When a retired police officer is forcefully checked into a senior citizen's home, a fatal accident involving one of the...
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2007
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Abandoned by the world and left to fend for himself as the Nazis continue their march across Europe, one-time bohemian turned...
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2006
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Eric Rohmer is one of the best-respected filmmakers in the history of the French cinema, as well as among the most elusive....
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2005
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Jet Set writer/director Fabien Onteniente returns to craft this sequel set against the backdrop of hedonistic Ibiza, and...
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2004
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2003
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A closeted Swiss professor's closely guarded sexuality threatens to become front page news when he is appointed guardian to...
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2002
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Charlotte Silvera's Girls Can Get Away With Anything is about a young girl who acted in a film. Eight-year-old Judith...
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2002
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2001
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The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938,...
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Nonno Mattia
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2001
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2000
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2000
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1999
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In this comedy, layers and layers of personal lies provide the glue that holds a trendy, shallow group of Parisians...
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1997
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This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin...
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1996
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1996
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One woman's conflicting emotions and the whims of fate prevent her from being faithful to the man she loves in this drama. In...
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Arnoult
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1995
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This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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1995
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This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a...
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1995
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Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive....
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Roccarotta
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1994
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The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a...
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1994
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Caroline can't get enough of the television coverage about an upcoming manned Mars landing, but it doesn't interest her...
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Martin
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1992
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1992
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A "ripoux" is, in French slang, a policeman who accepts bribes, shakes down "honest" criminals for a cut of their action, at...
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1990
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The two black men in this tragedy live on the fringes of French society, and come from Africa and the Caribbean. Among the...
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Pierre Ardennes
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1990
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Adrien (Remi Martin) does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes...
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Gaston
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1989
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In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world....
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Bijou/Delaroche
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1987
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Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama. Her illness...
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Frederic
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1987
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The lines between love, sex, and politics become hopelessly blurred in this French drama from director Andre Techine. Jeanne...
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Klotz
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1987
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Duroc (Jean Rochefort) is a secret agent called on to deliver an exploding car to a gang of terrorists in this spy spoof....
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Leroy
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1987
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A traveling theater troupe is divided by the romantic unrest of several couples in this sometimes macabre and uneven comedy...
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Mr. Albert
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1986
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Inspecteur Lavardin is a mellow, take-your-time Claude Chabrol effort of the 1980s, partly financed by French television....
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Claude Alvarez
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1986
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The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a...
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1986
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In this semi-autobiographical comedy by Francis Perrin, he plays a character partially based on himself in the guise of...
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Willy
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1986
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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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In this political drama, freedom of the press, government intrigue, and the murder of an Arab diplomat form the knots of...
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TV director
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1985
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The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash...
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Sam "Fruit of the Loom"
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1985
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Weak in script and plot, this comedy about the differences (or not) between royalty and the commoners that toil for a living...
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Kaffenberg
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1985
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In a first-time production by television comedians and café-theater actors, this is a slightly shallow comedy about a novice...
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Commissioner
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1985
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With enough humor to make up for any minor shortcomings, this story about the bumbling Pinot (Gérard Jugnot), a Parisian...
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Morcy
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1984
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Kebadjan
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1983
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Director
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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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Loulou Barrier
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1983
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In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial...
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1983
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Considering the passionate times (1944 -- when the Allies are about to liberate France with the consequent round-up of German...
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Roland Caron
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1983
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Doctor Paul Marshall
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1983
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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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Violent scenes, such as a woman doused with gasoline and set on fire, do nothing to help this melodramatic crime-drama rise...
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Rambert
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1983
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This self-conscious film with acting that is not quite up to par, is about an insurance investigator who meets an attractive...
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Gabriel Larcange
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1983
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This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole...
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1982
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This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee...
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Jacob
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1982
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1982
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Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all...
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1981
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Paul Cisterne
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1980
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A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc...
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1980
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Guillaume
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1979
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Manager
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1979
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Director
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1979
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A down-on-her-luck dreamer finds her fantasies drifting into reality in the second film from actor-turned-director...
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1978
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Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his...
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Van Nijlen
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1977
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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation...
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Michel
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1977
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During a business trip to Morocco to finalize a deal to build an ugly modern tourist village on the site of a lovely local...
