Une Histoire D'Amour served as the last starring film of Louis Jouvet, who died in 1951 at the age of 63. Jouvet is cast as...
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Inspector Plonche
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1951
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Dr. Knock
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1951
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Dany Robin plays Monelle in this French romantic drama. The heroine is the protégé of world-famous composer Gerard Favier...
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Gerard Favier
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1950
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Miquette et sa Mere was the second of Henri-Georges Clouzot's directorial efforts of 1949. Co-scripted by Clouzot, this...
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Monchablon
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1950
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Bagnolet
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1950
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Four top French filmmakers were involved in the "omnibus" feature Retour a la Vie. The film offers four separate stories,...
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Prisonner
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1949
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Writer/director Henri Decoin serves up another sure-fire box-office winner in Entre Ouze Heures et Minuit (Between 11 O'Clock...
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Inspector Carrel
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1949
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This French comedy offers a tour-de-force for Jouvet who plays most of the major characters. His main role is that of a...
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Ismora
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1948
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Following a three-year suspension from filmmaking after his Le Corbeau (1943) was judged too critical of his native France,...
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Inspector Antoine
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1947
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Gerard Favier
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1947
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Christian-Jacque's sole directorial effort for 1946 was Le Revenant, better known to English-speaking audiences as...
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Jean-Jacques Sauvage
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1946
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Ismora, Dupon, Duc de Niolles, Demenageur, the Norweg
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1946
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Heart of a Nation was filmed in 1940, just after the Nazi occupation of Paris. The film traces the fortunes of the Froment...
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Pierre Froment/Felix
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1943
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Though he died in 1943 at the hands of his Gestapo persecutors, the great French stage and screen actor Harry Baur was...
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Mosca
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1940
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Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based...
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Baron Hartmann
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1940
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This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home....
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Saint Clair
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1939
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1939
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Inspector Calas
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1939
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Entree des Artistes details the lives and loves of several artistically-inclined students at the Paris Conservatory. Wealthy...
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Prof. Lambertin
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1938
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Shanghai Drama was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Le Drame de Shanghai. Director G. W. Pabst, best...
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Ivan
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1938
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Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by...
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Monsieur Edmond
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1938
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This French melodrama was originally released in 1938 as Education de Prince. Comic actor Fernand Charpin plays the...
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Cercleux
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1938
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Rossignol
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1938
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1938
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In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all...
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Jo/Pierre Verdier
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1937
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1937
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Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the...
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Roederer
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1937
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1937
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In this comedy that takes a sharp poke at problems within the medical profession, Dr. Knock opens a practice in a small...
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Director, Dr. Knock
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1936
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Durin/Mr. Flow
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1936
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The Baron
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1936
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In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by...
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Archibald Soper, Bishop of Bedford
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1936
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1936
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Simonis
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1936
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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and...
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The Priest
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1935
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Auguste Topaze
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1935
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Director
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1933
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