Aki Kaurismaki's La Havre stars Andre Wilms as Marcel, a free-spirited, good-natured writer who is currently making a living...
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Marcel Marx
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2011
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For generations, children around the world have enjoyed the classic fairy tale of Puss 'n' Boots (or, in France, Le Chat...
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Ogre
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2009
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Gallic director François Ozon's idiosyncratic Ricky represents an attempt to weld together two polar-opposite and seemingly...
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2009
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2004
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Francis Palluau's directorial debut Bienvenue Chez les Rozes (Welcome to the Rozes) is a comedy about a hostage situation....
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Daniel
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2003
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When an archeology student unearths some ancient Celtic stones in a mysterious forest, she comes face to face with the...
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2002
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The harsh realities of prison life are parallelled with the day-to-day drone of factory work in director Bénédicte Liénard's...
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2002
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The director of the celebrated black comedy Tatie Danielle, Étienne Chatiliez returns to the realm of dark humor with Tanguy....
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2001
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Aki Kaurismaki's Juha is the fourth adaptation of this love triangle involving a woman and two men. The original story took...
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Shemeikka
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1999
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Lazarus
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1994
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This African comedy takes a sharp, satiric poke at one of the white colonialist's most sacred cows--the humanitarian work of...
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1994
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This French drama, based on an 1850s essay by Thomas De Quincey, examines a brief, fictionalized time period in the life of...
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1994
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This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its...
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Doctor Arnoux
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1994
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Alan Rudolph wrote and directed this typically off-beat drama. A brief romantic liaison between a wealthy European and an...
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1993
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In the late-18th century, it was unusual for anyone to become a master craftsman before the age of twenty, much less a master...
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1992
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This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La...
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Marcel
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1992
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One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had...
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Gilles Le Chesnay
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1992
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The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and...
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1992
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This drama was based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Nazis....
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Robert Kellerman
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1991
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In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of...
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M. Alexis
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1991
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While a dying elderly philosopher recites the words of Agamemnon in glorious sites connected with Greece's ancient history,...
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French archaeologist
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1991
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Lonely and shy bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), suspected in the murder of a girl, secretly watches his young,...
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Inspector
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1990
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Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife....
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1990
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1990
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At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this...
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1989
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In 19th century Europe, it was not uncommon in times of war for young aristocrats to hire peasant boys to fight in their...
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1989
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France (Catherine Deneuve) is a haughty, bourgeoise wife abandoned by her husband by the side of the road after a vicious...
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Georges
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1988
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Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The...
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Jean Le Quesnoy
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1988
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1985
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Pacifist and enigmatic throughout, Le Soldat Qui Dort opens with a little boy crawling along the floor of a hospital ward...
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Henri
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1984
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Gérard Depardieu's version of Tartuffe brings no innovative cinematic flair to the story of an outrageous and daring imposter...
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1984
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This West German film chronicles the trials of a group of people fleeing the invading Russian army in 1944-45 in the area of...
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Armand
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1983
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