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2008
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Loosely based on a story by Honore de Balzac, this historical drama is set in Egypt in 1798, as Napoleon was leading the...
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1998
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Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from...
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1998
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This metaphorical drama, about the changes brought to French society by revolution, stars Gérard Depardieu as Chabert, a...
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1994
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In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new...
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1991
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In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new...
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1991
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1975
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Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac's tragic novel about an old man who sacrificed all for the sake of a place in society, was...
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1971
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1970
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This routine film by novice director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco handles the taboo subject of a homosexual relationship between...
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1961
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Set during the French restoration in the 1830s, this conventional, verbose costume drama features Jean-Claude Pascal as...
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1959
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The Swedish The True and the False was produced by actress Signe Hasso, who also stars in the film, which was lensed in two...
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1955
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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1949
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In this drama, set after the Napoleonic Wars, the aristocratic Chabert comes back to his palatial home to find that his wife...
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1947
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Les Chouans is set during the dark days of the French Revolution. The title translates as "The Royalists," and indeed the...
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1946
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Michel Simon stars in this cinemadaptation of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Simon is cast as Vautrin, a Robin Hoodlike...
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1943
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The French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara...
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1943
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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1931
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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1926
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1922
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