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1988
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Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking...
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1985
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A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden...
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Herbert
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1984
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1984
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This French film has a plot that sounds like an expansion of an urban legend. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) and Sara...
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1983
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In this run-of-the-mill crime drama, Bernard Giraudeau is Daniel Chetman, someone who wants to leave the life of violence he...
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Georges Chetman
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1983
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Directed by TV-anthology veteran Jeannot Szwarc, Enigma has a certain small-screen "feel" to it. Adopting a musical-comedy...
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1982
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The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay...
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1982
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In this thriller, a private detective disregards the many warnings he has been given and continues searching for a missing...
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Haymann
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1981
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A young jounalist (Patrick Dewaere) stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a...
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1981
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Michel Gerfaut (Alain Delon) makes his living playing poker. But when he stops to help an injured motorist on the side of the...
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Leprince
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1980
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The "pieds-noir" were Algerians of French heritage who were forced to return to France in 1962, when Algeria became...
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Lucien Bonheur
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1979
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A predictable melodrama, Le Toubib is based on a novel by Jean Freustie about an unhappy surgeon and the tragedy of war....
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1979
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In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier...
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Philippe
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1978
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Fayard (Patrick Dewaere) is a magistrate of the French courts, who is unusually enthusiastic in seeking justice. For...
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Doctor
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1977
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Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled...
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1975
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Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to...
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Hector
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1974
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Story of a Love Story may well be the least-known of John Frankenheimer's films. Filmed in France, the story concerns highly...
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Georges
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1973
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In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory....
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1973
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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles...
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Colonel Rolland
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1973
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This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the...
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1971
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A struggling, middle aged entertainment journalist falls for a 20 year old psychotic pyromaniac. He meets the young woman...
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Serge
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1970
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In this modernized adaptation of the much-filmed Alexandre Dumas story, The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes was sent to...
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Lawyer
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1968
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This is an updated version of the Alexander Dumas classic. Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge) is framed and imprisoned for...
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Magnin
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1968
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1964
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Laure (Pascale Audrei) enters a convent to escape the real world and surround herself in pity in this distaff drama that...
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1964
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Trouble begins when five Frenchmen pool their money in an attempt to pull off a huge drug deal. One intercepts the money and...
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Clavet
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1963
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Michel
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1963
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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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1961
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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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An evil and manipulative leader has pushed some of his subjects too far. They join together to stage a revolution. ~ Sandra...
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1960
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Jean Gabin once again stars as that other famous French detective Inspector Maigret in this murder mystery that is less a...
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Count
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1959
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Philippe
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1959
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Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Feeling free...
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Jean Le Prat
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1959
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1958
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1958
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Les Fantatiques is set in a mythical South American country. An anti-government faction intends to topple the present regime...
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1957
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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Prof. Emile Flostre
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1957
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Reproduction Interdite (Copying Forbidden) is a heavily plotted meller about an art forgery. A clever gang of thieves plots...
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1956
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1956
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In this heartwarming drama, the life of an Italian rice farmer involved in an unhappy marriage is chronicled. One day, he...
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Mario
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1955
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Andrea Chernier
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1955
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Larry
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1954
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Das Zweite Leben (Double Destiny) is based on Siegfried, a short story and play by Jean Girardoux. Michel Auclair stars as a...
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Slegfred
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1954
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Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy...
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Arthur
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1954
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1954
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Quai des Blondes stars Michel Auclair as a handsome cigarette smuggler named Jacques. When his boat is robbed of its cargo,...
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Jacques
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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Jacques Damien
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1954
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Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani....
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1952
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As the title of this French crime melodrama indicates, there's always two sides to the story when murder is involved. The...
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Louis
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1952
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of...
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Maurice/Marcel
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1952
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This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of...
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1951
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Serge
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1950
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Maurice
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1950
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Pas De Pitie Pour Les Femmes is a tricky French-filmed murder mystery. It is so tricky, in fact, that it defied the efforts...
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Michel
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1950
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L'Aiguille Rouge is a mountain-climbing melodrama, a genre more indigenous to the German cinema than to French films. Set in...
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Myra
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1950
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An established film favorite in both her native Sweden and Hollywood, Viveca Lindfors made her French film debut in...
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Erland
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1949
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Robert Des Grieux
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1949
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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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Willy Morus
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1947
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1947
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Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as...
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Ludovic
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1946
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1945
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