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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Lambert
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1976
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In Jury of One, French filmmaker Andre Cayatte once more probes into the intricacies of the Gallic justice system....
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Leguen
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1974
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In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to...
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Germaine
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1973
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In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was...
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Dominici
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1973
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In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot...
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Le Guen
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1972
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A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of...
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Julien
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1971
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This is one of the few films directed by the well-known French dialogue writer Michel Audiard who was best known for his...
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Victor
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1971
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A grandfather (Jean Gabin) kills a gangster who comes looking for his grandson at the family farm. The boy was involved in...
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Grandfather
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1970
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Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio...
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Vittorio Manalese
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1969
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This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of...
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Legrain
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1968
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This violent crime drama finds police chief Joss (Jean Gabin) on the trail of a murderous mob boss. When the mob talks Joss'...
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Joss
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1968
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This is an updated version of the Alexander Dumas classic. Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge) is framed and imprisoned for...
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Albert
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1968
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Originally titled Le Soleil des Voyous, Action Man teams two veteran international film stars: France's Jean Gabin and...
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Denis Farrand
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1967
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In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new...
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Paulo Berger
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1966
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Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays...
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Brassac
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1965
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Martin (Jean Gabin) is a venerable gardener who passes counterfeit currency to make ends meet in this situation comedy. When...
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Martin
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1965
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Left a young widower, banker Monsieur (Jean Gabin) discovers that his late wife was having an affair before her death. About...
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Monsieur
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1964
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Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter...
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Emile
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1964
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Maigret (Jean Gabin) is the detective who investigates a murder conspiracy. Gangsters from the United States try to kill a...
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Maigret
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1963
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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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Charles
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1963
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Three screenwriters pooled their talents for the French racetrack drama Duke of the Derby. Jean Gabin plays a handicapper...
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Richard
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1962
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Latent forces for a strong individualism are pitted against the need to honor deeply held commitments in this effective...
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Albert Quentin
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1962
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This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against...
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Ferdinand Marechal, "le Dabe"
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1961
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Jean Gabin carries this conventional political drama set in pre-World War II France. He is Emile, a retired politico with a...
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Emile
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1961
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A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He...
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1961
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Jean-Marie
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1960
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This is another standard romantic drama geared toward the talents of popular French actor Jean Gabin who plays the lead, a...
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Baron
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1960
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Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a...
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Henri Niveu
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1959
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Jean Gabin once again stars as that other famous French detective Inspector Maigret in this murder mystery that is less a...
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Maigret
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1959
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In this drama, a Parisian vagabond decides to get himself arrested so he can spend the winter in a warm, cozy jail....
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Archimede
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1959
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This drama chronicles the exploits of two criminal brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1959
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En Cas de Malheur, literally "in case of accident," is better known by its American title, Love is My Profession. By any...
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Andre Gobillot
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1958
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Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from...
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Jean Valjean
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1958
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The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who...
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Maigret
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home...
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Noel
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1958
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Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version...
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1958
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Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a...
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Vallois
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is...
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Chatelin
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1957
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Its title notwithstanding, Le Rouge est Mis (The Red Light is On) is not a drama about prostitution. Instead, the story...
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Louis
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1957
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The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World...
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Grandgil
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1956
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The Georges Simenon novel Le Fils Cardinaud was the basis of La Sang a la Tete. Jean Gabin plays a middle-aged businessman,...
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1956
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Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of...
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Dr. Laurent
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1956
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Lamy
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1955
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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Raid on the Drug Ring is the English-language title of this Jean Gabin vehicle. The venerable French leading man plays the...
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1955
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Jean
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1955
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Director Henri Verneuil co-adapted Des Gens Sans Importance from a novel by Serge Groussard. The title translates to...
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1955
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Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it...
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Danglard
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1954
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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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Max
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1954
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1954
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Though filmmaker Marcel Carne was no longer considered a trendsetter in the French cinema in the 1950s, his films still...
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Victor
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1954
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La Vierge du Rhin translates to Rhine Virgin, a title that would have had trouble getting by the hidebound American censors...
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Jacques
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1953
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Leur Dernier Nuit (Their Last Night) is buoyed by the performances by stars Jean Gabin and Madeleine Robinson. Gabin plays...
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Pierre
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1953
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Pierre
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1952
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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Joseph Rivet [The House Of Madame Tellier]
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1952
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La Verite sur Bebe Donge is another "socko" pure-entertainment vehicle from prolific French filmmaker Henri Decoin. The film...
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Francois
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1951
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Victor
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1951
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The English-language title of this curious French drama is The Night is My Kingdom. Considered one of the best offerings from...
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Raymond
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1951
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Carlo Bacchi
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1950
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Chatelard
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1950
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French filmmaker Rene Clement's international reputation was secured with Au Dela des Grilles. A French-Italian production,...
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Pierre
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1949
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Absent from the screen since 1944's Kismet, the incomparable Marlene Dietrich returned in the French romantic melodrama...
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1946
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1946
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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Clement
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1944
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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Bobo
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1942
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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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Capt. Andre Laurent
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1941
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Francois
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1939
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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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Jean
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1938
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This French-German co-production stars Jean Gabin in his standard screen role of a fugitive from justice. Unable to return to...
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Trott Lennart
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1938
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Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin...
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Jacques Lantier
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1938
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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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Lieutenant Maréchal
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1937
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The English-language title of this French slice-of-life drama is Lady Killer, an apt description of anti-hero Lucien...
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Lucien
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1937
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Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of...
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Pepe le Moko
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1937
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Le Messager was the fourth directorial effort for prominent Gallic actor Raymond Rouleau. Adapted from a play by Henry...
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1937
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Jeannot
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1936
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Wasska Pepel
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1936
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Julien Duvivier's most controversial production to date, 1935's Golgotha is an ambitious and expensive retelling of the Last...
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Pontius Pilate
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1935
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Varietes started out as a remake of E. A. DuPont's silent German classic Variety. Unfortunately, DuPont himself made his own...
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1935
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Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion...
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Pierre Cilieth
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1935
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Francois Paradis
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1934
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Zou Zou is one of a handful of French musical films made by the flamboyant African-American entertainer Josephine Baker. The...
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Jean
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1934
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This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored...
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Charles Boulla
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1933
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1933
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Keeping one step ahead of the Nazis, German director Kurt (Curtis) Bernhardt fled to Paris to film this French-language...
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Mac Allan
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1933
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Andre Beucler directed this German romantic comedy, filmed in two languages and released overseas in French. Brigitte Helm...
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Pierre Lavernay
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1933
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Made in Germany, La Foule Hurle is the French-language version of the 1932 Warner Bros. actioner The Crowd Roars. The plot...
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1932
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Every so often, director Maurice Tourneur recharged his creative batteries with such trifles as Gaietes de L'Escadron. The...
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1932
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1932
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1931
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1931
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The Tough
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1931
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Air-mail pilot George Koehler (Gustav Froelich) would like to be more of a daredevil, but his wife Maria (Brigitte Helm)...
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1931
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1931
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Starring Henri Navarre (who also co-directed with Henri Debain), this French chapterplay released in 1931 was the country's...
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1931
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Paris Beguin finds Parisian cinema star Jean Gabin playing a familiar role, that of the martyred criminal with a golden...
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Bob
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1931
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This French-language operetta, also known as Each One's Luck, was filmed in Germany. Based on a novel by Hardt Harden, the...
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Marcel
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1930
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