Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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1967
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix....
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1966
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A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the...
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1965
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1965
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In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling...
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1965
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This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the...
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1964
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In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French...
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1964
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1964
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Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the...
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1963
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The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen....
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1962
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Jackie Gleason plays Gigot, a lumbering but lovable mute Parisian derelict. Shunned by the "respectable" people around him,...
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1962
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In this crime drama, an amiable, popular middle-age man (Bernard Blier) abruptly changes when he heads out for a nice picnic,...
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1962
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There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of...
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1962
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Director Georges Lautner and screenwriter Jacques Robert worked on a series of "Monocle" films together, starting with this...
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1961
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Francois Truffaut's loving homage to Hollywood gangster films is less a plot-filled film noir than a free-associative...
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Chico Saroyan
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1960
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In this WW II drama, two French soldiers are captured and forced to work as farm hands on a German family's land. One of the...
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1960
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The Cow and I is purportedly based on the wartime experiences of its star, French farceur Fernandel. The horse-faced comedian...
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Colinet
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1959
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For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The...
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M. Doinel
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1959
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An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars...
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1959
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1957
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In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to...
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1956
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1955
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Raid on the Drug Ring is the English-language title of this Jean Gabin vehicle. The venerable French leading man plays the...
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1955
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Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it...
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1954
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The all-purpose title Woman Who Dared was trotted out for the American release of Jean Gremillon's Le Ciel et a Vous....
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1949
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Clement
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1949
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1948
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Originally Goupi Mains Rogues, this was the first new French feature film to be shown in the US since the end of WW2-though...
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1945
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Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world...
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Scarpia Barigni
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1945
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