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This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.

Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Zeichenfilm - Balzac oder das Auge Gottes is a play on the idea of trick film. And trick film it is. The 30-second work is shown twice in case the viewer missed something the first time: in crude hand-drawn animation Zeichenfilm ... evokes the scatological sado-masochistic actions and performances of Otto Muehl and Günter Brus which Kren filmed during his second period. In Zeichenfilm Balzac a male figure hangs himself, achieves a monstrous erection and ejaculates into a woman's mouth. She in turn hangs herself; he enters her vaginally then anally. Finally, she defecates on the left side of the frame wherein appears an eye of God while on the right in a cartoon box the words "Aber Otto" ("But Otto") materialize, a comic reference to Otto Muehl.

It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.

A Count and Countess, their lovelife losing luster, invite some people over ...

Lil' Balzac unwittingly agrees to be the getaway driver for a rugged bank heist crew.

1. The Shadows Of Daybreak I 2. Distraction 3. Swallow The Dark 4. Dakedo Sonna Hibi-No Nakade Boku-Wa 5. Momentary Degeneration 6. Hurt 7. Paranoia 8. Frankenstein's Walk 9.Destruction = Construction 10. Tomorrow Never Comes 11. Justice, Pity And Hatred 12. The Howling Wolf 13. Pray 14. The Shadows Of Daybreak II 15. Hikari Naki Sekai 16. Wall A collection of music videos for each of the tracks on Hatred: Destruction=Construction

Lil' Balzac is a wannabe rapper, who believes he just got his big break. For only $4,000 he can work with his favorite producer, only problem is Balzac's a dirt broke stoner living in a tent. Determined to realize his dream, he jumps at the first financial opportunity that comes his way; facing off against a beast of a man in an underground fight club.

A confrontation between Bruce Lee, a french hillside view, and a brazilian artist.

Live performance at ON AIR EAST in Shibuya, Tokyo on January 12, 2001.

1. Beyond Evil 308, Pt. 1 2. D.A.R.K. 3. Blood Inside '68 4. Into The Light Of The 13 Dark Night 5. Gyakusatsu No Mukou Gawa 6. XXXxxx 7. Shi Wo Yubi Sasu 8. Inside My Eyes 9. Came Out Of The Grave 10. Yami No Hikeri E 11. Beyond Evil 308, Pt. 2 12. Day The Earth Caught Fire 13. Art Of Dying 14. The World Without End 15. I Can't Stand It Anymore 16. In Your Face 17. The Silence Of Crows 18. The End Of Century 19. Nowhere #13 20. Violent Paradise 21. The Human Blood 22. Monster 23. No Resistance '68 24. Unvarnished Facts 25.

Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths she goes to ensure their marriage, even after she learns he is deeply in love with another woman.

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and wealthy relatives.

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.

Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel

Two sisters have their last conversation before one of them leaves the family home.

Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats.

The story is told through the eyes of Titi, a very young boy who recently lost his mother and was left stranded in the slums of Montmartre. He comes across a little girl who, later, turns to be an East European princess, chased by the killers hired by her own uncle...

Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.

A middle-aged man confronts an existential crisis after his wife’s death, until one night he encounters a magical creature in the forest.

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Annabelle, a little girl longing for connection, and her mother Margaret, a sensitive poet torn between her artistry and the demands of family and society.

After an impulsive visit to a fortuneteller, three friends discover that the power of suggestion has forced them to consider the reality of "fate."