Noel (Bernard Blier), a grown-up mama's boy, falls heir to a busy matrimonial bureau. Assuming command of the operation, Noel...
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1951
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1954
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In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning...
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Charles Duchemin
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1976
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1950
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1952
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1947
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1952
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Haragon Louis De Funes is such a miserable miser that he even steals oats from horses in this comedy from celebrated...
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Director, Harpagon
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1979
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1955
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1956
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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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1950
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Movie Projectionist
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1954
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1951
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1951
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1955
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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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Leon
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1965
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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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Based on a novel by Theophile Gautier, this costume drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit is set in 17th-century France and centers...
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Scapin
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1961
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1953
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An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being...
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Charolais
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1963
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1949
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1959
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1951
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When first released in the US, this Gallic drama was given the pun-ny title Knight of the Night. Thus, the viewer was left...
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1953
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1962
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1957
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1953
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In this French comedy, a clever fellow proves himself smarter than the gangsters who would exploit him. The trouble begins...
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Leopold Saroyan
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1965
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1954
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1956
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Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An...
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1962
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1947
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1960
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1946
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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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Set in a fancy resort hotel, Le Dindon is based on a stage farce by the inimitable Georges Feydeau. The title, which...
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1951
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1953
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1964
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1948
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1952
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Escalier de Service (Service Entrance) charts the misadventures of gorgeous maidservant Marie-Lou (Etchika Choreau). After...
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1954
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Michel Simon plays the title character in L'Etrange Desir de Monsieur Bard (The Strange Desire of Mr. Bard). Employed as a...
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1953
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French comedian Louis de Funes stars as Garnier, a shopkeeper who gets taken advantage of by a local banker. He decides to...
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Victor Garnier
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1964
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1953
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This movie is the first in a trilogy that parodied the popular silent Fantomas serials of director Louis Feuillade, which...
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Commissioner Juve
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1964
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In the third installment of the parodic Fantomas series, the eponymous arch criminal imposes the "right-to-live" tax on the...
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Commissioner Juve
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1967
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In the second installment of the parodic Fantomas series, the title arch criminal and master of disguise kidnaps prominent...
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Commissioner Juve
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1965
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A risque nightclub show cast is featured in this funny French musical. (In French with English subtitles) ~ Rovi...
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1953
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One of the most pretentious "apocalypse" films ever made, Five is set in a lavish Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house--owned by...
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1951
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This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on Victor Hugo's play Ruy Blas, benefits greatly from having...
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Salluste
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1971
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1950
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Released in some markets as The Toy Wife, the French Frou-Frou stars Dany Robin in the title role. The heroine is a WW1-era...
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1955
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1952
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Cruchot
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1965
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Inspector Cruchot takes his daughter to visit beautiful St. Tropez to celebrate his recent promotion to sergeant and ends up...
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Cruchot
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1964
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A retired policeman (Louis De Fumes) is happily married to a devoted wife (Claude Gensac) in this uneven comedy. He does not...
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Cruchot
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1970
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In this funny French entry in the "Gendarme" series of films, bungling inspector Cruchot (played by Jerry Lewis-like French...
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Cruchot
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1978
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Cruchot
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1982
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A veteran police officer becomes the chief when he passes a test given to all the members of the police force. The power of...
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Cruchot
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1968
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Three screenwriters pooled their talents for the French racetrack drama Duke of the Derby. Jean Gabin plays a handicapper...
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1962
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Septime (Louis De Funes) is the owner of a posh French restaurant in Paris who is afraid of his temperamental cooks but who...
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Screenwriter, Mon. Septime
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1966
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1965
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In this British war comedy, set in WW II, a bomber crew is shot down over Paris during the Nazi occupation. They are helped...
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Stanislas LeFort
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1966
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Bosquier (Louis De Funes) is the director of a private boarding school in this routine situation comedy. He and his wife...
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Bosquier
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1967
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This comedy finds a family turned upside down by a new addition to the house. Hubert (Louis De Funes) and his wife...
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Screenwriter, Hubert
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1969
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Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in...
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Evan-Evans
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1970
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The title of this Gallic "filmed essay" translates to Men Think Only of That. What plot there is concerns "timid soul" Jean...
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1954
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Arletty heads the cast of this first film version of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential theater piece No Exit. The scene is a...
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1954
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Luigi
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1955
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1955
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The French Les Impures was one of a cycle of filmed "exposes" of the white slavery trade. The heroine, played by...
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1954
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Having escaped the clutches of a white-slavery ring in They Were So Young, Johanna Matz is back in the "mannequin" business...
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1954
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Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat...
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1953
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The world of the theater is the backdrop for this sublimely assembled whodunit. A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes...
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1954
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Few American theatres in 1952 would have run Je T'ai ete Trois Fois under its highly suggestive original title, which...
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1952
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1949
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In this characteristic French farce, Louis De Funes in the role of Antoine spoofs the 1959 American classic black comedy,...
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1971
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1966
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1952
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1956
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Fernard Gravet may look like a natural-born philanderer in Ma Femma est Formidable, but appearances are deceiving. Condemned...
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1951
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This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding,...
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Victor
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1973
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Mam'zelle Nitouche represented Fernandel's only 1954 film vehicle. The horse-faced comic actor is cast as Celestin, an...
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1954
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1952
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1949
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1953
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1959
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1951
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Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a...
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1952
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The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. We first see the horse-faced...
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1954
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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1958
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1962
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Bertrand (Louis De Funes) is a victim of blackmail when a man asks for his daughter's hand in marriage in this madcap comedy...
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Screenwriter, Bertrand
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1967
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A popular attraction in French cinemas, Papa, Maman la Bonne et Moi (Papa, Mama the Maid and I) later became equally popular...
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1954
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1951
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1949
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A bevy of beautiful strippers team up with a handful of risqué comedians in this feature that documents a typical burlesque...
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1953
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1954
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This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is...
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Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
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1968
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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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A jealous ex-convict is released from prison and tries to kill the man who had been seeing his girlfriend in this offbeat...
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1963
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1951
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1954
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1963
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1954
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1949
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1954
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Isa Miranda essays the title role in Le Secret de Helene Marimon. In flashback, aging engineer Jacques (Frank Villard)...
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1954
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1952
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Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous...
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1956
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1946
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Screenwriter
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1981
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1964
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French comic Louis De Funes stars as Henri, who has a very unfortunate accident while on his way to arrange some sort of...
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1971
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Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this...
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1959
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This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of...
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Mezeray
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1968
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1958
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In this romantic fantasy, Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy...
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1945
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1960
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1959
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1953
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The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World...
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Jambier
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1956
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1962
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1962
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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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Stephane
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1958
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La Vie d'un Honnette Homme was the sole 1953 contribution from indefatigable French filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who scripted and...
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1952
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Pierre Fresnay heads the cast of Vient de Paraitre as Moscat, a mean-spirited, thoroughly untrustworthy publisher. Possessed...
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1949
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An inventor and a small-time industrialist, Guillaume (Louis De Funes) has come up with something which will take advantage...
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Guillaume
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1978
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