Aki Kaurismaki's La Havre stars Andre Wilms as Marcel, a free-spirited, good-natured writer who is currently making a living...
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2011
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A filmmaker is attempting to complete an ambitious project in the midst of a family tragedy in this self-referential drama...
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Antoine et le roi Hérode
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2009
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Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as...
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Colin
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2006
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Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with...
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2005
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The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat...
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2005
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Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy...
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2004
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Master Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang directs this look at three people looking for human connection. Hsiao-kang (Tsai...
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2002
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A waiter discovers that good taste can be dangerous in this offbeat psychological drama from France. Nicolas...
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Investigator
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2001
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A man who traded in his artistic ambitions for commercial success now finds himself at a personal and professional impasse in...
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Jacques
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2001
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Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film...
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Francois Marcorelle
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2000
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Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still...
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1997
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Rene Vidal
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1996
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A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French...
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1995
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This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old...
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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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Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent...
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1994
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In this romantic comedy from France, Annie (Bernadette Lafont), a middle-aged single mother who hasn't seen her grown-up...
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1994
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1994
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Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of...
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Marcus
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1994
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This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La...
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1992
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The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and...
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1992
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Clement
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1991
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1991
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In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger...
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Henri Boulanger
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1990
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The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the...
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1989
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1989
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Marc
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1989
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1988
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Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted...
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Decourt
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1988
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Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls...
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Comm. Bouvreuil
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1988
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1988
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Titled after the name of a little girl's dress size, the coming-of-age drama 36 Fillette follows a couple days in the life of...
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Boris Golovine
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1988
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His deputy
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1987
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In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now...
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Marcel
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1986
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Director Jean-Luc Godard pokes fun at the follies and injustices of small-time filmmaking in this drama-comedy about two...
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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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Starting with a clear objective -- Peter, the director filming "Swan Lake" (Jean-Pierre Leaud) needs to replace an actor who...
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Peter
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1985
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1984
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After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to...
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Inspector Neveu
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1984
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1984
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This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a...
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1984
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Director Jacques Richard tried to emulate a silent movie in all its aspects when he filmed Rebelote. Originally screened with...
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1983
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The time is WW II in the Emilia-Romagna countryside in Italy, and an American pilot's plane has just broken down near the...
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Mario
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1981
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L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel...
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Antoine Doinel
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1979
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In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young...
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Bernard
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1975
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This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half...
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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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Alphonse
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1973
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One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething...
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Alexandre
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1973
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Tom
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1972
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This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal...
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Priest
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1971
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Billy the Kid (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is both ruthless and bumbling in this impressionistic French-made western. Ruthless, in...
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1971
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Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle...
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Claude
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1971
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In the fourth installment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series, this romantic comedy shows how Antoine...
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Antoine Doinel
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1970
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Julian
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1969
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Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with Yvan...
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Paul
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1969
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A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the...
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1969
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This plodding and confusing feature finds two disenchanted young lovers cavorting around in tee shirts and rubber pants....
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Boy
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1969
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The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which...
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Antoine Doinel
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1968
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This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language. The setting is a...
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Emile Rousseau
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1968
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French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his...
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Man in the Phone Booth,Saint Just
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1967
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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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1967
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Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with his...
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Guillaume
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1967
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Marc Jean-Pierre Leaud is a young man who works at a local beauty shop and dreams of cars. When he "borrows" his boss's car...
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Marc
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1967
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Masculine Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not his last) foray into the burgeoning "Children of the Sixties"...
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Paul
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1966
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Jean-Luc Godard directed this brightly colored, pop-art homage to American crime cinema, which somehow finds room for...
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First Assistant Director, Donald Siegel
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1966
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In this affectionate and not uncritical exploration of small-town life in France, Jean-Pierre Leaud plays Daniel, a teenager...
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1966
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Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand...
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First Assistant Director
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1965
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Director Jean-Luc Godard narrates this study of a married woman who begins an affair with another man. After becoming...
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First Assistant Director
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1964
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Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on...
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Antoine Doinel
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1962
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Antoine et Colette, which was originally made as an episode in the series L'Amour à vingt ans, was a sequel to Truffaut's The...
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Antoine Doinel
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1962
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Georges
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1961
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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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Antoine Doinel
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1959
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