Guy de Maupassant

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He...

A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

A young journalist is given the chance to become the publisher of a hardcore sex magazine. To prove himself worthy, he goes out in pursuit of sexy,...

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and...

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman...

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses...

A César award winning short film based on the story from Guy de Maupassant depicts six tales from Normandy, alternately funny, moving and...

In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed...

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from...

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa,...

When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past...

Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been...

Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.

Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. She hopes to find adequate lovers for her nieces and along the way finds...

A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a...

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't...

An elderly landowner still refuses to sell her farm and fields to one of her neighbors, who has an obvious interest in her farm. So one day, the...

Two cronies, Brument and Cornu, are on trial. They are accused of attempting to murder Brumant's wife. The woman's interrogation reveals that both...

Blanche was raped in her adolescence by a servant, a cowherd named Baptiste. Her family, anxious to hide the shame that this scandal has cast on...

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In...

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over her, he hires a village wise-woman, Palchowa, to...

A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in...

Paris at the end of the 19th century: Former soldier Georges Duroy is practically penniless after leaving the army when his old comrade Charles...

This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a...

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land...

A man developes an obsession with a wig.

In the late 19th Century, a brothel madam and her workers are invited to take communion on a small family farm

Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second...

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

When Aditi finds out she has been named the sole heir to the estate of an old acquaintance, her husband is puzzled and suspicious. However, the...

Oxford, 18th C. Nobleman's wife lures husband away from his mistress.

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.

Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside...

The plot is similar to the first part. The nieces and their aunt again get some men into bed.

Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down...

Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She...

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal...

Rosalie is young and pretty maid on the farm of the winemaker Jacob. She becomes pregnant with the servant Marko, who disappears with a gypsy singer,...

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks...

Berthe, a pretty young woman, has suffered from a mental disease since she was a child. A doctor has tried for years to understand her behavior and...

Based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. Was It a Dream? fallows a grieving young man visiting a graveyard. However, things do...

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium...

A woman and her husband are faced with a dilemma when her aunt dies. In order to collect her inheritance, she must produce a daughter. The problem is...

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city;...

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away...

An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.

The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of...

Three suburban virgins, eager to learn about sex, take their education into their own hands. When life gives them the opportunity to whet their...

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during...

The story closes in Paris in January 1871, at the height of the siege, and introduces the main character, Monsieur Morissot, a watchmaker who has...

Antoine Boitelle in his youth, was in love with a young black girl he met while he was doing his military service. But his parents did not accept the...

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too...

A modern adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story about a man and a woman sharing an unexpected encounter on a train as it travels through a...

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

Christiane de Ravenel and her husband, William Andermath were attracted by the owners of spa resort at Mont-Oriol by offering luxurious amenities and...

Adaptation of "Idyll" (1884), a short story by Guy de Maupassant

At a mundane evening, Joseph recalls the strange love affair he lived with a young widow, met during a visit to Père-Lachaise. But was it...

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her.

Damien and Nadia, 34, leave Paris with Chloé, their 8-year-old daughter, to settle in the provinces. Graphic designer for an events company,...

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a...

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the...

In this contemporary adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's A Day in the Country, a group of roommates in their 20s move from Colorado to Washington. On...

Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden.

Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a...

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in...

A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de...

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic...

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

1862. A high altitude inn at the foot of a glacier in the Swiss Alps Each winter the snow isolates the inn rendering it totally inaccessible.

1862. A high altitude inn at the foot of a glacier in the Swiss Alps Each winter the snow isolates the inn rendering it totally inaccessible.

Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents. What’s evident is...

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and...

A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870....

In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of...

Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he...

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

After the funeral of his wife, a colonel returns to find a letter written by her.

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married...

TV adaptation of short stories from the world of humour. In the dramatised short stories Seven Teapots by M. Saki, The Substitute by G. Maupassant...

Jorge Reina, a libertine and ambitious man, takes advantage of his ability to seduce and influence women to climb the ranks. He finally achieves his...

Justin leads a rather solitary, hyper-connected city life. One day he feels a gaze on the back of his neck while he is alone at home. Soon, this...

A young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.

A man claims his beloved furniture has taken on a life of its own.

In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies,...

Having deceived his nurse and left his mother to live out her life alone, a man believes he has bought himself peace. But there is a price to pay for...

When a man leaves his mistress to care for his seriously ill mother, the apartment becomes a battlefield between sexual manipulation and death, which...

The one with the boat. (Synopsis pending)

Set in the 19th-century in France Georges Duroy cynically exploits women and his position working as a journalist to try and gain power.

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

Three tales of the line between love and hate, based on short stories by renowned writers: a determined man swears off women, a cunning wife plots to...