Editing Henry III of France (section)

===Film===
* The French short film ''[[The Assassination of the Duke of Guise]]'' (1908) shows the Duke's assassination but not the Cardinal's. The co-director, Charles Le Bargy, plays the Duke.
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* The American silent film ''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]'' (1916) depicts Henry as effeminate but not explicitly homosexual. He is portrayed by the British-born American actor Maxfield Stanley.
* The French movies ''[[La Reine Margot (1954 film)|La Reine Margot]]'' (1954) and ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 film)|La Reine Margot]]'' (1994), both based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same title, are fictional depictions of the lives of Henry III's family, his sister Margot, and her Protestant husband Henry around the time of the [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]]. In the 1994 film, Henry is played by the actor [[Pascal Greggory]]. In Dumas' novel, Henri was not portrayed as homosexual, whereas, in the 1954 film, he was shown as an effeminate, comical queen. In the 1994 film, he was portrayed as a more sinister character, bisexual and showing sexual interest in his sister. His brother dies by being accidentally poisoned by his mother, who had intended to kill Henry of Navarre instead.
* As the Duke of Anjou, the future Henry III plays a significant role in the French film ''[[The Princess of Montpensier]]'', based on the novel of the same title by [[Madame de La Fayette]].
* The film ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'', released in 1998, depicts a fictional courtship between Elizabeth I of England and Henry III while he was still Duke of Anjou. In reality, the two never met and the Queen of England was actually courted nearly ten years later by his younger brother [[François, Duke of Anjou]], when Elizabeth was 46. The film borrows some of the aspects of Henry III's life and features Anjou as a comical foolish transvestite. The role is portrayed by the French actor [[Vincent Cassel]].
* In the film ''[[Dangerous Beauty]]'', he has an assignation with the main character, the Venetian courtesan [[Veronica Franco]]. Visiting a Venice eager for military aid, the "French king" chooses her from among the famous courtesans of that city because he notices her reluctance; placing a blade at her neck, he tells Veronica that the "rumours" about him are true (that "the king is a pervert"), and the implication is made that Veronica pleases him enormously by first correctly guessing at and then indulging his fetish for BDSM domination.  (When the king emerges from Franco's house in the morning, the assembled Venetian nobility awaiting, he smiles broadly while carefully settling his presumably sore posterior on a pillow, and then declares that the French navy shall assist the Venetians against the Ottoman Empire in defense of their rule of Cyprus.) He is played by the British actor [[Jake Weber]].