Guy de Maupassant Trailers
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Total trailers found: 140
27 June 1979
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.
09 March 2012
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
06 March 2007
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 much that he lets her do anything she wants.
18 June 1959
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married.
22 March 1966
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.
17 August 1963
Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.
23 February 1962
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; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
17 December 1971
An elderly landowner still refuses to sell her farm and fields to one of her neighbors, who has an obvious interest in her farm.
01 January 1977
Jorge Reina, a libertine and ambitious man, takes advantage of his ability to seduce and influence women to climb the ranks.
29 August 2021
Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents.
18 January 1980
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 herself in some precarious sexual situations.
08 May 1971
Set in the 19th-century in France Georges Duroy cynically exploits women and his position working as a journalist to try and gain power.
16 January 1971
Two cronies, Brument and Cornu, are on trial. They are accused of attempting to murder Brumant's wife.
12 April 1964
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.
26 May 2023
Damien and Nadia, 34, leave Paris with Chloé, their 8-year-old daughter, to settle in the provinces.
23 November 2016
Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent.
08 June 2016
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 beautiful and surreal landscape.
23 April 1991
Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband's impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters.
01 September 1928
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
21 May 1946
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.
29 February 1952
Three stories about pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth.
06 August 1912
Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"
27 June 1979
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 who is playful and compliant.
01 July 1909
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr.
28 July 1944
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors.
30 December 1927
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 always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons.
29 March 1974
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 their reputation, locks the young girl in their manor, thinking that four walls are enough to silence the mockery.
21 December 2025
Having deceived his nurse and left his mother to live out her life alone, a man believes he has bought himself peace.
09 June 2006
Antoine Boitelle in his youth, was in love with a young black girl he met while he was doing his military service.
08 August 1944
The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind.
02 July 1997
While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate.
14 February 1934
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night.
06 June 1989
A television musical based on the short stories by Guy de Maupassant — "Boule de Suif", "Mademoiselle Fifi", and "A Peasant Girl's Story" — simple yet infinitely complex works that remain deeply relevant and true to life, despite being written in the 19th century.
20 March 1955
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism.
13 October 1945
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency.
24 September 1958
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie.
21 July 1970
Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
11 August 1918
Dick Brown kills himself in front of Adele Durant after she rejects him and Dick's friend Robert Bradley threatens to accuse her of murder unless she places her life in his hands.
06 March 1963
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
01 January 1976
Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents.
12 September 1947
In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.
25 June 1943
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
29 December 1943
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 with him and his son.
21 February 1939
Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer.
05 July 1944
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
12 August 1974
A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel.
15 September 1934
A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century.
13 December 2005
In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major financial newspaper.