As co-directed by Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier, this French spy comedy stars Catherine Frot as the title character -...
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Imogène Mc Carthery
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2010
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Described by one source as France's equivalent of John Hillcoat's The Road, this gloomy, apocalyptic chronicle transpires in...
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Ombeline
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2009
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A veteran bank robber enters into a tense battle of wills with his elderly mother after moving back home to maintain a low...
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2009
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A man takes a last chance on love in this romance blended with science fiction. An unnamed calamity leads to global war,...
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2009
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An adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1929 short story "The House of Lurking Death," this French-language whodunit represents...
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Prudence Beresford
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2008
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In a dramatic setup that recalls the opening act of Robert Wise's chiller Audrey Rose (1977), Sandrine Bonnaire (Monsieur...
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Elsa Valentin
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2008
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Neophyte director Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's French-language romantic comedy Odette Toulemonde concerns the unlikeliest of...
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2007
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Years after her once-promising career as a professional pianist is tragically sidelined, a young musician still haunted by...
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Ariane Fouchécourt
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2007
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A woman finds a new and unexpected romance with a younger man in this romantic drama set in France in 1950. Monique...
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2006
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Yseult Lespinglet
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2005
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Prudence Beresford
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2005
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2004
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Un Couple Épatant (An Amazing Couple) is the second installment in the ambitious French-language trilogy directed by...
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2004
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Inspired by Lawrence Durrell's collection of interrelated novels, The Alexandria Quartet, Lucas Belvaux's trilogy--the...
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Jeanne Rivet
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2004
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2004
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Louise
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2004
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2004
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In this satirical comedy drama from France, white-collar workaholic Paul (Vincent Lindon) and his high-strung wife Helene...
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Helene
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2003
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A sexually frustrated husband learns to be careful what he asks for in this French marriage comedy from director...
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Audrey
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2003
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The comedy Chouchou has a cross-dressing gay immigrant as a main character. Chouchou (Gad Elmaleh) arrives illegally in...
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2003
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The foibles of a group of genial eccentrics scattered through the city of Nantes set the stage for this comedy-drama, taking...
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2001
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In the offbeat comedy La Dilettante, Pierette (Catherine Frot) is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the...
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Pierette Dumortier
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1999
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Noted French director Michel Couvelard creates this bleak, understated drama about midlife crises. Twenty years ago, Robert...
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1999
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La Nouvelle Eve is a bittersweet comedy about an independent woman, thirty-ish and single, and her unexpected need for the...
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Isabelle
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1999
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Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick (Sam Karmann) is unaware that...
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1998
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Evelyne
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1998
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Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons,...
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1998
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In this black comedy from France, a family gathers in a tavern, ostensibly to celebrate a birthday, but poking each other's...
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Yolande
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1996
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In this somewhat literary exploration of the meaning of romance, loosely based on the works of Henry James, five modern-day...
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1993
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Darius Caunes is so charming, you want to forget that he killed his wife. He is so charming that you will probably want to...
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1992
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Martin (Martin Lamotte) is probably a little cracked in the head. Why else would he pick up a suspicious-looking hitchhiker...
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Prostitute
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1990
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1990
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1990
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In this allegorical children's melodrama, nine-year old Tom and Lola (Neil Stubbs and Melodie Colin) have been kept in...
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Catherine
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1989
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Sorceress is not a remake of the 1982 erotic thriller of the same name. This 1987 film is set in medieval France, where, in...
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Cecile
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1988
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The universally recognized topic of this light comedy is the struggle between refusing to fall in love only to be rejected,...
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1985
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Based on the prize-winning novel by Elvire Mural, the French Escalier C (Staircase C) stars Robin Renucci as a cynical,...
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1985
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This light romantic comedy is set up as a film-within-a-film, and features Francois Cluzet as Ferdinand, a screenwriter and...
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Juliette
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1985
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This story about a wounded American gangster seeking refuge in the country villa of a blind, sophisticated, and aging actor...
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Jacky
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1983
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This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to...
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1982
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1981
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The cartoonist Gerard Lauzier wrote this satire of psychologists, their practice, and the whole idea of group therapy, around...
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Babette
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1981
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Alain Resnais's Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played...
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1980
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