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1965
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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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This drama, based on a true story, chronicles the exploits of a gorgeous Greek actress who decrees that she will marry the...
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1962
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Wearing the title garment, a daring night rider sets off to get revenge upon the wicked, avaricious magistrate responsible...
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1961
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This conventional, unimaginative drama is about a coterie of "ladies of the evening" who get themselves embroiled in a...
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1960
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In this drama, a freighter captain's family suffers financial difficulties. To help them, he involves himself in a plot to...
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1959
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Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris) is set in Paris, not long after the Allied invasion of the continent in 1944. Hardy...
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Yvonne's Father
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1957
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Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris...
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1957
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It took over thirty years for D. H. Lawrence's "forbidden" novel Lady Chatterly's Lover to make it to the big screen,...
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Winter
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1955
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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Though his services as a director were no longer required in the 1950s, Erich Von Stroheim kept busy as an actor, especially...
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1953
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1953
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Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with...
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1951
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Periton
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1951
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1950
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One suspects that the torrid melodrama The Wench had a somewhat stronger title when it was first released in France. The...
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Baptiste
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1948
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1945
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Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan...
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Marc
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Originally released as La Guerre des Boutons, this French social satire was adapted from the 1912 novel by Louis Pergaud. The...
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Jean Delcourt
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Edwige Feuillere stars as a glamorous "adventuriere" whose specialty is passing of phony jewels as the genuine article to her...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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In this French drama, a daring young woman falls in love with a strange inventor. She is quite the adventuress and has five...
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The Thinker
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1936
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A popular and frequently filmed novel by Louis Pergaud was the source for La Guerre des Gosses (Kids' War). The story is...
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Jean Delcourt
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1936
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In this espionage romance, a French spy and a German agent fall in love and marry. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Capt. Benoit
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1936
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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and...
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Duke d'Olivares
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1935
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1935
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Based on a novel by Charles Robert Dumas, Deuxieme Bureau is another espionager of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor"...
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Captain Benoit
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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A Certain Mr. Gran is the English-language title of this fast-paced espionage drama. Things literally start with a bang when...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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This French seafaring melodrama was released in English-speaking countries as The Last Blow. Jean Murat stars as a cargo-boat...
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1932
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Henri Werner
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1932
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Filmed in England, the French-language 77 Rue Chalgrin was based on a stage melodrama by British playwright Walter Hackett....
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Baron de Cleves
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Andre de Kerdrec
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1930
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1929
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In her last silent film -- and her last film, period -- Constance Talmadge stars as the fabulously wealthy Princess Beatrice...
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Captain Franqueville
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1929
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The German-Russian co-production Escaped from Hell contained elements common to such previous tales of injustice as Les...
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1929
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1928
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This first film version of Joseph Kessel's wartime novel L'Equipage was adapted for the screen by its director,...
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1928
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1928
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The first of Julien Duvivier's four directorial efforts of 1929 was the mystical drama The Divine Cruise (La Divine...
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1928
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1928
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Also known as La Nuit, this early talkie was filmed in both French and German-language versions, a common (if expensive)...
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Henry Brecourt
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1927
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The husband
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1926
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The oft-filmed Prosper Merimee novel Carmen was again committed to celluloid in 1926, this time under the skilled hand of...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1923
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