20 Films & TV Shows Set In France During The 15th Century
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Joan of Arc
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyDumont's sequel to Jeannette picks up where the previous film left off, with Jeanne's military victories, her capture, trial, and ultimate execution.
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Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyFrance, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.
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The Silence of Joan
🇫🇷 France The 14th Century The 15th CenturyIn 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
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The Hunchback
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyBased on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.
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The Hour of The Pig
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyThe case is a dog. The defendant is a pig. And the law is an ass. — Black comedy about 15th-century Paris lawyer Richard Courtois (Firth) who decides to apply his trade in the country, only to find things stranger than he can imagine. His first case turns out to be defending a pig that's accused of murdering a child. The pig is owned by the beautiful gypsy Samira (Annabi), who, the idealistic lawyer finds himself falling in love (or lust) with. A Gothic tale with religion, superstition, power struggles, and ignorance as a backdrop.
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History of the World: Part I
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century The 15th Century The 1st CenturyTen million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth! — An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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The Trial of Joan of Arc
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyRouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.
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Saint Joan
🇫🇷 France The 14th Century The 15th CenturyA Brilliant Triumph! — Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
🇫🇷 France The 19th Century The 18th Century The 17th Century The 16th Century The 15th CenturyHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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The Vagabond King
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyLouis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyImpact! Power! Fire! Pathos! Drama! — Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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If I Were King
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyHis Love-Making Was as Dangerous as His Sword-Play — King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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The Vagabond King
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyParamount Pictures presents the 100% Technicolor All-Talking, All-Singing Musical Romance! — The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
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Saint Joan the Maid
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyThis relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.
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The Beloved Rogue
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyIn 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Der Graf von Charolais
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The Night of Queen Isabeau
🇫🇷 France The 14th Century The 15th CenturyThe film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
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If I Were King
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyA Cinema Bullseye — J. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France for a week!
