Yann Martel's ponderous adventure novel gets the big-screen treatment with this Fox 2000 adaptation helmed by director...
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2012
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A bored and dispirited man heads out for a new adventure in this French comedy-drama from filmmakers Benoit Delépine and...
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Mammuth
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2011
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A village idiot and an articulate writer forge an unusual bond after a chance meeting in a local park. Germain is in his...
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Germain
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2011
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A trophy wife proves capable of much more than acting as an adornment for her egotistical husband in director François Ozon's...
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Babin
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2011
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Paul Bellamy
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2010
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Henry (Dominick Gould) and Jack (Billy Boyd) are both talented pianists who befriended each other as teenagers. However, when...
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2010
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Konrad Lang
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2010
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Gerard Depardieu, Oliver Marchal, and Asia Argento star in this thriller about a Paris police officer who puts his own...
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Mat
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2009
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Director Safy Nebbou presents a portrait of one of France's most celebrated authors and a man who worked in his shadow in...
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2009
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French director Nicolas Bary's wacky, family-friendly fantasy comedy The Children of Timpelbach concerns the titular...
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The General
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2008
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This tough and gritty French-language crime drama represents the premier installment in a two-part series of features on the...
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Guido
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2008
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Hong Kong action icon Michelle Yeoh stars alongside American muscle Vin Diesel in this science fiction thriller concerning a...
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2008
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A veteran undertaker has to learn how to keep up with the times in this comedy from France. Gervais (Didier Bourdon) has been...
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2008
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A guy who used to be the king of the dance floor tries to regain his title thirty years after the fact in this French comedy....
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2008
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Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of...
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Obélix
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2008
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A couple find they're fish out of water when they journey back to their ancestral homeland in this comedy from France. Alain...
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2008
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A confidence man stumbles into a scam that's not only lucrative but might actually help people in this comedy-drama inspired...
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Abel
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2008
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Louis Leplée
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2007
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Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je...
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Director
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2007
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It is 1960. France encroaches on the wrap-up of the Franco-Algerian war, but for Gallic patriot and military veteran Georges...
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2007
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This documentary details the life and career of French director Maurice Pialat through interviews with the filmmaker, and...
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2007
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Three aspiring moviemakers unexpectedly land a big break and their hometown comes out to celebrate in this warm comedy-drama....
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2007
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A middle-aged woman fears that her husband is cheating on her -- and chooses a very unlikely method for verifying her...
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Bernard
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2006
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A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this comedy. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives in...
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2006
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Gena Rowlands penned and stars opposite longtime friend and Cassavetes collaborator Ben Gazzara in this short film set in the...
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Director, Bar Owner
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2006
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A small-time crooner of sentimental ballads enters into a May-December romance with a fragile young real-estate agent in this...
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Alain Moreau
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2006
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A group of students are eager to get an education while on a class trip in this comedy from Italy. Salvatore (Vincenzo...
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2005
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Charly
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2005
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2005
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2005
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Boudu
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2005
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The last frantic days before the Germans seized France in 1940 provide an unlikely backdrop for this dark comedy. Viviane...
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Beaufort
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2004
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A worldly construction supervisor travels to Tangier to ensure that a complicated job is completed by the projected date,...
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Antoine
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2004
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Denis Klein
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2004
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Gerard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, and Jason Isaacs star in director Jean Beaudin's historical account of the battle waged...
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Father Blondeau
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2004
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Two warring caveman tribes find their 800 year feud coming to a head in this French comedy featuring Gerard Depardieu and...
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2004
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2004
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2004
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Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno headline this comedic chase film about a pair of escaped convicts with two very different...
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Quentin
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2003
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Leading man Matt Dillon makes his directorial debut with the crime thriller City of Ghosts. Jimmy (Dillon) is a New York con...
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Emile
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2003
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The legend of Jacques D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure from...
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Cardinal Mazarin
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2003
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2003
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Daniel
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2003
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Sarah (Élodie Bouchez) a young Carmelite nun, collapses in pain, dazed and spouting a nonsense phrase. Concurrently, a great...
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Joachim
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2003
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The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film...
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Andrzej
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2002
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Based on the original '60s French comic books by René Goscinny, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre is the big-budget sequel...
