Screenplay: Victor Hugo

Direction Raymond Bernard

Cast Harry Baur · Charles Vanel · Marguerite Moreno · Paul Azaïs

Plot The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....

Direction Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Cast Ingvar Wixell · Edita Gruberova · Luciano Pavarotti · Ferruccio Furlanetto

Plot This summary contains the complete plot of the opera Rigoletto by Guiseppi Verdi. Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and...

Direction Paul Leni

Cast Conrad Veidt · Mary Philbin · Olga Baclanova · Cesare Gravina

Plot When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Hugh Jackman · Russell Crowe · Eddie Redmayne · Anne Hathaway

Plot In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The...

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Rochelle Hudson

Plot Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character and great strength, is convicted of stealing a loaf of bread, an act that sets in motion a lifetime of misery for Valjean,...

Direction Bille August

Cast Liam Neeson · Geoffrey Rush · Uma Thurman · Claire Danes

Plot Liam Neeson stars as Jean Valjean, a heartless convict who is transformed by a single act of mercy. Uma Thurman is Fantine, the vulnerable prostitute who begs Valjean to raise...

Direction Robert Hossein

Cast Lino Ventura · Jean Carmet · Michel Bouquet · Evelyne Bouix

Plot The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

Direction Robert Guédiguian

Cast Ariane Ascaride · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Gérard Meylan · Maryline Canto

Plot Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. They have been in love for more than thirty years ...Their children and grandchildren delight them... They have plenty of close...

Direction Josée Dayan

Cast Gérard Depardieu · John Malkovich · Jeanne Moreau · Christian Clavier

Plot The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now...

Direction Wallace Worsley

Cast Lon Chaney · Patsy Ruth Miller · Ernest Torrence · Raymond Hatton

Plot Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon. When...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Michel Boujenah · Alessandra Martines · Annie Girardot

Plot A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered...

Direction Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Cast Jean Gabin · Bernard Blier · René Fleur · Julienne Paroli

Direction Tom Shankland

Cast Dominic West · David Oyelowo · Lily Collins · Ellie Bamber

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. Television adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of...

Direction Glenn Jordan

Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin

Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Plot After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who...

Direction Gary Trousdale · Kirk Wise

Plot In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo,...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Rock Hudson · Maxwell Reed · Denis O'Dea

Plot Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her...

Direction Michael Tuchner

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Derek Jacobi · David Suchet · Gerry Sundquist

Plot Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Anthony Quinn · Jean Carmet · Alain Cuny

Plot Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does...