Movies and TvShows featuring "balzac" theme.

Stolen Kisses follows Antoine Doinel, a young man in Paris who struggles with love, relationships, and finding his place in the world. He bounces from job to job, gets involved in various romantic entanglements, and navigates the complexities of life in the city of love.

Two young men, sent to a remote mountain village for re-education during the Cultural Revolution, discover a forbidden stash of Western literature and a beautiful seamstress who captivates them both. As they embark on a journey of self-discovery, they face the challenges of love, loss, and the suffocating ignorance of their time.

In Plucking the Daisy (1956), a reporter enters a striptease contest in Paris, hoping to win the prize money to save a museum. Along the way, he deals with a lack of money, a complex relationship with his daughter, and various deception.

Albert Savarus is a comedic drama movie based on the novel 'Albert Savarus' by Balzac. The story follows the life of Albert, a charming and eccentric character who navigates the complexities of love and friendships.

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.