Following the disastrous Pirates (1986), director Roman Polanski got back on creative track with this finely-wrought thriller...
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1988
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1969
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In this British war comedy, set in WW II, a bomber crew is shot down over Paris during the Nazi occupation. They are helped...
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1966
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This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original...
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1966
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A scientist's attempts to clear the name of a friend nearly destroy his life in this intelligent science fiction drama. Prof....
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1963
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This tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, directed by Jean Delannoy, is based on a 17th-century novel by Madame de La Fayette....
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1961
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1961
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A slight screenplay and surface characterization undermine the telling of this dramatic tale by director Roger Leenhardt....
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1961
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In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century...
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1961
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1960
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This combination romance and wartime drama by Etienne Perier was unusual at the time it was released because it portrayed...
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1960
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Five passengers on a seaplane find that a crash has stranded them on an island used for nuclear testing in this disaster...
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1960
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The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I...
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1959
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1958
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This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous...
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1958
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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1958
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Filmed in 1955, Les Espions (The Spies) was based on Midnight Patient, a novel by Egon Hostowsky. The scene is a rundown...
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1957
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American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were...
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1957
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1957
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A two-person character study directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine...
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1957
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1957
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Australian film favorite Chips Rafferty is both star and producer of Walk Into Hell. Filmed on location in New Guinea, the...
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1957
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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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1957
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What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the...
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1957
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Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour...
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1956
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Released shortly after Luciano Emmer's documentary Picasso, H. G. Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso was an unmitigated commercial...
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1956
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A beautiful English model encounters the romantic advances of an Egyptian ruler. She's more interested in a soldier she's...
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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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1956
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Jules Dassin -- in his second European film after being driven out of the United States during the years of the house...
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1955
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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1955
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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1954
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Based on a true story, The Divided Heart is an effective, high-gloss British soap opera. Cornell Borchers stars as Inga, a...
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1954
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The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery....
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1954
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1953
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Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some...
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1953
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The first Ealing Studios comedy shot in color, Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a...
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1953
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of...
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1952
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records...
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1952
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Originally titled Les Noces de Sable, Daughter of the Sands was written by Jean Cocteau, who surprisingly did not also...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill...
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1951
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Cinematic poet Jean Cocteau explored the myth of Orpheus on no fewer than three occasions: Le Sang d'Un Poete...
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1950
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The beautiful and versatile French film star Viviane Romance was also popular in America, as much for her revealing wardrobe...
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1949
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A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the...
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1949
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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1949
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Roland Pertwee and his son Michael Pertwee penned the stage play The Paragon, and then Michael adapted the play for film....
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1949
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As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point....
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1949
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1949
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The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of...
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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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1948
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Based on a novel by Chris Massie, Corridor of Mirrors is a British attempt to match the poetry and lyricism of the French...
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1948
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In this British drama, an ingenious but impoverished young man is determined to live on a Tahitian island. To achieve his...
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1948
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Pauline Kael has characterized Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads (L'aigle a deux tetes) as an inversion of Cocteau's...
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1948
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Alastair Sim is a delight to behold as always in the British Hue and Cry, but the film's true star is approximately 40 years...
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1947
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Released in the US as The Chips are Down, Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont Faits represented the first work written directly for...
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1947
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After the war, British films began avoiding the heiresses and lordships that had dominated the drama field and began pursuing...
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1947
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Adapted by Pierre Bost and Jean Aurenche from a novel by Andre Gide, Symphonie Pastorale proved yet another box-office...
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1946
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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar...
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1946
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1946
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Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as...
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1946
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In this French romance, a genius composer/violinist finds great success but no love because he cannot seem to connect with...
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1945
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Most film versions of the life and times of 15th-century Parisian "beggar poet" Francois Villon are derived from the old...
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1945
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Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of...
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1945
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1944
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Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan...
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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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Midnight in Paris was originally titled Monsieur La Souris, the character played by the incomparable Raimu. M. La Souris is a...
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1942
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1941
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Orage (Storm) marked Charles Boyer's return to France after a two-year soujourn in Hollywood. Boyer plays construction...
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1938
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1938
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Entree des Artistes details the lives and loves of several artistically-inclined students at the Paris Conservatory. Wealthy...
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1938
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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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1937
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1937
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Originally titled Gribouille, Marc Allegret's Heart of Paris serves as an excellent vehicle for that matchless stage and...
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1937
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1937
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1931
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In the first of this film's four episodes, a tall smokestack starts to collapse. Then the scene shifts to a young poet who...
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1930
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A classic French silent of dance and Dada, this film was produced by French dance company Les Ballet Suedois, and stars them...
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1924
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