Peter Brook, one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement of the 1950s and 1960s, was the director of Meetings...
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1979
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1975
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A graceful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent in this comedy-drama. The KGB is most...
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1974
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The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by...
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1973
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French director Claude Berri wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy as Claude, a bookstore owner whose personal life, like...
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1972
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As the Ottoman Empire collapses throughout Turkey in 1922, a number of adventurers from all over the world sign on to protect...
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1970
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A dying desert town becomes a flashpoint for racial violence in this bizarre, over-the-top drama from France. Cicada is a...
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1969
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The original French title of Marry Me, Marry Me was Mazel Tov ou le Marriage, which was more appropriate to the ethnic...
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Schmoll
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1968
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Taken from the 1907 comedy play by Georges Feydeau, A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her...
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1968
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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Nicolai Dobresco
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1967
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This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule,...
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Gen. Skyros
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1966
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In this drama, a former RAF pilot is hired to fly a suspicious package from France to England. Trouble ensues when the pilot...
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Potter
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1966
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In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the...
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Ben Saad
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1966
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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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1966
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Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this...
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Inspector DeFargo
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1966
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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1965
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While visiting a vegetarian restaurant, a young writer finds a corpse in the restroom. When he returns with the police, the...
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Inspector Rossi
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1964
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French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot stars as Penny, a scatterbrained young lady who is a beautician to the wife...
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Bagda
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1964
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In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their...
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1964
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In this comedy, crooks on the lam hide-out in an abandoned island monastery. Along with their leader, the robbers put on...
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Lorenzo
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1964
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Police Inspector
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1964
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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1963
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Dr. Munoz
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1962
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When a traveling salesman arrives to hawk his wares in an economically depressed Italian village, the last thing he expects...
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Gastoni
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1962
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One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more...
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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Carreras
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1961
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It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary...
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Maj. Pierre Debrie
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1961
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Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry...
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Marcel
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1961
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Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German...
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1960
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Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top...
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Frank Saffron
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1960
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Ben Ahmed
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1960
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Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling...
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1960
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King Brobdingnag
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1960
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Guts in the Sun (Les Tripes au Soleil) proved too controversial to be released in its native France. The story takes place in...
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Stanley
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1959
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Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel,...
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Fernando
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1958
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Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer...
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1958
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Paul Decker (Peter Van Eyck) arranges what seems to be the perfect murder of his wife, while at her home in Italy. Lightly...
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Inspector
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1958
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Les Fantatiques is set in a mythical South American country. An anti-government faction intends to topple the present regime...
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1957
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This French-Italian musical starts out in the eponymous French gambling establishment. Vittorio de Sica plays Gordy, an...
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Mario
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1957
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Peter Finch plays Dr. Alec Windom, a British medico working in the remote Far Eastern island village of Selim. Feeling a...
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1957
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1956
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Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering...
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1955
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It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very...
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Duca
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1955
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1955
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1954
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1953
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Eddie Constantine makes his second appearance as Peter Cheyney's hard-boiled FBI agent Lemmy Caution in Cet Homme est...
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Siegella
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1953
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Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat...
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1953
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1952
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Dominic
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1951
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Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a...
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Barboeuf
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1951
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1951
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Cairo Road is a standard British "police precinct" drama with a twist; this precinct is located in Cairo, Egypt....
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1950
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Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning...
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1950
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1949
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Un Homme Marche Dans la Ville was Italian director Marcello Pagliero's first production in his adopted country of France....
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1949
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Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin"...
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1945
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Originally Tourbillon de Paris, this film details the misadventures of a group of French military-school students. The plot...
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1939
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