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- 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.
- The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- 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 student Partrick becomes involved in an espionage affair while on vacation in Norway with his parents.
- 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.
- Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Over several generations, the history of French Algeria, from 1830 to 1962, is told through the saga of two families of settlers living in the region of Algiers.
- 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.
- This is a collection of thirteen stories by famous writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
- The spirit of this series is very unusual but not fantastic. In these stories, the unusual is capricious everyday life, offbeat realism, that is to say that the facts are ordinary until the moment when the situation slips into the unusual.
- The fate of five former student friends, from 1937 to 1969, as their youthful utopian hopes in brotherhood between the nations and a better society will be shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War and then the Cold War.
- 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.
- 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.
- Diverse adaptations of the master of Gothic fantasy by great directors. In late 19th Century New England, love stories are often evil. Victims are confronted with vengeful specters or their own delusions, fruits of their psychotic madness.
- In Normandy, in 1919, the gardener of the Courseau family's estate discovers an abandoned newborn baby on his doorstep. He adopts him, and raises this mysterious child in the double intimacy of his own family and that of the aristocrats.
- 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.
- 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.