Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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1962
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In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for...
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1961
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1958
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In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to...
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1956
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Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it...
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Danglard's Servant
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1954
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1953
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The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in...
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1952
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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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1950
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Veteran French filmmaker Louis Daquin was the recipient of worldwide plaudits for his realistically detailed drama Le Point...
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1949
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Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the...
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1949
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1948
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1948
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In this sentimental story, several hard working school children do a series of odd jobs to earn enough money to repair the...
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Screenwriter
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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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1947
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1947
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Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world...
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1945
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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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1939
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1939
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1939
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1938
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Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande...
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1937
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Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of...
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1937
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Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the...
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1937
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Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the...
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1937
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1937
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Director Jean Renoir returns to the "people of the soil" of his previous Toni in People of France! (originally La Vie est a...
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1936
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Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion...
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1935
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1935
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1933
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1933
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1933
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The venerable silent-serial menace Fantomas was revived on-screen in 1932 by globetrotting filmmaker Paul Fejos. Back to his...
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1932
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The title of this WWI drama translates as Under the Leather Helmet. Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent...
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1932
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Coup de Feu a L'Aube was the simultaneously filmed French-language version of the German crime caper Schuss im Morgengrauen...
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1932
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Peachum
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1931
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L'Âge d'Or begins as a documentary about the habits of scorpions, utilizing library footage and silent-style intertitles....
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The Man
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1930
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Rene Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris is one of the first French films shot in sound. The film is a relaxed melodrama where a...
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Fred
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1930
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1929
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1929
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1928
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1927
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The oft-filmed Prosper Merimee novel Carmen was again committed to celluloid in 1926, this time under the skilled hand of...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Originally released in 1924 as Le Miracle des Loups, this French costume adventures finally made it to the States in 1930....
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1924
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1924
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1923
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1922
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1922
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The director, Delluc, was a French avant-garde leader. The film is about romance and fatalism, set on the waterfront in...
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Topinelli
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1921
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1921
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1920
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1919
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1917
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Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and...
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1917
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