Adventure, Drama
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Johan
Concerto for an Exile
Ben-Hur
Paris, 13th District
Henry V
French Connection II
Hercules
The Pink Panther
The Virgin Spring
All Quiet on the Western Front
Camille Claudel
Fine Manners
Voyages
Flesh + Blood
One to Another
Brideshead Revisited
The Woman Next Door
Charlotte Gray
Anything for Her
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
SIMILAR MOVIES
Johan
IMDB 5.9 | May , 1976
Johan details the director's quest for an actor to play his titular lover, the real deal having been incarcerated just prior to shooting on charges of petty theft.Concerto for an Exile
IMDB 5.6 | Jan , 1968
Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?Ben-Hur
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2016
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.Paris, 13th District
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2021
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.Henry V
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1989
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.French Connection II
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1975
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.Hercules
IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1997
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!The Pink Panther
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 2006
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.The Virgin Spring
IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 1960
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.All Quiet on the Western Front
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 1979
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.Camille Claudel
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1988
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.Fine Manners
IMDB 5.8 | Oct , 1978
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.Voyages
IMDB 2 | Jul , 2019
A woman meets a man in a bar late in the evening and goes to his apartment. A woman picks up a girl from school and runs with the child through the park. If we see such scenes in a movie, or are we watching such situations in life, we quickly believe we know who these women are: a woman looking for a fleeting adventure in the first scene, a caring mother in the second.Flesh + Blood
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1985
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.One to Another
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 2006
A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters - from his sister Lucie, with whom he has a heated incestuous relationship, to a city councilor with whom he participates in gay orgies. When Pierre turns up dead, Lucie investigates the reasons for his demise and charts the network of sadomasochistic relationships that crisscross the town.Brideshead Revisited
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 2008
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, painter Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.The Woman Next Door
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1981
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.Charlotte Gray
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2001
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.Anything for Her
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2008
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 2006
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.