In his last film, actor Klaus Kinski directs himself in this story of notorious 18th-century composer/violinst Niccolo...
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1989
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This tepid actioner is taken from the popular comic strip by Francesco Altan. Ada (Marie Louisa) is the heir who promises her...
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Collins
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1989
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This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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J.B. Cobb
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1988
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French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in...
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Saltiel
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1988
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1988
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Mondardini
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1988
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This political drama is taken from the classic story from Feodor Dostoyevsky, but liberties have been taken and many...
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1988
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In one popular Spanish-English dictionary, "picaro" is defined as "roguish; scheming, tricky; low, vile; mischievous," and...
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1987
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In this slightly science-fictiony romantic comedy, Ivan is a nice but rather clueless young man who works for a woman about...
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Father
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1987
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Originally titled Speriamo che sia Femmina, Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of...
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Uncle Gughi
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1986
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A look at Communism behind the Iron Curtain, this comedy is set in a posh Moscow hotel run by the hypocritical Igor...
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1986
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1985
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Maj. Bellucci
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1985
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The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal is based on Le Deux Vite di Mattia Pascal, one of Luigi Pirandello's many stories concerning...
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1985
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1985
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This run-of-the-mill comedy adventure film never quite overcomes the obstacles of a predictable script and dialogue. The...
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Mr. Guilledou
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1985
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Originally a six-hour mini-series, Cuore lost four hours after being cut down to this sentimental feature-length film on...
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Mr. Bottini
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1984
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In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon)...
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Dialogue Writer
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1984
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Rene
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1983
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1981
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The Emir
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1981
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Adept at dissecting marriage as an essentially no-win institution, Luigi Comencini applies his directorial scalpel here...
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Grandfather Eugenio
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1980
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Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties...
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Doctor
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1979
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Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the...
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Inspector Morvandieu
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1979
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The title Serie Noire refers to a popular French mystery series, and literally means "Black Series." The story is based on...
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Staplin
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1979
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Priest
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1976
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After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents...
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Pidou
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1976
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Francois (Jean-Paul Belmondo) was framed as a drug-trafficker by none other than the head trafficker himself and spent seven...
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Jean-Baptiste Liegeard
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1976
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1975
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A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order...
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Anselme
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1975
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The advertising business is the background for this drama about the struggles between a jaded old-timer (Bernard Blier) and...
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Tardel
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1975
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In this French spy thriller, a policeman with wide-ranging powers to protect an African dictator who is visiting France --...
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Maxime
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1975
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In a provincial town, before Mussolini's Ethiopian adventure, Camola (Aldo Maccione) a card-playing lothario, scores comedic...
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Priest
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1974
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1974
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Mayor
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1974
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Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her...
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Moureu
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1974
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In this French fantasy/comedy, the Maoist Chinese, by some miracle, have occupied Paris (and France) overnight. The patience...
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President
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1974
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In this broad, slapstick crime comedy, a trio of burglars rob the wrong apartment, but decide to hold the inhabitants...
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1974
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1974
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1974
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In this French comedy/satire, director Jean Yanne plays Benoit, an economist who sets out to prove that, with money, one can...
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Uncle
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1973
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In this French comedy, Pierre (Pierre Richard) is the peace-loving, good-natured son of an arms merchant. His bumbling...
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Gastie-Leroy
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1973
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In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to...
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Milan
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1972
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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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Bistingo
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1972
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Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just...
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Boss
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1972
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In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot...
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Chief
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1972
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Since the Italian Homo Eroticus was released to the US as Man of the Year, this video version is available under both titles....
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1971
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This French language film is a typical action/crime film by director Georges Lautner. Serge (Jean Yanne) is a jewel thief,...
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Inspector
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1971
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In this characteristic French farce, Louis De Funes in the role of Antoine spoofs the 1959 American classic black comedy,...
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Commisaire
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1971
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1971
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Alfred (Michel Serrault) doesn't work. He lets his wife do that. Instead, he plays the horses, and wanders about,...
