Les Misérables (2012)

Actors: Liza Chasin (producer), Tim Bevan (producer), Anne Hathaway (actress), Amanda Seyfried (actress), Michael Sarne (actor), Hugh Jackman (actor), Kenton Hall (actor), Sacha Baron Cohen (actor), Gino Picciano (actor), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Russell Crowe (actor), Kenton Hall (actor), Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Victor Hugo (writer), Eric Fellner (producer),

Plot: Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.

Keywords: 19th-century, abused-child, army, arrest, assumed-identity, barricade, based-on-novel, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, battle
Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Fight. Dream. Hope. Love. The Dream Lives This Christmas

Quotes:

Javert: Now Prisoner 24601, your time is up and your parole's begun. You know what that means?::Jean Valjean: Yes, it means I'm free.::Javert: No.::[hands him a yellow paper]::Javert: Follow to the letter your itinerary, this badge of shame you wear until you die. It warns that you're a dangerous man.::Jean Valjean: I stole a loaf of bread. My sisters child was close to death, and we were starving...::Javert: And you will starve again unless you learn the meaning of the law!::Jean Valjean: I've learnt the meaning of those nineteen years; a slave of the law.::Javert: Five years for what you did. The rest because you tried to run, yes 24601...::Jean Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean!::Javert: And I'm Javert! Do not forget my name. Do not forget me, 24601.

Jean Valjean: To love another person is to see the face of God.

Marius: In my life, there is someone who touches my life. Waiting near...::Éponine: Waiting here...

Fantine: I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living!

Marius: [about Cosette] Eponine, find her for me!::Éponine: What will you give me?::Marius: Anything!::Éponine: Got you all excited now, but God knows what you see in her! Aren't you all delighted now? [Marius offers her money] No, I don't want your money, sir.

Thénardier: Everybody raise a glass!::Madame Thénardier: Raise it up the master's arse!

Bishop: Monsieur, release him. This man has spoken true. I commend you for your duty, now God's blessing go with you. [to Valjean] But remember this, my brother. See in this some higher plan. You must use this precious silver to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the passion and the blood, God has brought you out of darkness. I have bought your soul for God.

[first lines]::Jean Valjean: Look down, look down, don't look them in the eye.::Chain Gang: Look down, look down, you're here until you die.

Bishop: But remember this, my brother, see in this some higher plan. You must use this precious silver to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyrs, by the Passion and the Blood, God has raised you out of darkness; I have bought your soul for God!

Jean Valjean: How have you come to grief in a place such as this?::Fantine: M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray. It's hard enough I've lost my pride. You let your foreman send me away - yes, you were there, and turned aside. I never did no wrong::Jean Valjean: Is it true, what I have done? To an innocent soul? Had I only known then...::Fantine: My daughter's close to dying. If there's a God above... He'd let me die instead...::Jean Valjean: In His name my task has just begun, I will see it done!

Re mizeraburu: shoujo kozetto (2007)

Actors: Victor Hugo (writer), Miyuki Sawashiro (actress), Atsuko Tanaka (actress), Takashi Matsuyama (actor), Haruka Tomatsu (actress), Hiroshi Naka (actor), Kaori Nazuka (actress), Yumiko Kobayashi (actress), Nozomi Sasaki (actress), Masashi Sugawara (actor), Hiroaki Sakurai (director), Kurumi Mamiya (actress), Tamaki Matsumoto (actress), Asami Sanada (actress), Masashi Yabe (actor),

Plot: The classic novel by Victor Hugo returns to the world of Japanese anime in Nippon Animation's 52-episode adaptation "Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette". The plot shifts its focus to include the story of Cosette, the illegitimate daughter of Fantine, from her early days with the Thénardiers while her mother works in another town. At the same time, the enigmatic Monsieur Madeleine, who is secretly the ex-convict Jean Valjean, is trying to live an honest life as the beneficent mayor of the same town Fantine works in. Both Valjean and Cosette's lives drastically change as the Thénardiers show their true colors and Inspector Javert arrives in town, posing a potential threat to Madeleine's freedom. This adaptation follows Hugo's story with relative faithfulness, given its young audience, limited running time and moments of artistic license.