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Obelix
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2002
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A father and his estranged son hit the road under less than ideal circumstances in Jacob Berger's 2002 film A Loving Father....
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2002
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A young woman bent on revenge becomes a legendary thief in the vein of Robin Hood in director Bernie Bonvoisin's 2002 comic...
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2002
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Filmed in France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, and Canada, this ambitious biographical TV miniseries chronicles...
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Producer, Joseph Fouché
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2002
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Three women living in Toronto find themselves confronting emotional crises regarding the men in their lives in this drama....
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2002
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Ole Bornedal directs the drama I Am Dina, based on the novel by Herbjørg Wassmo. In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a...
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Jacob
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2002
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While there are plenty of stories about gay men who have pretended to be straight for the sake of their careers, this tart...
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Felix Santini
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2001
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The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938,...
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Angelo
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2001
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Vidocq (1775-1857) was a noted French detective who was one of the great trailblazers of modern criminal investigation; he's...
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Vidocq
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2001
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2001
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Glenn Close goes to the dogs once again in this sequel to 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action adaptation of their...
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Jean Pierre Le Pelt
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2000
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Director, Georges
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2000
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A man hoping to win the favor of a King finds that his heart has gotten in the way in this lavishly-produced comedy-drama. In...
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Francois Vatel
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2000
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2000
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Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is...
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Jean Valjean
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2000
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A woman finds new love, but with the wrong man and at the wrong time, in this drama set in the former Soviet Union in the...
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2000
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Italian actor and director Sergio Rubini spins this affable ensemble coming-of-age flick set in a small village in the...
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2000
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Algerian-born filmmaker Rachid Benhadj directs this bleak drama about the aftermath of wartime rape. Set in an unidentified...
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2000
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Obélix
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1999
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Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French...
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Honore de Balzac
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1999
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In this broadly comic variation on the old saw of the female scientist who is beautiful when she takes her glasses off,...
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Laurent
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1998
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Oscar-nominated Randall Wallace (Braveheart) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the 1848 classic by Alexandre...
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Porthos
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1998
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1998
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Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond (Depardieu)...
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Edmond Dantes
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1998
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Ariel Zeitoun directed this French comedy depicting Ashkenazic-Sephardic rivalries in the Jewish garment district of Paris....
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Jean Bourdalou
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1997
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Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely...
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Executive Producer
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1997
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Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment) is the son of stage magician Lorraine Franklin, and has learned to do a few magic tricks...
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Bogus
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1996
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The great overlooked actress Gena Rowlands was cast in the starring role of Mildred in this film directed by her son,...
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Big Tommy
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1996
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At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film...
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1996
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A genteel teacher finds himself out of his element when his request to be assigned to a Parisian school lands him in an...
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Laurent Monier
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1996
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In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as...
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Ossipon
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1996
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Two men find themselves pulled away from their natures by otherworldly forces in this French comedy. While they're very...
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Antoine Carco
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1995
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This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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1995
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In this French drama, a selfish father disrupts the life of his four-year-old son to make himself feel better. The boy,...
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Gerard
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1995
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In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in...
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1995
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A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin)...
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Jacques Desmoulins
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1995
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This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc...
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Marc
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1994
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Disney not only recycled the French farce Mon Pere, Ce Heros but brought back the lead actor of the original,...
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Andre
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1994
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Onoff
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1994
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This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a...
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Chabert
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1994
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Simon Donnadieu
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1993
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Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the...
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Maheu
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1993
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In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including...
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1993
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This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros....
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Christopher Columbus
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1992
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Jazzman-turned-director Alain Corneau brings his extensive musical savvy to All the Mornings of the World....
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Marin Marais
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1991
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In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together...
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Doctor Worms
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1991
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Satyajit Ray's final film is a deceptively simple modern fable about a mysterious and world-weary old man (Utpal Dutt), who...
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Executive Producer
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1991
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In this comedy, Andre is anxious to please his fourteen-year old daughter when he picks her up from her mother (whom he's...
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Andre
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1991
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Green Card fuses the template of a light romantic comedy with a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. In order to retain her...
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Georges
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1990
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Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a...
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Leopold
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1990
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Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production....
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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1990
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Bertrand Blier's films have explored the sometimes misogynistic sexuality of younger men, but here he offers an absorbing,...
