This zany, madcap comedy with serious undertones concerns Jean-Gabriel (Lucien Jean-Baptiste), a husband with three children...
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2009
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2009
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A single thirtysomething whose friends all seem to be romantically involved, happily married, or with child meets an...
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2007
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A man tries to hold on to his bachelor lifestyle by getting engaged in this romantic comedy. Luis (Alain Chabat) is a man in...
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Geneviève
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2006
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Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as...
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2006
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A lonely orphaned princess makes the acquaintance of a kindly unicorn whose friendship helps the struggling girl to finally...
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2006
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Carmen
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2003
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Mona
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2002
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Rien sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple (Fabrice Luchini) is a journalist who...
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Mme. Sauvage
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1999
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Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world....
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Esther
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1997
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Especially made for fans of arthouse fare, this intellectually challenging work from writer/director Anne-Marie Mieville...
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1997
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In this film, director/screenwriter Jean Teule adapts his novel Rainbow pour Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a...
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Mother
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1996
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This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a...
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1995
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1994
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In this romantic comedy from France, Annie (Bernadette Lafont), a middle-aged single mother who hasn't seen her grown-up...
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Annie
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1994
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After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to...
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1992
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In this murder farce, a hitchhiker lopes into one of France's decaying industrial towns where unemployment is much higher...
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1992
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Jazz great Miles Davis makes his acting debut and farewell playing an inspirational jazz trumpeter in this lively drama that...
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Angie Cross
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1992
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The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this...
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von Wrangel
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1991
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In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found....
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Madame Benedetti
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1991
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1990
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The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of...
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1990
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Financial backers from three different countries--Belgium, Canada, France--converged upon the domestic drama L'Air de Rein...
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Constance
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1989
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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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Nelly Roux
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1989
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The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa...
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1988
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Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in...
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Jeanne
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1988
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Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who...
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Fernande Olivier
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1987
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The masseuse
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1987
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Inspecteur Lavardin is a mellow, take-your-time Claude Chabrol effort of the 1980s, partly financed by French television....
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Helene Mons
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1986
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1985
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The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash...
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Leone
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1985
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"Boodle" is illicit money, which is the objective of the young couple at the heart of this loose, uneven crime-comedy by...
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Anne's mother
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1985
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A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie,...
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1985
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1983
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In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller...
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1983
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Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman...
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1983
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1982
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1981
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Denise
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1981
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The pain of writer's block is examined in this drama that centers around the daily anxieties of a frustrated writer who...
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1981
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A daring idea gets an ambivalent treatment in this typical Italian comedy about an unfunny subject. The teaching and events...
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Apula
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1980
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1980
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The tendency for a life of crime to continue unabated is a part of this conventional crime comedy by director...
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Teresa
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1980
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1980
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Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike...
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Gisele Brossard
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1979
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In this comedy, Victor (Peter Ustinov) is a film director whose career has taken a nose dive. He believes that his job...
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Corinne
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1979
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Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and...
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1978
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A group of carping critics and whiny would-be artists who have never been confronted with the reality of having their works...
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Anne (Children's Book Author)
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1978
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In this comedy, over-achieving men who are involved in a multi-car automobile accident meet and get to know one another in...
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Bernadette
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1978
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1978
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In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored...
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Louise
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1976
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After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to...
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Giulia
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1976
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Leopold (Jean-Michel Folon) is a thoughtful cipher, an investment broker who is so opposed to war that he transfers his...
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1976
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The rather overweight Italian lad (Michel Galabru), the hero of this comedy, would seem to be an unlikely ladykiller, but in...
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Wife
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1976
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1975
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Living a dismal life taking care of his uncommunicative and nearly blind father, Vincent (Fabrice Luchini), a sculptor, tries...
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Jeanne
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1975
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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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Nurse
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1975
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This off-beat drama is set within the sleazy Pigalle sector of Paris. The tale centers on a song-and-dance team who work in...
