Left a young widower, banker Monsieur (Jean Gabin) discovers that his late wife was having an affair before her death. About...
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1964
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The arrival of Catherine (Marie-Hélène Arnaud), a new student with a troubled past, at an exclusive French girls' school...
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1961
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This is a routine, somewhat melodramatic wartime tale set in Occupied France and featuring Michele Morgan as Juliette, a...
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Miss Massillon
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1960
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1959
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1958
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1958
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1956
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The arrival of Catherine (Marie-Helene Arnaud), a new student with a troubled past, at an exclusive French girls' school...
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1956
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Lorsque L'Enfant Parait (When the Child Appears) was adapted from the hit play by Andre Roussin. The story revolves around...
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1956
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1955
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Mademoiselle
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1955
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1955
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Teacher
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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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1954
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A popular attraction in French cinemas, Papa, Maman la Bonne et Moi (Papa, Mama the Maid and I) later became equally popular...
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Maman
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1954
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A Simple Case of Money (originally released in 1950 as Millionaires d'un Jour) is set in motion when a greenhorn reporter...
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1952
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Lamberta
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1952
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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Denise, His Wife [The Mask]
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1952
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Mother Superior
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1951
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1951
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Mother
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1950
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A father must find a communion dress for his daughter in this award- winning Italian comedy. As he looks throughout the...
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Mrs. Carloni
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1950
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The English-language title of the French Une Fille a Croquer was the slightly suggestive Good Enough to Eat. The film is an...
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Grandmother
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1950
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1950
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1950
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This French film version of Colette's best-selling novel Gigi predated both the 1950 stage adaptation and the 1958 Hollywood...
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Alicia
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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The "trois garcons" in this lightweight French comedy are Michel (Lajarriage), Gilbert (Francois-Patric) and Bernard (Maurice...
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The Mother
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1946
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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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Genevieve Gonin
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1946
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1945
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1945
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Son Dernier Role (Her Last Part) stars Gaby Morlay as a famed French stage actress. Checking into a private sanitarium for a...
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1945
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1944
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1944
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1944
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1943
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That matchless Gallic comedian Fernandel is but one of the many spicy ingredients of Love Around the Clock. The film's...
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Mother
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1943
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Le Voile Bleu is a tear-stained "perservering through the years" drama starring Gaby Morlay. During WW1, Red Cross nurse...
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Louise
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Released in 1942 as Les Destin Fabuleux de Desiree Clary, this Sacha Guitry production made it to America six years later as...
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Desiree
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1941
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In this French drama, based on a story by Tolstoy, the public prosecutor decides to sacrifice himself so that his wife can...
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Lisa Andreiev
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1940
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1940
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The English-language title of this stagebound French drama is They Were Twelve Women. The eponymous leading ladies run the...
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1940
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Paris-New York is set aboard the French luxury liner Normandie, and it goes without saying that the story takes place before...
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1940
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Le Bois Sacre (Sacred Woods) was adapted from the play of the same name by Robert de Fiers and A. de Caillavet....
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Mme. Champmorel
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1939
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Queen Victoria
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1939
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Per its title, the all-star Derriere la Facade (Behind the Facade) exposes the truth about a group of supposedly respectable...
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Gaby
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1939
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1938
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Giuseppe Verdi was also released as The Life of Verdi for the benefit of filmgoers who had trouble grasping the obvious....
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Giuseppina Strepponi
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1938
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It is likely that no Leo Tolstoy story has been filmed as often as his Kreutzer Sonata. This 1938 French version stars Jean...
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Helene
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1938
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1937
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1937
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Le Messager was the fourth directorial effort for prominent Gallic actor Raymond Rouleau. Adapted from a play by Henry...
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1937
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1937
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Horse-faced Gallic comedian Fernandel plays Hercule in this tailor-made vehicle. Our hero is a somewhat simple-minded...
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1937
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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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Anne-Marie d'Andeline
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1936
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Filmed two years before the Nazi takeover of France, The King (Le Roi) made its way to the U.S. in 1941. Victor Francen plays...
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1936
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1936
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Though its title translates literally as The Terrible Lovers, this French romantic comedy is actual an adaptation of...
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Annette Fournier,Annette
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1936
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1936
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Clara Stuart
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Claire de Beaulieu
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1933
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1933
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Ariane
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1932
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Also known as Der Traumende Mund and Dreaming Lips, Melo was filmed in both French- and German-language versions by director...
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1932
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1931
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Faubourg Montmartre is based on a novel by Henri Duvernois. The title refers to the "street women" of Paris's Montmartre...
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1931
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Gaby Delange
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1930
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The Dancer
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1930
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Based on a play by Francis de Croisset, The New Men (Les Nouveaux Messieurs) was adapted for the screen by its director,...
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1929
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1926
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1924
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1923
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1921
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1920
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