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1942
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Originally released in 1941 as L'Assasinat du Pere Noel, this labyrinthine thriller was finally distributed in the U.S. in...
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Cornusse (Santa Clause)
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1941
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1941
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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1940
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Though he died in 1943 at the hands of his Gestapo persecutors, the great French stage and screen actor Harry Baur was...
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Volpone
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1940
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The man and his wife in this anecdotal French seriocomedy are Papon and Janette, played by Harry Baur and Suzy Vernon. Bored...
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Papon
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1939
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Le President Haudecoeur stars Harry Baur as a stern and merciless district attorney who undergoes a "humanizing" process in...
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1939
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The same year that the great European actor Harry Baur played mad Czar Paul I in Le Patriote, he also played another...
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Rasputin
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1939
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Harry Baur, who in the 1930s was the most distinguished character actor in Europe, was the star of the 1936 French historical...
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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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Capt. Mollenard
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1938
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Paul I
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1938
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Adapted from the novel by Paul Lafitte, Rothchild is not, as might be assumed, the story of the famed European banking...
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Rothschild
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1938
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In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all...
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Pere Alain Regnault
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Originally released in 1937 as Nostalgie, The Postmaster's Daughter was one of a handful of French films directed by Russian...
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Virine
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1937
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Le Juif Polonais (The Polish Jew) was adapted from the old theatrical warhorse The Bells, previously filmed in 1925 with...
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Mathis
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1937
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Sarati le Terrible is the wealthy and callous absentee landlord (Harry Baur) of a cheap Algiers rooming house near a coal...
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1937
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Filmed in Czechoslovakia, this French-language adaptation of the oft-filmed Jewish folk tale The Golem was one of the most...
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Emperor Rudolf
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1936
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Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer...
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Brioukow
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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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Jacques Brachart
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Tarass Boulba
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1936
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This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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1936
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1936
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From 1931 to 1934, Russian director Victor Tourjansky made Paris his headquarters. The last of his French productions was...
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Ivan Ivanovitch
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1935
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Porphyre
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1935
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Julien Duvivier's most controversial production to date, 1935's Golgotha is an ambitious and expensive retelling of the Last...
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Herod
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1935
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Greluchon Delicat (Sensitive Lad) is the story of a starry-eyed Parisian student named Henri, played by Paul Bernard. Henri...
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Michel
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1934
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1934
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An above-average Monogram programmer, Red Head stars the gorgeous Grace Bradley as a good-hearted photographer's model. After...
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1934
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Les Miserables is perhaps the most frequently filmed novel in screen history. This 1933 French version of the Victor Hugo...
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Jean Valjean
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1934
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1934
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Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits (The Five Accursed Gentlemen), Julien Duvivier's second talkie, was also the second in a series of...
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Her Uncle
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1933
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The great Harry Baur plays the title character in Cette Vielle Canaille -- which translates as "That Old Bum"! But he's no...
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1933
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Monsieur Lepic
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1932
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1932
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David Golder
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1931
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1916
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1915
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