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1957
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Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic...
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Candide
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1960
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Victor
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1960
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The joie de vivre of a young Parisian provides the basis for this romantic tale. The hero truly loves everything about life....
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Edouard Berlon
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1960
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A young girl leaves her home in a small country town for the big city life in Paris. Her dreams of a career and her search...
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Albert
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1961
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1961
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The eponymous French corporal, played by Jean-Pierre Cassel, is ensconced in a German POW camp. Cassel plots with his friends...
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The Corporal
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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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Arsene Lupin was a well-known French gentleman burglar who was active at the turn of the 20th century. In this routine...
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Genard
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1962
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A sleepy Spanish town is turned upside down by the arrival of a French stripper. She undergoes an emergency appendectomy and...
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Giovanni
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1963
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D'Artagnan
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1963
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In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and...
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Tonino [The Victim]
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1964
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Swindler
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1964
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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1965
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Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this...
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Antoine
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1965
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Director René Clair pokes fun at the gentlemanly art of warfare that existed in the 18th century in this war comedy....
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Joliecoeur
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1965
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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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Lt. Henri Karcher
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1966
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Released in France as Jeu De Massacre, The Killing Game tips its hat to the "Op-Art" generation by offering two comic strip...
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Pierre Meyrand
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1967
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Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four...
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1967
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A gorgeous woman takes it upon herself to make a man fall for her, whether he likes it or not, in this romantic comedy....
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Gaspard
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to...
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Jean-Francois
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1969
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In this gentle, tragic drama, Olivier (John McEnery) is a wealthy young man with a lively and attractive mother...
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1970
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Paul
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1970
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The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing...
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1972
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In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society....
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Senechal
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1972
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Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a...
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1973
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When actor Lionel Jeffries turned to directing in the 1970s, he exhibited a preference for whimsy, as witness...
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Roger Tunnell
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1973
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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1974
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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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Fabre
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1974
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This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as...
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1975
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A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in this drama. Francoise...
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Daniel
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1975
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Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes...
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Leo
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1975
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John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama...
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1976
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French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex...
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Jacques
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1976
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Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has...
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Daniel
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1978
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Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is...
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Kohner
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1978
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1979
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Je Te Tiens Tu Me Tiens Par La Barbichette refers to a French children's game, where two children hold one another's chins...
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1979
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The internationally produced From Hell to Victory is evocative of the works of Erich Maria Remarque. Several close friends of...
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1979
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1979
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Le Soleil en Face is a somewhat glib drama about a serious matter -- death. In this case, the death of a writer. Marat...
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Marat
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1980
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1980
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1980
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Salvini (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is an orchestra conductor of some renown. While rehearsing for a performance of Verdi's Othello...
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1980
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In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to...
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Pierre
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1981
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A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in...
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1981
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This stage adaptation and play on the Alice in Wonderland theme, finds Alice slipping into Wonderland when she faints after...
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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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Rambert
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1982
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1982
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In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the...
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1983
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The struggle of Frederic Bartholdi to build the Statue of Liberty is presented in this dramatized biography. ~ Sandra...
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1986
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In this imaginary tale set in 18th-century Europe, Cazotte (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a regaled court painter and womanizer is out...
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Cazotte
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1986
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1987
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Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova...
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1987
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1987
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1987
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1987
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Baron de Tiffauges
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1988
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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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1988
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1988
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1988
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1989
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1989
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1990
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Insp. Ledoux
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1990
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C.P. Oliver
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1990
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The relationship between the obsessive, brilliant painter Vincent Van Gogh and his more practical brother Theo is at the...
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Dr. Paul Gachet
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1990
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Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing...
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L'Inspector Correlli
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1990
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1991
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Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her...
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Editor
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1992
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1992
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In this adaptation of Hitchcock's 1946 classic, a CIA agent's cover is endangered by her sister-in-law who begins to suspect...
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Alex Sebastian
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1992
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In this hectic farce, Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is at the bottom of every totem pole he's ever come near, a nebbish and...
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1992
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The sorry story of the Vichy government of France from 1940 to 1945 is the subject of this thoughtful historical drama. In...
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Hans Roberto
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1993
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1993
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This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its...
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1994
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This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect...
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1994
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Nicolas
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1994
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Georges Lelievre
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1995
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Set in the suburbs, this tale of seduction, philandering, vengeance and murder is told with an airy, comical twist. The tale...
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1997
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The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero...
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1998
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Acclaimed Belgian novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint drew attention to his directorial talents in 1990 with a remarkable satire...
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1999
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Daniel Auteuil stars as the infamous Marquis de Sade, who at the beginning of Sade, is serving a sentence in Paris' grim...
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2000
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Two very different policemen seeking the truth about separate crimes find a terrible common link in this thriller from...
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2001
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A young boy and his best friend learn that a simple choice can alter the entire course of a lifetime in this introspective...
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2003
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2003
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A popular French comic strip of the 1950s becomes a candy-colored feature film in this race-car adventure. The Leaders and...
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Henri Valliant
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2003
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2004
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2005
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A man is torn between his disgust for the decadence of the idle rich and his desire to get what he can from them in this...
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2005
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Two men who live in different nations on different continents discover how closely their fates have followed the same path in...
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Herve
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2006
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Filmmaker Lionel Bailliu expands his Academy Award-nominated short film Squash (2000) into a bitter and nail-biting...
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2006
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Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair put to the...
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2006
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Veteran screenwriter Franck Mancuso (36 Quai des Orfevres) helmed and penned the script for the French-language detective...
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Dr. Delmas
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2007
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When a retired police officer is forcefully checked into a senior citizen's home, a fatal accident involving one of the...
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2007
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2007
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2007
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The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden...
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2007
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Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of...
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2008
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