Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as...
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2006
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and...
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Producer
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1990
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Roth
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1989
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Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo (Jean Reno) are a...
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1988
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Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar....
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1988
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Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track...
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Max Pasquier
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1987
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When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane (Jean-Pierre Bacri) returns...
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Olivier Voke
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1987
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Jean-Francois
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1987
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Cristophe (Michel Voita) is a reporter who is assigned to interview the prominent archaeologist Tober (Jean Bouise) in this...
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Tobler
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1987
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1986
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Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this...
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1986
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Corruption in the rarified air of the corporate and governmental elite drives the action in this fast-paced thriller. Claire...
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1986
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The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the...
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1985
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1985
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This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the...
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1985
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Ostensibly about the sudden disappearance of a businessman and the subsequent behavior of his wife Elena (Helen Surgere), his...
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Stutz
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1984
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In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller...
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Pepe
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1983
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Unfortunately bound by clichés and stereotypes rather than original insights and new viewpoints, this condensed movie version...
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1983
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Unusual because it has no spoken dialogue, Dernier Combat effectively chronicles the fate of a handful of people after a...
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Doctor
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1983
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1983
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Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark...
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Public prosecutor
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1983
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This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight...
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1983
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1982
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Clothilde de Watteville (Lauren Hutton) is compared to "Hecate," a three-headed Greek fertility goddess and a protector of...
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Vaudable
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1981
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The pushes and pulls of an emerging post-war society are behind the antagonisms in this routine, slow-paced story set in a...
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1980
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1980
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Paco (Alfredo Lando) is a middle-aged glass blower who has a lucrative after-hours business as a male stud in this unusual...
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Ambroise
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1979
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Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is...
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Doctor
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1978
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During a summer vacation spent together, tensions in a large family surface. Joel, one of the family members, has Down's...
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Alexandre
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1978
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1978
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Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker Francois Perrin plays on a...
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President Sivardiere
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1978
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Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for...
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1978
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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation...
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1977
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Fayard (Patrick Dewaere) is a magistrate of the French courts, who is unusually enthusiastic in seeking justice. For...
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Arnould
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1977
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Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet)...
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1977
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Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife...
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1976
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Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes...
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1976
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After having been sent to a mental asylum following being raped by a policeman, Julie (Marlene Jobert) is released to a job...
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1975
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Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to...
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1975
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A boisterous, cheerful and lusty man, Lajoie (Jean Carmet) meets his friends every year at a family campsite. During the...
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Boular
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1975
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Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an aging, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses...
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Francois
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1975
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1974
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This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of...
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Charles
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1974
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In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These...
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1973
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This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her...
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1972
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1972
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This French crime drama tells the story of an ill-fated quartet of burglars and hoodlums. Two older burglars, near...
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Nino
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1972
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Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national...
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1971
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Originally Mourir D'Aimer, this 1970 French film is an "a clef" treatment of the once-notorious Gabrielle Russier case....
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1971
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This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his...
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Boss
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1970
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After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with...
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Francois
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1970
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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1969
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A French secret agent Lino Ventura gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine...
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1966
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La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his...
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Ramon
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1966
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1966
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The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is...
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Alphonse
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1965
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le capitaine Haddock
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1964
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An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes....
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1964
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Cristobal
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1963
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1962
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