Guy de Maupassant (Writing)

Medusa Alexa

Justin leads a rather solitary, hyper-connected city life. One day he feels a gaze on the back of his neck while he is alone at home. Soon, this presence becomes oppressive.

Release Date:2023-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Le Horla

Damien and Nadia, 34, leave Paris with Chloé, their 8-year-old daughter, to settle in the provinces. Graphic designer for an events company, the first negotiated a full-time telework to follow his partner who has just been offered a position at the Rivière Research Institute where her friend and colleague Marion already works. The couple are expecting a child. But behind this new beginning hides a deaf threat that will soon implode the happiness of this seemingly perfect family.

Release Date:2023-05-26

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:17

Pierre & Jeanne

Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of the parents. Pierre the elder brother, bogged down in questions, questions the sacredness of the family. Is this money hiding a heavy secret?

Release Date:2021-08-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Was it a Dream

Based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. Was It a Dream? fallows a grieving young man visiting a graveyard. However, things do no go as planned upon arrival.

Release Date:2020-10-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

A Woman's Life

Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.

Release Date:2016-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:65

The Idyll

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.

Release Date:2016-06-08

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:5

Bel Ami

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.

Release Date:2012-03-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:514

Ceux d'en haut

Release Date:2012-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Mrs. Rubin

The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of the 45-year-old resident of the ward, Mrs. Erme. The professor, Sophie’s mentor and the medical administrator of the facility, sees Sophie’s obsession with her faces and brings the two women together. As the doctor-patient relationship develops, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme shares her obsession with her face, and furthermore, discovers that Mrs. Erme’s illness is closely connected to this obsession. Through investigation and the torture of her own dreams, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme had a son, who at the age of ten died from chicken pox, while his mother was too afraid to ruin her face by getting infected by the disease.

Release Date:2011-11-18

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:5

Le Petit Fût

Release Date:2008-03-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Necklace

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. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend, but then the necklace gets lost.

Release Date:2007-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:14

Chez Maupassant

Release Date:2007-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:24

Vote Count:3

Boitelle

Antoine Boitelle in his youth, was in love with a young black girl he met while he was doing his military service. But his parents did not accept the girl, not only because of her skin color, but also because of the reaction of the villagers who refused to bless this union. However, over the years, Antoine Boitelle retained the same feelings

Release Date:2006-06-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Bel ami

Release Date:2005-12-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:4

Devil

Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over her, he hires a village wise-woman, Palchowa, to tend to his Mother in her last moments.

Release Date:2005-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Bel-Ami

Release Date:2003-09-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Tombs

At a mundane evening, Joseph recalls the strange love affair he lived with a young widow, met during a visit to Père-Lachaise. But was it really a love story?

Release Date:2002-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:2

Astitva

When Aditi finds out she has been named the sole heir to the estate of an old acquaintance, her husband is puzzled and suspicious. However, the secret she is hiding could destroy their family.

Release Date:2000-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:5

Hantises

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and lonely man. It doesn't take long for the young man to realize that his host is wacko and terrified of dying and is willing to take extreme measures to prevent this from happening. Though billed as a thriller, director Michael Ferry chose to focus on the inner thoughts and fears of the protagonists rather than exciting action sequences. All of the violence occurs off screen.

Release Date:1997-07-02

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

La mujer del puerto

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.

Release Date:1996-03-27

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

Tri poviedky so Zdenou Gruberovou

Release Date:1994-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Games of Desire

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. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband's accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.

Release Date:1991-04-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10

Golden Braid

When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.

Release Date:1990-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:3

Hrobničky

Release Date:1989-04-09

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

Petr a Jan

Release Date:1988-07-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Diabeł

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

Release Date:1988-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Dvě z Paříže

Release Date:1988-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Book

HE!

A young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.

Release Date:1988-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Mama's Lover

A man discovers his new love interest has a child. When they fist meet it's unclear who is embarrased more, he or the young daughter.

Release Date:1987-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Softly from Paris

An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.

Release Date:1986-11-08

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:6

The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales

Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.

Release Date:1986-10-23

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:4

In the Heart of My Blonde

This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a milkmaid. Later one of them dies in the battle, leaving the milkmaid in sorrow…

Release Date:1984-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Bel ami

Release Date:1983-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

The Spice of Wickedness

Oxford, 18th C. Nobleman's wife lures husband away from his mistress.

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Mont-Oriol

Christiane de Ravenel and her husband, William Andermath were attracted by the owners of spa resort at Mont-Oriol by offering luxurious amenities and promising health benefits. However, the plans face numerous challenges, including financial difficulties and personal conflicts.

Release Date:1982-07-24

Department:Writing

Job:Author

La Maison Tellier

In the late 19th Century, a brothel madam and her workers are invited to take communion on a small family farm

Release Date:1982-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Dedičstvo

Release Date:1982-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

Secrets of a French Maid

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. After a series of sexual encounters between just about everyone at the estate, the Countess drops by for a party where the nieces announce their wedding intentions.

