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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2004
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First-time director Samuel Benmchetrit's 2003 debut Janis et John (Janis and John) follows the comedic exploits of a...
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Mr. Cannon
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2003
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Jean-Baptiste,Lucien
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1998
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Mirroring the style of French graphic novels and dramatic comic strips, this adventure is set in a rundown lunar city and...
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1997
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Irony abounds in this French comedy that tells the tale of an unsophisticated, rather dim-bulbed country lad who follows the...
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1996
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1995
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This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was...
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1995
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A young aristocratic military cadet gets a dose of reality that shakes his high ideals to the core when he is called to...
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Masagual
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1995
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This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars...
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Max
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1994
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The concluding chapter in filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, Red stars the luminous Irène Jacob as...
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The Judge
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1994
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As directed by Richard Dembo, the period adventure drama L'Instinct de l'ange (Angel's Wing) unfurls in early 20th century...
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Edouard
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1992
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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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1991
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1990
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The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the...
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Holm
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1989
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Scrutzler
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1987
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This uneven drama concerns the efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production. Paul...
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Paul
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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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le general
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1987
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It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully...
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Jean-Louis Duroc
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1986
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The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by...
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Paul
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1986
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The personal tragedy of an alcoholic hemmed in by a domineering wife is the focus of this drama of hope lost and regained....
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Pierre
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1986
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1986
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In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings...
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Fodo the Teacher
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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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Roland Riviere
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1985
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Based on a novel by Robert Rossner, this routine detective-thriller focuses on the unfortunate Thierry (Alain Souchon), a...
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Inspector Mayene
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1985
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Femmes De Personne is a French "feminist" film that comes off as slightly misogynistic (not to mention misanthropic) at...
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Gilquin
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1984
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Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a...
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Francois Gaucher
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1984
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A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden...
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The President
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1984
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In this rich, complex drama, the threat of terrorism serves as a backdrop to an examination of dysfunctional family...
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Dario
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1983
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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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Christian Lacassagne
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1983
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Julien Vercel
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1983
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This gripping, emotional story of a roving photographer's transformation from a neutral artist with a camera to an involved...
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Marcel Jazy
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1983
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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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1982
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1982
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The Doctor
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1981
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's sinister yet subtle performance as a man who gives the most insane proof of love to his wife...
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Vic Allen
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1981
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Ravic
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1981
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A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or...
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Commissaire Douche
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1981
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1981
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Faguet
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1981
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In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take...
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1981
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Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La...
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Enrico
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1980
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Julien
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1980
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Horace Vannister
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1980
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Olga (Jane Birkin) is a bored housewife who is frequently left alone by her husband as he attends to business ventures on the...
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Pierre
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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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Director
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1978
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The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves...
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Rainier
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1978
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Alex (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is newly married, and he and his wife are setting up housekeeping together in Paris. However,...
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Alex
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1977
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In the story of Reperages, Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a film director who has arranged to shoot a version of Anton...
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Victor
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1977
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With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked...
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1976
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While on their second honeymoon, a long-married couple discuss the past and are surprised to discover their separate...
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Paul
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1976
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In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored...
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Fred
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1976
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Borniche (Alain Delon) has three difficult tasks before him: to keep a rein on police violence, to cut through bureaucratic...
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Emile Buisson
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1975
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An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a...
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Varlin
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1975
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Franz
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1975
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Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the...
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1975
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In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting...
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Nicolas
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1974
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In this WW II drama based on an autobiographical story by director Michel Drach, a Jewish boy and his family living in Nazi...
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Director
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1974
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David Daguerre
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1974
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At the beginning of World War II, while the Germans entered France from the north, many people had reason to believe that the...
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Julien Maroyeur
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1973
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The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must...
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Laubre
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1973
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This black comedy is the first film directed by the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. The story concerns a baker...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1973
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Auguste (Georges Wod) goes to a remote Swiss village for a meeting in the course of doing some research. Instead of meeting...
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Ferdinand
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1973
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This French-produced thriller was shot entirely in English. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los...
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Lucien Bellon
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1973
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The erotomaniac girl in this French film likes to tie her boyfriend up and make love to him. She also likes to cover herself...
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1973
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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Darien
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1972
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In this offbeat crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have...
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Tony
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1972
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This hard-boiled French crime thriller begins with the bold murder of a well-heeled Frenchman. The detective assigned to the...
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Carella
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1971
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Simon
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1970
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The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating...
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Marcello Clerici
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1970
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This depressing story find a young woman being followed by a man after a party. Chasing her through the streets to meet her,...
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1970
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Ramparts of Clay stars Leila Schenna as a Tunisian woman torn between traditionalism and modernism. The citizens in her...
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1970
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Before making the string of cannibal adventures which made him notorious, Umberto Lenzi directed three kinky giallo thrillers...
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Jean
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1969
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A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking...
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Michel
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1969
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An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and...
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Jean
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1969
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The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose...
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Jean-Louis
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1969
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A man returns to France after living in America for 11 years to find the old hometown has changed. Bruno...
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Bruno
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1969
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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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The Magistrate
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1969
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When Catherine Spaak's husband dies, she discovers a hitherto hidden room on their estate. The room is surrounded by mirrors...
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Dr. De Marchi
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1968
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Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci directed this serious-minded populist spin on the spaghetti western, starring...
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Silence
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1968
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Paul
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1968
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This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens...
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1968
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This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during...
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Boris
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1968
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This complex and witty crime drama is set aboard a Paris train bound for Antwerp. Aboard are a husband and wife. Also aboard,...
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Elias/Himself
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1968
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This Italian-French co-production weds the giallo thriller with pop hipness in a manner akin to Blow-Up, but comes across as...
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1967
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An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer in this plodding romantic drama. She ends up...
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Vincent
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1967
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A former SS member living in Spain becomes the target of a death squad led by shadowy agents who may have ties to Israeli...
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Raphael
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1967
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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Raphael (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a bored young man who gets more excitement than he bargained for in this crime drama. He...
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Raphael
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1966
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A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young...
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Philippe
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1966
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Jean-Louis Duroc
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1966
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1966
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Eric
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1965
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Poet
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1965
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An ambitious Italian financier (Vittorio Gassman) will stop at nothing to further his economic expansion. He forsakes old...
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Scergio
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1965
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Francois
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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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This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the...
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Capt. Francois Lassalle
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1964
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Georges
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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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Eric
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1963
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In this romance, a youthful painter, vacationing in the French Riviera, falls in love with a beautiful woman who,...
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1963
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Roberto Mariani
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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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Three mining engineers are marooned in the Sahara after their helicopter crashes and end up finding a secret doorway to the...
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1961
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Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin is a passable murder mystery by Georges Franju set in the atmospheric interior of an old chateau...
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Jean-Marie
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1961
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Following the pattern of a classical Greek tragedy, this first-time drama by director Andre Veraini focuses on a vendetta...
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Joseph
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1961
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Robert Hossein serves as both director and star of The Game of Truth. The scene is a party thrown by a capricious novelist....
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Guy
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1961
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The political overtones in this action-oriented drama may be a little murky outside of its time and place, yet the story is...
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Clement
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1961
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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1960
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A comedy with a situation that is built up by a cast of sharply delineated characters, this first-time feature by director...
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Georges
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1960
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1960
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's star was just rising when he took on the role of Carlo in this engrossing wartime coming-of-age...
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Carlo Romanazzi
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1959
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Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In...
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1959
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A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de Femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house....
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1956
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Si Tous Les Gars du Monde is an entertaining tribute to the ham radio operators of the world. The story begins when a French...
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1956
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Michel Tardieu
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1956
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1956
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