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Pauline
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1975
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In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about...
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Sandra
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1974
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The friendship between three men and a woman who is the wife of one of them is explored in this French drama. The gentle...
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Wife
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1974
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This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half...
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Writer
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1974
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In this French historical epic/farce, Colinot (Francis Huster) has had a hard time. First, his fiancee was kidnapped by a...
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Rosemonde
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1973
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The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must...
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Simone
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1973
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One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething...
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Marie
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1973
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Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins...
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Camille
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1973
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An enigmatic man, blind in one eye at first and later blind in both, is the hit man in this French thriller. The films opens...
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Bernadette
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1973
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The trouble begins in this French comedy drama when four female roommates witness a theft and begin to suspect their...
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Bernadette
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1972
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The Egg is "the system," and Magis (Guy Bedos) wants to be a part of it, somehow. He works in a stuffy store and, out of...
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1972
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The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film...
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1972
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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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Camille
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1972
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Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually...
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Edwarda
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1971
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1971
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This uneven drama is an update of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. Cain returns to his gypsy family after traveling...
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Girl
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1970
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Celine
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1970
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Elise (Marie-Josee Nat) is a young provincial woman working in a factory in Paris. Her revolutionary brother secured the...
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Arezki
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1970
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This three part film begins with "Trap", a neurotic sadist sets traps all over his house and invites two female burglars to...
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Girl ["Piege"],Marie ["Marie et le Cure"]
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1970
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This symbolic film follows the journey of a young man as he awakens to his sexual desires. He is seen naked in the desert...
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Cleopatra
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1970
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An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and...
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Landlady
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1969
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In this amusing comedy, Leon (Claude Melki) is the naíve tailor who believes men are coming to see his trollop sister Marie...
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Marie
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1969
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Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with Yvan...
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Marianne
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1969
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1969
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Also known as La Fiancée du Pirate and Dirty Mary, this French comedy noir stars Bernadette Lafont as Marie, the title...
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Marie
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1969
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A man is in danger of losing his job when he talks a foreign company out of placing a useless order. The young engineer is...
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Marie
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1968
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1967
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1965
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Louis De Funes stars in this two-part sexploitation comedy. Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French...
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Sophie
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1965
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Stanislas (Jean Marais) is a wealthy and well-heeled French secret agent who is called out of retirement for another mission...
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Rosine
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1965
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In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is...
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1964
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This farcical French fantasy has great fun at the military's expense as it chronicles the Army training of a lively group of...
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1963
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The government hires reporter Eddie Constantine to carry vital microfilm in this espionage thriller. ~ Rovi...
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1963
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1962
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In a complex sequence of romantic musical chairs, this routine, New Wave style drama looks at a series of couples that have...
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Isabelle
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1962
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Eddie Constantine once again picks up his usual persona, this time as Bobby, an FBI agent who is affable, equipped with...
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1962
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In this convoluted drama, a young woman and two cousins, whom she doesn't know, find that they are named as beneficiaries in...
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1962
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1961
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A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy...
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Ambroisine
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1961
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The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of...
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Jane
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1960
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In this standard comedy of sex and odd manners, a few men and women converge on a picturesque chateau for the reading of a...
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Prudence
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1960
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Eddie Constantine stars as a reporter mixed up in the spy world in this routine espionage actioner by first-time director...
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Anna
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1960
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New Wave director Claude Chabrol employs an aloof perspective in this tale of murder and a dysfunctional family. The...
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Julie
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1959
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First released in 1960, Fanatics was designed as a screen vehicle for then-hot French singer Sacha Distel. In an apparent...
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Mado
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1959
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An espionage romp inspired by a dying man brings a spy out of retirement in this crime film. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is...
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Marie
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1958
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Les Mistons (aka The Mischief Makers) was the second short-subject film directed by Francois Truffault. Exploring subject...
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Bernadette Jouve
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1957
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