Movies and TvShows featuring "affair-of-the-necklace" theme.

Lady Oscar is a tomboyish girl who is raised as a man and serves as the leader of the French royal guard. She faces challenges and struggles in a society divided by class and gender, as she fights against the injustices of the French monarchy and seeks justice for the oppressed.

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

The Queen’s Hamlet is a palace disguised as a peasant’s cottage hidden in the Versailles gardens. A romantic hide-away, Marie Antoinette conceived it as a reminder of her carefree youth in Vienna. The Revolution left it for a ruin. 230 years after its construction, it reopens to the public, restored to its original glory, as an extraordinary jewel of Versailles. Following the restoration, this docudrama in 4K uncovers Marie Antoinette’s greatness as a master of fashion and revisit the saga of France’s legendary Queen. An intimate portrait of a ‘too-modern woman’ caught in the whirlwinds of History.

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.

This documentary takes a deep dive into the remarkable life and work of Elisabeth Vigee Labrun, a prominent portrait painter of 18th-century France. From her affair-of-the-necklace scandal to her contributions during the French Revolution, this film offers a fascinating glimpse into the artist's life and the historical events she lived through.