In this tender and sentimental comedy, Ben (Victor Lanoux), a Parisian Jew, copes with the dramas in his everyday life...
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Isaac
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1981
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1980
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The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry...
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1978
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Art precedes life in this French comedy about a group of social security recipients who go on a crime spree when their checks...
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1973
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An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He...
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1970
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Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey...
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1970
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Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins...
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1970
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1968
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Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success...
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1967
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The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and...
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1962
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In this crime drama, an amiable, popular middle-age man (Bernard Blier) abruptly changes when he heads out for a nice picnic,...
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1962
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In this melodrama, a prominent Parisian businessman's wife finds her life incredibly boring until she has an affair with a...
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1962
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Jean Gabin carries this conventional political drama set in pre-World War II France. He is Emile, a retired politico with a...
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Minister
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1961
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In this thriller, a greedy young woman becomes a police informer. Her father is in prison for participating in a jewel...
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1961
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The Professor
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1960
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Fernandel plays a French customs sergeant who conducts an ongoing war of nerves with Italian smuggler Toto on the...
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1958
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Robert Hossein was writer, director and star of the suspense melodrama Toi le Venin. Picked up by a beautiful motorist,...
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1958
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1956
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The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young...
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Old Magistrate
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Paris Incident was originally released as Telegramme pour M. Herriot. Filmed on location in an unfashionable Montmartre...
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The Headmaster
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1954
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Letters from My Windmill (Les Lettres De Mon Moulin) was adapted by French-filmmaker Marcel Pagnol from three short stories...
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1954
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Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who...
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1952
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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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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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1952
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Twice during his long and fruitful career, French playwright Jean Anouilh tried his hand at film directing. The second of...
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Mr. Bousquet
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1951
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo may seem like a puerile title, but it is a lot more graspable to non-French audiences than the original Garou...
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Lecuyer
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1950
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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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1950
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1939
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In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the...
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1939
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1937
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