In this plodding drama about a man searching for his friend's wronged lover, there is neither high action nor high suspense...
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1983
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Alain Tescique (Jean Rochefort) is in Paris on a brief vacation from his job on a North Sea oil rig, and while he is playing...
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1982
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Alain Resnais's Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played...
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1980
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Father
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1975
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Grandpa
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1975
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An expensive collaboration between Radio-Canada and similar broadcast operations in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, the...
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1968
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1962
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1962
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1960
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French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film....
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1960
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1957
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Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director...
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1954
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Retour de Don Camillo (The Return of Don Camillo) is the sequel to the internationally popular French comedy...
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Aide
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1953
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1953
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Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who...
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1952
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of...
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1952
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1951
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1950
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1949
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Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas was adapted for the screen by no less than Jean Cocteau. The title character,...
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Goleyzovsky
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1945
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1943
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Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan...
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1943
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1943
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1942
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Though he died in 1943 at the hands of his Gestapo persecutors, the great French stage and screen actor Harry Baur was...
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1940
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The same year that the great European actor Harry Baur played mad Czar Paul I in Le Patriote, he also played another...
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1939
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Made in France with an international cast, Le Puritan was scripted by, of all people, Irish poet-dramatist Liam O'Flaherty....
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Dr. O'Leary
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1938
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1937
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This surrealistic film contains almost no dialogue even though it is a sound film. Instead of talk and subtitles, music is...
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Black Devil
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1937
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The Citadel of Silence is set in Poland in the years just before WWI. Involved in an abortive insurrection against the...
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Governor
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1937
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In this comedy that takes a sharp poke at problems within the medical profession, Dr. Knock opens a practice in a small...
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1936
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One of the earliest French color films, La Terre qui Meurt (The Land That Dies) tells the story of farmer Luminau...
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Mathurin
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1936
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Raxoumikhine
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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L'Odonnance (The Orderly) is based on the Guy de Maupassant story of the same name. After the sudden and unexpected suicide...
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Philippe
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1933
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Jean Renoir's first sound film was a bitter and highly controversial psychological drama, so controversial that it was never...
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1931
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