Henri Beyle Stendhal Filmography

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The Red and the Black

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Kim Rossi Stuart, Judith Godrëche

Synopsis: Produced for French television, this two-part screen adaptation of the classic novel by Henri Beyle Stendhal concerns two women and the price they pay for loving a man eager to climb the ladder of elite society. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Scarlet & Black

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Alice Krige, Stratford Johns, T.P. McKenna, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Published in 1830, Stendhal's landmark historical novel Le Rouge et le Noir has long been required reading in college literature courses, but has generally defied most attempts at adaptation to other mediums. Noteworthy exceptions include the 1954 theatrical-film version by director Claude Autant-Lara Read More

1993
Interno di un Convento

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Marina Pierro, Mario Maranzana

Synopsis: Before it became possible (in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) to imprison young heirs and heiresses in mental institutions in order to gain control of their inheritances, greedy families had for centuries "given" their daughters to convents without the girls' consent. Usually, such Read More

1/26/78
Le Monache Di Sant' Archangelo

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: From the Middle Ages onward, certain monasteries and nunneries were basically elegant retirement homes for rich noblemen and noblewomen. The position of abbot or abbess at one of these institutions often carried with it considerable wealth and worldly power. So it comes as no surprise that the Read More

1/25/73
Lamiel

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after Read More

1967
De L'Amour

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean Sorel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli stars as an amorous dentist whose philandering seemingly knows no bounds. He is no sooner shooing such lovelies as Anna Karina and Elsa Martinelli out the back door than he is welcoming such "new blood" as Joanna Shimkus into his living room. When Shimkus demands a commitment Read More

12/29/64
Vanina Vanini

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set in Italy during the turbulent years of the mid-19th century. Princess Vanini (Sandra Milo) confronts a strange looking woman in her palace. The woman turns out to be a man (Laurent Terzieff Read More

10/12/61
Le Rouge et le Noir

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director Claude Autant-Lara comes within shouting distance of full success. Stripped to essentials, the plot concerns Julien Sorel (Gerard Philipe), a carpenter's son who becomes a tutor. Read More

10/29/54
Les Amants de Tolede

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alida Valli, Pedro Armendáriz, Gerard Landry, Françoise Arnoul

Synopsis: Les Amants de Toledo was filmed in four different versions: French, Spanish, Italian and English. The cast, however, remained constant throughout. Pedro Armendariz stars as Don Blas, the seemingly corrupt police chief of Toledo, Spain. When Ines (Alida Valli), the girl friend of condemned Read More

1/28/53
Deux Crimes D'Amour

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Odile Versois, Alain Cuny, Marie Sabouret, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: Deux Crimes d'Amour (Two Love Crimes) is comprised of two separate, but thematically linked, short films. "Mina de Vangel," directed by Maurice Clavel and Maurice Barry, is based on a novelette by Stendhal (The Red and the Black), wherein a starry-eyed German lass (Odile Versois), betrayed by a Read More

1953