Genres: Animation, Drama, Family, History,

Les misérables (1995)

Actors: Darry Cowl (actor), Ticky Holgado (actor), Robert Hossein (actor), Ticky Holgado (actor), Stéphane Ferrara (actor), Jacques Boudet (actor), Jean-Claude Bouillaud (actor), Jean-Paul Belmondo (actor), Jacques Gamblin (actor), Jean-François Dérec (actor), Jean-Paul Belmondo (actor), Antoine Duléry (actor), Darry Cowl (actor), Philippe Khorsand (actor), Henri-Jacques Huet (actor),

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 Jean Valjean.

Keywords: against-the-odds, ballet-dancer, based-on-novel, boxer, bunker, compassion, crime-against-humanity, d-day, dead-children, epic
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: In a time of chaos, in a world of change, he was moved by a book he could not read to become a hero he never imagined.

Les misérables (1982)

Actors: Georges Lycan (actor), Armand Mestral (actor), Mario Luraschi (actor), Roger Hanin (actor), André Dumas (actor), Fernand Ledoux (actor), Denis Lavant (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Bernard Dumaine (actor), Michel Bouquet (actor), Robert Dalban (actor), Jean Carmet (actor), Jean-Roger Caussimon (actor), René Morard (actor), Max Montavon (actor),

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.

Keywords: assumed-identity, based-on-novel, cosette, death-of-child, ex-convict, france, harassment, innocence, inspection, melodrama
Genres: Drama,

Les misérables (1972)

Actors: Marcel Gassouk (actor), Jean-Pierre Sentier (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Victor Hugo (writer), Jeanne Pérez (actress), Marcel Bluwal (writer), Nicole Desailly (actress), Dominique Zardi (actor), Max Desrau (actor), Jean-Marie Robain (actor), Germaine Delbat (actress), Jean Obé (actor), Jacques Giraud (actor), Renée Gardès (actress), Marcel Champel (actor),

Plot: Jean Valjean is convicted for stealing bread for his family. Thus is set in motion a lifetime of fear and pain, as the police inspector Javert pursues Valjean, hounding him relentlessly over the years in an obsessive quest.

Keywords: based-on-novel, death-of-child, tv-mini-series
Genres: Drama,

Os Miseráveis (1958)

Actors: Laura Cardoso (actress), Jaime Barcellos (actor), Dionísio Azevedo (director), Victor Hugo (writer), Dionísio Azevedo (writer), Henrique Martins (actor), Turíbio Ruiz (actor), Fernando Baleroni (actor), Débora Duarte (actress), Flora Geny (actress), Rolando Boldrin (actor), Xisto Guzzi (actor), Aída Mar (actress), Célia Rodrigues (actress), Mario Alimari (actor),

Genres: ,

Les misérables (1958)

Actors: François Darbon (actor), Gérard Darrieu (actor), André Dalibert (actor), Jean d'Yd (actor), Fredy Barten (actor), Henri Coutet (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Luc Andrieux (actor), Gerhard Bienert (actor), Lucien Baroux (actor), Bernard Blier (actor), Paul Bonifas (actor), Bourvil (actor), Edmond Ardisson (actor), Werner Dissel (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Courfeyrac: It's a pity to kill that young man, he could be your brother.::Enjolras: He is.

Les Misérables (1935)

Actors: Reginald Barlow (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), John Beal (actor), Stephen Chase (actor), Davison Clark (actor), John Carradine (actor), David Dunbar (actor),

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, as he is pursued by the uncompromising and brutal lawman Javert.

Keywords: 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 19th-century, ave-maria, barricade, based-on-novel, bed, beggar, bishop
Genres: Drama, History, Romance,
Taglines: The Immortal Classic That Shook A Nation . . . Is Now A Glorious Picture !

Quotes:

Jean Valjean: How do you know I won't murder you in the night?::Bishop Bienvenu: [remains calm] Well, how do you know I won't murder you?::Jean Valjean: Nah...::Bishop Bienvenu: You have faith in me it seems. And I must have faith in you, musnt' I? Good night.

Inspector Javert: You know what is going to happen, don't you? I will take you in the end!

Jean Valjean: [to an old woman] You want to know who I am? I'm a convict! Yeah! I served my sentence. Now my punishment begins, it seems. Look, in prison they gave me a bed of wood. Now I have one of stone. [laughs] That's what they do when they set you free! [laughs] Well, call the police, why don't you? Have me turned off this as well!

Fantine: [dying in bed] Oh, Monsieur Madeliene, you give everything!

