Films like Madame Bovary

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   La Cérémonie

   Film · 1995 · also drama

   Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand u...

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   The Count of Monte Cristo

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If,...

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   Coco Before Chanel

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress...

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   Colette

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual...

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   The Public Woman

   Film · 1984 · also drama

   An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her l...

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   Les Misérables

   Film · 2012 · also drama

   An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must fle...

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   The Swimming Pool

   Film · 1969 · also drama

   Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their...

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   The Prodigal Daughter

   Film · 1981 · also drama

   A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries...

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   No Chains, No Masters

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantatio...

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    The Passengers of the Night

    Film · 2022 · also drama

    On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an...

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