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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1980
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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1972
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This situation comedy finds a married couple from Paris longing for the bucolic existence of a simple country life. The...
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Father
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1969
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This comedy-tinged crime drama finds the detective San Antonio (Gerald Barray) and his sidekick Beru (Jean Richard) hot on...
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Beru
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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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1967
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San Antonio (Gerarnd Barray) is a suave French police inspector who pretends to turn criminal in order to infiltrate a gang...
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Berrurier
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1967
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1966
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In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The...
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1966
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This episodic film is for those who have ever wondered about the lives of the people who buy beds in a furniture store. Each...
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1965
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1965
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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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Prince de Beaulieu
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1965
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1965
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1964
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Arthur (Jean Richard) dreams of killing his harridan shrew of a wife to spend more time with his demanding mistress in this...
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Arthur
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1964
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1964
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Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European...
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1963
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1963
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Ruthless and for some viewers, also vulgar and unpleasant, this uneven comedy by Marcel Carne has a madhouse of characters of...
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Louis
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1963
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Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the...
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Father
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1963
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In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with...
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Lebrac's Father
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1962
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1962
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The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War...
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1962
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1962
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1961
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In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a...
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1961
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This innovative though uneven comedy by Yves Robert, known for his droll sense of humor, is based on a late 19th-early...
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Mr. Fenouillard
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1960
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1960
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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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1960
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1960
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1959
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1959
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Effective in its message that war itself is idiotic, this slowly, slowly evolving, conventional comedy drama by director...
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Leon
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1959
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1959
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1959
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1958
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Director Jean Bastia has created another amusing comedy in this story about Claudius (Jean Richard), a local policeman who is...
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Claudius
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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1958
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1958
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The French Photo Finish doesn't get much play these days, but it used to be a Late Late Show perennial in the 1960s....
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1957
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1957
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In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to...
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Hector, Rollan's Batman
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1956
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Eddie Constantine found a little time between his "Lemmy Caution" actioners to star in the tongue-in-cheek meller Les Truands...
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Alexandre
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1956
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1956
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1956
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1956
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Originally a character in a Gaston Leroux novel, Cheri-Bibi was transformed into a popular French comic-strip character in...
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1955
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Le Madelon is the name of the young heroine played by Line Renaud. During WWI, the gaminlike Madelon becomes the unofficial...
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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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1954
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1954
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1954
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Le Portrait de Son Pere (His Father's Portrait) tries, and sometimes succeeds, to get laughs by playing straight. Comic actor...
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1953
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1952
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1952
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Honore
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1952
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1951
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1949
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1946
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