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Christine's Dad
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2002
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French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the...
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2001
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2000
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While the French have a knack for fine wine and fine food, they can't come up with a decent serial killer of their own, so an...
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2000
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Nicole Garcia directed this French suspense thriller set in the posh Paris square of Place Vendôme, where the jewelers...
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Vincent Malivert
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1998
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A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French...
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1995
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Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the...
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1993
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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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1992
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This made-for-television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair chronicles the true story of the 1985 hijacking of...
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1990
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Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and...
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1990
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Sam Fuller's last film as a director, made during his self-imposed European exile, stars Keith Carradine as once glamorous...
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Morin
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1989
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Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet...
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1989
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1989
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Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter...
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1989
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In this comedy, an American insurance investigator goes to Paris to prove that a crippled client's claim is utterly bogus....
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1988
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1987
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This entertaining thriller, set along Germany's northern seacoast in the deserted off-season, is garnished with a dash of...
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Flütterer
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1985
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Previllard
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1984
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1984
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Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and...
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Francis
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1983
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Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an...
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Marchand
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1982
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In this routine, somewhat disconnected story, Louis Alban (Jean Rochefort) has been divorced from his wife for awhile when a...
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1981
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"Le Guepiot" is the nickname given to the little female heroine in this autobiographical account of author Viviane...
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Claude Guenaud
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1981
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The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for...
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1978
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At 25, Helena (Mimsy Farmer) is "middle-aged" for a prostitute. When 15-year-old Julien's callow friends try to pick her up...
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Gisbert
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1978
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Unknown to him, a journalist's girlfriend has been known to harbor terrorists sought by the police. He is a reporter for a...
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Inspector
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1978
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Alex (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is newly married, and he and his wife are setting up housekeeping together in Paris. However,...
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Febio
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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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Husband
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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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Bernard
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1977
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Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife...
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1976
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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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Friend
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1976
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A child of divorced parents, the young man in this film engineers a situation which will force his mother, whom he has...
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Georges
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1976
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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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Sergio
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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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Max
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1976
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Unlike the 1935 film version of Jack London's 1897 novel Call of the Wild, which devoted most of its running time to a...
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1976
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an...
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Scope
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1976
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Jean-Pierre Marielle stars in this gentle comedy as a traveling salesman whose wife adamantly refuses to let him make...
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Emile
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1975
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The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. The...
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Boss
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1975
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This sequel to the Oscar-winning The French Connection picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on...
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Insp. Barthelemy
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1975
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1975
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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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Grelu
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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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Dr. Peyrac
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1973
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Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a...
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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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Marc
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1972
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Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom,...
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Abel
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1971
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Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic...
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Jean
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1971
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This film details a pretty girl's rise (with its attendant hazards) from obscurity to fame as she becomes a top model....
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Boyfriend
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1971
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Three social rejects plan an elaborate bank robbery. Ticky (Michael Dunn) is the dwarf and mastermind of the caper who is...
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Philippe
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1970
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A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against...
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Barnero
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1970
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Two men search for the wife of one of the men when he falsely claims she left him earlier that morning. The distraught...
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Alfred
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1970
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Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to...
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Jean
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1970
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A man returns to France after living in America for 11 years to find the old hometown has changed. Bruno...
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1969
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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1969
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A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution....
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Gilbert
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1968
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Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion, American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and...
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Meloutis
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1968
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This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend...
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Nicolas
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1968
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Zita, portrayed by Katina Paxinou, is a Parisian widow who has suffered a stroke. She is cared for by her niece...
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1968
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Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel....
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1967
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A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. Hoping to parlay the experience into a better life...
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Friend
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1967
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Six directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam....
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1967
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Adapted from his autobiography The Eddie Chapman Story, this is the story of a British safecracker who was in prison when...
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1967
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In this provocative sci-fi drama from Alain Resnais, a man wakes up in a hospital after an attempted suicide. He has invented...
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1967
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Jean
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1967
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La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his...
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1966
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the...
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1965
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The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau is used in this low-budget science fiction saga. A flying saucer appears and causes...
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1965
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In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling...
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1965
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In this Cold War thriller, both the US and the Soviet Union almost launch WW III when a radioactive satellite suddenly...
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend...
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1961
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A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are...
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Vincenzo
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1961
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Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains...
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The German Lover
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1959
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1959
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