Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel...
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Mattei
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1970
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Leon (Bourvil) is the owner of a cafe in a small town in occupied France in this comedic war story. Like most French of the...
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Leon
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1970
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1970
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Verdun
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1969
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The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven...
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Anatole
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1969
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This sexually suggestive comedy also manages to simultaneously lampoon the French social security system. Chaminade (Bourvil)...
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Chaminade
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1969
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This slapstick comedy concerns the annual auto race in Monte Carlo and boasts an international cast of all-star thespians....
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Monsieur Dupont
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1969
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This madcap comedy concerns a bicycle race from Paris to San Remo at the turn of the century. Duroc (Bourvil) has invented a...
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Duroc
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1968
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This slapstick comedy concerns a college professor who stages a one-man vendetta against television. A hare-brained inventor...
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Armand
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1968
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Beloved French comic Bourvil stars in a dramatic role as the compassionate magistrate Arnaud. He comes to the aid of the...
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Arnaud
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1967
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In this British war comedy, set in WW II, a bomber crew is shot down over Paris during the Nazi occupation. They are helped...
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Augustin Bouvet
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1966
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Jean-Claude Roland and Lino Ventura play Nick and Laurent, a pair of not completely rehabilitated ex-convicts in Les Grandes...
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Hector Valentin
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1966
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In this slapstick comedy of manners, Eugene (Bourvil) is a businessman who is framed by his crooked partner and thrown in...
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Eugene
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1966
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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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Laland
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1965
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In this French comedy, a clever fellow proves himself smarter than the gangsters who would exploit him. The trouble begins...
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Antoine Marechal
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1965
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Bourdin (Bourvil) is a ticket puncher on the Paris subway who writes a book about a train robbery in this routine comedy....
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Bourdin
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1965
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In this French farce, a lazy member of a family of down-and-out aristocrats refuses to help the destitute family survive. ~...
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Georges Lachesnaye
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1965
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Triquet (Bourvil) is a policeman who is forced to retire early when he nabs too many crooks while he is not on the clock in...
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Triquet
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1964
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1964
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In this WWII comedy, a French POW escapes and hides at an inn. After the war, he stays at the inn to help the innkeeper,...
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Andre Colomber
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1963
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Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are...
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Corneille
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1963
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In a biting, critical look at "justice" and how it does not necessarily work, director Christian-Jaque develops this tale of...
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Godet
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1963
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Georges Lachaunaye
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1963
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A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection....
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1962
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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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Les Culottes Rouges, directed by Alex Joffe is a fairly routine wartime drama about two very different men who end up hiding...
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Fendard
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1962
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This standard comedy was one of the last films by director René Clair, who began his career in 1922! The story deals with two...
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'Toine,Dumont,Martial,Mathieu
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1961
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French comic Bourvil has the lead role of Andre in this comedy that romps from one impossible situation to the next, all...
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Andre
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1961
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This is a routine, somewhat melodramatic wartime tale set in Occupied France and featuring Michele Morgan as Juliette, a...
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Fortunat
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1960
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Andre Hunebelle directs this talky, standard costume drama set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. King...
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Cogolin
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1960
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Set in the 18th century, this French swashbuckler centers on Lagardere (Jean Marais), an adventurer whose life is affected...
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Passepoil
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1959
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In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings...
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Honore Haudoin
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1959
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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Charles Michaud
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1959
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Tardivet
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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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Thenardier
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1958
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Jean Brevent
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1958
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1958
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The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World...
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Marcel Martin
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1956
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1956
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Flicot
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1955
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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The title of this French bedroom farce translates to A Fly in the Ointment. That "fly" is music-hall performer Lucette...
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Douzin
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1954
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Jerome
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1954
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Of the dozens of film versions of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this 1953 film version is one of the few to remain faithful to...
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Planchet
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1953
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The title of this French low-comedy opus refers to a fancy, family-owned hotel. Village buffoon Hippolyte (Bourvil) hopes to...
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Hippolyte
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1952
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Isidore
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1952
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Henri
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1951
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Miquette et sa Mere was the second of Henri-Georges Clouzot's directorial efforts of 1949. Co-scripted by Clouzot, this...
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Urbain
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1950
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1950
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo may seem like a puerile title, but it is a lot more graspable to non-French audiences than the original Garou...
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Leon Dutilleul
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1950
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1949
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Leon Menard
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1948
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1947
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1947
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A corrupt, lecherous farming son and the destruction he brings to his family is featured in this melodrama. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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1946
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