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Uncle
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2003
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2003
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The Count
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2002
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French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the...
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2001
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2001
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2000
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Who is the worst person you could fall in love with, and what would be the worst moment to fall for them? One possible...
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Paul
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1999
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Part police thriller and part exploration of the dark side of men's attitudes about women, Hygiene de l'assassin concerns a...
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Prétextat Tach
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1999
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The first film directed by the screenwriter who won a César for Ridicule, this film with a strange title carries the same...
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Bertrand
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1999
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Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting...
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Capt. Chaumareys
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1998
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His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment...
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1997
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This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin...
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1996
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In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically...
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Julius Mandenne
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1996
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Based on a play by Sacha Guitry this romantic French comedy of manners sparkles and bubbles like freshly uncorked champagne....
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1996
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On the way to his wedding, Bernard (Gerar Jugnot) experiences car trouble. What could be more natural than to stop at the...
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Magic
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1996
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Few people realize that the great movie-character archetypes over time have become real people and walk among us. At least...
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Ned Collins
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1996
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A little philosophy can be a dangerous thing. Especially if it comes from the sudden blinding insights of the none too...
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God
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1996
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This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940...
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Mr. Schlomberg
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1995
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In this beautifully mounted historical drama, Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez), an Italian soldier, is fleeing his country in...
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Wayfarer
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1995
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After one of his superiors tries unsuccessfully to frame him, the formerly by-the-book honest cop Julien Segal...
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Plana
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1994
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This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars...
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Simon
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1994
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This European buddy movie chronicles the relationship between a famed yet depressive hairdresser and the suicidal plumber who...
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Georges Flavier
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1994
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A poor orphan grows up to be the toast of Paris when his quirky fashion designs become the rage. Filled with earthy,...
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Mietek Breslauer
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1993
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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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Laval
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1993
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1993
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Regis Wargnier's epic about French Indochina -- from the years of French colonial imperialism to the days when American...
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Guy Asselin
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1992
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1992
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In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
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1992
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Polougaievski
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1992
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Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert's iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several attempts...
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Monsieur Homais
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1991
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In this imaginative Swiss actioner, an expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately,...
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Inspector Sutter
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1988
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French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec...
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Equateur
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1987
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Ferdinand (Thierry Lhermitte) is a 30-year-old blind virgin who hopes to have sex in this black comedy. He lives in a...
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Andre Binet
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1987
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This drama looks into the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. Donald Sutherland plays Gauguin as he struggles through a few...
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William Molard
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1986
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Simon Verini
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1986
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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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Commissioner
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1986
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This is an often wilted, occasionally flat spoof of the French Revolution by Jean Yanne, France's answer to Mel Brooks. The...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter, Marat
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1985
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In a first-time production by television comedians and café-theater actors, this is a slightly shallow comedy about a novice...
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1985
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In this political drama, Hannah Kaufman, a Jewish-American attorney, must defend Selim Bakri, a young Palestinian suing...
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Victor Bonnet
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1983
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In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the...
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1983
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French filmmaker Robert Menard made his directorial debut with Une Journee en Taxi. Giles Renaud plays the imprisoned "fall...
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Michel
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1982
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The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1982
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The 20th century not only produced the modern woes of super-highway crashes and interminable traffic jams, but also movies...
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Arthur Colonna
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1981
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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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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1979
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In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela...
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Leroi
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1978
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When Carrier (Jean Yanne), a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, receives an inheritance, it lends fuel to his violent...
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Louis Carrier
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1977
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In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his...
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Manager
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1977
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Isabelle (Jodie Foster) is a young American girl who has accompanied her older sister Ble (Sydne Rome) a model, to Paris....
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Max
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1977
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Incest, necrophilia, and Joe Dallesandro? It must be Andy Warhol. Warhol did indeed co-produce this 1973 schlock spectacular...
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Producer
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1975
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In this satire, Jean Yanne punctures the pretensions of French show business, from music halls, to classical concert halls...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter, Clement
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1975
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Producer
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1974
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In this French fantasy/comedy, the Maoist Chinese, by some miracle, have occupied Paris (and France) overnight. The patience...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Regis
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1974
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Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain...
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Producer
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1974
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In this French comedy/satire, director Jean Yanne plays Benoit, an economist who sets out to prove that, with money, one can...
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Director, Screenwriter, Benoit
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1973
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The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose...
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Producer
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1973
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Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Reporter
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1972
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This powerful romantic drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Jean (Jean Yanne) is an...
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Jean
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1972
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In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a...
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Louis
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1971
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This French language film is a typical action/crime film by director Georges Lautner. Serge (Jean Yanne) is a jewel thief,...
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Serge
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1971
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In rural Arkansas, strippers are using a bikini bottom made of stolen jewels. Two brothers, one a moonshiner who also uses...
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Doc
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1971
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Blanchard (Jean Yanne) is the colorless civil servant working for the French Culture Ministry. He works to support his...
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Screenwriter, Blanchard
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1970
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Sexual frustration is the focus of this Hitchcockian thriller from French director Claude Chabrol. Schoolteacher Hélène...
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Popaul
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1970
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Claude Chabrol directs the tense psychological thriller Que la Bête Meure (This Man Must Die). When his young son is the...
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Paul
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1969
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A married woman in her 30s tries to spice up her sex life with her distracted husband. Annie (Annie Girardot) buys clothes to...
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Philippe
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1969
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This uneven comedy finds two inept gunmen always being beaten out of their next caper by a conniving rival crook. They wait...
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Snake
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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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Roland
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1967
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In this stylish crime drama, a smooth-talking insurance investigator looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two...
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Billette
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1967
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1967
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Fulbert (Robert Hirsch) is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter in this slapstick situation...
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Felix
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1966
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In this Italian exploitation drama, a heart-broken young woman, recently jilted by her lover, becomes a hooker involved with...
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1966
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The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by...
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1966
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Life Upside Down was a French production (originally titled La Vie a l'Envers) which sneaked quietly into American art-movie...
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Kerbel
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1965
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1965
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