Each teenager chooses his own way to rebel, but the young protagonist of Andrew Kotting's bizarre comedy/drama finds a unique...
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2009
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Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea...
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2007
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The bittersweet story at the heart of this feature begins years prior to the film's outset, when two once-in-love Swiss...
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2006
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Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money,...
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Raufer
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2003
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2003
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Giuseppe (Paolo Villaggio) takes his blind seven-year-old granddaughter Carla (Francesca Pipoli) from Puglia to his native...
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2000
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Married for five years, Gerard (Patrick Catalifo) and Helene (Dominique Blanc) are at Paris' Orly South airport, where they...
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Swiss Client
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2000
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Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries....
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Georges Poussin
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1999
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In this bittersweet look back at the trials of growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Emilie (Magali Woch), Ines...
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1999
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Following the international success of her first film Oblie-moi (1994) for which she was also the co-writer, Noémi Lvovsky...
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1998
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A financially struggling mason, his wife and their 10-year-old daughter Marion, one of six children, find themselves faced...
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1997
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Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently...
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Martigues
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1996
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A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise...
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Athos
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1994
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The seemingly unrelated scenes in this 110 minute black and white cinematic collage reflect the highly personalized vision of...
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1994
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After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the...
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Francois
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1993
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1992
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1991
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In this routine sex comedy, Jean Chabert (Philippe Khorsand) is the newspaper editor called on to revive the fortunes of a...
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1989
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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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Michael
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1988
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Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in...
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Paul
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1988
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Silvano
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1988
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In order to cover up the multiple murders they have committed, a gang of killers tries to convince police that a serial...
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Jean-Paul Blido
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1987
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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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Max Charnet
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1986
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This comedy-drama by first-time director and scripter Jean-Luc Trotignant details the exploits of a crass, low-life family....
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Achille Pinglard
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1986
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In a routine sex farce, Gautier (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a man determined to figure out how to give a woman an orgasm --...
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Roussell
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1985
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The interwoven love stories in Et La Tendresse?... Bordel! No 2 contrast three different ways of being together in modern...
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1984
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Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum...
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1984
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This is an off-beat story about a ménage à trois that is really a marriage between the traditional two, with one a little...
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Giovanni
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1983
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With comedy sequences that wobble between parody and sentiment, director Marc-Andre Grynbaum has attempted to present the...
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1983
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1982
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Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses...
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1982
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1981
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Yves Montand is Victor Valance, a long-lost father who has come home to his brood of daughters and his mother in order to...
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Raoul Sarazin
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1981
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Spiced with French humor and insouciance, this otherwise routine comedy is carried by the acting talents of Jean-Luc Bideau...
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Jean-Luc
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1980
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Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from...
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1979
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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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Claude
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1979
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Francois
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1979
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Working people put the factory owners of the world on notice when they rebelled in France following that country's defeat in...
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Bouillon
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1978
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The plot of William Friedkin's suspense thriller originated with the same Georges Arnaud novel that inspired...
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1977
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In the wake of a heart-wrenching divorce, a young mother turns to her adoring lesbian friend for comfort. They have a brief...
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Dentist
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1977
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The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the...
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Max Stigny
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1976
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After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents...
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Henri
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1976
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When a young Englishwoman (Mimsy Farmer) crosses the paths of an annual hunting party, two of the hunters rape and try to...
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Mansart
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1975
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In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably...
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1974
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Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized...
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Este
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1973
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Unhinged by the murder of his wife by a madman dressed as a cowboy, Alexis (Jean-Luc Bideau) hops into his car and lays...
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Alexis
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1973
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Bouttier
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1973
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1973
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In this French crime caper film, a young misfit (Jacques Higelin) who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller...
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1973
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The line between fantasy and reality is once more blurred in this Belgian/French drama about a professor of literature who...
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Mathieu
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1973
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Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker (Jean-Luc Bideau) who is attempting to put his...
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Denis
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1973
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Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is perhaps one of the best films to come out of Switzerland. The...
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1973
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1972
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This black-and-white Swiss feature whimsically recaptures elements of the "theater of the absurd" of Eugene Ionesco, Samuel...
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1972
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Phillippe, a high-strung and extremely inhibited French department-store manager, vents his sexual repression by treating...
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Daniel
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1972
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In the children's film Le Petit Poucet, a small young man outwits a powerful cannibalistic giant and not only saves his...
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1972
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This Swiss-made film closely examines the character of a non-conformist, a subject of unending interest to the reputedly...
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1971
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This unusual satire finds a taxi driver and a passenger believing they have met before and know each other from somewhere....
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Hector
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1970
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Charles (Francois Simon) is a middle aged business man who runs an inherited company. On the anniversary of his company's...
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1969
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