Pierre Schoendoerffer has made many film about the French in Indochina, and Above the Clouds finds the 75-year-old director...
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2003
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Noted French filmmaker François Ozon directs this drama about personal loss and resilience. Marie (Charlotte Rampling) is...
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Jean Drillon
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2001
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Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the...
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Joe
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2001
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It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic,...
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Taxi Driver
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1993
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1993
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Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic...
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Mr. Belfond
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1992
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1992
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1992
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1991
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In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her...
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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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Marv Lavater
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1990
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1989
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The Father
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1989
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Temptation comes in many forms. For Francois (Bruno Cremer), a high-school philosophy teacher, it takes the form of Mathilde...
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Francois Hainaut
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1989
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Joulin
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1988
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A distinguished drama and considered an important entry in French cinema's new naturalism from one of the '80s most...
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Marcel
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1988
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In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them....
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Joe
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1987
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1987
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Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier...
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Art Collector
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1986
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1986
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In a simple story, told as a local legend and set against the breathtakingly awesome Swiss Alps, a young man and his uncle go...
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Seraphin
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1985
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This West German spy drama moves along a fairly predictable course that begins when French industrialist Bernard Corain...
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Bernard Corain
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1985
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1984
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1984
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This vicious crime thriller tells the story of Fanny (Fanny Cottençon), a cold-blooded woman who has served several prison...
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Andrés
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1984
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In this run-of-the-mill thriller, a frenetic, sexually dysfunctional thief loses it and shoots two employees and his...
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Pierre
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1983
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Christian Tessier
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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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Richard
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1982
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An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a...
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Regis
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1982
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Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes...
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Antoine Chirex
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1982
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Val Brosse
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1981
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1980
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The French Foreign Legion intervenes on behalf of 3,000 European and American civilian hostages in the town of Kolwezi,...
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Pierre Delbart
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1980
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The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just...
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Alain Riviere
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1980
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1980
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1980
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The pushes and pulls of an emerging post-war society are behind the antagonisms in this routine, slow-paced story set in a...
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1980
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Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters...
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Georges
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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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Publisher
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1978
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In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the...
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Lucas
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1978
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The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired...
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Victor Manzon/"Serrano"
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1977
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In France, the slang-word for "bounty hunter" is "alpagueur." When the police are working on cases where they do not want...
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The Hawk
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1976
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Bolstered by the buoyant performance by Jacques Dutronc as a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, this French film follows the...
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Blanchot
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1976
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Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to...
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1975
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The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film...
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Delage
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1975
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When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police...
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Inspector
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1974
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When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Gerret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After...
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Inspector
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1974
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In this French crime/action feature, Maury (Maurice Ronet) has been booted out of the police force for failing to understand...
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Fonetti
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1973
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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1972
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The Algerian War is the subject of this French documentary, as is only proper, because that war gave the French a new...
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1972
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Based on the novel Biribi, by Georges Darrien, this French film brings to the screen the story of Froissard (Michel Tureau),...
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1971
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1970
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Max (Bruno Cremer) cares for a mystery girl (Anna Karina) when she falls off her horse in a riding mishap. A film cannister...
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Max
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1970
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A doctor turned detective (Claudio Gora) tries to cure a young alcoholic from his disturbing thoughts of suicide. David...
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Luca
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1970
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In this thriller a beautiful girl approaches a journalist in a Parisian bar. Her clothing is in tatters and she seems dazed....
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Hugo
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1969
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A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. They take up with...
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Bonnot
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1968
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In this drama, a young wife stays alone in her opulent apartment after her husband and her maid leave. Suddenly the doorbell...
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Walter
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1968
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1968
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The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into...
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Father
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1968
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1967
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In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately,...
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Cazal
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1967
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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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Agent
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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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Bruno Cremer plays a French Army captain, just released from prison. Model Marisa Mell gets Cremer mixed up in a planned...
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Reichau
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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1965
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Set near the end of the bloody Indo-Chinese War in which the Vietnamese struggled to shuck off the yoke of French...
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Willsdorf
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1965
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1960
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1957
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