1985 French, Italian, Swiss, Luxembourgish and British television series

1978 film by Patrice Chéreau

Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court. During an audience, the Emperor, displaying a certain degree of resignation, attempts to convince him that myths are both justifiable and necessary. Joseph, however, discovers "that it was nothing else but craftiness that assured the existence of ...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

艾玛（罗密·施奈德 Romy Schneider 饰）出生于一个贫穷的家庭之中，却搭上了时代的浪潮，凭借着股票摇身一变成为了腰缠万贯的女银行家。金钱给艾玛打开了通往上流社会的道路，靠着放高利贷，艾玛很快就将同行们远远地甩在了身后，与此同时，她还邂逅了名为雷米（丹尼尔·梅斯吉什 Daniel Mesguich 饰）的议员，同他坠入了情网之中。 艾玛的出类拔萃很快就引来了其他银行家的嫉妒，他们串通拉盖（克劳德·布莱塞 Claude Brasseur 饰），希望通过法律手段让艾玛坐牢，当雷米得知艾玛即将面临审判时，绝情的他选择了离开。在情场和商场上双双失意的艾玛并没有就此一蹶不振，而是依靠自己的力量给予了那些希望她倒台的人们沉重的反击。

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.