Films with: Dumas, Alexandre

Camille

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.

DVD 4442

Comte du Monte Cristo

Tells the dramatic story of Edmond Dantes, a young French sailor who is falsely denounced as a political traitor and unjustly imprisoned for eighteen years without trial. After a daring escape, Dantes flees to the island of Monte Cristo, where he finds a colossal treasure bequeathed to him by a dying fellow inmate. Using these riches, he assumes a new identity and devises a plan of vengeance upon all those who betrayed him.

DVD 1156

Count of Monte Cristo

Relates a sailor's preparation for and execution of revenge against the three men responsible for his fifteen years in prison.

DVD 8717

Four musketeers

Milady is back and determined to make the Musketeers--Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan pay for foiling her plot to discredit the Queen of France. Milady will stop at nothing to wreak her revenge, even if it means seducing the hateful d'Artagnan. Before meeting out her due punishment, the heroes will have to battle a siege, cross swords innumerable times, and thwart as many plots and counter-plots as the infamous Cardinal Richelieu, the dastardly Count of Rochefort and the perifdious Milady can hatch.

DVD 1

Gankutsuou The Count of Monte Cristo : the complete series /

"Albert is a young man of privilege in Paris, but the trappings of his aristocratic birth leave him bored and unsatisfied. Seeking adventure, Albert's restless spirit leads him to a festival on the moon--and to the Count of Monte Cristo. An enigmatic man of charm and wealth, the Count of Monte Cristo's charisma and sophistication captivate Albert. The fascinated youth invites the nobleman to mingle within the upper echelons of parisian society, and the Count is soon courting the favor of France's most powerful families. Little does Albert know, as his new friend walks the ornate halls of the highest class, the Count of Monte Cristo wants only to bring them crashing down through vengeance"--Container.

DVD 9481

Man in the iron mask

It is a time of both splendor and despair for the deeply divided French nation where the self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people starve. Believing he is all-powerful, Louis fears no one -- except the one person who could bring an end to his absolute power: the man he condemned to wear an iron mask and imprisoned for life. But when the king's selfish excesses go too far, retired Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis vow to free the mysterious prisoner who may be France's only hope for survival. Only one question remains: will their old comrade, the legendary d'Artagnan help them -- or destroy them?

DVD 12

Reine Margot Queen Margot /

Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

DVD 7610

Three musketeers

The young ambitious D'Artagnan arrives aspiring to join the Musketeers, proves he is worthy, and with the others helps save the honor of their Queen.

DVD 2

Three musketeers

Tom Wayne (played by John Wayne) is an American pilot who rescues three French Foreign Legionnaires trapped by Arab gun runners, and so begins a lasting friendship between "The Three Musketeers" and their American "D'artagnon." Together they battle El Shaitan, head of the gun runners and the treacherous Devil's Circle.

DVD 846

Traviata

The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman.

DVD 2092