A story about a man and his dog, this film is a wrought urban drama about the gritty realities of life on the street....
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1999
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A middle-aged woman temporarily abandons her role as wife and mother to embark upon a mad love affair with a man 20 years...
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1997
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Over the course of five seasons, this film chronicles a young woman's rise to power within a tempestuous all-female office....
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Rosa Bellafeuille
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1997
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Jules is a refreshingly level-headed fifteen-year old who lives with his grandparents in the country because his parents...
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Grandmother
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1992
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1990
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Director Guy Gilles combines black and white for the present and color for the past in this dramatic art film. Jean...
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Madeleine
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1987
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Jean-Claude Missiaen had a very brief career as a director in the mid-1980s, and this is one of his typical police dramas...
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Diane Castelain
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1983
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1982
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In this drama, unemployment complicates a father's relationship with his estranged daughter. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi...
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Mother
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1977
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Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois...
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1976
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Regarded by many as the first major product of Chile's 'Cinema of Resistance,' this highly unusual 1974 effort from Chilean...
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1975
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Jean Renoir's last completed work was this made-for-television effort, comprised of three short films along with a musical...
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Isabelle
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1969
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Julia Danielle Darrieux is a woman who marries a younger man in this pre-World War II drama. The newlyweds settle down and...
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Chantal
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1967
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1965
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1963
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Mathilde
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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Francoise Beaufort [Episode 4]
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1962
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The French omnibus feature Tales of Paris is made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and...
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Francoise [The Tale Of Francoise]
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1962
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In this crime drama, a crook tries to pull off the biggest job of his illustrious career by stealing extremely important,...
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1960
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A routine, wordy romantic drama about far-from-routine relationships, this tale by Pierre Kast looks at the personalities and...
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Genevieve
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1960
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1960
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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Yvette
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1959
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This is a wartime action drama featuring Cora (Françoise Arnoul) the same heroine (known as the "cat') whose activities in...
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Cora
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1959
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Not reaching much beyond a routine and predictable crime-romance story, La Bete a L'Afflut features (Francoise Arnoul) as an...
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Elizabeth
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1959
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In this suspenseful WW II drama a Parisian widow assists with the Resistance. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a German...
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1959
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1958
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1958
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La Chatte (The Cat) in this wartime meller is played by Francoise Arnoul. When her husband is murdered by the Gestapo, Cora...
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Cora
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1958
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Cargaison Blanche (White Cargo) bears no relation to the steamy tropical stage melodrama of the same name. The "cargo"...
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1958
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Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as...
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1957
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Screen star Charles Boyer made a rare return to his home turf in the Franco-Italian Paris Palace Hotel. Boyer plays Delomel,...
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Francoise
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1956
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1956
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Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous...
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Duchess Bassano
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1956
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Kathleen Dinver
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1955
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Director Henri Verneuil co-adapted Des Gens Sans Importance from a novel by Serge Groussard. The title translates to...
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1955
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Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it...
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Nini
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1954
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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1954
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Francoise
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1954
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La Rage au Corps (Tempest in the Flesh) stars Francoise Arnoul as Clara, a woman with quite a past and a questionable future....
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Clara
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1954
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The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. We first see the horse-faced...
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Etienne Charles Desire Marianne
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1954
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Les Amants de Toledo was filmed in four different versions: French, Spanish, Italian and English. The cast, however, remained...
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Sancha
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1953
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1953
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A French boarding school is where a detective searches for a killer. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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Jean-Pierre (Jean-Pierre Pascal) is the foreman of the lumber empire managed by a powerful family. The family's daughter...
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Christine
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1952
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1952
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Martine
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1952
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Set in fin de siecle Paris, La Maison Bonnadieu stars Bernard Blier as a middle-aged bourgeois husband named Felix. Much to...
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Louisette
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1951
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Script Girl
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1951
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Francoise
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1951
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1950
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1950
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Jean-Louis (Henri Vidal) makes his living by trapping deadly snakes and selling them to zoos. In love with shopgirl Simone...
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Simone
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1950
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1949
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Nous Irons a Paris is a gentle but pointed satire of the government-controlled French radio industry. Fired from his singing...
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Micheline Grosbois
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1949
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