A woman trying to save a failing relationship gets some unexpected help from a well-meaning slob in this comedy from director...
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2011
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Alain Resnais, one of the towering figures of the French New Wave, demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama...
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Georges Palet
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2010
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An underground lair serves as the point of inspiration for this deeply whimsical fantasy comedy (with echoes of Jodorowsky's...
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Nicolas Thibault de Fenouillet
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2010
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Novelist Marc Dugain both wrote and directed this screen adaptation of his novel about the last days of one of the 20th...
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2009
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An adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1929 short story "The House of Lurking Death," this French-language whodunit represents...
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Bélisaire Beresford
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2008
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An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller...
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2008
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An Alzheimer's-afflicted ex-policeman moves into a special needs residence - only to watch his life erupt into a waking...
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Charles Boyer
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2008
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Three couples wrestle with temptation and fidelity in this tart romantic comedy from France. Anne (Karin Viard) is a producer...
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2008
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A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between...
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Thierry
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2007
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As adapted from the roman by Antonia Arslan and co-directed by legendary Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The...
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2007
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The charmed life of a successful young engineer is thrown into chaos following a decidedly uncomfortable dinner with his...
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Richard Pollock
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2006
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The story of how an ordinary guy became the greatest hero of the French space program comes to the screen in this satiric...
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2006
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Belisaire Beresford
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2005
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2004
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Colonel Grasset
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2004
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Robert Mancini
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2004
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Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno headline this comedic chase film about a pair of escaped convicts with two very different...
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Prison Psychiatrist
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2003
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Jean Becker's Effroyables Jardins (Strange Gardens) is a tale of survival during WWII. At the beginning of the 1960s, French...
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Andre
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2003
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Jacques
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2003
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One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic...
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2001
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Vidocq (1775-1857) was a noted French detective who was one of the great trailblazers of modern criminal investigation; he's...
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Lautrennes
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2001
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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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Paul Guetz
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2001
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A man who thinks he's found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial...
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The Surgeon
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2001
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When a man kills his wife -- who happened to be the most hated woman in the village -- no one is sure if he should be...
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Jacquard
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2001
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Himself
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2000
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Robert (Andre Dussolier) is a stylish and neurotic 50-year-old with an insatiable appetite for women. One day, he reluctantly...
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2000
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As the title would suggest, this film, directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, is a noirish crime drama about two forensic cops...
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2000
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A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the...
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Amédée
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1999
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Yves Angelo directed this slow-paced French drama adapted from the novel by Steinunn Sigurdardottir about two sisters -- high...
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Jakob
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1998
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The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers...
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1998
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Simon
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1997
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In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa...
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Dr. Boyer
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1997
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Philippe de Morannes has an agreement with his girlfriend, the well-known actress Paulette Nanteuil. Either one of them can...
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Philippe de Morannes
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1997
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Unhappy neighbors hatch a homicidal scheme, then turn on each other in this Italian thriller similar to Strangers on a Train...
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1995
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After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would...
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Bertin
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1994
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This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a...
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Count Ferraud
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1994
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In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven...
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Jacques
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1993
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Helene (Anemone) is looking for her love of 25 years ago. She is 43 now, was 18 then. She has returned to the last place she...
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Pierre
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1993
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According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in...
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Simon
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1993
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Maxime
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1992
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1992
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Maurice (André Dussollier) was once a devoted socialist and followed his principles very nicely while he was an art...
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Maurice
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1991
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On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's...
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Alexandre
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1991
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1990
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Except for the millionaire film producer, who undoubtedly only gets what he deserves, in this bedroom comedy almost everyone...
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Julien Peyrat
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1990
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Georges (Thierry Fremont) is a juvenile Nazi collaborator who agrees to gather information on others in France in exchange...
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Adrien Rove
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1989
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When Jenny Quester (Catherine Deneuve) is harassed over the phone by a mysterious caller, she enlists the help of her...
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Frank Quester
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1989
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Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that...
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Marcel Blanc
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1988
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The title of Sand and Blood has led some to assume that this 1988 French film is a remake of the old warhorse...
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Emilio
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1988
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This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with...
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Ferrand
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1988
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The avant-garde founder of French New Wave Jacques Rivette, offers an on-going treatise of film versus theater in this...
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Paul
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1986
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A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected lesson in the challenges of fatherhood when a young infant turns up on their...
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Jacques
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1986
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The Seminarian
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1986
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1986
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1986
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1984
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Director Leon de Winter has taken a thriller with political and psychological overtones, and scrambled it into a series of...
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Marcel Boas
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1984
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More of a commentary on life as seen by Marguerite Duras than a movie on a family's internal relationships, this intriguing...
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School director
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1984
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This is a rather complex thriller that fails to deliver very much suspense or fear, in spite of the requisite shock scenes...
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Michel
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1984
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In this standard human interest comedy, Susan Berlanger (Kristy McNichol) has been crippled since a child and has to wear a...
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1984
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Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity...
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Jerome Martignac
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1984
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With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French...
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1983
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Julien (Jerome Zucca) is a left-leaning student whose politics and love interest end up clashing as the young man makes a...
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Vidal
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1983
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Edmond
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1982
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In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director...
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1982
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The time is World War II and Klari (Edit Frajt) is a young Jewish woman divorced from her husband, now in the Hungarian armed...
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Jacques
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1981
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1981
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1980
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This dignified and stylized film, set in the Middle Ages, follows the exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of...
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Gauvain
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1979
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Four men are tortured in a South American prison. Two of them survive, are released, and are sent into exile in France....
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Marcel
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1979
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While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old...
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Man
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1977
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Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and...
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Bernard
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1977
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The French Ministry of the Future announces that it has computer-selected a so-called "average" French couple, Jean-Michel...
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Jean-Michel
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1977
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When Maria (Jeanne Goupil), a woman who is too beautiful to seem quite real, marries a dollmaker, her new husband finds it...
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Claude
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1976
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After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him...
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Man
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1975
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Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the...
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Hugo
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1975
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Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th...
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Simon
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1974
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Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi)....
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1972
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