Jean Valjean: Is it true I don't have to go back to the galleys? You - you let me go free?::Bishop Bienvenu: Free? When is a man free? I wish someone would tell me.

Jean Valjean: You never temper justice with mercy?::Inspector Javert: No, we might as well understand each other, Monsieur Madeliene. I administer the law - good, bad, or indifferent - it's no business of mine, but the law to the letter!

Enjolras: [inciting the crowd] We'll tear up the streets of Paris! If they've got bayonets, we've got knives!

Jean Valjean: And me! Me! Have you nothing for me?::Cosette: But you're my father. I mean I always think of you as my father. I know you're not really, but, don't you see, with Marius, it's different. It isn't just that lovely sense of companionship I have with you. It's - it's - well, it's the way every girl feels for the man who's going to marry her! You always knew I should have to leave you one day, didn't you?::Jean Valjean: No one forgets that!

Enjolras: [seeing an apparent stranger in the midst of the broiling student rebeels] Who are you?::Inspector Javert: [absentmindedly as he looks in the crowd for Valjean] What'd ya say?::Enjolras: Spy? Police!::Inspector Javert: I might be a spy, and I'm certainly the police. [the students rush Javert and subdue him]

Jean Valjean: [looking around the empty hallway] Javert? You're here! I know it! Where are you? Where are you?

Les misérables (1934)

Actors: Roland Armontel (actor), Lucien Nat (actor), Henry Krauss (actor), Anthony Gildès (actor), Georges Mauloy (actor), Émile Genevois (actor), Guy Favières (actor), Harry Baur (actor), Paul Azaïs (actor), Jean d'Yd (actor), Harry Baur (actor), Pierre Larquey (actor), Pierre Ferval (actor), Albert Broquin (actor), Maurice Schutz (actor),

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 an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.

Keywords: 19th-century, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, convict, cosette, death-of-child, detective, ex-convict, harassment, inspection
Genres: Drama, History,

Quotes:

Cosette: [as she and Valjean witness a convoy of convicts being taken to the penal colonies] But father... are they... still human?::Jean Valjean: Sometimes.

Marius Pontmercy: I saw your brother last night. He's coming to see you later. He's a good kid. [chuckles] We talked politics!::Eponine: What's so funny? He knows a lot about it.

Enjolras: [referring to Pop Mabeuf, who has just been shot down] Now, citizens, may each of you fight for this dead old man as he would for his own living father.

Gavroche: Gosh! Shooting the dead now?

Eponine: [to Marius, as she is dying] Promise to kiss my forehead when I'm dead. I'll feel it.

Enjolras: He makes no vain sacrifice who fights for a cause. All here are ready to die so that our brothers may live as free men. Liberty... sweet liberty... come fight with those who defend you.

Enjolras: Dear friends, we're going to die down to the last man. But our deaths will stop nothing. Our example will serve the cause. Others will finish what we've begun. Long live the republic! Fire when I five the signal. Then I'll blow up the barricade.::Courfayrax: I love fireworks. Let me set it off. You're the leader. You have to stay here to welcome them.::Enjolras: If you like.

Enjolras: [on Jean Valjean] Who is he?::Grantaire: I don't know. A man who saves others.

Courfayrax: Aiming at that sergeant whose face you can't see? These young artillery officers are well educated. He has a father and mother. He can't be more than 25. He could be your brother.::Enjolras: He is.::Courfayrax: And mine too. Let him live.::Enjolras: Leave me alone! We have to! [shoots the sergeant]

[Jean Valjean has counted his wages and realized that he does not have the promised amount of money]::L'employé de Mairie: Yours is not to count. The state counts for you, and it's never wrong.

Les Misérables (1917)

Actors: Gus Alexander (actor), Edward Elkas (actor), William Farnum (actor), Hardee Kirkland (actor), Dorothy Bernard (actress), Gretchen Hartman (actress), William Fox (producer), Victor Hugo (writer), Frank Lloyd (writer), Marc Robbins (writer), Frank Lloyd (director), Harry Spingler (actor), Jewel Carmen (actress), Kittens Reichert (actress), George Moss (actor),

Plot: Jean Valjean, a good and decent man who has committed a minor crime, is imprisoned but escapes. He is pursued thereafter for years by Javert, the cruel and implacable arm of the law.

Keywords: based-on-novel, death-of-child
Genres: Drama,