As a Parisian petrochemical company forges on into the 21st century, the in-house human resources psychologist leads a probe...
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2008
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Director Tonino de Bernardi reworks the tragic myth of Medea into a passionate tale of a nightclub singer abandoned by her...
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2007
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Intentionally or unintentionally molded after the eccentric deadpan comedies of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, the quirky...
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2006
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Jacques Rousseau
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2005
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Director Bertrand Bonello adapts the Greek myth of Tiresias to a modern day setting with this unforgiving tale of a...
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2003
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2002
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A boy in his early teens develops a crush on a grown woman old enough to be his mother, only to discover she is also...
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Francois
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2001
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This musical drama (most of the dialogue is sung) concerns a diverse group of people brought together in a city in Italy....
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1999
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Following the international success of her first film Oblie-moi (1994) for which she was also the co-writer, Noémi Lvovsky...
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1998
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Siegfried made his directorial debut with this French drama. In addition to directing and scripting, the multi-talented...
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1998
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Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife who feigns an entire...
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The Father
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1997
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1996
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The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character...
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1996
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Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities...
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1996
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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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Doctor/Father
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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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Paul
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1994
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1993
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Carlo (Carlo Colnaghi) is down on his luck. Actually, he's been down on his luck for a long time. He's an actor who hasn't...
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Guido
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1993
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Emilio Garrone (Alberto Sordi) used to be a government functionary who supervised the leasing of broadcasting rights for the...
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1992
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In the salad days of his youth, Aureliano lived and worked in Africa, and the romance and exotic quality of those days...
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1992
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In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's...
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1991
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In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson, Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his...
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1990
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Marcello (Marcello Mastroiano) has worked hard all his life to achieve a certain standing and success as a lawyer in Rome. He...
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Fisherman
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1989
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The Italian Rorret was directed by Fulvio Wetzl, a man who (to lapse into the vernacular) "knows from movies." Lou Castel...
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Rorret
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1989
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An agent newly retired from the CIA (Scott Glenn) agrees to become an Italian businessman's bodyguard in this adventure film....
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1987
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A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama....
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1986
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The unfortunate Traugot (Lou Castel) suddenly finds himself sandwiched between his former lover Freya (director Helke Sander)...
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Traugott
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1984
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This surreal, amateur, and confusing story laden with puzzling symbolism depicts the turbulent psyche of a young woman on an...
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1984
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Too many hours under the sun, artificial or not, might have warped this experimental work by Philippe Garrel. Ostensibly...
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1984
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Acclaimed French director Alain Resnais, winner of many international film awards for his ground-breaking creativity...
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1984
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In this slightly garbled mystery story, Anna (Birgit Doll) works in a Munich detective agency as an assistant to Sam Schwarz...
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Le Maitre
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1983
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Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for...
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Giovanni
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1982
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1979
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1977
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The endless philosophizing which often accompanies love between two college students is accurately recounted here, as are...
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1977
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With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character?...
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1977
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Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American...
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1977
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Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his...
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Nicola
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1977
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Set in the 19th century, and based on the classic Swiss novel Die Richterin by C. F. Meyer, this film tells a story of...
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1977
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This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train...
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1976
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Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant...
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Osvaldo
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1976
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Themes long forbidden in Spain under the Franco dictatorship began to be explored in the years just following his demise. In...
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1976
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Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling...
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1974
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An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of...
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1974
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Unhinged by the murder of his wife by a madman dressed as a cowboy, Alexis (Jean-Luc Bideau) hops into his car and lays...
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Sportsman
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1973
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American entrepreneur Jerry Warren is credited with the direction of Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why. Judging by Warren's...
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1972
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Arthur Dimmesdale
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1972
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This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the...
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Director
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1971
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Set in a Catholic boy's school, this wearisome tale concerns a group of obnoxious rich students and their pompous...
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1971
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Peter Donovan
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1969
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1968
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Somewhat overshadowed by Joseph Losey's 1975 film on the same subject, the 1968 Italian/Bulgarian biopic Galileo is a...
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Friar
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1968
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Grazie Zia is better known by its English-language title Thank You, Aunt. As an act of defiance against a world he never fit...
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Alvise
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1968
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An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in...
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Geovanni Taddeu
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1968
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1967
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It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a...
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Bill Tate/El Gringo
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1966
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Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker...
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Alessandro
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1965
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