The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film...
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Madam Bastier-Wagener
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1975
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OSS 117 (Luc Merenda) is the French secret agent working for the CIA. His Brazilian vacation is interrupted when he kills a...
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Aunt
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1970
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An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in early childhood searches to...
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Teacher
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1970
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In this drama, a Neapolitan lad travels to Milan to attend his father's funeral. His father was a gigolo, and the young man...
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Giuditta Passani
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1968
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This comedy is built around a car and the various characters who own the vehicle throughout the feature. A Countess takes...
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1965
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While visiting a vegetarian restaurant, a young writer finds a corpse in the restroom. When he returns with the police, the...
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Aunt Flo
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1964
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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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Dona Lucrezia
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1962
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En Cas de Malheur, literally "in case of accident," is better known by its American title, Love is My Profession. By any...
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Viviane Gobillot
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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Francoise
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1958
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Maine
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1957
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The "Seventh Commandment" is duly broken and mended in this French melodrama. Edwige Feuillare stars as a veteran con artist...
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1957
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Les Fruits de L'Ete (Fruits of Summer) serves as a vehicle for the venerable Edwige Feuillere. The thinnish storyline is...
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Sabine
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1955
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Mme. Dalleray
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1954
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Denise
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1952
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La Cap De L'Esperance (The Cape of Hope) takes place in the criminal demi-monde of a French portside community. Faded beauty...
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Myriam
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1951
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Julie
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1951
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It has been said that French filmmaker Christian-Jacque specialized in two types of films: romantic mysteries and the...
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Florence
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1950
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Thanks to the popularity of the 1948 cinemazation of Gigi, the "fin de siecle" novels of Colette suddenly became hot...
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1949
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A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor...
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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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The Queen
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1948
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The title of this French romantic comedy translates as Once is Enough, which was hardly conducive to the film's repeat...
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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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Nastasia Philipovna
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1946
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1945
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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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Agnes Noblet
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1945
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1943
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Originally released in France in 1943, The Honorable Catherine (L'Honorable Catherine) wasn't distributed in the U.S. until...
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Catherine
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Director Max Ophuls managed to get three productions before the cameras in 1940, the best of which was De Mayerling a...
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1940
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1939
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1939
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Edwige Feuillere stars as a glamorous "adventuriere" whose specialty is passing of phony jewels as the genuine article to her...
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1938
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1937
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Marthe Richard
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1937
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1937
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Lady Helena Scarlett
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1936
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1935
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As the title indicates, the central "character" in this German drama is a Stradivarius violin. Somehow or other, the...
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Maria Belloni
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1935
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Coco
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1935
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With director Abel Gance at the helm, the title character in Lucrezia Borgia exudes more sex appeal and wears fewer clothes...
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Lucrezia Borgia
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1935
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As indicated by its title, Baracole is adapted from The Tales of Hoffman. Gustav Froelich stars as Colloredo, who enjoys...
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1935
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Julien Duvivier's most controversial production to date, 1935's Golgotha is an ambitious and expensive retelling of the Last...
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Claudia
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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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The "little lady in the train" is Meg Lemonnier, cast as Irene, the flighty wife of a bourgeois Parisian. Hoping to escape...
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1932
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1932
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Monsieur Albert (Noel-Noel) is the headwaiter of a fancy Parisian restaurant. Falling in love with the beautiful Sylvia...
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Peggy
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1932
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1932
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Set in provincial France sometime in the 1870s, Mam'zelle Nitouche is put in motion by Celestin-Floridor (Raimu), the music...
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1931
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