This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who --...
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1982
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A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a...
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Guerande
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1981
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When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully...
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Granddad
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1977
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While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old...
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Doctor
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1977
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In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These...
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Le doyen
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1973
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In this French comedy/satire, director Jean Yanne plays Benoit, an economist who sets out to prove that, with money, one can...
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1973
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Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey...
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Le Roi Rouge
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1970
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This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells...
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1965
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Inspector
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1965
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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1963
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The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and...
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1962
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Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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This adventure melodrama concerns Vic Brennan (Stephen Boyd), who persuades his family to put up money for him to leave...
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High Official
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1961
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This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot...
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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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Priest
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1960
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This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director...
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1960
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Miscegenation, murder and revenge are the themes of this French crime drama set in the steamy American south. Joe Grant is a...
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Chandley
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1959
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Weiring
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1958
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Filmed on the island of Crete and set in the early 1920's, when Greece was occupied by the Turks, Jules Dassin's Celu Qui...
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Grigoris
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1957
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A deadly vendetta motivates the plot of Les Violents. Fernand Ledoux plays a young Frenchman who has lived for many years in...
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1957
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That merry prankster Till Eulenspiegel is at it again in this lively Franco-German production. Director Gerard Phillipe does...
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Father
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1956
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Dr. Delpuech
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1955
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1955
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1955
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A popular attraction in French cinemas, Papa, Maman la Bonne et Moi (Papa, Mama the Maid and I) later became equally popular...
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Papa
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1954
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1953
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Set in Venice, this espionage thriller concerns a gang of saboteurs who've been targeting French military installations....
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Mollert
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1952
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Monseigneur offers a few intriguing speculations as to what really happened to the little Dauphin, aka King Louis XVII, after...
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Professor
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1950
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In the traditions of Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau, Pattes Blanches is a heady mixture of stark realism and fairytale...
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1949
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The doctor
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1949
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1948
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1948
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Bellman was based on the novel Horseman of Riouclare by Claude Boncompain. Lucien Coedel stars in this steadily-paced...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Even someone who isn't conversant in French will probably be able to figure out that La Rose de la Mer translates as...
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1946
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Originally Goupi Mains Rogues, this was the first new French feature film to be shown in the US since the end of WW2-though...
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Goupi-Mains rouges
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1945
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1943
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1943
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Originally released in 1942 as Les Visiteurs du Soir, The Devil's Envoys is another masterful collaboration between actress...
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Baron Hugues
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Originally filmed and released in 1941 as Remorques, this heavy-breathing French melodrama was distributed stateside in 1946...
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Kerlo, the cook
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a lonely orphan answers a singles ad in a paper and then slips out of the orphanage to meet the man...
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Nicolas Rougemont
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1941
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Though he died in 1943 at the hands of his Gestapo persecutors, the great French stage and screen actor Harry Baur was...
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Corvino
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1940
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Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin...
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Robaud, Séverine's Husband
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1938
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Altitude 3200 refers to the above-sea-level elevation of the French mountain retreat where most of this film takes place....
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1938
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1934
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1919
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