An artist finds that creative freedom is far more elusive than he imagined in this satirical comedy-drama from writer and...
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Catherine
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2010
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Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry
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2008
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Two people fleeing different sorts of danger find one another in this screwball romantic comedy from France. Danny...
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2008
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One man's inability to understand contemporary cinema leads him into a strange new world in this offbeat comedy drama from...
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2008
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An elderly couple and their grown-up children must deal with the consequences of advancing age in this comedy-drama from...
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2007
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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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Pauline,Emilie
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2006
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Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism, Belle de Jour,...
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Séverine Serizy
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2006
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"Fontaine Leglou" (Emmanuelle Devos) is a silly name, and so, perhaps, that is why many silly things keep happening. As...
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2005
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After making a living by providing English subtitle translation to numerous French films, American filmmaker Andrew Litvack...
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Claude Sabrie
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2004
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Julie Lopes-Curval's debut feature, Seaside, closely observes the lives of about a dozen citizens in a small French village....
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Rose
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2003
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French filmmaker Jean-Paul Civeyrac directs the drama Toutes Ces Belles Promesses (All the Fine Promises), loosely based on...
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Beatrice
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2003
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A thirtysomething Parisian couple finally follow their dream of owning a rural bed and breakfast, only to discover that...
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Odile De Castellane
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2003
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Avant-garde director Werner Schroeter's Deux (Two) is a willfully disjointed film about twin sisters played by...
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2002
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A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of...
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Nadine
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2000
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This thriller from veteran director Claude Chabrol is a tense suspense drama, leavened with sly humor, about the fallout from...
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1999
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1998
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Iranian-born director Ramin Niami loosely adapted the Maxim Gorky play The Lower Depths for this ensemble character study set...
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1998
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Yves Angelo directed this slow-paced French drama adapted from the novel by Steinunn Sigurdardottir about two sisters -- high...
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1998
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1996
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In this downbeat drama from France, Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) is an upper class art student who is shocked to discover that...
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Benoit's Mother
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1995
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The quiet agony of a mother whose daughter grows up to pursue her own life is chronicled in this realistically presented...
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Jeane
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1995
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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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The seemingly unrelated scenes in this 110 minute black and white cinematic collage reflect the highly personalized vision of...
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1994
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This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars...
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Louise
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1994
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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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Francoise
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1994
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1993
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In this measured, leisurely paced melodrama, a kindly village pharmacist is transformed by drink into a brute when he leaves...
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Madame Ferrand
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1991
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1990
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1989
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No film critic of 1989 could write an assessment of the French-made Gang of Four (originally La Bande des Quatre) without...
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Constance
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1988
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Set in Vienna, Austria before World War I, an industrialist grows weary of his cold-hearted wife. He seeks vengeance in a...
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Genia
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1987
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After promising a rock star he would find a particular guitar-maker to procure his valuable products, a musician takes a...
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Cornelia
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1987
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In this experimental work, director Manoel de Oliveira puts in a few left-hand punches at the world of commercial cinema. The...
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1986
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Like a glossy wrapping around an empty box, this film about sophisticated gamblers with nothing deeper than their gambling...
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Suzie
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1984
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1983
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1981
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1981
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1981
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In this unreal walk through the streets of Paris, Marie (Bulle Ogier), a woman convicted of robbing a bank is just out from...
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Screenwriter, Marie
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1981
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Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the...
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Lucienne
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1980
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German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation)....
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1979
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In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their...
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Genevieve
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1979
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1978
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1978
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Girl
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1976
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For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which...
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Ariane
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1976
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Eric (Corin Redgrave) is a novelist whose imagination is unusually powerful. While exploring a run-down mansion in the French...
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Ariane
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1976
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While attending an auction of the belongings of a deceased female roommate, Claire (Bulle Ogier) discovers that each object...
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Claire
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1976
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This film chronicles the strange battle among a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or moon, who take the form of...
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Viva
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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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Marguerite
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1975
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1974
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A story about story-telling, Jacques Rivette's self-referential classic centers on the fanciful world of two women literally...
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Screenwriter, Camille
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1974
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La Paloma is a love story spiced with a touch of horror. In this Swiss-German film, nightclub singer La Paloma (Ingrid Cave)...
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Mother
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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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1974
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Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage, in this tragicomic French film...
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Janine
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1974
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Based on a true story, this French crime/action drama tells the story of three young prisoners who escape from their...
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1973
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In this French psychological drama, the tensions of show business parallel and increase the tensions on a married couple,...
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Singer
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1973
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Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker (Jean-Luc Bideau) who is attempting to put his...
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Camille
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1973
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In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society....
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1972
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1972
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Set in France in 1917, this film is about non-combatant pianist Julien (Mathieu Carriere) and the numerous efforts of his...
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1971
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This is a highly symbolic French drama in which truth and fantasy seem to mingle. When Mathieu's (Sami Frey) wife...
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Student
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1971
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This Swiss-made film closely examines the character of a non-conformist, a subject of unending interest to the reputedly...
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1971
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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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Bulle ["Piege"]
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1970
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Julia
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1970
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Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with a harridan mother and plenty of unresolved anger about his life. After his...
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Girl
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1969
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Paulina (Bulle Ogier) drifts aimlessly after she leaves her ailing brother. Struggling to find a place for herself in...
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Paulina
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1969
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This confusing film deals with the guilt, morality and near suicide of several people in the wake of the sexual revolution....
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Pauline
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1969
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1969
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1969
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This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage...
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Gigi
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1968
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1968
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A director and his actress lover rehearse for a tragic play. Complications set in when their life at home affects their...
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Claire
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1968
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