Inspired by director Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist classic Umberto D., Francis Huster's sentimental drama stars...
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2009
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A man is shot dead, but is the woman with the gun really the killer? That's the all-important question in this thriller from...
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2008
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A good-natured adolescent struggles to find himself as his controlling mother attempts to bind him with her love in director...
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2006
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2004
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A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of...
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2000
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Arthur Rimbaud, the title character of this film, was a noted French poet who at the age 26 abandoned his profession to...
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1996
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This French ensemble comedy, is set in a small town where Gabrielle, a beautiful doctor's wife and mother of three prepares...
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1995
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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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Grandmother
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1993
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The Mother
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1993
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Juliette
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1992
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Wanting to learn more about his Jewish heritage, a French philosophy professor moves to an Israeli kibbutz located near the...
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1991
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As a woman who single-handedly raised five contentious children, Riva probably feels entitled to kick up her heels a little...
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1991
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Balthazar Kober (Rafal Wieczynski) is a young man who ventures across plague-ridden Germany during the 16th century....
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Mother
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1988
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1987
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When a wealthy, elderly woman and an unknown stranger are murdered in the same small village on the same night, the judge...
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Madame Louise
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1984
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A tall and gangly Victoire (Liselotte Christian) arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she...
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1983
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Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this undistinguished drama centers on Jean (Maurice...
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1983
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Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for...
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Mother
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1982
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1982
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1975
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Into a timeless, pastoral community, which lies along the river Fango, come two restless men on horseback, their heads...
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Mathilde
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1975
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Love, death, sainthood and murder figure in this French film by Spanish director Fernan Arrabal, better known for his film...
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Aden's Mother
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1973
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This is a French World War II action/adventure film. In the story, four French nurses and a doctor are caught by the German...
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1972
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A husband (Maurice Ronet) recalls his past experiences as he travels by train to Rome from Paris. He has just left his wife...
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Wife
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1970
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When a married man picks up a hippie hitchhiker who promptly picks the driver's pocket, the two are strangely drawn to each...
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Valentine
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1970
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Soledad Emmanuelle Riva is a revolutionary in an mythical Latin American country who is captured by government police agents....
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Soledad
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1967
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Doucet (Jacques Brel) is a dedicated and happily married schoolteacher in a small town. One day he is accused of making...
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Suzanne Doucet
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1967
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Princess
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1965
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Bruno (Michele Piccolo) returns for some strange reason to the small French town where he was an informant to the Nazis in...
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Sophie
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1965
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1964
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Although the story is taken from a 17th-century story by Voltaire, this romantic drama serves as a commentary about France...
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, two long-time lovers finally decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, they find the mundane realities...
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Maretta
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1963
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1962
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Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963...
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Therese Desqueyroux
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1962
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Jean-Paul Belmondo portrays Leon Morin, an altruistic priest who believes that any sin can be expunged by a good dose of...
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Barny
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1961
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The French/Italian/Yugoslav concentration camp drama Kapo stars Susan Strasberg, who several years earlier had originated the...
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Terese
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1960
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Four unemployed prostitutes attempt to open a restaurant in this comedy. They look all over Rome for a restaurant they can...
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Marilina
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1960
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The main drawback to this well-wrought tale of a man on the run is the weight it places on dialogue and concepts over actions...
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Germaine
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1960
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A somewhat literary and aloof tale about a woman and her problems, Le Huitième Jour focuses on the nature and causes of...
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Francoise
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1959
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Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains...
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She
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1959
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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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1958
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