The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that...
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1978
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Nobody expects much of the goofy prankster who teaches at a public school. When his students get word of the principal's...
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1978
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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation...
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1977
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Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is an aging former prostitute who, in her dotage, makes a living by caring for the children of...
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Dr. Katz
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1977
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With a title like Barry of the Great St. Bernard, this has to be a Disney effort. Set in the early 1800s, the story involves...
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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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1976
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an...
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1976
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In this tragicomedy, loosely based on a tale by Anatole France, Fernando Fernan Gomez plays a man who has locked himself away...
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1976
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Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be...
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Mazelli
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1975
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Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious...
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Fargeau
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1975
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Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin star in this madcap slapstick comedy. The director of the bank he works at has induced Pierre...
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Rovere
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1975
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This drama tells the story of a successful author who visits the French village where he was once imprisoned. ~ Rovi...
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1974
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This Italian political satire explores a fictional attempted military/right-wing takeover of Italy. Grifondi (Ugo Tognazzi)...
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1973
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This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is...
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1973
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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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Court Recorder
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1972
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In this family drama, set in 1895, an 11-year old must spend the summer at his grandmother's house. Also there are his two...
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1972
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The press release for the TV movie Berlin Affair described how "an employee of a sophisticated international murder-for-hire...
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1970
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1969
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Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final...
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Dr. Jadin
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1969
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A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up....
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1968
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Henri (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a young filmmmaker who convinces a nobleman to let him use his sprawling chateau to film a...
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1968
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In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques...
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Maurice Dalbret
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1967
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In this drama, a repertory actress suffers a creative block and ends up blaming her boyfriend. The fellow is a gifted...
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Serebriakov
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1967
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There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama Grand Prix....
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1966
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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1966
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1965
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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Inspector Mercier
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1965
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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Monsieur Oscar
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1964
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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Bardick
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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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Valoti
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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1962
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Henri Farengue
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1962
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In this heavy drama, a race car driver suffers a head injury on his wedding day and becomes a mental case. The couple puts...
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Dr. David Prade
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1961
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1958
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still...
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Inspector Vigot
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1958
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Swinging like a pendulum between comedy and drama, this tale by director Henri Decoin concerns a lady lawyer with a tendency...
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1958
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Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she...
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1955
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Warner Bros.' followup to its 3D hit House of Wax, Phantom of the Rue Morgue bears only the slightest resemblance to its...
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Inspector Bonnard
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1954
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Bing Crosby heads this heart-tugging post war drama of a grieving widower who is duped into forming an unbreakable bond with...
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Pierre Verdier
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1953
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Dany Robin is Naughty Martine in this ooh-la-la French romantic comedy. Set at a fancy girl's boarding school in the French...
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Brevannes
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1953
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Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat...
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Max de Lorne
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1953
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The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in...
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Felix Leca
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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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The Doctor [The Mask]
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1952
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Thanks to a bureaucratic blunder, the US State Department invites brassy showgirl Doris Day to attend a chi-chi arts festival...
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Phillipe Fouquet
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1952
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The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime...
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Vito Bucelli
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1950
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1949
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1948
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If a French film of the 1940s or 1950s had Claude Dauphin in the cast, the producers were assured of a decent box-office...
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Andre
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1948
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Road Block is the symbolic English-language title of this French crime drama. Claude Dauphin plays a respected architect who...
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1947
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1945
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1945
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English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding...
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Jean de Freycinet
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1944
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Virtually plotless, Surprises Radio is little more than a nonstop parade of specialty numbers, performed by some of France's...
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1940
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Paris-New York is set aboard the French luxury liner Normandie, and it goes without saying that the story takes place before...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Gina Kaus, The Affair Lafont is the tragic tale of two sisters. Claire (Corinne Luchaire) is 20 years...
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1939
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This disturbing melodrama centers upon the relationship between two sisters. One sister is married, but unable to bear...
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1939
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Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the...
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1939
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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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Francois Polti
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1938
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A pair of slippers is the plot catalyst for this rambling French comedy. Hoping to save the reputation of a philandering...
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1938
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1937
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Befitting its title, which translates as To the Polls, Citizens, this comedy was timed for release during the French...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1931
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The film for this rare full-length animated feature was fully developed and shot by 1930 - just when sound was beginning to...
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1930
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