This French family film is filled with action, animals, adventure, and suspense. The story is told from a child's viewpoint....
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Durandet
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1994
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1994
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1993
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Michel
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1993
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Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the...
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Bonnemort
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1993
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1993
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In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
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Mr. Vandubas
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1992
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Ponsard
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1992
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In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together...
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Father (old)
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1991
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1991
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Lucien
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1991
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This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While...
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1990
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1990
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This poetic French drama about the inner experience of a returning World War I soldier, is based on the much-loved and highly...
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Requiem
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1989
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1989
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Eric Blanc plays a man who has witnessed a car-bombing and become a major media celebrity. He just can't say enough about...
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1989
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Sorceress is not a remake of the 1982 erotic thriller of the same name. This 1987 film is set in medieval France, where, in...
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The Cure
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1988
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Long ago, in what seems like another lifetime to him, Paul (Ben Gazzara) had an illegitimate son by a local North African...
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Zigou
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1988
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The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original...
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Jean-Tou
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1988
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French/Israeli filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi wrote and directed this adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen. Set in...
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1988
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Desire
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1988
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Emile Rivereau
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1987
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1987
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This mystery is taken from the novel by best-selling author Guy des Cars. While on a voyage with his philandering wife...
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Mr. Deliot
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1987
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This unflinching, provocative drama is set in the slums of Gay Paree, where dwells the dregs and fringe of French society....
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Miss Mona
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1987
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This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise...
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Jocelyn
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1986
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Ridha Behi's Champagne Amer (Bitter Champagne) is about a son who carries on an affair with his father's mistress, without...
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1986
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A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy...
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1986
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Mr. Martin
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1986
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Josiane Balasko ("the housewife's heroine") has been writing and directing good roles for herself since first entering the...
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Pharmacist
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1985
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Le Matou is based on a novel by Yves Beauchemin. The title translates freely to "Alley Cat", in reference to a pet owned by...
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Ratablavasky
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1985
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1985
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In this fantasy-drama-romance, forbidden love between an angel (Carole Laure) and a singer (Nick Mancuso) is set against the...
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Sam
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1985
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1984
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One of the more forgettable action films, especially for the talented Sandrine Bonnaire who plays Marilyn the anti-heroine,...
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Commissioner Casti
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1984
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In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the...
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1983
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Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman...
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Socrate
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1983
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In this rural comedy Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to his brother's farm...
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1983
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This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to...
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His valet
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1982
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This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who --...
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Thenardier
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1982
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Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is...
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Rudnik
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1981
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1981
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Kreps
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1981
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Francis Cherasse (Le Bombe)
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1981
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The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being...
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His Father
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1980
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Bertin (Victor Lanoux) has accidentally killed his wife during an argument. He is the owner of a tannery which employs most...
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Judge Noblet
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1979
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Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the...
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The murderer
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1979
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After a 25-year marriage, a pleasant couple announce to their grown children that they intend to seek a divorce. The...
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1979
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Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and...
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Baptiste Noziere
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1978
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Every year, in France, there is a national celebration of sorts when that year's pressing of beaujolais grapes has become a...
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Camadule
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1978
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In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a...
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Adrien
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1978
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Melville
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1977
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While leaving her husband, whom she now detests, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the countryside but must stop at an old...
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Colas
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1977
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The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon...
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Sergeant Bosselet
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1976
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After a computer-tested set of features is found to be the face most likely to win the confidence of the French people,...
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Marcel
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1976
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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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Lajoie
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1975
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The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army...
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1974
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1974
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The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity...
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1974
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Maurice
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1974
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Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky)....
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Bude
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1974
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In this broad French satire, a thoroughly unappealing salesman manages not only to sell his wares, but succeeds in forging...
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Antoine
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1974
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1973
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Two neighboring French families are going through major life-ceremonies at the same time: one is experiencing the funeral of...
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Georges
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1973
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When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean...
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Husband
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1973
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This coming-of-age drama chronicles one summer in a 15-year old girl's life. She lives in a peaceful French village with her...
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Father
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1973
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In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to...
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1972
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In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She...
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1972
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In this French family film, the worst-laid plans of an unpleasant, grasping family come to naught in the face of the...
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Lord Picratt
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1972
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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1972
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The one with the closed eyes, in this French film, would seem to be the rogue actor (Gerard Desarthe) who, out of boredom,...
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Stutterer
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1972
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Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human...
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Jeannot
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1971
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The notable French comedian Pierre Richard stars in and directs this, his second feature film. Here he plays Alfred, about...
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Paul
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1971
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Agnes (Brigitte Bardot) is the nun who follows the order to the beach for a swim in the ocean. They shed their habits to...
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Second Client
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1970
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1970
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1970
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This offbeat satirical comedy finds a beautiful and talkative housekeeper (Annie Girardot) working for several colorful...
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1970
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Jean Renoir's last completed work was this made-for-television effort, comprised of three short films along with a musical...
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1969
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This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his...
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1967
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1966
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In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The...
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1966
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Louis De Funes stars in this two-part sexploitation comedy. Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French...
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1965
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Jean Gabin plays Charles, an aging gangster, newly released from prison. In fine Bogart tradition, the unrepentant Charles...
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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1962
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The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends...
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Guillaume
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1962
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1962
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1962
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In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a...
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1961
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1958
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1957
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1956
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That merry prankster Till Eulenspiegel is at it again in this lively Franco-German production. Director Gerard Phillipe does...
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Lamme
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1956
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1956
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Alvarez
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1955
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In this action-filled crime drama, ace gangster Johnny Jordan plys his trade amid gun fire and fisticuffs. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1954
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1952
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Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a...
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Florist
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1952
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1950
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1950
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This French comedy offers a tour-de-force for Jouvet who plays most of the major characters. His main role is that of a...
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1948
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Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur...
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1947
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1946
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1946
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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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1945
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