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1980
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1978
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1977
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François (Sami Frey), a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered...
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1977
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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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1976
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In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least...
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1976
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Three young siblings living on the fringes of society are spurred into action when the sister of the bunch is arrested for...
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Renard
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1976
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1976
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In this French spy thriller, a policeman with wide-ranging powers to protect an African dictator who is visiting France --...
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1975
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In this story, a young nobleman with an unusually strong interest in horse-breeding is being prepared to marry the wealthy...
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1975
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The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army...
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1974
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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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Rabbi Jacob
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1973
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The one with the closed eyes, in this French film, would seem to be the rogue actor (Gerard Desarthe) who, out of boredom,...
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1972
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In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (Sheila White) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's...
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1971
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In this French romance by documentary director Frederic Rossif, a young woman whose life has lost its savor after she has had...
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1971
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation...
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1970
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Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations...
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1970
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Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial...
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1969
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Two parents worry about the feelings of their love-struck teenage son in this engaging romantic comedy. Grif (James Garner)...
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Louis
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1968
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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1967
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In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~...
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1967
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women...
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1966
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An American girl finds love and laughter in the City of Lights in this romantic comedy. Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) works as...
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1966
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In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is...
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1966
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1965
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Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this...
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1965
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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1965
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In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle...
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1964
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1963
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John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the...
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1963
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Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from...
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Malichot
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1962
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1962
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Based on Flora Sandstrom's novel The Midwife of Pont Clery, this lightweight sexual farce involves the effect that Jessica...
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1962
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Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry...
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1961
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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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1960
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1960
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Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to...
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1960
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The Sahara holds the secret of a lost gold mine located by an engineer who discovers that this is an empty victory. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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In one of the series' eeriest episodes, American photographer Rita Wallace (Cloris Leachman) sets up shop in Paris, hoping to...
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Jean Gabot
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1959
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1959
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After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire...
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Le Marne
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1959
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Never one to turn down a beautiful woman--especially one with a lofty title--Bart (Jack Kelly) lends $10,000 to Countess...
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1959
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Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was...
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1958
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Wounded in the French-Algerian war, Sgt. Andre Doniere (Jacques Bergerac) heads back to France in the company of his friend...
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1958
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In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle...
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1958
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Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal...
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1957
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In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the...
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Toto del Aro
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1957
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Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad...
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1957
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For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main...
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1957
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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1956
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1955
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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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Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955,...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in...
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1954
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In this suspense drama, a group of strangers becomes acquainted as they wait for a plane to arrive at an airport in Tangier....
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Gogo
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1953
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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1953
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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1952
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Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with...
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1951
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Nous Irons a Monte Carlo guest-stars the Ray Ventura Band and French comedian Max Elloy (best remembered as the stateless...
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1951
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Philippe Lebrix
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1951
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A French-American cooperative film about drug smuggling on the French Riviera. ~ Rovi...
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1950
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1950
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A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis...
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Stefan Valdini
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1949
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The French Hans le Marin secured an American distributor on the strength of its three stars. Jean-Pierre Aumont plays the...
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1949
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The beautiful and versatile French film star Viviane Romance was also popular in America, as much for her revealing wardrobe...
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1949
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1949
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Per its title, Lovers of Verona is an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film was a joint project of...
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Amedeo Maglia
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1948
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This psychological drama is set aboard a submarine carrying Nazi officials fleeing their country just before the end of World...
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1947
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Originally released in France as Dedee D'Anvers in 1948, this tight little melodrama was both directed and co-written by...
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1947
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In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later...
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Inspector Dupre
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1947
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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1945
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1944
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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Michel
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1943
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1943
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A timely film when first released in 1943, Tonight We Raid Calais survives as an entertaining adventure some fifty years...
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1943
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1943
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1942
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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1942
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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1941
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The title and subject matter of L'Esclave Blanche (White Slave) are one in the same. Set in the pre-WWI Ottoman Empire, the...
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1939
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This disturbing melodrama centers upon the relationship between two sisters. One sister is married, but unable to bear...
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1939
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Robert de la Chesnaye
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1939
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La Tempete (The Tempest) is based loosely on characters created by Honore de Balzac. In one of the strangest roles of his...
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1939
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Montmartre cabaret singer Vivien Romance is one of several people summoned by telephone to a mysterious rendezvous site by an...
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1939
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1938
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Naples au Baiser de Feu (The Kiss of Fire) was one of several films made in France by veteran Italian director...
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1938
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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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1938
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1937
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Sarati le Terrible is the wealthy and callous absentee landlord (Harry Baur) of a cheap Algiers rooming house near a coal...
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1937
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Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of...
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1937
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Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the...
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1937
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Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande...
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Rosenthal
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1937
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1937
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This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use...
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1936
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1934
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1934
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1932
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