Valse royale (1935)
Jean Grémillon

In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth...   [More...]

La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais

On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion inside the dome...   [More...]

La Vie parisienne (1936)
Robert Siodmak

In 1900, the wealthy Brazilian Ramiro Mendoza is enjoying his stay in Paris when he falls in love with Liane d'Ysigny, the star of a stage production of Jacques Offenbach's La Vie parisienne...   [More...]

Violettes impériales (1952)
Richard Pottier

At Grenada, in 19th Century Spain, Eugénie de Montijo asks a gypsy girl, Violetta, to read her fortune in her hand...   [More...]

Zouzou (1934)
Marc Allégret

Zouzou and Jean, two orphans, are raised as brother and sister by circus artiste Père Mélé. Many years later, they live together in Paris, Zouzou working as a laundress, Jean as an electrician for a musical theatre, the Folies...   [More...]