Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai offers an impressionistic look at his nation's long history of armed conflict in this...
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2010
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Forced Israeli evictions from the Gaza Strip yield tremendous personal strife for a pair of cross-cultural lovers in...
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Françoise
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2009
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A middle-aged man studying the Mur des Noms in modern-day France recalls the time 20 years prior when he and his mother were...
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Rivka
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2008
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2008
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Filmmaker Holly Fisher and photographer Peter Lindbergh collaborated on this non-narrative exploration of the landscape of...
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2007
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Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final...
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Laura
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2006
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2005
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As directed by acclaimed and award-winning French documentarist Pascale Lamche, the non-fiction opus French Beauty rests on...
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2005
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A Muslim cellist and a Serbian student make a desperate attempt to hide their love long enough to escape from war-torn...
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Associate Producer
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2005
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2004
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Noted French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs this portrait of a celebrated love affair between legendary novelist,...
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Marguerite Duras
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2003
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A made-on-HD video documentary about fascinating European filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by the equally notable...
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2001
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A young man's interest in film history leads to a revelation about his own past in this drama. Sam (Benoit Magimel) is a...
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Lisa (old)
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2001
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Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is...
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2000
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Roberto Ando directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- who gained posthumous fame with...
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Princess di Lampedusa
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2000
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Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French...
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1999
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Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau)...
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1998
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The good witch Morgane bears a son and finds herself faced with a painful choice. Tradition requires that she select a...
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Eglantine
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1997
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The debate between gender roles and the nature of masculinity and femininity in the '90s provides the basis of this romantic...
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1997
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Funded by the Ford Foundation, a one-act play by Wendy Kesselman about a teenage girl's coming of age was expanded to become...
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Nana
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1997
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Adrienne Mark
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1996
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Empress Elizabeth
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1995
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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1995
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The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four...
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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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In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness...
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Angelique
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1993
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Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on...
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Lili
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1993
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No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in...
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Rose
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1993
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A white, Inuit boy named Avik is the focus of New Zealand director Vincent Ward's meditation on race and romance. In the...
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1993
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1992
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In this affectionate feature, an adult child of a functional family recollects his largely satisfactory childhood in Paris in...
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Tété
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1992
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In this aimless and meandering film, five separate individuals drop out of their lives in order to drift around Europe with...
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1992
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Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars...
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1991
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Lady M.
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1991
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Four countries-France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland-converged upon the production of Suspended Step of Stork. The film is...
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The Woman
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1991
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Alberto's family traditions are quite unusual. Living in Paris with his pregnant wife, he is now expected to return to Rome...
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The Baroness
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1990
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and...
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Amande
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1990
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Except for the millionaire film producer, who undoubtedly only gets what he deserves, in this bedroom comedy almost everyone...
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Doria
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1990
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1989
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1988
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With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod...
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Proprietress
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1986
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Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Ania Francos, this tragi-comedy follows the diagnosis and internment of lawyer Lola...
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Marie-Aude
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1986
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Insurance investigator Ronald Fox Terrier (Michel Serrault) looks into a questionable claim of disability feigned by Papu...
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Sabine
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1986
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A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie,...
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1985
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Interviewed in her charming New York apartment at the age of 88, the indomitable Lillian Gish (her last name an Anglicized...
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Director, Producer
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1984
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German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died of a drug overdose on June 10, 1982, before his last film, Querelle was edited....
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1982
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This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars...
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Lou
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1982
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A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel...
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Lysiane
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1982
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A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a...
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Madam Benoit-Lambert
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1981
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Sexual obsession provides the basis of this taut thriller, an adaptation of a Romain Gary novel. The story centers upon a...
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Lili Marlene
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1981
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In his final film before taking his own life, Patrick Dewaere stars as Serge, a writer whose life is disrupted by an affair...
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Helene
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1980
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L'Adolescente (The Adolescent) was the second directorial stint for French film star Jeanne Moreau. This possibly...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1978
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Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes...
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Florence
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1976
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Actress Jeanne Moreau made her directorial debut with this tale about a gathering of actresses who, over the course of an...
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Director, Screenwriter, Sarah
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1976
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Didi
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1976
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The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little...