Release Date:1980-01-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:26

Toine

A César award winning short film based on the story from Guy de Maupassant depicts six tales from Normandy, alternately funny, moving and cruel.

Release Date:1980-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Bel Ami

Release Date:1979-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Three Ripening Cherries

Three suburban virgins, eager to learn about sex, take their education into their own hands. When life gives them the opportunity to whet their appetites, will the reality live up to the fantasy?

Release Date:1979-08-01

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:4

Private Collections

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. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

Release Date:1979-06-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:21

L'armoire

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.

Release Date:1979-06-27

Department:Writing

Job:Story

El vividor

Jorge Reina, a libertine and ambitious man, takes advantage of his ability to seduce and influence women to climb the ranks. He finally achieves his goal by marrying the rich heiress of the owner of the newspaper where he works and serving as its editor-in-chief. Drama based on Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant.

Release Date:1977-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Bel Ami

A young journalist is given the chance to become the publisher of a hardcore sex magazine. To prove himself worthy, he goes out in pursuit of sexy, erotic stories all over the world, and winds up getting involved in sexual misadventures everywhere he goes.

Release Date:1976-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Berthe

Berthe, a pretty young woman, has suffered from a mental disease since she was a child. A doctor has tried for years to understand her behavior and to teach her some basic notions such as those of time and emotional expression. But he also tends to use her as a guinea-pig and does not oppose her parents when they decide to marry her as a way to solve her problems. Unfortunately the cure proves worse than the disease as Berthe's husband, who soon tires of her, abandons her and leaves her more helpless than ever... —Guy Bellinger

Release Date:1976-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Elaine: A Story of Lost Love

Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents. What’s evident is Horn’s fascination for squared-off blocking and choreography, including a glimpse at a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice in minature. Star Adam Macadam brought on other members of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theater Company, many of whom would return to work on DOOMED LOVE. Featuring ancient costumes on loan from the Metropolitan Opera (repurposed from early twentieth century productions of Tosca and La Traviata), ELAINE aspires to high gothic on a shoestring budget. Horn and Meaney shot at locations including the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, the Frick, and the Carnegie Hall Cinema, then operated by Sid Geffen and Jackie Raynal – the programmers responsible for hosting the first-ever New York City screenings of films by Marguerite Duras, an influence on the filmmakers (alongside Daniel Schmid, Douglas Sirk and Alain Resnais.)

Release Date:1976-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Violent Blood Bath

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.

Release Date:1974-08-12

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:8

Mont Oriol

Release Date:1974-08-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Madame Baptiste

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. One day, Blanche, whom the whole country nicknames "Madame Baptiste", tries to commit suicide, consumed by the painful memory she carries within her. A man saves her and, charmed by the woman who now owes him her life, he asks her to marry him, thus defying the moral barriers set by public opinion. Life now seems happy for Blanche, but one day, at the agricultural show, the insult comes again: "Madame Baptiste!"...

Release Date:1974-03-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Oslava

Release Date:1974-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Histoire d'une fille de ferme

Release Date:1973-06-16

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Histoire vraie

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

Release Date:1973-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Miláček

Release Date:1972-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Zázrak v Alžbetkove

Release Date:1971-12-31

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Bečička

Release Date:1971-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

Pomsta

Release Date:1971-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:2

Prodej

Release Date:1971-01-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

Idilio

Adaptation of "Idyll" (1884), a short story by Guy de Maupassant

Release Date:1971-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Vote Count:1

Sweet Games of Late Summer

Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.

Release Date:1970-07-21

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:6

Alta comedia

Release Date:1970-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Die Nichten der Frau Oberst 2. Teil - Mein Bett ist meine Burg

The plot is similar to the first part. The nieces and their aunt again get some men into bed.

Release Date:1969-02-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Bel Ami

Release Date:1968-03-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Prodej

Release Date:1967-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Deštník

Release Date:1967-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Případ paní Luneauové

Release Date:1967-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

La mujer de a seis litros

Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."

Release Date:1967-08-30

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:4

Stimulantia

Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.

Release Date:1967-03-28

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

The Horla

A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Release Date:1966-12-31

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:12

Our Husbands

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Release Date:1966-08-21

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:16

Rosalie

Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden.

Release Date:1966-06-24

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:19

Masculin Féminin

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. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Release Date:1966-03-22

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:390

Black Humor

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.

Release Date:1965-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Žltý dostavník

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Inheritance

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. The problem is that the woman's husband seems to be sterile. After they try every method to conceive, they resort to help from an outside source.

Release Date:1964-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:7

Black Sabbath

Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.

Release Date:1963-08-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:434

Diary of a Madman

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.

Release Date:1963-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:57

Boccaccio '70

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.

Release Date:1962-02-23

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:139

La Chevelure

A man developes an obsession with a wig.

