Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

"Once upon a time..." A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters... (imdb)

Curse turns a handsome prince into a werewolf at night. A princess tries to help him, while his enemies plot to take his throne. (imdb)

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save her father's life by going to the Haunted Wood's Castle where she meets Netvor. He wants to kill her, but her beauty prevents him from that. Although she is forbidden to see him she starts to love him and the love rescues him from his curse. (imdb)

To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast. (imdb)

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life. (imdb)

The old merchant is attracted by the beautiful roses, stoops to pick up a few, when suddenly there appears out of a flame gushing up from the ground an ugly looking beast who reprimands the old man severely for trespassing on his premises and threatens him with death unless he promises him one of his beautiful daughters.