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1983
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1982
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In the French-made film (La Balance), a couple get caught between the French underworld and the cops who pledge to destroy...
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Massina
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1982
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In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted...
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Charly
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1981
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Yvon
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1981
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1979
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In this romance, the magic of gay Paris is not lost on a young couple who fall in love there. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1978
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Gregor (Maurice Ronet) is a rich, charming womanizer who has been married three times. Perhaps he is not quite charming...
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Gregor
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1977
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Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet)...
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Philippe Dubaye
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1977
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After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel (Klaus Kinski) returns to vex them. He presents...
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1976
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1976
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1975
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Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though...
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1974
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Alexandre (Eric Damain), the neglected teenager in this drama, finally gets some attention when he has a very serious...
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Mathieu
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1974
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An insurance agent, informed that he will die young from a heart ailment, decides to live a wild and uproarious life in the...
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1974
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1973
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When his mobster bosses give the order, a young man prepares to kill his father, who years before had a clown act called...
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Diserens
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1973
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Pierre
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1973
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In this French crime/action feature, Maury (Maurice Ronet) has been booted out of the police force for failing to understand...
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Maury
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1973
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In this Belgian/French romance, based on the novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, Tamara (Françoise Brion), a sex-hungry and...
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1973
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A tabloid newspaper reporter becomes confused with guilt after one of his stories causes the death of an innocent man, and...
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1972
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Virna Lisi stars in this slick French romantic thriller. She plays Almy, a beautician on her way to a "fat farm." The story...
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Driver
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1972
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This English-language French production, directed by Rene Clement is a psychological/spy thriller, and features an excellent...
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1971
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Didier (Maurice Ponet) is a confused lover and a confused husband when the girl he thought he had given up as a mistress...
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1971
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This well-made period melodrama, set in late 19th-century France, highlights the worldly, flirtatious fashion of the day and...
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Raphael
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1971
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Mariana (Romy Schneider) is riding along with her weekend date when she infuriates him by insulting his virility. The irate...
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Serge
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1970
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A husband (Maurice Ronet) recalls his past experiences as he travels by train to Rome from Paris. He has just left his wife...
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Husband
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1970
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A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes...
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Garal
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1970
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1970
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An older woman uses a younger woman to satisfy both his personal and professional needs in this offbeat sex comedy. Clara...
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Jerome
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1969
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This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after...
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Francois
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1969
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Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As...
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Harry
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1969
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Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées...
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Victor
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1969
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Delphine (Dany Carrel) is a country girl who travels to the big city in search of feminine emancipation and freedom....
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Jean-Marc
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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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Philippe
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1968
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This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring...
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Rainier
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1968
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In this complex spy-thriller, the US radar installations in Greece are suddenly jammed and a NATO security agent is killed....
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Dex
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1967
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In this French crime drama, an ex-Resistance fighter has a ruined reputation after he succumbed to Nazi torture during the...
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1967
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This stylish psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol has such labyrinthine plotting that many critics called it too...
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Paul Wagner
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1966
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The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by...
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Pierre, Comte de Grandville
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1966
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In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the...
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Capt. Beisfeuras
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1966
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A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young...
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Chevalier
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1966
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Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been...
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1966
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Francois
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1965
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1964
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By 1964, the French had turned over their interest in the Vietnam War to the Americans. The heyday of the French Indochinese...
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Ferrier
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1964
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After Amador (Maurice Ronet) murders his aunt and another woman, he tries to resolve his differences with the mother of his...
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Amador
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1964
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In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a friend who has just...
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Director, Nicolas
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1964
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Maurice Ronet plays an alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy, who is on the verge of suicide (his character is based on writer...
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Alain Leroy
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1963
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In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily...
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Walter Saccard
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1963
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Not to be confused with the like-vintage Brazilian film Besame Mucho, the Italian-Spanish Besame is a confusing melange of...
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1963
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1963
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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1963
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In this moderately suspenseful murder mystery by director Paul Paviot, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much...
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Gilbert
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1962
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In this French melodrama, a gigolo makes money by selling the expensive gifts bestowed upon him by his wealthy lovers. One...
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1962
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Teetering on the one-dimensional, this romantic drama about the coming of age of a nineteen-year-old American woman in Paris...
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Philippe
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1961
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A slight screenplay and surface characterization undermine the telling of this dramatic tale by director Roger Leenhardt....
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Pierre
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1961
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In no more than an average endeavor to show the clashes between an old society and its beliefs and the modern world, this...
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Michel
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1961
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A few gratuitous erotic scenes undermine the supposed seriousness of this routine drama of murder and intrigue by director...
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Michel
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1961
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Philippe Greenleaf
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1960
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This Spanish film was officially inspired by the Prosper Merimee novel (and Bizet opera) Carmen. Instead of working in a...
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Jose
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1959
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Jean
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1958
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The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British...
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1958
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A prostitute is courted by two half-brothers. She marries one, and then must deal with the fallout of domestic friction. ~...
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Henri
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1958
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The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers...
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Julien Tavernier
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1957
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1956
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1956
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An Alexander Kouprine novel was the springboard for the contemporary melodrama Le Sorciere (The Sorceror). Marina Vlady stars...
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Laurent Brulard
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1955
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1955
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Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all...
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1954
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In this odd French tragedy, set in Ireland, a nun plots revenge against her brother's executor, the IRA leader she had...
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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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1953
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the...
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Roger
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1949
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