This French family fantasy follows in the footsteps of the fine and funny Big (1988). Solemn French schoolteacher Albert...
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1997
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1996
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Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful...
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D'Hancarville
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1995
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This lush French melodrama set in post World War I Europe was filmed on location in remote areas of the Czech Republic and...
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1994
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Danny Huston's Becoming Colette purports to be an account of the early formative years of French author Gabrielle Colette...
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1992
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Masterpiece Theatre's 1991 production of A Tale of Two Cities is a faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic French...
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1991
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1990
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1989
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Windmills of the Gods was adapted for television by John Gay from a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith plays...
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1988
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Alexandre
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1988
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The Chilean Revolution of 1973 provides the framework of this propaganda drama that chronicles the aftermath of the...
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1987
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Johnny Monroe may be small in stature, but size is no measure of a person's capacity to enjoy life. In this touching...
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1987
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Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature...
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1986
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In this drama, a woman struggles to rise to the top of the fashion industry, but as she does, her past business sins come...
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1985
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Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by...
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Mr. Blomart
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1984
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In this polemical look at a revolutionary released from prison and bent on getting back at the right-wing conservatives who...
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1983
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Strict behavior codes and the struggle to eke out a living provide a backdrop to this romantic drama set at the turn of the...
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1983
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Spanish director Carlo Ausino has crafted a nifty little ghost story about a cursed villa in Turin and the three relatives...
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1982
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The Boy Soldier is set in the 1930s and is based on a novel by Yves Gibeau, a book that has the unusual distinction of being...
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Commander Felix
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1980
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This drama chronicles the real-life story of Native America's first declared saint, Elizabeth Bayley Seton. ~ Kristie...
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1980
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Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV...
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1980
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Beggarman, Thief is the 4-hour sequel to the ratings-busting miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man; both productions were based on...
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1979
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Jean-Fidel Mileau
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1979
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This drama examines the tensions felt between French and English speaking Canadians after WW I as it tells the story of a...
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Tallard
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1978
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In this Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy...
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Henry Lee
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1978
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Son
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1976
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Jane Birkin stars in this sex farce as a young British prostitute in Paris who, after her soft-core business fails, decides...
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Marquis de Puisargue
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1975
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A detective is on a case of homicide and he gets more involved than his police department may have intended in this French...
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Monsieur Richard
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1975
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Directed by Berry Gordy, Jr. as a vehicle for his star Diana Ross, Mahogany traces the life of a poor girl who makes it in...
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Christian Rosetti
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1975
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Lynn Redgrave stars as New York madam Xaviera Hollander in this romp based on Hollander's rise to the top of the sex-for-hire...
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Yves St. Jacques
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1975
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Among the spice plantations of Columbia are to be found any number of abused peasant farmers. Normally, the great landlords...
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1974
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Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous...
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Alexandre
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1973
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In this drama, a famed dying surgeon has his brain transplanted into the body of a race car driver who is dying of brain...
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1972
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This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he...
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Henri Tixier, Comte de Maldorais
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1969
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1967
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In this thriller, a man confesses to the murder of his business partner's wife, his former lover, after her body is finally...
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1964
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Filmed on location in Paris, Disney's Horse Without a Head stars Jean-Pierre Aumont as police-inspector Sinet. The...
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1963
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Jean-Pierre
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1963
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This tragic and suspenseful tale of domestic abuse concerns a couple who have drifted far from the intent of their marriage...
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Alan Stewart
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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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A light frolic at the beach with sun and sex both foremost on the scene, this standard comedy by director Giulio Petroni is...
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Valerio
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1962
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Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry...
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Jacques
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1961
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A routine wartime tale of double-crossing spies and Nazi evils, The Enemy General is about the stereotypical, not exceedingly...
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Durand
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1960
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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Louis XVI
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1959
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A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor...
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Paul Duvelle
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1957
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In this tearjerker, a woman, depressed with the course of her life after two failed marriages and a tepid career, decides to...
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1956
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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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Renault de Saint-Jean d'Angely
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1955
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1955
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1954
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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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Cardinal de Rohan
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1954
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Vegnerte
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1953
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Three disparate male travellers quietly amuse themselves by fantasizing about the same beautiful blonde in this interesting,...
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Andre Marchand
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1953
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Charge of the Lancers is an all too typical Columbia "B" adventure film of the 1950s, with inexpensive sets, fading stars,...
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Capt. Eric Evoir
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1953
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Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a...
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Marc
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1953
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Set in Venice, this espionage thriller concerns a gang of saboteurs who've been targeting French military installations....
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Cyril
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1952
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Alida Valli delivers one of her finest performances in the Italian Ultimo Incontro. Based on La Biondina, a 19th-century...
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Michele
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1952
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1952
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This Italian/Spanish swashbuckler was released in Europe as La Vendetta Del Corsaro. In some English-speaking markets, it...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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The French Hans le Marin secured an American distributor on the strength of its three stars. Jean-Pierre Aumont plays the...
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Eric
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1949
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Documentary filmmaker Nicole Vedre's first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain....
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The Man of Today
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1949
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Jean-Pierre Aumont heads the largely British cast of Affairs of a Rogue. Set in the years just following the Napoleonic wars,...
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Prince Leopold
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1948
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Siren of Atlantis is the third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre...
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Andre St. Avit
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1948
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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1947
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Pierre La Roche
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1946
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Originally released in 1939, Three Hours went under the titles Le Deseteur and Je t'attendri during its initial European run....
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Paul Marchand
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1944
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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Capt. Metard
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1943
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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Paul
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1943
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1939
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Le Paradis de Satan is set in the jungles of Brazil, where a once-thriving plantation faces financial ruin. Young financier...
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1938
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1938
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SOS Sahara is set in a forlorn desert outpost, manned by French officers. Like the rest of his men, commander Charles Vanel...
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1938
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Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by...
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Pierre
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1938
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This lightning-paced actioner is based on a popular series of French pulp novels. His somewhat effeminate moniker...
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Palas
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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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1937
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Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the...
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1937
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1937
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In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by...
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Billy
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1936
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Andre
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Released in the U.S. as Happy Days, Les Beaux Jours was Simone Simon's last French vehicle before she launched the Hollywood...
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1935
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Filmmaker Anatole Litvak was still one year away from his "breakthrough" picture Mayerling when he co-wrote and directed...
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Jean Herbillon
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1935
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From 1931 to 1934, Russian director Victor Tourjansky made Paris his headquarters. The last of his French productions was...
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Karpof
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1935
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Lorenzo Suprenant
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1934
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Marc Allegret's Lac Aux Dames (Ladies' Lake) boasts an impressive pedigree, having been adapted by novelist Collette from a...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Jacques
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1933
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Flower-shop owner Clo-Clo (Michel Simon) is known to his friends as "Jean de la Lune" ("Moondreaming John") because he...
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1931
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1931
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