Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in...
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Charles
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1988
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The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by...
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Anzevui
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1987
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Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an...
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Donato Giuranna
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1981
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Mathieu
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1981
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1980
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Thomas (Sylvain Joubert) works on his grandfather's land, boxes in his spare time, and dreams of becoming a veterinarian. He...
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Grandpa
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1978
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While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old...
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Vergennes
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1977
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Alain Delon stars in this French/Italian prison-break film. When his son is falsely imprisoned, Delon contrives to bust the...
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Maitre Ritter
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1976
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Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery...
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1976
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After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents...
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Charles
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1976
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The townspeople living near a state-run prison in Chile would probably rather forget that it is there, but even from outside...
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Grandfather Parra
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1976
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Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled...
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Old Breze
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1975
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This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was...
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Judge
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1972
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1972
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Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is...
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Juliani
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1971
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A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who...
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1971
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An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He...
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Swenn
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1970
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In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by...
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1969
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A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution....
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1968
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Remi (Charles Vanel) is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but...
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Remi
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1968
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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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1967
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Adapted from the novel by Jean Giono, this French drama was written for the screen and directed by filmmaker Marcel Camus and...
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Matelot
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1965
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1964
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In this espionage drama, international spies stalk a German scientist in possession of important information about a rocket...
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1964
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Trouble begins when five Frenchmen pool their money in an attempt to pull off a huge drug deal. One intercepts the money and...
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Paoli
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1963
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Ever since the original Rififi set up the postulate of a spectacular robbery, there have been cinematic "Rififis" in...
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Van Hekken
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1963
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Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds....
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Father Christopher
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1963
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1963
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When young girls continue to disappear from a small, snowbound village, the police sent an officer out to investigate. The...
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Precureur
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1963
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A venerable banker from Paris leaves for America when he discovers there will be an investigation into his questionable...
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Dieudonne Ferchaux
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1962
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This children's adventure yarn stars one of the most famous comic-strip characters in Europe, Tintin, personified in the...
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Pere Alexandre
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1961
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1961
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This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot...
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Dominique's Attorney
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1960
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This slow-paced, routine drama is a remake of a 1933 version by director Pierre Guerlais, based on a novel by Pierre Loti....
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Mevel
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1959
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Lino Ventura stars in this French espionager as a secret agent known only as "The Gorilla". While it's never fully explained...
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Colonel Berthomieu
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1959
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This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier...
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Le Vieux
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1959
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The best thing going for this period piece set during the time of the last Russian Czar is its visual atmosphere, defined by...
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Gorew
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1958
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Le Piege (The Trap) top-bills Raf Vallone as a likeable fugitive from justice. Protected from arrest by big-hearted waitress...
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1958
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1958
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1958
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Crosses, double-crosses and triple-crosses abound in Les Suspects. The plot concerns an imminent Arab uprising in Algeria....
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1957
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A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins...
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1956
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Recharging his creative batteries with a "commercial" venture, director Luis Bunuel came up with the stylish if...
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Castin
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1956
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1955
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Giovanni Lamberti
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1955
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1955
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A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant...
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Bertani
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Wolf
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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Inspector Fichet
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1954
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Jo
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1953
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In this crime a district attorney's son investigates a suspicious conviction and learns a valuable lesson about the...
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1953
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Märta Torén is the titular heroine of the Italian romantic drama Maddelena. The story takes plays during the annual Good...
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1953
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1952
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Incantesimo Tragico (Tragic Spell) is a sombre Italian vehicle for the magnificent Mexican film luminary Maria Felix. The...
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Bastiano
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1951
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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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Pierre Gauthier
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1949
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Young Italian magistrate Schiavi (Massimo Girotti) finds the going rough when he assumes his new post in a small Sicilian...
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1949
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1948
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Originally released in 1939, Savage Brigade (La Brigade Sauvage) is set during WW I. The story concerns a deadly -- and...
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Col. Kalatjeff
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1948
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The Woman of Evil in this French melodrama is a lady named Louvaine (Helena Bossis). She's a pianist in a tiny café, where...
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Laurent
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1947
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Gringalet was based on a stage play by Paul Vanderberghe, who also essays the title role in the film version. Charles Vanel...
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1946
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A corrupt, lecherous farming son and the destruction he brings to his family is featured in this melodrama. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1940
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L'Or du Cristobal is based on the novel by A. T. Sersteven. Albert Prejean plays the first mate of the French freighter...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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Crossroads is the English title for Carrefour, directed in France by German-born Kurt (later Curtis) Bernhardt. Suzy Prin and...
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1938
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SOS Sahara is set in a forlorn desert outpost, manned by French officers. Like the rest of his men, commander Charles Vanel...
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1938
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Though its title and director are Russian, The Volga Boatmen was lensed in its entirety in France. Set in pre-revolutionary...
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Volkoff
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1938
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Legions D'Honneur begins during the final stages of a military court-martial. The tribunal demands that lieutenant...
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1938
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Bar du Sud finds Charles Vanel in his usual role as a stern French colonial officer. Vanel's nemesis this time is gun-runner...
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1938
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Jacques Ferney
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1938
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1937
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1937
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Ambassador Herlin
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1937
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1937
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1937
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A real-life Parisian police detective is credited for the screenplay of Police Mondaine. The story focuses on a manhunt for...
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Salviati
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1937
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1936
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1936
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Charlot
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1936
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Though the Czechoslovakian film industry had been "nationalized" by the Nazis after the 1938 invasion, a few pre-war...
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Vassidlo
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1936
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Benoit
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1935
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Filmmaker Anatole Litvak was still one year away from his "breakthrough" picture Mayerling when he co-wrote and directed...
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Maury
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1935
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1935
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Les Miserables is perhaps the most frequently filmed novel in screen history. This 1933 French version of the Victor Hugo...
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Javert
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1934
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1934
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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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Clement
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1934
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1933
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Indefatigable French director Maurice Tourneur launched his three-picture schedule for 1932 with Au Nom de la Toi...
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1932
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1932
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Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses) may well be the most powerful anti-war film ever made; certainly it is the grimmest and...
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Caporal Breval
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1932
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Faubourg Montmartre is based on a novel by Henri Duvernois. The title refers to the "street women" of Paris's Montmartre...
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1931
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1931
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1930
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The Heavy
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1930
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Cabaret Owner
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1930
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Fourchambault was adapted from a 19th-century stage play by Emile Augier. Abandoned by her sweetheart, the heroine, Mme...
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1929
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Silent films that were produced at the end of the silent era tend to be overlooked when praise for outstanding filmmaking is...
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Director, The worker
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1929
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1929
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1928
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1928
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This first film version of Joseph Kessel's wartime novel L'Equipage was adapted for the screen by its director,...
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1928
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1926
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1926
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Pierre Vignal
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1926
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1923
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1923
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Bernard Larade
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1923
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1923
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1922
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This European-made adventure was based on the novel, Phroso, by Sir. Anthony Hope. Lord Wheatley (Reginald Owen) decides to...
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1922
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World War I stunted the progress of cinema in Europe for several years and the French were still trying to catch up in 1922....
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1922
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1921
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1921
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1921
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1920
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