Movies and TvShows featuring "french-literature" theme.
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.
Jules and Jim is a drama/romance film set in 1910s Paris, revolving around a love triangle between two friends, Jules and Jim, and a woman named Catherine. The film explores themes of love, friendship, jealousy, and the complexities of relationships. As they navigate their way through their unconventional love triangle, the characters experience joy, heartbreak, and the inevitable consequences of their choices.
During the German occupation of France in World War Two, a French family is forced to host a German officer and a silent protest begins when they refuse to speak to him.
Goodbye to Language is an avant-garde film that explores complex themes such as love, unhappiness, and existential loneliness. It follows the story of a young woman and her relationship with a man, using metaphorical elements like a park bench, a painting, and memories of the past. The film delves into philosophical ideas and includes scenes depicting bodily functions like excrement, flatulence, and blood. It challenges traditional narrative structures and offers an intellectual and introspective experience for viewers.
En route to a party, two strangers get stuck in an elevator on New Year's Eve — and find themselves connecting in unexpected ways.
Madame Bovary follows the story of Emma Bovary, a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage who seeks passion and excitement. Despite her efforts to live beyond her means, she finds herself trapped in a world of debt and deceit. As her mental instability grows, Emma begins a series of affairs that lead to her tragic downfall.
Maestro is a charming film about love and the creative process, set in the beautiful and quaint French countryside. It follows the story of a film crew working on a movie and explores the relationships and dynamics between the different characters. With elements of naturalism and poetry, Maestro captures the essence of romance and the magic of filmmaking.
Lovers of the Café Flore is a biography drama set in Paris, exploring the lives and loves of writers. The story follows the journey of an author and her experiences in an open relationship, delving into themes of male homosexuality, French literature, philosophy, and feminism.
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, breaks parole and is pursued by the relentless Inspector Javert. As he assumes a new identity and rises to become a respected factory owner, his past catches up with him, threatening to destroy the lives of those he cares about.
Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell(2023)
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi officer.
Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages.
The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
An animated Gothic tale based on Gérard de Nerval’s short story about a young man crossed in love, who asks the wizard Gonin for help and suffers the consequences.
Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, caused the same explosion in the 19th century France as in that of the 1960s, when Jacques Rivette decided to adapt it, with Anna Karina in the title role. “This film is banned and it will remain so!” said the General de Gaulle. Exploration of an indictment of incredible modernity which, through the tragedy of the young Suzanne, locked up in the convent against her will, denounces the inequity of a society denying women all moral, political and sexual freedom.