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Bernard Barthelemy
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1990
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The troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin are...
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Auguste Rodin
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1989
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A slow, complex and involving tale of a French priest and his moral trials and tribulations, Under the Sun of Satan is...
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Donissan
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1989
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Christian Gauthier
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1989
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This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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1988
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France (Catherine Deneuve) is a haughty, bourgeoise wife abandoned by her husband by the side of the road after a vicious...
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Charles
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1988
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Marc Lambert
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1988
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Basically an updated take on "Bringing Up Baby," this screwy French comedy centers on the travails of a paleontologist...
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Julien Chayssac
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1987
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Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to...
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1986
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This strange crime-cum-romance story starts out with the ordinary work-a-day life of Mangin, an apparently...
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Mangin
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1986
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Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier...
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Bob
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1986
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Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a...
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Jean Cadoret
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1986
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The protagonists in this drama are caught in the sleaze of the lower echelons of Paris life and are trying to get out. Clara...
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1986
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Jean Lucas
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1986
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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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Director, Screenwriter, Tartuffe
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1984
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In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this...
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Charles Saganne
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1984
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Paul Senanques
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1984
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Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix followed up the surprise international success of his first feature, Diva, with this stylish...
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Gerard
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1983
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In this documentary on the filming of director Andrzej Wajda's movie Danton, Polish director Tomasz Pobog-Malinowski went to...
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1983
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When her teen-aged son (Stephane Bierry) runs away and the police are noncommittal, a woman (Anne Duperey) convinces two old...
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Jean Lucas
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1983
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The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is...
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Martin Guerre
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1982
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In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story...
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Danton
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1982
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The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and...
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Gerard Berger/Bernard Vigo
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1982
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François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door continues his fascination with obsessive love. It was also his first collaboration...
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Bernard Coudray
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1981
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This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of...
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Mickey
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1981
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Campana
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1981
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1980
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Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to...
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Loulou
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1980
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In one of Coluche's earlier films, the late French comedian stars in this standard comedy by Claude Zidi as the inept police...
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Roger Morzini
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1980
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The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director...
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Bernard Granger
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1980
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Patrick
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1980
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Alain Resnais's Mon Oncle D'Amerique is presented in the form of a "case history," replete with a pedantic narrator, played...
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Rene Ragueneau
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1980
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A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in...
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1979
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Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the...
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Alphonse Tram
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1979
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Gerard Lafayette
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1978
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The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed...
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Raoul
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1978
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In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a...
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Raoul
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1978
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In a sterile housing development, newly arrived Dr. Ferret (Victor Lanoux) becomes aware that nearly everyone in his...
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Morel
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1978
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Rene
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1977
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David
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1977
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The stories that Charles (Robert Stephens) tells his adoring niece are vivid and full of life, as they should be, for he is a...
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Philibert
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1977
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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based...
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Man with T-shirt
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1977
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Set in the 19th century, and based on the classic Swiss novel Die Richterin by C. F. Meyer, this film tells a story of...
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1977
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Man
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1977
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This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a...
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Gerard
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1976
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Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a...
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Olmo Dalco
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1976
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Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) is talking to a woman in a bar. It seems that the woman was attracted to her by hearing her name...
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Cayre
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1976
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For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which...
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Olivier
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1976
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Samson,Samson's Killer
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1976
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Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled...
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Berg
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1975
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1975
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Two men are driving a refuse truck to a dump site and stop for a hamburger. Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), one of the two,...
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1975
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country...
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Jean Lavallee
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1974
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1974
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Jean-Claude
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1974
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The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity...
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Postman
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1974
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In this comedy, a newly married groom finds himself overwhelmed by business expenses and becomes a crook. The trouble really...
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Pierre
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1974
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In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to...
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1973
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In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was...
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1973
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In this French film, Jeanne (Simone Signoret) is a poorly regarded (and treated) second wife, who serves as more of a servant...
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1973
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This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is...
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1973
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1973
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In 1934, Roberto Borgo (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Sicily for Marseille, where his childhood friend Xavier...
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1972
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In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot...
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1972
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With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She...
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Salesman
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1972
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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1972
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Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic...
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1971
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1971
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1965
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