This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a young priest (Robert Hossein) who falls in love with a young woman, has...
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1973
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In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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This French/Italian coproduction was originally released as Sabra. In his final film, veteran barnstormer Akim Tamiroff...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1970
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This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of...
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Director
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1968
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Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her...
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1968
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1966
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Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered...
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1966
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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Director
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1965
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Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays...
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1965
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Director
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1964
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Marcello (Charles Abnavour) is a traveling Frenchman who is stranded in Rome. Although he knows nothing about the Eternal...
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Director
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1963
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This routine drama set during World War II in Algeria is based on a true and tragic incident. A French garrison has been...
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Director
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1962
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Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a...
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Director
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1962
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In this WW II adventure, a band of French soldiers must escort a group of high-ranking German officers across the North...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1960
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In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a...
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Director
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1959
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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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1959
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Director
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home...
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Director
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1958
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Retour de Manivelle (The Turn of the Handle) is an acceptable French approximation of Hollywood "film noir" techniques....
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Director
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1957
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Les Ouefs de L'Autruche translates to The Ostrich Eggs, a description of the offspring of bourgeois paterfamilias Hippo...
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Director
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1957
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Director
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1956
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A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his...
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Director
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1955
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Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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First Assistant Director
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1951
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Famed French actor and singer Fernandel headlines this comedy centered on a case of mistaken identity involving a hapless...
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First Assistant Director
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1950
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