Marc Michel plays an imprisoned man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1960
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Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1958
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The French/Italian Adventures of Arsene Lupin is loosely based on stories by Maurice Leblanc. A sprightly opening-credits...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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Fernandel is the somewhat over-aged Ali Baba in this astonishingly expensive Arabian Nights escapade. In this filmization of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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Rue de L'Estrapade was filmmaker Jacques Becker's immediate follow-up to his 1952 classic Casque D'Or. That the film does not...
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Director
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1953
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The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque d'Or. Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani), an honest woodworker, falls in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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French filmmaker Jacques Becker's Edouard et Caroline has been described as a film without a story. This isn't quite true,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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Director, Screenwriter
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1947
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First Assistant Director
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1946
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Originally Goupi Mains Rogues, this was the first new French feature film to be shown in the US since the end of WW2-though...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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Director
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1943
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Director
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1942
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L'Or du Cristobal is based on the novel by A. T. Sersteven. Albert Prejean plays the first mate of the French freighter...
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Director
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1939
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Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the...
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First Assistant Director
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1937
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Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande...
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First Assistant Director
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1937
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First Assistant Director
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1936
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Director Jean Renoir returns to the "people of the soil" of his previous Toni in People of France! (originally La Vie est a...
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First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
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1936
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Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by...
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First Assistant Director
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1932
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La Nuit du Carrefour (A Night at the Crossroads) may well be the least known of Jean Renoir's sound films. Adapted from a...
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Producer
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1932
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