There is nothing especially exceptional about this comedy-drama which focuses on a certain Guillaume (Fernandel) who lives in...
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Fernande
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1963
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Marcello (Charles Abnavour) is a traveling Frenchman who is stranded in Rome. Although he knows nothing about the Eternal...
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Marquise
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1963
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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A young girl leaves her home in a small country town for the big city life in Paris. Her dreams of a career and her search...
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Mrs. Albert
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1961
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A rather leaden police story by director Charles Gerard (who refocused on acting after 1966), La Loi des Hommes is...
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Princess
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1961
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1958
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Mme Harmier
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1958
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Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly...
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Gazelle
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1958
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1956
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1956
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert...
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1954
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Arletty heads the cast of this first film version of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential theater piece No Exit. The scene is a...
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Inez
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1954
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Though filmmaker Marcel Carne was no longer considered a trendsetter in the French cinema in the 1950s, his films still...
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Blanche
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1954
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Pere de Mademoiselle (Father of the Girl) is all about a star-struck lass from rural France who takes a job as the secretary...
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Edith
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1953
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1951
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Longtime French film favorite Arletty is decidedly the star of L'Amour, Madame. Cast as "herself," the actress is required...
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Arletty
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1951
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1949
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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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Garance
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1945
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Originally released in 1942 as Les Visiteurs du Soir, The Devil's Envoys is another masterful collaboration between actress...
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Dominique
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1941
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La Tempete (The Tempest) is based loosely on characters created by Honore de Balzac. In one of the strangest roles of his...
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1939
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Clara
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1939
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1939
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In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll....
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Loulou
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1939
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1938
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Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by...
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Raymonde
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1938
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Also known as Mother Love, Chaleur du Sein was adapted by director Jean Boyer from his own stage play. The story concerns...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Queen of Ethiopia
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1933
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1932
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1932
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1931
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