This zany French comedy concerns Jean-Pierre Savelli, a 45-year-old French middle executive from Clermont-Ferrand. While...
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Jacky Pic
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2010
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A fresh-faced orphan from the provinces labors away at the last old-fashioned café on Avenue Montaigne as the Paris theater...
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Jacques Grumberg
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2007
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Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea...
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Firos
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2007
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A talented trompe l'oeil artist finds her dedication to her slacker husband slipping until the aimless but amiable spouse...
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2006
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A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in...
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2006
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2006
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2004
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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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A woman discovers that the joys of parenthood are not making her especially happy in this dark comedy/drama. Christelle...
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2001
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2000
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Bullfighting runs in the family in writer/director Eric Barbier's tale of a rising young corrida star whose promising career...
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2000
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This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann (Claude Berri, who is also the director) a middle-aged auctioneer...
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Paul-Edouard
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1999
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This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier (Charles Berling), a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced father...
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1999
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This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute (Olivier Martinez), who either cannot or will not...
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Chief Guard
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1999
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Matrimony is a drama about the complexity of relationships. On Christmas Eve, perfect housewife Giulia Francesca Neri is...
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Alessio
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1998
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The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero...
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Delabit
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1998
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An Algeria born and raised French citizen (known as a pied noir) finds himself forced to choose between his beloved but still...
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Georges Montero
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1997
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Adultery and the possibility of patricide provide the motives behind this French drama, set in a Parisian suburb. Claire is...
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Guerin
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1993
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In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
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1992
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France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the...
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Joseph Fouche
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1992
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Spino (Claude Brasseur) is in his late middle age, working as a mere attendant at the morgue. One day the corpse of a...
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Spino
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1992
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This experimental drama is something of an actor's challenge: see if you can convincingly play an age range from six to...
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1992
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In the Dancing Machine, Alain Delon is Alan Wolf, a former great name in the world of dance, who has been forced by injuries...
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Eparvier
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1990
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Georges Deblache (Claude Brasseur) is a police inspector who is past middle age and who is so despondent about his life that...
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Georges Deblache
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1990
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This spy thriller tells the story of the real-life Soviet superspy Leopold Trepper (Claude Brasseur), who set up an espionage...
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Trepper
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1989
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Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the...
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Georges Dandin
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1988
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Revers
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1988
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This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic...
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Paul Maurier
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1988
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An unusual assortment of characters is brought together in this film noir influenced story: Petrus (Claude Brasseur) spends...
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Petrus Machin
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1986
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In this routine psychological thriller, a husband and wife try to jump start their failing marriage by taking a vacation in...
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Alan Kolber
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1986
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1986
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The clash in this Philippe De Broca comedy between a bored middle-class stiff and a much more exciting, lawless female offers...
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Hubert Durieux
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1986
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Set up along the general plot lines of films like The Dirty Dozen, this routine spy-action drama of espionage and...
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Larcier
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1985
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In a standard story of brotherly conflict during the severity of detention in a German prison camp at the end of World War...
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Robert Morland
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1985
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1984
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This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence...
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Firmani
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1984
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After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to...
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Emile Chenal
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1984
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In this French drama, a Secret Service agent becomes a novelist after he is forced to retire. He writes about experiences he...
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Lartigue
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1984
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In this routine romantic comedy, a veterinarian who mingles with humans of a higher pedigree gets an unwelcome visit from a...
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Jean-Jacques Lestrade aka "Gigi"
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1983
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Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise...
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Commissaire Martin Griffon
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1983
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1982
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This sequel to La Boum, a teenage romantic comedy that was a big box-office success in Europe, revisits Vic (Sophie Marceau),...
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Vic's father
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1982
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An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a...
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Michel
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1982
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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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Guy de Maupassant
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1982
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A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery...
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Martin Modot
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1982
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The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the...
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Anton Kovetz
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1981
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Servolle
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1981
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La Boum stars Sophie Marceau as a 13-year-old French girl, coping with domestic problems. Her parents, played by...
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Francois
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1981
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The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat (Annie Girardot) who has just...
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Simon Risler
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1980
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Largue
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1980
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Though it seems impossible that anyone but another lobster could be offended by the Italian-American domestic comedy Lobster...
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1979
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Two francophones have become roommates in Montreal. One is from France, the other is from Quebec. Their love-lives revolve...
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Arnold
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1979
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Commissaire Jacques Fush
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1979
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The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves...
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Chevalier
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1978
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L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles...
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Bravenoire
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1978
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When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive...
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Leo
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1978
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Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters...
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Serge
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1978
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This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a...
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Daniel
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1977
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In this family comedy, Papa (Claude Brasseur) has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend. ~...
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Frank Lanier
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1977
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When he is not working as a stage performer, Emile (Yves Montand) works as a small-time con-man. He has a brand-new plan for...
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Ary
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1976
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In this caper film, two separate individuals become embroiled in a search for a courier's illegal million-dollar haul. They...
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Renaud
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1976
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When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon...
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Daniel
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1976
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1976
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An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a...
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Ducatel
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1975
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The difficulty experienced by a softcore porn film producer, who must somehow transform an academically praised novel into an...
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Manuel
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1975
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Diquet (Claude Brasseur) is a private investigator. Usually, he just follows people around and records what he sees them...
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Diquet
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1975
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This French film noir stars Alain Delon as a lawyer who thought he'd heard everything. But even Delon is not fully prepared...
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Francois Rollin
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1974
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A group attempts to embezzle and hide a fortune of 2,000,000 pounds while outwitting the British Intelligence during World...
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Raphael Tilbaudet
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1973
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In this French psychological drama, the tensions of show business parallel and increase the tensions on a married couple,...
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Magico
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1973
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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1972
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In this humorous French crime drama, Cave (Claude Brasseur) is a small-time hood, doing jail time for his deeds. While there,...
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Cave
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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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Monsieur Murene
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1972
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Three social rejects plan an elaborate bank robbery. Ticky (Michael Dunn) is the dwarf and mastermind of the caper who is...
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Hess
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1970
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Two men search for the wife of one of the men when he falsely claims she left him earlier that morning. The distraught...
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Octave
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1970
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Catherine (Olga-George Picot) uses her feminine wiles to survive when enemy hordes attack Paris and kill her lover. The new...
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Butcher
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1969
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1969
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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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Groubac
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1967
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In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new...
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1966
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The friend of a diamond thief kills the man who refuses to call for medical help after a shootout in this low-budget crime...
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Marc
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1966
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Arthur
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1964
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Jo (Eddie Constantine) is a gangster who is down on his luck. His cronies avoid him like the plague because his presence...
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Fils
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1964
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Charlie
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1963
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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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Chavel
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1963
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Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European...
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1963
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1963
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Vigo
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1962
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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Riri [Envy]
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1962
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1962
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The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends...
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Pater
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1962
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In this romantic comedy, voluptuous Parisian model Sophie (Brigitte Bardot) is angered when she learns that her boyfriend...
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Claude
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1961
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In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for...
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Dominique
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1961
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In this drama, two lifelong buddies find their friendship tested when one of them hits the road after being accused of...
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1960
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French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film....
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1960
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In this routine crime drama, popular French actor and comic Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not...
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Tony
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1960
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Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a...
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Loulou
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1959
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Heightened by an emphasis on the action scenes and good visual effects, La Verte Moisson is otherwise a fairly standard...
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Robert
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1959
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1956
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