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K.
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1971
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A wealthy French matron drives her captors crazy when she is kidnapped and help for ransom. Mathilde (Jacqueline Maillan) is...
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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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Bank Teller
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1970
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The Daydreamer (Le Distrait) stars Pierre Richard (who also directed) as a stumblebum ad-agency employee. Unable to get by in...
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Guiton
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1970
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Benjamin (Jacques Brel) is a country doctor who has a way with women with the exception of his fianceé. While other women...
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Marquis
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1969
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Fausto (Alberto Sordi) heads into the African jungle to find his long-lost cousin in this slapstick comedy. The Italian...
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Ubaldo Palmarini
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1968
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Coplan (Claudio Brook) is a free-lance undercover agent who offers his services to the highest bidder. He receives a phone...
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Agent
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1968
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Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her...
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1968
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The English translation of this French film is "It Won't Do To Take God's Children For Wild Geese." A young girl tries to...
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Charles
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1968
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Defense Counsel
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1967
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In this comedy, a hapless fellow's life changes dramatically after he is accidentally (a computer malfunctioned) "playboy of...
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1967
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1967
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Charles (Louis Jourdan) is a writer who falls for Sandra (Senta Berger) in this routine spy story. Sandra talks the writer...
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Rhome
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1967
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Goubi (Jean Lefebre) is the local village idiot, known by all, who dreams of someday going to Paris. When some locals learn...
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Boss
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1967
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This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love....
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Chief
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1967
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1966
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Bernard Blier directs and stars in this routine spy saga. A vacationing doctor is caught in a web of international espionage...
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1966
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In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about...
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Leandro Sanna
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1966
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1966
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Septime (Louis De Funes) is the owner of a posh French restaurant in Paris who is afraid of his temperamental cooks but who...
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le commissaire
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1966
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1966
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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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Charles
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1965
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Marcello Mastroianni portrays the handsome lover Casanova pitted against a thoroughly modern woman. This is a legendary hero...
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1965
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A petty crook teams up with a cop, who has been fired for incompetence, to fleece a wealthy businessman in this crime comedy....
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Yacinthe
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1965
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1965
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1964
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This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman,...
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Corna d'Oro
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1964
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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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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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1964
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In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and...
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1964
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The attempts of four secret agents to get a scientist's widow to share her husbands secrets form the basis of this comedy....
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Eusebio Cafarelli
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1964
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This crime comedy finds ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receiving a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The...
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Raoul Volfoni
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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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1963
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Etienne (Jean Sorel) is a young man who seeks work in the coal mines of South France. After experiencing the harsh working...
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Hennebeau
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1963
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This historical war drama follows the command of 16th-century artist Benvenuto Cellini as he and his troops defend Rome...
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1963
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This light comedy finds a pretty teenage girl stealing jewelry for fun rather than dating boys. Agents from the insurance...
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Bibois
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1963
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Based on a Jules Verne tale about a make-believe, 19th-century country in the throes of revolution, this routine costume...
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Torenthal
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1963
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Before Greed in the Sun was released to the States by way of MGM, this French/Italian co-production had made the European...
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Mitch-Mitch
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1963
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In this crime drama, an amiable, popular middle-age man (Bernard Blier) abruptly changes when he heads out for a nice picnic,...
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Gregoire Duval
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1962
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This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against...
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Charles
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1961
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This is a ribald though talkative look at the life and loves, mainly loves, of Henri IV, France's lecherous, 17th-century...
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Sully
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1961
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Jean Gabin carries this conventional political drama set in pre-World War II France. He is Emile, a retired politico with a...
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Philippe
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1961
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Georges Lautner, a popular French director of comedies and romantic dramas, tries his hand at a war film in this routine tale...
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Mayor
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1961
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Director Georges Lautner and screenwriter Jacques Robert worked on a series of "Monocle" films together, starting with this...
