Pere de Mademoiselle (Father of the Girl) is all about a star-struck lass from rural France who takes a job as the secretary...
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1953
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Originally released in 1939, Savage Brigade (La Brigade Sauvage) is set during WW I. The story concerns a deadly -- and...
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1948
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This French version of The Last Days of Pompeii was shots on standing sets left over from the epic historical drama Fabiola....
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1948
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1947
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French film favorite Danielle Darrieux had only recently cleared herself of a wartime "collaboration" charge when she starred...
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1945
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One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a...
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1945
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Originally titled La Nuit Fantastique, this French romantic farce was filmed in 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Little did...
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1942
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1942
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Originally released in France in 1943, The Honorable Catherine (L'Honorable Catherine) wasn't distributed in the U.S. until...
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1942
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Released in France in 1941 as Histoire de Rire, Foolish Husbands made its American debut in 1948. It all begins when Adelaide...
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1941
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1940
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In this French drama, based on a story by Tolstoy, the public prosecutor decides to sacrifice himself so that his wife can...
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1940
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1939
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The same year that the great European actor Harry Baur played mad Czar Paul I in Le Patriote, he also played another...
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1939
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This "feature film" was actually comprised of eight musical short subjects, helmed by three of France's top filmmakers....
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1939
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1939
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1938
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In this French war drama, a battleship captain tries to keep an enemy cruiser from sinking his vessel; he then must defend...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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The Citadel of Silence is set in Poland in the years just before WWI. Involved in an abortive insurrection against the...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Somehow, the original French title of this romantic melodrama is so much more poetic than its English title, Illegitimate...
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1930
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1929
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This French production was based on a novel by Emile Zola, of the same title. Pierre Alcover stars as Saccard, a ruthless and...
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1929
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1928
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Based on a play by Charles Mere, the 1926 French production Le Vertige was released in the U.S. two years later as The Living...
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1926
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Originally released in 1926 in hand-tinted prints, for years this silent classic, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello...
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1925
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1923
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1923
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1923
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1921
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1921
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1920
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1920
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1919
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1919
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