Cécil Saint-Laurent

The film tells the tragical story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men. (imdb)

Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs. (imdb)

Through her answers to police inspector Corbin's questions, investigating Dr Danieli's suicide, Catherine Racan draws her self-portrait (imdb)

Ste-Marguerite citadel, France's most isolated island prison, holds a mysterious captive, whose iron-masked face nobody may see on pain of death. Cardinal Mazarin, who rules France in the name of immature king Louis XIV, needs to marry him off to a Spanish infante to seal a peace treaty, but finds him dangerously flirtatious and diagnosed terminally ill. He sends the unstoppable musketeer Charles d'Artagnan and his three buddies to secretly bring the captive, in his mask. (imdb)

Hélène, who has just broken up with Raoul, a dentist, lets herself be seduced (though not without great resistance) by the obstinate Serge. Raoul, a modern Don Juan, now focuses on charming Sophie, a pretty patient of his, but is beaten on the finish line by... the young woman's ex-husband. On the prowl again, Raoul, usually an experienced lover, makes the first flop of his career with Mathilde, too beautiful and too quick-witted a creature for him. (imdb)

Des sees Manon at the airport and it is love at first sight. They start a relationship but he soon finds out that she may be cheating on him. Manon loves Des but since he can't afford the luxurious lifestyle she desires, she decides to continue her affairs with richer men, much to Des' frustration.

In the early 16th Century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband murdered. But without her brother's knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.

France, July 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats is enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginning to get underway. At the insistence of her father, 16-year-old Caroline de Bièvre must marry the politician Georges Berthier, but she is in love with the younger, more handsome Gaston de Sallanches. (imdb)

The story follows young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. (imdb)

Italy during the Napoleonic wars: a French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta, the resolute daughter of an Italian count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French. (imdb)

A small-town schoolgirl visits Paris, falls for a police inspector, then decides to hang around and win his heart.