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1975
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In this sci-fi film, Terence Stamp (the name of the character as well as the actor who plays him) is an aging actor enlisted...
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Sylvana
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1975
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As the players in this dark drama move across the screen, they symbolize aspects of the human psyche and society that force...
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Joana
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1975
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This French political melodrama deals with the conflict between the political ambitions of Julien (Alain Delon) and his love...
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Renee Vibert
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1974
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Jeanne
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1974
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The English-language title of the French-Canadian Je T'Aime is, of course, I Love You. Jeanne Moreau plays a middle-aged...
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Elisa Boussac
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1974
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Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to...
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Berthe
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1974
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In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and...
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Louise
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1972
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With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She...
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Other Woman
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1972
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Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is...
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1971
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This satirical French drama is based on a novel by Antoine Blondin. Fired by wanderlust and urged on by his mother, Taitro...
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Myriam
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1971
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Made on the heels of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, this cinematic experiment is one of the director's more...
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1970
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Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin ) and his pal Chet Rollins (Jack Palance) are two over the hill cowboys seeking work in the town of...
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Martine Bernard
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1970
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This documentary follows noted film archivist Henri Langlois as he returns to Paris. Over 60,000 prints exist in his Paris...
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1970
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Jean Renoir's last completed work was this made-for-television effort, comprised of three short films along with a musical...
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1969
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Diane
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1969
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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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Julie
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1968
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Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British...
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Catherine
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1968
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Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European...
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Viginie Ducrot
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1968
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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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Mimi
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1967
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Anna
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1967
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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Doll Tearsheet
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1966
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In 1951, French writer Jean Genet presented a screenplay called "Les Rêves Interdits/L'Autre Versant du Rêve" to actress...
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Mademoiselle
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1966
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Maria I
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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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Mata Hari
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1964
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Christine
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1964
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The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts...
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Celestine
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1964
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In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their...
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Marchioness Eloise of Frinton
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1964
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Maurice Ronet plays an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy, who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer...
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Eva
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1963
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Cathy
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1963
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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Miss Burstner
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1963
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Bay of the Angels (La Baie des anges) stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-aged Parisian gambling addict who leaves her husband...
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Jackie Demaistre
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1963
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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1963
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Eva
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1962
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Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adaptation of a...
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Catherine
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1962
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La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in...
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Lidia
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1961
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1961
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This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the...
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Sister Marie
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1960
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In this drama, an industrialist's wife finds herself bored by her opulent existence. One day, while she waits for her son to...
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Ann Desbaredes
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1960
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Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel...
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Ljuba
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1960
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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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Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses was filmed several times. In...
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Juliette de Merteuil
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1959
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Echec au Porteur (Not Delivered) is a nail-biting suspense tale in the Hitchcock manner. The disgruntled protagonist decides...
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1958
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1958
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1958
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Jeanne Tournier
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1958
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Les Louves was also released as Demoniaque and She Wolves. By any name, it's a puzzler, at least until the final fast-paced...
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Agnes
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1958
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This French crime melodrama was released outside of Europe as Until the Last One. The film begins with a daring robbery,...
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1957
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L'Etrange Monsieur Steve (The Strange Mr. Stevens) features Armand Mestral as the title character. It is bank robber Mr....
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Florence
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1957
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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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Florence Carala
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1957
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1956
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Marianne
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1955
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Marguerite de Valois
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1954
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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Mother
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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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Josy
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1954
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The world of the theater is the backdrop for this sublimely assembled whodunit. A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes...
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Mona
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1954
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Julietta (Dany Robin) is not fond of the wealthy older man (Bernard Lancret) whom her mother has selected for her husband....
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Rosie Facibey
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1953
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1953
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African republic of Gabon was the focus of Dr. Albert Schweitzer who wished to found a hospital for the poor inhabitants as...
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1952
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Humanitarian Albert Schweitzer still had a dozen years worth of good works left in him in 1952; thus, the title of this...
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Marie
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1952
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Suzanne
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1951
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Produced in 1950, the French Three Sinners was adapted by Charles Plisnier from his own novel Meurtres. The film was billed...
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Martine Annequin
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1950
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Michle
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1948
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