The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo...
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1987
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In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge...
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1986
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In many ways, this was a courageous film to make about Carlo Dalla Chiesa (played by Lino Ventura), an Italian general who...
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Gen. Carlo Dalla Chiesa
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1984
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An unsuspecting novelist is the target of international extortionists in this well-acted suspense story directed by...
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Bastien Grimaldy
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1984
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Aldo (Lino Ventura) is a worker in a Canadian goldmine who escapes being murdered by a gang of marauding bandits as they kill...
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Aldo
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1983
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This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who --...
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Jean Valjean
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1982
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Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an...
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Sebastien Grenier
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1982
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This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls...
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Inspector Antoine Gallien
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1981
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A man who received false notice that his son had been murdered sets out to uncover the truth about his missing boy in this...
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Romain
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1981
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Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each...
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Francois Querole
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1980
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Roland Fériaud (Lino Ventura), on returning from a seaside vacation, discovers a corpse in a room adjoining his. He is...
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Roland
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1978
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In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a...
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Insp. Brunel
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1978
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Romain (Lino Ventura) lost his wife in a forest fire, and his son, who blamed him for the death, left France for Canada....
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Romain
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1978
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Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery...
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Inspector Amerigo Rogas
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1976
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In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe,...
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Verjeat
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1975
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This unusual film contains some dark elements of comedy as it tells the tale of an ex-wife who is suddenly visited by her...
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Julien
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1975
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In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through...
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Jean
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1974
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This Italian film was made for the blaxploitation action niche, but sloppy dubbing and unintentionally funny dialogue kept it...
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Father Charlie
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1974
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Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as...
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Ralph
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1973
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The ever-reliable Claude Lelouch serves up another romance-and-adventure combination plate with Happy New Year. Simon...
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Simon
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1973
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This French spy thriller makes a number of surprising variations on familiar themes. Tibere (Lino Ventura) is a Soviet...
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Tibere
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1973
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In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of...
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Lino
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1972
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This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That book, in turn, is based on prison...
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Vito Genovese
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1972
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This broad French comedy includes some affectionate parodies of silent film features. Corny (Lino Ventura) is the captain of...
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Cornelius von Zeelinga
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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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Sagamore
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1971
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A veteran police inspector (Lino Ventura) is reprimanded after killing a youth who goes on a murderous killing spree. He is...
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Marceau Leonetti
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1970
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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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Gerbier
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1969
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Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio...
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Le Goff
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1969
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Le Rapace(Lino Ventura) is a suave soldier of fortune with a mysterious, unknown past. A group of South American...
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Le Rapace
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1968
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In this adventure, a hotshot pilot loses his license after he attempts to fly through the Arc de Triumph in Paris. Later he...
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Roland
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1967
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Jean-Claude Roland and Lino Ventura play Nick and Laurent, a pair of not completely rehabilitated ex-convicts in Les Grandes...
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Laurent
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1966
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A French secret agent Lino Ventura gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine...
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Agent
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1966
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1966
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Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in...
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Gustave Minda
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1966
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Louis De Funes stars in this two-part sexploitation comedy. Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French...
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1965
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It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major...
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Alphonse
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1965
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A veteran sea captain (Lino Ventura) is blamed for the disappearance of a ship when the vessel is hijacked by gunrunners....
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Captain
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1965
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A former gangster (Lino Ventura) comes out of retirement to help a petty thief (Jean Lefevbre) in this Gallic gangster...
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Antoine
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1965
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El Tempranillo (Francisco Rabal) returns from the Napoleonic wars with a desire to continue fighting. He turns to banditry...
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El Lutos
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1964
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The attempts of four secret agents to get a scientist's widow to share her husbands secrets form the basis of this comedy....
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Francis Lagneau
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1964
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This crime comedy finds ex-gangster Fernand (Lino Ventura) receiving a call from a dying friend, a mob boss nicknamed "The...
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Fernand
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1963
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Before Greed in the Sun was released to the States by way of MGM, this French/Italian co-production had made the European...
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Herve Marec
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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1962
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Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a...
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Emile
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1962
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Hampered by over-orchestrated music, smeary color photography and (in the English version at least) poor dubbing, this 1963...
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1962
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Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in...
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Andre
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1961
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A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are...
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Federico
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1961
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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In this film based on an earlier German silent serial, a Swedish scientist (Gino Cervi) has invented a device which can alter...
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1960
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A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this drama from French filmmaker Claude...
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Abel Davos
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1960
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1960
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In this WW II adventure, a band of French soldiers must escort a group of high-ranking German officers across the North...
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Theo Dumas
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1960
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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Tiercelin
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1959
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Lino Ventura is typecast again in this routine suspense story, this time as Pascal, a tough-minded, caustic, basically...
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Pascal
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1959
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This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and...
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1959
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Lino Ventura stars in this French espionager as a secret agent known only as "The Gorilla". While it's never fully explained...
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Leo Paquet / Gorille
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1959
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A wife attempts to help her escaped convict husband and his two cohorts evade capture, but is stopped by love and several...
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Albert
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1959
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1959
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1959
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This drama chronicles the exploits of two criminal brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1959
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Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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Morel
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1958
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The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who...
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1958
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The "mambo craze"of the late 1950s was hardly confined to the Western hemisphere, as proven by the French adventure flick Ces...
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Paulo
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1958
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This popular, standard French spy drama is the second in a series that stars tough guy Lino Ventura as Paul, a man who really...
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Paul
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1958
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L'Etrange Monsieur Steve (The Strange Mr. Stevens) features Armand Mestral as the title character. It is bank robber Mr....
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Remy
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1957
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The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers...
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Insp. Cherter
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1957
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Its title notwithstanding, Le Rouge est Mis (The Red Light is On) is not a drama about prostitution. Instead, the story...
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Pepito
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1957
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1956
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Raid on the Drug Ring is the English-language title of this Jean Gabin vehicle. The venerable French leading man plays the...
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1955
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This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the...
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Angelo
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1954
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