Jackie Gleason plays Gigot, a lumbering but lovable mute Parisian derelict. Shunned by the "respectable" people around him,...
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Mme. Brigitte
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1962
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Latent forces for a strong individualism are pitted against the need to honor deeply held commitments in this effective...
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1962
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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1959
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1958
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This upteenth film version of the life of royal courtesan Madame Du Barry stars Martine Carol in the title role. Starting out...
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1954
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Bing Crosby heads this heart-tugging post war drama of a grieving widower who is duped into forming an unbreakable bond with...
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Mother Superior
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1953
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Adele
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1953
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So Little Time takes so much time to tell its thinnish story. The scene is Nazi-occupied Belgium. Maria Schell plays a proud...
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Mme. de Malvines
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1952
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La Verite sur Bebe Donge is another "socko" pure-entertainment vehicle from prolific French filmmaker Henri Decoin. The film...
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Marquise
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1951
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Murceau
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1950
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Domani e Troppo Tardi is the first of two Leonide Moguy films dealing with the travails of postwar Italian life; the second...
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Headmistress
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1950
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In this French film, Nicole (dancer Violette Verday) must choose between three men. Her suitors are a jeweler (Henri Guisoi),...
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Aunt
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1950
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1949
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The French Just a Big, Simple Girl strives to emulate Pirandello by blurring the line between artifice and reality. The...
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1949
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Aunt Leo
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1949
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Mme. Agnes
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1949
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Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas was adapted for the screen by no less than Jean Cocteau. The title character,...
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Duchess
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1948
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Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur...
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Mme. Groussault
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1947
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1946
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1945
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1945
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Jean Cocteau wrote the dialogue for this acclaimed and atmospheric tale of the supernatural, in which he also plays a small...
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1942
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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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The Directress
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1941
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1940
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Mme. Ancelot
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1940
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Director Max Ophuls managed to get three productions before the cameras in 1940, the best of which was De Mayerling a...
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1940
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Adrienne Laroze
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1939
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This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home....
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Mme. Chabert
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1939
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Also known as Mother Love, Chaleur du Sein was adapted by director Jean Boyer from his own stage play. The story concerns...
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1938
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Hatred was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Mollenard. Harry Baur stars as Captain Mollenard, skipper of...
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Mme. Mollenard
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1938
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Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best...
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1938
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Le Mensonge de Nina Petrova (The Lie of Nina Petrova) was filmed in 1937, one year before its director, Russian-born...
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Baroness Engern
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Genevieve's Mother
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1937
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Le Mioche is the story of Prosper Martin (Lucien Baroux), a once-promising scholar who has met with nothing but failure in...
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The Principal
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1936
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Sampson was the second of filmmaker Maurice Tourneur's three cinematic contributions to the calendar year 1936. Based on a...
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La Marquise d'Andeline
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1936
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Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown...
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Empress Elizabeth
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1936
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1921
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