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Commissaire Tournmire
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1961
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1961
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And Suddenly It's Murder! is a regulation Dino De Laurentiis concoction: Big stars, lavish production values, muddleheaded...
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Police Superintendent
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1960
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This drama, loosely based on the legend of the "Hunchback," is set in Rome, 1944. The story begins as the Hunchback, a...
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The Marshal
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1960
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His successor's death prompts the retaliation of this top agent against the murderers. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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1960
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In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a...
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Jacques
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1959
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Capitano Castelli
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1959
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In this drama, a Parisian vagabond decides to get himself arrested so he can spend the winter in a warm, cozy jail....
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Pichon
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1959
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This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and...
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Simoneau
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1959
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1959
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Director Jacqueline Audry spent her career swimming against the current in the male-dominated film industry, a female...
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Exeter
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1959
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In this suspenseful WW II drama a Parisian widow assists with the Resistance. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a German...
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1959
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Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century...
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Zagoriensky
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1958
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Juvenile actor Joel Flateau is the center of attention in Sans Familie (Nobody's Boy). Heir to a fortune, the young...
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1958
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Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from...
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Javert
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1958
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1958
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Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version...
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1958
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L'Ecole des Cocottes was based on a popular stage sex farce by Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon. Dany Robin plays a gaminlike...
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home...
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1958
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La Chatte (The Cat) in this wartime meller is played by Francoise Arnoul. When her husband is murdered by the Gestapo, Cora...
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Captain
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1958
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Felix Seguin
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1957
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Retour de Manivelle (The Turn of the Handle) is an acceptable French approximation of Hollywood "film noir" techniques....
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Inspector
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1957
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The raincoated gent of the title is horse-faced French comedian Fernandel, who plays luckless jazz musician Albert...
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M. Raphael
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1957
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The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young...
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Noblet
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1955
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La Gouce
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1955
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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1954
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The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous...
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Professor
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1954
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1954
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Famed French farceur Noel-Noel is practically the whole show in Spice of Life (originally released in 1950 as...
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1954
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Few American theatres in 1952 would have run Je T'ai ete Trois Fois under its highly suggestive original title, which...
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Henri
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1952
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Suivez cet Homme (Follow That Man) is, as indicated by its title, a crime drama. While celebrating his birthday, police...
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Basquier
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1952
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Set in fin de siecle Paris, La Maison Bonnadieu stars Bernard Blier as a middle-aged bourgeois husband named Felix. Much to...
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Felix
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1951
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Noel (Bernard Blier), a grown-up mama's boy, falls heir to a busy matrimonial bureau. Assuming command of the operation, Noel...
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Noel
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1951
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1950
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1950
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In this Italian drama, an independent, sensual woman married to the owner of a riding academy has a string of affairs. She...
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1950
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Monseigneur offers a few intriguing speculations as to what really happened to the little Dauphin, aka King Louis XVII, after...
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Louis
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1950
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Robert
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1950
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Charles
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1950
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Jean Lesourd
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1949
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1949
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1948
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Pascal Laurent
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1948
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Bore
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1948
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This Christian-Jaque production was originally released in France as D'Homme a Hommes. Told in flashback, this is the story...
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Coquilet
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1948
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Following a three-year suspension from filmmaking after his Le Corbeau (1943) was judged too critical of his native France,...
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Maurice Martineau
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1947
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Originally released in France as Dedee D'Anvers in 1948, this tight little melodrama was both directed and co-written by...
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Monsieur Rene
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1947
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No "story by" credit is bestowed in the 1942 French filmization of Carmen, though its debt to novelist Prosper Merimee and...
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1946
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1945
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Messieurs Ludovic serves as a showcase for the considerable thespic talents of Odette Joyeaux. Escaping from her grimy...
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1945
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1942
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Originally titled La Nuit Fantastique, this French romantic farce was filmed in 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Little did...
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The cadet
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1942
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Filmed in 1941, Christian-Jacque's La Symphonie Fantastique at last attained an American release in 1947. In an elaborate,...
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1941
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1939
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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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1938
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