Release Date:1961-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

La Soirée

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

Release Date:1961-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

El vestido de novia

A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.

Release Date:1959-06-18

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Vote Count:5

End of Desire

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.

Release Date:1958-09-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:19

Tlustý anděl z Rouenu

Release Date:1958-03-12

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Terror with Women

Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.

Release Date:1956-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Den underbara lögnen

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.

Release Date:1955-11-25

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Bel Ami

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. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.

Release Date:1955-03-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

A Flirtatious Woman

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench.

Release Date:1955-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:32

The Beginning Was Sin

Rosalie is young and pretty maid on the farm of the winemaker Jacob. She becomes pregnant with the servant Marko, who disappears with a gypsy singer, leaving Rosalie alone in her awkward situation.

Release Date:1954-10-27

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Onna no issho

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Release Date:1953-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Three Women

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.

Release Date:1952-08-13

Department:Writing

Job:Story

A Woman Without Love

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

Release Date:1952-07-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:22

Marito e Moglie

Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him

Release Date:1952-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Le Plaisir

Three stories about the 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. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

Release Date:1952-02-29

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:119

The White Orchid

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Release Date:1951-03-24

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Desire

Release Date:1951-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Prize

Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.

Release Date:1950-09-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

La mujer del puerto

Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...

Release Date:1949-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:4

La dama del collar

A rich woman's personal secretary borrows an expensive piece of jewelry without permission for a night on the town... and then loses it. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant.

Release Date:1948-07-08

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:1

Naiskohtaloita

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.

Release Date:1947-09-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

Release Date:1947-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:21

A Day in the Country

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.

Release Date:1946-05-21

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:193

Two Friends

The story closes in Paris in January 1871, at the height of the siege, and introduces the main character, Monsieur Morissot, a watchmaker who has enrolled in the National Guard. Morissot, who is bored, hungry, and depressed, is walking along the boulevard when by chance he bumps into an old friend, Monsieur Sauvage, with whom he used to go fishing before the war. The two old friends reminisce over several glasses of absinthe in a café;, talking wistfully of the pleasant Sunday afternoons they used to spend fishing on the banks of the Seine before the war. Tipsy from the absinthe, the friends, for want of anything else to do, decide to go fishing in their old spot, and having obtained a laissez-passer from their officer, walk along the river to Argenteuil, a few miles west of the city, in the no man's land between the French and Prussian lines.

Release Date:1946-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Angel and Sinner

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. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.

Release Date:1945-10-13

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:9

Count Only the Happy Moments

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.

Release Date:1944-08-08

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:2

Mademoiselle Fifi

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.

Release Date:1944-07-28

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:6

Pierre and Jean

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. Finally, not considering the right to deprive Pierre of his father, she gives up. Twenty years pass, Pierre has grown up, he suspects his little brother, Jean, of just being his half-brother. His suspicions gnaw at him, his mother confesses to him her past fault. Faced with this confession, Pierre will abandon the one who sacrificed her life for him.

Release Date:1943-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Romance in a Minor Key

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Release Date:1943-06-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

Bel Ami

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.

Release Date:1939-02-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Yvette

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. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

Release Date:1938-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

Oyuki the Virgin

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.

Release Date:1935-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:9

Boule de Suif

A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...

Release Date:1934-09-15

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:17

The Woman of the Port

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night...

Release Date:1934-02-14

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:12

That scoundrel Morin

Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.

Release Date:1932-12-30

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Woman Disputed

An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.

Release Date:1928-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

Yvette

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. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

Release Date:1927-12-30

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Only a Dancing Girl

Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.

Release Date:1926-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Pearl Necklace

A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and arrested.

Release Date:1926-02-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Morin the Pig

Release Date:1924-04-11

Department:Writing

Job:Story

L'Ordonnance

After the funeral of his wife, a colonel returns to find a letter written by her.

Release Date:1921-02-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Little Ellie

A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.

Release Date:1918-01-19

Department:Writing

Job:Story

She Couldn't Stand the Shame

Release Date:1916-08-02

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Daughter of Tormented Poland

Release Date:1915-11-13

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Brothers

Release Date:1913-11-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

At the Eleventh Hour

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

Release Date:1912-08-06

Department:Writing

Job:Author

The Necklace

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to replace it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but the Kendricks never learns the truth; Husband and wife struggle for years to pay off the huge debt.

Release Date:1909-07-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

The Son's Return

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.

Release Date:1909-06-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

Here Nor There

In this contemporary adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's A Day in the Country, a group of roommates in their 20s move from Colorado to Washington. On their drive up, CJ is intent on seeing the beach for the first time — she wants to go before the group even gets a chance to move in to their new place, which is to the others' dismay. As the group walks along the trails of a large park, they meet a local named Cole who accompanies CJ the rest of the way down to the shore — sparking an ill-fated romance.

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story