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Jean-Luc
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1977
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In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his...
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Rantec
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1977
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In this caper comedy, Jean Gabin plays Lambert, an escaped convict in search of some robbery money he hid a long time ago. He...
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Pierre Bizet
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1976
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Walt
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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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Brumaire
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1976
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Jane Birkin stars in this sex farce as a young British prostitute in Paris who, after her soft-core business fails, decides...
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Guillaume
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1975
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1975
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Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French...
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Villedieu, Attorney
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1975
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One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a...
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Mr. Foucauld
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1974
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Norbert
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1974
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Elizabeth (Romy Schneider) and her daughter (Benedicte Bucher) take a holiday together, and each of them has a brief romance:...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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This French comedy journeys with Armand (Jean-Claude Brialy), a valet, as he tries to find an appropriate employer for his...
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Director, Screenwriter, Armand
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1973
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In this family drama, set in 1895, an 11-year old must spend the summer at his grandmother's house. Also there are his two...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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1972
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Thomas (Jacques Charrier) is a sailor who has deserted from the Navy in this gentle French drama. He has found refuge in a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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1971
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1971
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The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French...
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Jerome
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1970
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Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count...
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Count
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1970
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This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by...
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Corey
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1968
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Manon (Catherine Deneuve) is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings....
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Jean-Paul
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1968
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Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her...
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1968
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An ingenious thief steals Michelangelo's Pieta, worth $30 billion in the farce. The trouble is, he has no buyers and so lets...
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1967
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In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~...
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1967
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Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A...
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Count
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1967
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In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately,...
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Jean
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1967
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The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been...
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The Duke--Le Duc de Trefle
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1966
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Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big...
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Dario
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1965
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A husband desperate for an heir, will do anything to produce one in this Italian drama, adapted from the long-banned...
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1965
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A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the...
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Marcel
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1965
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In this French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling...
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1965
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This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and...
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Tonio Kroger
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1965
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Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this...
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The Prince
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1965
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This comedy is built around a car and the various characters who own the vehicle throughout the feature. A Countess takes...
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1965
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1964
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The Young Gentleman
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1964
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In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is...
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Antoine
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1964
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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Jacquot
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1964
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no...
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Sebastian
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1963
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An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being...
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Paul Martin
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1963
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The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and...
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Jean-Philippe
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1962
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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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Didier Marin [Episode 7]
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1962
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Arsene Lupin was a well-known French gentleman burglar who was active at the turn of the 20th century. In this routine...
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Francois
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1962
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Based on a novel by noted French author Gustave Flaubert, this routine love story centers on the romantic "education" of...
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Frederic
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1962
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are...
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1962
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Set in an old German castle where an elderly paterfamilias lies on his deathbed, this conventional murder mystery by director...
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Marc
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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1962
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Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set...
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1961
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Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in...
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Didier
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1961
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Skimming the surface of characterization, this romance-tragedy by François Villiers is based on a novel by Jean-Jacques...
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Laurent
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1961
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Emile Recamier
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1961
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A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy...
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Ronald
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1961
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1960
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Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own...
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1960
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In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a...
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Pierre
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1959
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The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty...
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Scintillone
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1959
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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Paul Tiercelin
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1959
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For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The...
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1959
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Director Pierre Kast is known for his cinematic portrayals of personal relationships, and this low-on-budget, high-on-talk...
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1959
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This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His...
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Paul
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1959
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1958
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1958
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Cargaison Blanche (White Cargo) bears no relation to the steamy tropical stage melodrama of the same name. The "cargo"...
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1958
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Le Beau Serge was the first film of French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol. Though not a murder melodrama, the film is...
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Francois
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1958
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Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their...
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1958
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Une histoire d'eau , also known as A Story of Water , was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his...
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1958
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Gifted comic actor Darry Cowl plays the title role in Le Triporteur (The Tricyclist). A football fanatic, young Antoine...
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Jean-Claude
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1958
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The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers...
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1957
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Filmed in 1957 but not released in the U.S. until 1962, Girl in His Pocket was released to more liberal markets as Nude in...
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1957
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Charlotte et Véronique, also known as Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in...
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1957
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1956
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