Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In...
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Valmont de Merteuil
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1959
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A moral decay leading to revolution is paralleled to the illness that is consuming the hero in this emotive tale by renowned...
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Ramon Vasquez
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1959
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Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century...
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Alexei Ivanovitch
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1958
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Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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Amedeo Modigliani
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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1958
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Octave
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1957
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The Spanish Inquisition has targeted a helpless group of Belgians as heretics and is tracking them down. Suddenly, an...
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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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1956
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1956
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Gerard Philipe stars in the lavishly appointed adventure film Le Meilleure Part. Philipe is cast as a dedicated constructive...
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Perrin
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1955
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Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays...
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Lt. Armand de la Verne
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1955
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Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director...
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Julian Sorel
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1954
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Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers....
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Andre Ripois
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1954
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Villa Borghese is Grand Hotel with trees and shrubbery. Set in the famed Roman city park of Villa Borghese, the film offers...
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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Georges
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1953
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Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic...
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Claude
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1952
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The Barker [The Eighth Sin]
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1952
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Fanfan the Tulip
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1952
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1951
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Michel
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1951
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La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the...
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Young Henri Faust
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1950
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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The Count
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1950
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It has been said that French filmmaker Christian-Jacque specialized in two types of films: romantic mysteries and the...
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Boy
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1950
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Pierre
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1949
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The astoundingly prolific French filmmaker Jean Boyer turned out only one film in 1948. Tous les Chemins Menent a Rome stars...
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Gabriel
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1949
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1948
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Francois Jaubert
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1947
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This is just a casual observation, but it's highly possible that more film adaptations of the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky...
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Prince Myshkin
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1946
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Having been forced to put his directorial career on hold during WWII, Georges Lacombe returned to the screen with Le Pays...
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1945
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