The beauty of Fontenay inspired many directors who used Fontenay as a set for many movies and TV Movies.
They include the following titles:
Movies
- Poker d’As (1928), by Henri Desfontaines
- The Fighting Musketeers (1961), by Bernard Borderie
- Angélique (1964), by Bernard Borderie with Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, and Jean Rochefort, followed by Angélique: the Road to Versailles (1965) and Angélique and the King (1966)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Gérard Depardieu
- Les Aventures de Philibert, capitaine puceau (2011), by Sylvain Fusée
TV Movies
- La Duchesse d’Avila (1973), by Philippe Ducrest
- Ces beaux messieurs de Bois Doré (1976), by Bernard Borderie
- H-Moll Messe (1978), by Klaus Kirschner
- L’enfant des Loups (1991), by Philippe Monnier
- Blood and Dust (1991), by Jim Goddard
- La Reine et le Cardinal (2008), by Marc Rivière
- The Marquise of Darkness (2011), by Edouard Niermans
