Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 382
- Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge.
- When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship.
- The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- The tonic and tender story of Zita, a prostitute, and Titane, a young African kid left by the roadside, who meet by purely coincidental timing. A truly complicit duet that embarks on a modern day fairy tale filled with humor and tolerance.
- A group of young New Zealand school boys find themselves adrift at sea in the South Pacific, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where, threatened by pirates, they must learn to get along together to survive.
- Heinrich von Alternberg returns home to find that the estate his father has left him is penniless. The non-conformist German count decides to adopt a more everyday appellation of Henry Altern and earn his keep through private detective work, discovering he has a knack for it. Often, he's aided by his ex-wife, journalist Lisa Prentice.
- When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
- In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.
- The student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
- During the Dutch Golden Age, we follow the journey, schemes, and adventures of Antonello, a young Napolitan painter, from Italy to Holland, in search of the manufacturing secrets of the Flemish oil painting.
- Sam, a wealthy and stylish international adventurer, teams up with Sally, a former dancer, who becomes his wife. Together, they experience multiple adventures, involving them in conflicts with manifold traffickers and dangerous mobsters.
- The adventures and setbacks of a group of young students who, in order to earn some extra money and pay for their studies, perform courier services in and around Paris. On the job, they meet folks unfairly accused of crimes they will help.
- Au début de la colonie en Nouvelle-France, la jeune Amérindienne Shehaweh est enlevée par des guerriers Ouendats. Des Blancs viennent à son secours et la confient à Marguerite Bourgeoys qui la baptise et entreprend son éducation. Devenue jeune femme, elle est déportée en France par le marquis de Tracy et présentée à la cour de Louis XIV. Après avoir désobéi à sa protectrice, elle est enfermée à la Pitié-Salpêtrière. Quelques années plus tard, elle revient en Nouvelle-France en tant que fille du roy et se voit forcée de se marier. Après deux ans de mariage, elle quitte son mari et tente de convaincre Frontenac de lui permettre de retourner parmi les siens.
- After her husband's accidental death, a 50-something ex-lawyer returns to service, but as an investigating judge. In addition to this new job, she must grapple with the problems of daily life and a bad relationship with her son.
- Christophe, a French photographer is in Ireland on an assignment. After being beaten up by three brothers, members of the rugby team he is photographing, he discovers that a one night stand with Spring, an Irish girl, ten years ago didn't remain without consequences, and that he is the father of her child. Christoph returns to Ireland with a friend, determined to meet his son. He falls for the boy's mother once again and is determined to marry her. But Spring has other ideas.
- Inspector Lavardin, a deadpan police detective known for his unkind manners, conducts his investigations in his own particular way, not always to everyone's taste.
- In 1867, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the adventures of the revolutionary count Mathias Sandorf who, having escaped an attack which cost the life of his wife, returns years later to take revenge on his political enemies.
- In Paris, a parking enforcement officer is tired of handing out tickets. While walking the city's streets, she finds herself embroiled in intrigues and decides to act alone in her investigations to the exasperation of her department head.
- At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry de Monfreid, a famous French adventurer living in East Africa, decides to create a company to collect pearl oysters on the shores of the Red Sea.
- A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove that the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. With his friend, French explorer and natural scientist Martial de Sassenage, Thomas Waghorn leaves London in October 1829 with the aim of reaching Bombay in India in three months. The owner of a shipping line fears for his company's future should the two adventurers succeed, so he sends his agents to delay them along their way.
- Roi Mystère, aka the King of the Catacombs, lives underground in the ossuary and tunnels of Paris. He defies the police of Napoleon III, has a clandestine army bringing together thugs and beggars and plots to satisfy a 20-year-old revenge.
- A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
- The story of the creation of the Suez Canal and of the man who made it possible: French diplomat and visionary entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps.
- Follows the investigations of Inspectors Tarrant and Ascain who, within the Closed Cases Department, are trying to locate the criminals of unsolved cases. Viewers know, from the start of each story, the nature of the crime and its culprit.