This drama centers upon a female thief and her robber band as they try to hide out from the cops on a deserted island. Their...
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1967
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Curt Jurgens stars as a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the ladies with whom Jurgens dallies...
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1962
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1962
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Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set...
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Countess Vitelleschi
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1961
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This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against...
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Solange
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1961
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In this unexceptional whodunit, Michel Galabru appears in one of his earlier roles as the police inspector sent to...
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1961
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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Josephine
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1960
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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Elaine [A Woman Alone]
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1960
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In this drama, set in Barcelona, a former spy desperately searches the Spanish city for his friend who was attacked by...
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1960
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Jean-Louis Trintignant's star was just rising when he took on the role of Carlo in this engrossing wartime coming-of-age...
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1959
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A familiar plot and a lovable, sexual, somewhat ditsy female are at the core of this frothy comedy-crime drama found in...
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Nathalie
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1959
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1959
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This film is a 1959 WWII drama that focuses on members of a German bomb squad. The fatalistic soldiers pool part of their...
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Margot Hofer
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1959
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1958
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Based on a novel by George Simenon, Le Passager Clandestin was one of the few French-Australian co-productions of the 1950s...
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1958
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Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes...
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Nathalie
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1957
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In one of her few English-speaking appearances, French leading lady Martine Carol plays Tracy, the daughter of a political...
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Tracy
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1957
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Les Carnets du Major Thompson was the final film effort of producer-director-writer Preston Sturges. Once a Hollywood...
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Martine
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1956
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A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins...
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1956
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Two directors called the shots on Difendo il Mio Amore; Giulio Macchi helmed the original Italian version, while Hollywood's...
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Elisa
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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The most frequently filmed of Emile Zola's works, Nana was given a slick, polished cinemazation by French- filmmaker...
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Nana
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1955
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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Lola Montes
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1955
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This upteenth film version of the life of royal courtesan Madame Du Barry stars Martine Carol in the title role. Starting out...
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Mme. Du Barry
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1954
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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Agnes
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1954
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La Pensionnaire was released in English-speaking countries as The Boarder. The title character is a good-hearted prostitute...
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Anne-Marie
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1954
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Lysistrata
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1954
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This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad...
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1954
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Blonde French sex symbol Martine Carol is incongruously cast as the title character in Lucrece Borgia. The bloody excesses of...
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Lucrece Borgia
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1953
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Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic...
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Edmee
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1952
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Minouche
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1952
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Caroline Cherie
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1952
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Martine
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1951
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Caroline
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1951
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1950
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Nous Irons a Paris is a gentle but pointed satire of the government-controlled French radio industry. Fired from his singing...
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1949
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Critics and filmgoers of the 1950s were so dazzled by the beauty of French leading-lady Martine Carol that it hardly mattered...
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Sidonie
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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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1948
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1947
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With his business in the doldrums, travel agent Grandpa Piuff (Sinoel) comes up with a cute gimmick. Why not book customers...
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Isabelle Grosbois
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1947
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1946
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Voyage-Surprise was one of three films written by poet/playwright Jacques Prevert and directed by Prevert's brother Pierre....
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1946
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1946
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L'Extravagante Mission (The Queer Assignment) is set on an extremely busy ocean liner. Comic actor Henri Guisol plays a...
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1945
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1945
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1944
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1943
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