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Abbe Faria
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1961
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Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Feeling free...
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Georges Meliot
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1959
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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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Les Fruits de L'Ete (Fruits of Summer) serves as a vehicle for the venerable Edwige Feuillere. The thinnish storyline is...
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Edouard
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1955
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Cappadoe
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1954
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The title of this French bedroom farce translates to A Fly in the Ointment. That "fly" is music-hall performer Lucette...
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Cheneviette
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1954
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1952
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1952
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Jeff
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1950
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Released in the U.S. in 1950, Mask of Korea has the sort of title that suggests a tie-in with the then-raging Korean...
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1950
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1950
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In this French film, Nicole (dancer Violette Verday) must choose between three men. Her suitors are a jeweler (Henri Guisoi),...
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Jeweler
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1950
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1949
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1948
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1948
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If a French film of the 1940s or 1950s had Claude Dauphin in the cast, the producers were assured of a decent box-office...
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Georges
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1948
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1947
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1946
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The title of this French romantic comedy translates as Once is Enough, which was hardly conducive to the film's repeat...
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1946
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1943
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1942
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Completed in 1941, Portrait of a Woman (Une Femme disparait) was the final effort of veteran director Jacques Feyder. Though...
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Manager
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1939
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The Maginot line, designed to be the deepest war trench in the world, provides the focus for this espionage drama. The...
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1939
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Trois Valses (Three Waltzes) was adapted from the operetta of the same name by Oscar Straus, Leopold Marchand and Albert...
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1938
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1936
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Though its title translates literally as The Terrible Lovers, this French romantic comedy is actual an adaptation of...
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Victor Lambert
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1936
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In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by...
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1936
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Jean Renoir was the director of The Crime of Monsieur Lange, but this French film might just as well have been made in...
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1936
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1935
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Jean Renoir's first sound film was a bitter and highly controversial psychological drama, so controversial that it was never...
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1931
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