An easily influenced teenage boy takes a ruinous road when he chooses to become an outlaw. This drama, without artifice or...
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Frederic's Father
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1996
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Le pere
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1992
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Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts...
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1991
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To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is...
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Gabriel
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1991
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Pierre Lacenaire is among the most notorious killers in French history. This well-wrought drama, tells his story. It begins...
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1990
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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 Man
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1987
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1987
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Terrasini
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1984
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Gérard Depardieu's version of Tartuffe brings no innovative cinematic flair to the story of an outrageous and daring imposter...
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Orgon
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1984
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Alain Delon produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in this story about a solitary thief, jailed for a jewel robbery and...
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Ruggeri
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1982
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1980
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Colombani
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1979
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In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela...
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Marrot
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1978
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Chris Marker's remarkable documentary about the rise and fall of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s was originally released...
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1977
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A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller....
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Ganay
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1976
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A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise...
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Gerard
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1975
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Borelli
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1974
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Antoine
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1974
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This Italian political satire explores a fictional attempted military/right-wing takeover of Italy. Grifondi (Ugo Tognazzi)...
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1973
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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1972
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Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human...
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Francois
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1971
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Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom,...
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Rozinsky
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1971
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A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who...
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1971
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Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel...
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Santi
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1970
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Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins...
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Jean-Jules de Lepine
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1970
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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Public Prosecutor
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1969
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The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into...
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1968
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Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville...
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The Inspector
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1967
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In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately,...
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1967
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In this WW II drama set during a weekend in June of 1940, German invaders force British troops to flee Dunkirk. The French...
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Alexandre
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1964
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In this drama, a single woman approaching 40 grows bored of her affair with a married trucker and writes to a singles...
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Adolfo
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1963
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The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of Italian...
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1963
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Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European...
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1963
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This 85-minute animated feature covers in a droll manner exactly what its title suggests -- the creation of the world...
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Commentary
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1963
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This specialized film by femme director Jacqueline Audry is strictly a lightweight, skim-the-surface drama with a touch of...
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Masher
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1962
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1962
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1962
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In this melodrama, a prominent Parisian businessman's wife finds her life incredibly boring until she has an affair with a...
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1962
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Georges
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1961
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Claude Magnier translated his stage play into this routine film which given its source, runs to words over action and visual...
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Robert
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1960
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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Michel [Divorce]
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1960
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Heurtebise
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1960
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Les Amours de Paris is a routine, sit-com style romantic drama that marks the first directing effort of Jacques Robin, whose...
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1960
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Daniel
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1960
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Director and co-writer Luigi Zampa, best known for his earlier works as a satirist of favorite targets like bureaucratic...
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Luigi Bonelli
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1959
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Coming across like a stage play, which it originally was, this conventional comedy-drama focuses on the title character,...
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Bobosse
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1959
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Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced...
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Gervais
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1958
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This Gallic costume farce is set in the 18th century. The plot concerns a group of fun-loving French soldiers who manage to...
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1958
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Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their...
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1958
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Tous Peuvent Me Tuer (Anyone Can Kill Me) is one of the many "perfect crime" melodramas which glutted the French film...
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Warden
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1957
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Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he...
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Oscar D'Onofrio, Accountant
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1957
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Despite its good intentions, Les Etoiles ne Meurent Jamais might strike some viewers as a slightly ghoulish exercise. The...
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1957
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Zizi Jeanmaire, the delightful French singer/actress who previously brightened such American films as...
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Robert
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1957
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1957
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Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour...
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Henri Coupeau
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1956
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1956
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A novel by Curt Riess was the launching pad for this German-French co-production. The title translates to Intermediate...
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1955
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The title of this French wartime melodrama translates to The Fugitives. The title characters are three in number, played by...
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1955
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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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1954
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Cadet-Rousselle
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1954
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France's third full-length animated feature film, Bonjour Paris was the second such film to emanate from the studios of Jean...
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Commentary
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1953
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1952
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1952
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Longtime French film favorite Arletty is decidedly the star of L'Amour, Madame. Cast as "herself," the actress is required...
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Francois
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1951
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Cinematic poet Jean Cocteau explored the myth of Orpheus on no fewer than three occasions: Le Sang d'Un Poete...
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Heurtebise
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1950
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1950
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Veteran French character comedian Francois Perier is almost the whole show in Mon Phoque et Elles. Almost, because Perier is...
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Francois
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1950
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Au P'tit Zouave is an old-fashioned yarn, given some credence by the sincere performances of the leading actors. The title...
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Deny
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1949
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As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point....
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1949
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Michel Riverain
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1949
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Coco
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1948
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1948
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1948
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Originally released in France under the title Le Silence est D'Or, Man About Town is set in the Paris of the early 1900s....
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Jacques
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1947
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La Vie en Rose is the ironic title for a melancholy tale of unrequited love and humiliation. Schoolmaster Louis Salou cannot...
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The Lover
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1947
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Christian-Jacque's sole directorial effort for 1946 was Le Revenant, better known to English-speaking audiences as...
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Francois Nisard
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1946
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In this romantic fantasy, Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy...
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1945
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Ramure
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1945
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French film favorite Danielle Darrieux had only recently cleared herself of a wartime "collaboration" charge when she starred...
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1945
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1944
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1939
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Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by...
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1938
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