The wealthy old lady (Françoise Rosay) in this French comic crime caper is largely unaware of the machinations of her...
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1972
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In this spare Spanish drama, Sara is a morally upright woman with but one failing: she wants to be a stage star....
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1971
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Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count...
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1970
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While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a...
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1969
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In this drama, two Polish brothers escape from a Russian labor camp and try to join the exiled Polish Army in Afghanistan....
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1968
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This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring...
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1968
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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1967
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Doucet (Jacques Brel) is a dedicated and happily married schoolteacher in a small town. One day he is accused of making...
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1967
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Leopold (Paul Meurisse) is an attorney who gets involved with underworld thugs trying to hijack a truck containing a shipment...
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1965
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This romantic adventure centers on the romantic exploits of a lusty Arab princess who is saved from a terrible fate at the...
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1965
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Director René Clair pokes fun at the gentlemanly art of warfare that existed in the 18th century in this war comedy....
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1965
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Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two...
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1964
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In this romance, a youthful painter, vacationing in the French Riviera, falls in love with a beautiful woman who,...
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1963
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1963
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Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An...
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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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This was the penultimate film directed by Jean Boyer who began his career in 1930, focusing mainly on lightweight, commercial...
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1962
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Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963...
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1962
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Robert Hossein serves as both director and star of The Game of Truth. The scene is a party thrown by a capricious novelist....
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1961
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The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a...
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1961
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1960
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Murder, illusion, and lies form the basis of this convoluted drama that centers around twin sisters and the man that loves...
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1960
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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1959
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Not reaching much beyond a routine and predictable crime-romance story, La Bete a L'Afflut features (Francoise Arnoul) as an...
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1959
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1958
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1958
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Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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1958
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Charles Boyer is Maxime in this seriocomic period romance. Maxime is an ageing roue who, partly out of boredom and partly...
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1958
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Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown...
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1957
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Director Andre Cayatte's first film in two years, Oeil pour Oeil (An Eye for an Eye) was adapted from a novel by Vahe Katcha....
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1957
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Les Carnets du Major Thompson was the final film effort of producer-director-writer Preston Sturges. Once a Hollywood...
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1956
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That merry prankster Till Eulenspiegel is at it again in this lively Franco-German production. Director Gerard Phillipe does...
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1956
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The most frequently filmed of Emile Zola's works, Nana was given a slick, polished cinemazation by French- filmmaker...
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1955
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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1955
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This upteenth film version of the life of royal courtesan Madame Du Barry stars Martine Carol in the title role. Starting out...
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1954
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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1954
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1954
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This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad...
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1954
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Blonde French sex symbol Martine Carol is incongruously cast as the title character in Lucrece Borgia. The bloody excesses of...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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1952
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1951
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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1950
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An established film favorite in both her native Sweden and Hollywood, Viveca Lindfors made her French film debut in...
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1949
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The astoundingly prolific French filmmaker Jean Boyer turned out only one film in 1948. Tous les Chemins Menent a Rome stars...
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1949
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Pauline Kael has characterized Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads (L'aigle a deux tetes) as an inversion of Cocteau's...
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1948
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Released in the US as The Chips are Down, Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont Faits represented the first work written directly for...
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1947
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Christian-Jacque's sole directorial effort for 1946 was Le Revenant, better known to English-speaking audiences as...
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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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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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1945
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This French morality play is fraught with cynical undertones as it tells the tale of a group of French people from every...
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1945
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1944
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Originally released in 1939 as Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost), Abel Gance's Four Flights to Love is typical of the great...
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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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1939
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This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who...
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1938
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Entree des Artistes details the lives and loves of several artistically-inclined students at the Paris Conservatory. Wealthy...
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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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Set against the backdrop of the French Alps, Motherhood is the melancholy story of servant girl Marthe (Hella Muller)....
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1934
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Maldone was one of the first feature-length efforts of French filmmaker Jean Gremillon. The title character is a footloose...
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1928
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