Det är djävulens verk. Det är vad några säger när en serie bisarra dödsfall sker under mystiska omständigheter i ett kloster i 1400-talets Italien. Andra finner samband mellan dödsfallen och uppenbarelseboken. Men William från Baskerville tror något helt annat. Han ämnar finna en mördare genom att använda fakta och förnuft... verktyg som anses vara kätteri. Rosens namn är baserad på Umberto Ecos välkända roman med samma namn. Möt Sean Connery och Christian Slater i spänning utöver det vanliga i denna prisbelönade film.
Den framgångsrika regissören Salvatore Di Vita får bud från sin hemstad att Alfredo dött, ett bud som väcker minnen. Salvatore ser framför sig biografen Paradiso, där maskinisten Alfredo härskade i ensamt majestät. När Alfredo blev blind vid en brand övertog Salvatore hans sysslor och en djup vänskap rådde mellan dem. Paradiso lades ned och Salvatore lovade att aldrig återvända till hemstaden sedan han flyttat därifrån. Trots löftet återvänder Salvatore till Alfredos begravning.
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold those men.
År 1944. En tysk överste lastar ett tåg med ovärderliga franska konstskatter för att sända dessa tillbaka till Tyskland och rädda dem undan de allierade. Motståndsrörelsen måste stoppa tåget utan att skada lasten.
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Den unga Pauline och hennes äldre, nyskilda kusin Marion tillbringar en tid i ett hus vid Normandiekusten. En dag träffar Marion sin f.d. älskare Pierre på stranden. Han presenterar henne för sin vän Henri och samma kväll träffas alla fyra på middag. De pratar om kärlek, går ut och dansar och återigen förklarar Pierre sin kärlek till Marion, som i sin tur redan fallit för Henri. Nästa dag träffar Pauline den jämnårige Sylvain på stranden och en allt vildare kärlekskarusell tar fart.
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.