This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the...
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Vox
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1986
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Fannie Cottencon stars as Lilli, beauty salon owner and uncrowned queen of the shopping mall where the film, in its entirety,...
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Mr. Schwartz
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1986
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Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German...
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1983
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With comedy sequences that wobble between parody and sentiment, director Marc-Andre Grynbaum has attempted to present the...
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Joseph
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1983
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1982
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When Patricia Caron (Nicole García) watches a television debate, she is shocked to hear her long-dead husband described as a...
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Maitre Gillard
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1982
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A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a...
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1981
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A potentially destructive relationship between mother and son is the topic of this drama by Franck Apprederis. Laure...
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Guillaume
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1980
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Robert
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1979
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When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier,...
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Bertrand
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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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Manecca
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1976
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Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen...
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Lawyer
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1976
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Father
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1976
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This crime thriller is about a psychotic who makes obscene phone calls to beautiful women and then murders them. ~ Steve...
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Inspector Moissac
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1975
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Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love affairs over three generations during the 20th...
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Father
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1974
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The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity...
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1974
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The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must...
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1973
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Murder, industrial espionage, political intrigue and Jean-Paul Belmondo are the strengths of this French thriller. Cordell...
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David
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1973
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This French suspense drama concerns the efforts of a small-time criminal (Robert Hossein) to spring his older brother from...
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1973
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In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of...
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Simon
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1972
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Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi)....
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Arthur
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1972
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In France, the position of "magistrate" resembles that of the American district attorney; those in either post have broad...
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Graziani
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1971
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This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the...
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1971
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Monsieur Gallois
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1970
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Architect
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1969
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Two vacationing businessmen -- or are they gangsters? -- inflict endless humiliations upon one another by way of their...
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Julian
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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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This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by...
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1968
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Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a...
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Claude's Father
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1968
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1967
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A Frenchman on a business trip to Montreal reflects back on his childhood in this introspective drama. Relatives in the city...
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Jean
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1966
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1965
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Marie (Marie Laforet) is a wealthy French female who receives a precious jewel from a secret service agent in this spy...
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Johnson
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1965
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Life Upside Down was a French production (originally titled La Vie a l'Envers) which sneaked quietly into American art-movie...
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Jacques Valin
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1965
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This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the...
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1964
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1964
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1964
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This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed,...
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Henri-Desire Landru
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1963
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The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers...
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1957
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