This French-language feature, starring and directed by the acclaimed blues maestro Richard Bohringer, was loosely adapted...
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2006
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The gently evocative, nostalgia-seeped autobiographical drama A Year In My Life cinematizes writer-director Daniel Duval's...
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2006
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Paranoia grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in...
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Georges' Mother
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2005
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2005
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Voice of Denise the Elephant
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2003
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How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a...
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The Mother
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2002
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Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in...
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2002
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2001
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Grandmother
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2001
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Caroline
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1998
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In this erotic French-Italian-Spanish drama, Max (Georges Corraface), having spent a decade behind bars on a murder...
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Blanche
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1998
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Based on the sprawling novel by Vicki Baum, this convoluted melodrama follows nine people whose lives converge during the...
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Mme. Tissaud
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1997
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1995
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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Farmer's Wife
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1995
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Four clever girls who tire of their mundane lives turn to a life of crime in this light-hearted French comedy. Cecile, an...
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1994
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1993
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In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together...
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1991
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In this somewhat odd exploration of human romantic difficulties, the people in the film are all put under extra stress by...
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The lone woman
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1990
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Madame Chevillard
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1990
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The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the...
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Le Fleau
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1989
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Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe...
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Marthe
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1989
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In this reportedly autobiographical piece, Michel Legrand makes his directorial debut. He is much better known for his...
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Marcelle
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1988
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1985
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The last days in the life of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his family are told from the point of view of his...
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Rachele Mussolini
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1985
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This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the...
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Helene Riviere
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1985
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In cold-blooded, vigilante style, a mother exacts revenge for the deaths of her daughter and her daughter's lover in this...
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Jeanne Dufour
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1984
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This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence...
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1984
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1982
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In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to...
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Jeanne
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1981
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Gene Hackman plays a disgruntled suburbanite who manages the Ultra-Sav, an all-night drugstore. He hates his job, hates his...
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1981
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1981
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The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just...
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Florence Nat
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1980
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A potentially destructive relationship between mother and son is the topic of this drama by Franck Apprederis. Laure...
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Laure
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1980
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A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in...
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1979
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A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people...
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1979
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Magda
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1979
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Christine
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1979
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An inventor and a small-time industrialist, Guillaume (Louis De Funes) has come up with something which will take advantage...
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Wife
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1978
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The whole household revolves around the Annie (Annie Girardot), the mother, but no one helps her do anything. Without her...
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Annie
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1978
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In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier...
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Suzanne
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1978
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Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she...
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Marie
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1978
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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation...
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Daniele
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1977
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During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of...
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The Patronne
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1977
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Lise
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1977
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When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully...
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Madeleine
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1977
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After being left by her husband, the woman cab driver in this comedy will only take women fares. When one of those women...
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Driver
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1977
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In this romantic comedy, two separate people place "mate wanted" ads in the newspaper personals. Jacqueline (Annie Girardot)...
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Jacqueline
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1976
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Jip (Julien Clerc) is a piano teacher with two girlfriends who live in entirely different worlds. One is a young, kooky lass...
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Mona
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1976
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The plotline of Le Gitan concerns a devil-may-care "good badman" with gypsy blood flowing through his veins. Robbing from the...
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Ninie
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1975
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Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile...
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1975
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1975
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A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise...
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Francoise
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1975
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Diquet (Claude Brasseur) is a private investigator. Usually, he just follows people around and records what he sees them...
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Leone
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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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Maria
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1975
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In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through...
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Helene
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1974
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In this French drama, when magazine journalist Juliette (Annie Giradot) goes to work on a story, she gets serious. This gets...
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Juliette
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1974
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The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army...
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Ursule
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1974
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This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to...
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Madame Peyrac
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1973
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Losing her young lover makes Helene (Annie Giradot) feel old, so she heads off to a health resort she has heard does wonders...
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Helene
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1973
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In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She...
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Rosemonde
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1972
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This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her...
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Marie-Louise
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1972
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1972
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Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her...
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Muriel
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1972
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Originally Mourir D'Aimer, this 1970 French film is an "a clef" treatment of the once-notorious Gabrielle Russier case....
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Daniele
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1971
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Agnes (Brigitte Bardot) is the nun who follows the order to the beach for a swim in the ocean. They shed their habits to...
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Lisa
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1970
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This routine melodrama finds an Italian woman torn between her old lover and her husband. Karin (Bibi Andersson) is the...
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Liliana
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1970
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An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in early childhood searches to...
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Woman
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1970
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This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful...
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Housekeeper
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1970
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Set in a post-apocalyptic future, this Italian sci-fi thriller presents a dim view of humanity. Following the devastation of...
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Anna
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1969
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A married woman in her 30s tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband. Annie (Annie Girardot) buys clothes to...
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Annie
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1969
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A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking...
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Giovanna
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1969
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The title Life Love Death (originally La Vie, L'amour, la Mort) pretty much runs the gamut of the subject matter which...
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1969
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This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial...
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Maid
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1969
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In this romance, a composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting...
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Francoise
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1969
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A young man who cares for pigs defends a mentally challenged girl. When he fights with the local saloon keeper, the man gets...
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Reza
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1969
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A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. They take up with...
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Maria La Belge
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1968
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The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into...
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The Mother
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1968
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French director Claude Lelouch followed up his hit A Man and a Woman with this tale of a love triangle set against the...
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Catherine Colomb
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1967
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This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their...
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Valeria ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
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1967
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Yuri Aliabiev (Yuri Vasilyev) is a newspaper reporter who has been working in the letter-to-the-editor department for three...
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1967
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Kay
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1965
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La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international...
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Nanette
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1965
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1965
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1965
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Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this...
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1965
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In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He...
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1964
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1964
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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Young Marie-Paule
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1964
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Like The Elephant Man, The Ape Woman (original Italian title: La Donna Scimmia) is based on the real-life exploitation of a...
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Maria
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1964
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1963
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The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of Italian...
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Niobe
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1963
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The "vice and virtue" of the title of this wartime drama directed by Roger Vadim are exemplified in the personae of two very...
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Juliette
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1963
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Director Franco Rossi takes a few pot-shots at Italian politics in this drama about an interlude in Los Angeles. The...
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Gabriella
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1962
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Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An...
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Gabrielle Fenayrou [The Fenayrou Case]
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1962
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Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a...
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Fernande
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1962
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In this melodrama, a prominent Parisian businessman's wife finds her life incredibly boring until she has an affair with a...
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1962
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Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A...
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Madeleine
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1961
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Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who...
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Nadia
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1960
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The main drawback to this well-wrought tale of a man on the run is the weight it places on dialogue and concepts over actions...
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Lilla
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1960
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Director Alexandre Astruc is known for his abstract, avant-garde works such as this interesting film about a woman longing...
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Anna
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1960
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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Danielle [Divorce]
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1960
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Cora
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1960
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This drama chronicles the exploits of two criminal brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1959
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The hero of Le Desert de Pigalle is Janin (Pierre Trabaud), a two-fisted priest assigned to the lawless district of Pigalle....
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Josy
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1958
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The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who...
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Yvonne Maurin
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1958
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Marie
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1957
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Its title notwithstanding, Le Rouge est Mis (The Red Light is On) is not a drama about prostitution. Instead, the story...
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Helene
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1957
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Reproduction Interdite (Copying Forbidden) is a heavily plotted meller about an art forgery. A clever gang of thieves plots...
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1956
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Giselle
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1956
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