Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her...
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1974
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Etienne (Jean Sorel) is a young man who seeks work in the coal mines of South France. After experiencing the harsh working...
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1963
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Based on a Jules Verne tale about a make-believe, 19th-century country in the throes of revolution, this routine costume...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1963
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Dialogue Writer
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1963
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The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and...
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1962
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Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from...
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1962
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Les Tricheurs (The Cheats) was director Marcel Carne's first film after a two-year absence from the screen. On the surface,...
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1958
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1957
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The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1954
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Rumeur Publique (Public Rumor) is a complicated story rendered nearly incomprehensible by poor English-language dubbing....
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1954
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La Pensionnaire was released in English-speaking countries as The Boarder. The title character is a good-hearted prostitute...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1954
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who...
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1952
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders...
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1952
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Screenwriter
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1950
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A French-American cooperative film about drug smuggling on the French Riviera. ~ Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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The all-purpose title Woman Who Dared was trotted out for the American release of Jean Gremillon's Le Ciel et a Vous....
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1949
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Dialogue Writer
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1949
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1948
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This dark drama, based on Dostoyevsky's novella, chronicles the exploits of a jealous widower who is enraged to discover...
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1946
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This is just a casual observation, but it's highly possible that more film adaptations of the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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In this French romance, a genius composer/violinist finds great success but no love because he cannot seem to connect with...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Heart of a Nation was filmed in 1940, just after the Nazi occupation of Paris. The film traces the fortunes of the Froment...
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1943
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1940
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This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home....
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Screenwriter
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1939
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This French-German co-production stars Jean Gabin in his standard screen role of a fugitive from justice. Unable to return to...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1938
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In this French war drama, a battleship captain tries to keep an enemy cruiser from sinking his vessel; he then must defend...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Hatred was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Mollenard. Harry Baur stars as Captain Mollenard, skipper of...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande...
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1937
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1936
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Filmed in 1936 but not released in the US until 1940, Julien Duvivier's Man of the Hour (L'Homme du Jour) was, believe it or...
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a...
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1936
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One of the earliest French color films, La Terre qui Meurt (The Land That Dies) tells the story of farmer Luminau...
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1936
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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and...
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1935
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Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion...
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1935
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Jacques Feyder's sole directorial contribution in 1934 (and his first film since 1931) was the superior Foreign Legion...
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1934
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1930
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Based on a play by Francis de Croisset, The New Men (Les Nouveaux Messieurs) was adapted for the screen by its director,...
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1929
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