1934 film directed by Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Mata Hari, agent H 21
1964 film directed by Jean-Louis Richard
Les Deux orphelines
1965 film by Riccardo Freda
L'Autrichienne
1990 film by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Madame Sans-Gêne
1911 French film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and André Calmettes
Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951 film by Robert Florey
Christopher Columbus
1904 film directed by Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn
Imperial Violets
1924 film
Volpone
1941 French film directed by Maurice Tourneur and Jacques de Baroncelli
The Agony of the Eagles
1922 silent film by Julien Duvivier, Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
The Lafarge Case
1938 film by Pierre Chenal
The Eaglet
1913 film by Emile Chautard
Dreigroschenoper
1962 film by Wolfgang Staudte
The Hour of the Pig
1993 film by Leslie Megahey
Lucrezia Borgia
1935 French historical film directed by Abel Gance
Entente cordiale
1939 film by Marcel L'Herbier
Catherine of Russia
1963 film by Umberto Lenzi
Vidocq
1923 film directed by Jean Kemm
Jean Chouan
1926 film by Luitz-Morat
The Postmaster's Daughter
1938 film by Victor Tourjansky
Ferragus
1923 film by Gaston Ravel
Nez de cuir
Leathernose (, ) is a 1952 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Yves Allégret and starring Jean Marais, Françoise Christophe and Mariella Lotti. It is an adaptation of the 1936 novel by Jean de La Varende, set in France in the years after the Napoleonic Wars. It was shot at the Joinville Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch.