Au cœur des Carpates, il est un monde de légendes et de mystères : la Transylvanie... Une terre où le mal règne en maître absolu, où le danger rôde dès le coucher du soleil, où prennent corps les monstres qui hantent nos cauchemars les plus secrets. Van Helsing est un ténébreux professeur et chasseur de monstres. Sa mission l'amène à affronter de terribles êtres, parmi lesquels le loup-garou, la créature de Frankenstein ou encore le comte Dracula, qui, depuis des générations, persécute la famille de l'intrépide et aristocratique Anna Valerious.
En l'an de grâce 1482 à Paris, Quasimodo, jeune orphelin contrefait, est le sonneur de Notre-Dame. Il vit reclus dans le clocher sous la férule du puissant juge Frollo, son maître. Ses seules amies sont les gargouilles la Rocaille, la Muraille et la Volière. Quasimodo rêve de vivre libre au milieu de tous ceux qu'il observe depuis longtemps. Ce moment tant attendu se présente le jour de la fête des fous et, désobéissant à Frollo, il se mêle au peuple venu célébrer la nouvelle année.
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
En « l'an de grâce » 1482, Gringoire, troubadour, entreprend de raconter l'histoire dont il a été témoin. Les bohémiens, guidé par Clopin, arrivent dans Paris et comptent s'y installer quelque temps. Mais cela ne plaît pas à Frollo, archevêque de la cathédrale Notre-Dame. Utilisant le pouvoir de l'église, il convainc Phœbus, un jeune chevalier chef des archers du roi, de les expulser. Mais il n'avait pas prévu que parmi ces sans-papiers, se trouverait une jeune femme dont Phœbus tomberait amoureux. Cette jeune femme s'appelle Esmeralda. Elle est très jolie, a la protection de Clopin et est « la reine de la Cour des miracles »… Naïve, elle tombe sous le charme de ce beau chevalier, ignorant qu'elle est également devenue la « cible » de deux autres personnes. Cela crée alors un carré amoureux entremêlé à un autre triangle amoureux.
A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of Notre-Dame and of his impossible and tragic love for Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy. A love condemned by injustice and hypocrisy. Quasimodo forced by his ugliness to look at the world from the top of a tower one day he falls madly in love with Esmeralda who sees dancing and singing on the square in front of the cathedral. But Esmeralda is in love with Febo, the handsome captain of the King's guards. Febo is fiancé of Fiordaliso, a young and rich bourgeois, but the exotic and sensual beauty of the gypsy does not leave indifferent the man who immediately falls in love with her. Even Frollo, the archdeacon of the cathedral, is attracted by the gypsy and spying on the moves of the two lovers in a raptus of jealousy and repressed carnal desire to get rid of the rival stabbing Febo behind.
A fictional documentary on Notre Dame de Paris, produced in 2019.
The collaboration between architects, scientists, archaeologists and engineers in their efforts to restore Notre Dame.
Taking you back inside the world-famous Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in France. It’s three years since the inferno devastated the vast timber and lead roof and the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece is now at a critical turning point. Work to rebuild the monument is being ramped up, with 200 scientists, historians, restorers and construction workers now on site. They’re racing to meet an ambitious deadline; to reopen Notre Dame to the public ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games to be held in Paris. 1,200 tons of scaffolding now fills the cathedral, giving the team unprecedented access to every inch of the structure. This not only allows them to restore Notre Dame, but also solve its architectural mysteries.
This ABC documentary special provides a detailed look into the disastrous fire that ravaged Paris' revered Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Firsthand accounts of firefighters, clergy, local officials and those who were inside the cathedral on April 15, 2019, as well as harrowing footage from within the inferno, tell the story of the fire watched around the world.
