With a conceit that suggests a contemporary, female-centered reprise of Melvin Van Peebles's offbeat Watermelon Man, the...
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Mimie
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2008
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Six of France's greatest screen comedians reunite in this long-awaited sequel to the classic box-office hits Les Bronzes and...
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2006
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Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne....
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1996
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Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive....
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Jolanda
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1994
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Eleven-year old Alexandrine (Sandrine Blancke) may be making something more out of what is happening in her family than is...
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1993
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In this somewhat broad comedy, guaranteed to offend (at a minimum) feminists and homosexuals, Albert has always dreaded...
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Marguerite
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1992
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When the mother of 12-year-old Martin suddenly dies, his schoolmates rally 'round to keep the authorities from finding out...
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1990
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1989
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1989
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This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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1988
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1987
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Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film...
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The Admiral's Wife
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1987
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Racism and the games people play with it aren't unique to the U.S. by any means. In this French comedy, Rachid, a...
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Mrs. Perroni
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1987
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Karen
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1987
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This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with...
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1986
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A trio of inept bachelors receives an unexpected lesson in the challenges of fatherhood when a young infant turns up on their...
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Madame Rapons
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1986
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Laure
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1986
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In this semi-autobiographical comedy by Francis Perrin, he plays a character partially based on himself in the guise of...
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Marguerite Balicourt
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1986
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1986
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Based on a novel by Joan Aiken, this is a routine story of a psycho looking for revenge. "Cappy" Bronsky (Jean-Pierre Bisson)...
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Hazel Bronsky
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1986
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This suavely-fashioned film with an all-female cast focuses primarily on three women and the man who goes in and out of their...
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1985
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Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living...
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Attache de presse
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1985
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"Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter....
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Madame Achere
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1985
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In a satire on family values that tends to pass off human cruelty as amusing, this story about an odd family of five...
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Pierrot/Rita
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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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Pauline
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1984
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Solange
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1983
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French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a...
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1983
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The action in this attempt at farce and drama starts moving when a prostitute just out of prison overwhelms a young man with...
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1983
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In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the...
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Bernadette Bourdelle
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1983
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1982
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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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Vanessa
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1981
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This comedy features large French woman, Balasko, who, when dumped by her fiance, moves in with a silly model. ~ Rovi...
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Arlette
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1981
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The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anesthesiologist and so when she accidentally hits Gilles...
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1981
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1981
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In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police...
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Marie-Anne Prossant
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1980
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Based on a popular novel by Pierre-Jakez Helias, Horse of Pride is set in a hardscrabble peasant community in Brittany....
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1980
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1979
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Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of...
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1979
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1979
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Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike...
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1979
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The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman...
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1979
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Six vacationers from France find themselves on the sunny shores of Africa in a vacation village where organized fun is the...
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Screenwriter
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1978
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In this satire, Coluche plays an inept king of France who is continually in danger of overthrow or murder by his scheming...
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1977
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After he leaves his wife and daughter for a butcher-shop owner, one would imagine that Roger had been as foolish as he was...
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Yvette
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1977
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