Bonne Fête Nationale! Happy Bastille Day!
In honour of the Republic of France’s birthday, I thought I would share all the period dramas set in France, as well as French-produced historical dramas. Please let me know if I am missing any titles or if I have incorrectly added titles to the list as I was going by memory.
Medieval (500-1500)
- Joan of Arc (1999)
- Kaamelott (2005-2010)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
- The Warrior’s Brother / Le frère du guerrier (2002)
Tudor & Elizabethan (1483-1603)
- Ever After (1998)
- Henri IV (2010)
- MARY Queen of Scots (2013)
- Reign (2013-Present)
- La Reine Margot (1994)
Baroque / Stuart (1603-1750)
- Angélique (2013)
- Blanche (2002)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
- La Fille d’Artagnan (1994)
- Jean de la Fontaine (2007)
- The King’s Daughters / Saint-Cyr (2000)
- A Little Chaos (2015)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Man Who Laughs / L’homme qui rit (2012)
- Marquise (1997)
- Moliere (2007)
- The Musketeer
- La Princesse de Montpensier (2010)
- Le Roi Danse (2000)
- The Three Musketeers (1992)
- The Three Musketeers (2011)
- The Triumph of Love (2001) * based on a French play of the same name
- BBC’s The Musketeers S1-3 (2014-Present)
- The Queen and the Cardinal / La reine et le cardinal (2009)
- Canal+’s Versailles S1-2 (2015-Present)
- Versailles, le rêve d’un roi / Versailles: The Dream of a King (2008)
Georgian/Regency (1750-1836)
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
- Amour Fou (2014)
- L’Autrichienne (1990)
- Confession of the Child of the Century (2012)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- Dangerous Liaisons (1998)
- Dumas / L’autre Dumas (2010)
- Farinelli (1994) *Set in England & Spain but the dominant language is French
- Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
- Jacquou le croquant (2007)
- The Lady and the Duke (2001)
- Marie Antoinette (2006)
- Les Miserabes (2000)
- Les Miserables (2008)
- Les Miserables – Musical (2012)
- Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart / Mozart’s Sister (2010)
- Quills (2000)
- La Religieuse / The Nun (2013)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- Valmont (1989)
- BBC’s Dangerous Liaisons (201?) – in production
- Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour / Madame De Pompadour: The King’s Favourite (2006)
- Louis XVI, l’homme qui ne voulait pas être roi (2011)
- Marguerite Volant (1996)
- Marie-Antoinette (2006)
- Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
- Napoleon (2002)
- Outlander S2 (2015-2016)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982: TV Movie)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999: TV Mini-Series)
Victorian (1837-1901)
- The Anarchists (2015)
- Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
- Bel Ami (2012)
- Cézanne et moi (2016)
- Chocolat (2016)
- Degas and the Dancer (1998)
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (2015)
- L’Histoire d’Adele H (1975)
- House of Tolerance/Pleasures (2011)
- The Last Mistress (2007)
- Madame Bovary (2015)
- Madame Bovary (2000)
- Maison Close (2010-2013)
- Moulin Rouge! (2001) – musical
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004) – musical
Edwardian (1901-1910) / 1911-1913
- Arsène Lupin (2004)
- Cheri
- Coco avant Chanel (2009)
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
- Ma Loute / Slack Bay (2016)
- Marie Curie (2017?)
The Great War / WWI (1914-1918)
- Atonement (2007)
- Au revoir là-haut (2017)
- Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013)
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
- Flyboys (2006)
- Joyeux Noel / Merry Christmas (2005)
- Renoir (2012)
- Testament of Youth (2015)
- The Trench (1991)
- A Very Long Engagement / Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (2004)
- War Horse (2011)
- Birdsong (2012)
- Ceux de 14 (2014-)
- The Cinder Path (1994)
- The Crimson Field (2014)
1919 / Roaring 20’s – Great Depression / 1930s
- The Artist (2011) *French film
- Coco Chanel (2008)
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
- Hugo (2011)
- The Josephine Baker Story (2001 TV movie)
- Lady Chatterley (2006) *French film
- The Last Flight / Le Dernier Vol (2009)
- Marguerite (2016)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Monsieur l’Abbe / Dear Abbot (2010)
- Paris 36 / Faubourg 36 (2009)
- Thérèse (2013)
- The Well-Digger’s Daughter (2011)
WWII (1939-1945)
- The Army of Crime / L’armee du crime (2009)
- Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
- Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Days of Glory / Indigene (2006) *French film
- Diplomatie / Diplomacy (2014)
- Dunkirk (2017) – not out
- Female Agents / Les Femmes de l’Ombre (2008)
- Five Seconds of Silence / Allied (2016) – not out
- Francofonia (2015)
- Un Hero Tres Discret / A Self-Made Hero (1996)
- Inglorious Basterds (2009)
- The Monuments Men (2014)
- Pour Une Femme / For A Woman (2013)
- La Rafle (2010)
- Suite Française (2015)
- Un village français (TV Series 2009-Present)
- Violette (2013)
Post-War (1946-1970s)
- Les Choristes (2004)
- Populaire (2012)
- Violette (2013)
- Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
- Amazon’s The Collection (2016)
- Maigret Sets A Trap (2016)
- Maigret’s Dead Man (2016)
Paris 36 (musical) et Un Village Français
Thank you/Merci Paula! 🙂
Au revoir là-haut (2017), adapted from Pierre Lemaitre’s book. Still in production.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5258850/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Crimson Rivers / Les Rivières pourpres (2000)