The most acclaimed (and sentimental) film in Jean Vigo's short career. L'Atalante is the name of the barge owned by Jean...
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1934
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Per its title, Lovers of Verona is an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film was a joint project of...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1948
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Un Oiseau Rare (Rare Bird) is a wide-ranging satire of several mid-1930s aberrations, including giveaway contests,...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Bellman was based on the novel Horseman of Riouclare by Claude Boncompain. Lucien Coedel stars in this steadily-paced...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Screenwriter
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1952
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This French classic tells the story of a little boy who tries to retrieve his pet donkey from the rich family that now owns...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1939
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The French upper class is chastised in this socially conscious drama that centers on a naive young woman who travels to a...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin....
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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Originally filmed and released in 1941 as Remorques, this heavy-breathing French melodrama was distributed stateside in 1946...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Originally released in 1942 as Les Visiteurs du Soir, The Devil's Envoys is another masterful collaboration between actress...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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With his business in the doldrums, travel agent Grandpa Piuff (Sinoel) comes up with a cute gimmick. Why not book customers...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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A triumph of animation for both children and adults, this engaging story was adapted from the fairy tale of The Shepherdess...
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Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1980
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Few actresses other than Joan Crawford could have successfully pulled off the melodramatic excesses of Autumn Leaves. Though...
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Songwriter
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1956
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