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2005
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2004
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Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex...
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Potier
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2003
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When the grown-up children of a missing parent are reunited with their father, they discover it raises more questions than it...
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Maurice
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2002
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When Leila (Melanie Doutey), a beautiful 16-year-old Indian girl living in Marrakesh, falls in love with Danish tourist Nils...
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Narrator
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2002
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As directed by Olivier Bourbeillon, this documentary profiles Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), one of the most vital contributors...
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2002
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Roberto Ando directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- who gained posthumous fame with...
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Giuseppe Tommasi di Lampedusa
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2000
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A troubled young woman goes in search of the father she never knew in this French drama. In 1979, Elisa (Florence Thomassin)...
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1995
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Produced by French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol, The Eye of Vichy is an extraordinary 110-minute account of Nazi-occupied...
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1993
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Monsieur Charme (Michel Bouquet) is an old man, and the love of his life passed away some years ago. Despite being wealthy...
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Monsieur Charme
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1993
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Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto...
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Thomas as an Old Man
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1991
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The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa...
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1988
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1985
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Hubert Lavoisier
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1984
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Vanderkeulen
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1983
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This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who --...
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Inspector Javert
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1982
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In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela...
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Jobin
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1978
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In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the...
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1978
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In this French farce, a wealthy young boy decides to teach his father a lesson by buying a man and employing him as his...
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Monsieur Rambal-Cochet
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1976
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Bourgeois family man Michel Bouquet inadvertently come into the possession of mobster information. The bad guys find out, and...
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Claude
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1975
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Living a dismal life taking care of his uncommunicative and nearly blind father, Vincent (Fabrice Luchini), a sculptor, tries...
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Pierre
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1975
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In this very low-key film, 20-year-old Thomas discovers that he is not a particularly nice fellow and has no special reason...
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Father
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1975
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A woman's former lover is killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1975
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1975
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When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police...
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Procureur
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1974
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Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her...
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Georges
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1974
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Among the other interesting features of this French crime drama is a brief consideration of the dire consequences of the...
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Chief
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1974
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In this broad, slapstick crime comedy, a trio of burglars rob the wrong apartment, but decide to hold the inhabitants...
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1974
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In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to...
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Goitreau
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1973
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The very modest lawyer (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in this case of murder finds much more than he is looking for and then must...
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Cristani
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1973
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This French political thriller depicts the world of troubles that descend upon a relatively innocent doctor who decides to...
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Morlaix
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1973
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Le Complot is based on a true spy story of double-, triple- and quadruple-cross. The plot is galvanized by Charles DeGaulle's...
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Inspector
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1973
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In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and...
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1973
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Two lonely young men rebelling against their middle-class backgrounds become friends in this French drama. Both of them are...
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1973
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Two neighboring French families are going through major life-ceremonies at the same time: one is experiencing the funeral of...
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Claude
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1973
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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1972
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Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a...
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Albert
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1972
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The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing...
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1972
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Cults of noteworthy psychological unhealthiness exist in and around most countries. This French/Swiss tragedy, based on a...
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1972
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This French film is a tragic tale of thwarted love, set among the upper classes in turn-of-the-century Italy. As the only...
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1972
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Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human...
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Charles
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1971
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Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is...
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Walerg
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1971
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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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This French documentary about Czechoslovakia covers the period following World War II, beginning with the Russian occupation...
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1971
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This satirical French drama is based on a novel by Antoine Blondin. Fired by wanderlust and urged on by his mother, Taitro...
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Taitro
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1971
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Ludovic
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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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Jauran
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1970
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Based on a Eugene Saccomano novel entitled The Bandits of Marseilles, this movie was followed by a sequel entitled...
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Rinaldi
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1970
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A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against...
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Favenin
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1970
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A rare mid-career flop for director François Truffaut when it was released, Mississippi Mermaid has become a cult favorite,...
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Comolli
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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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Charles
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1969
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This film documentary of Paris combines the earliest known photography with modern color. Famous personalities that have...
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1969
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This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by...
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Coral
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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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Sharps
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1967
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Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A...
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Doctor
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1967
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Tigre (Roger Hanin) is a French undercover agent sent to stop ex-Nazis in their attempt to take over Latin America. He is...
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Vernorel
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1965
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When a French secret agent is set the task of securing a shipment of sunken gold somewhere off Martinique, he finds that he...
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1965
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Jean Delannoy's This Special Friendship (Les Amities partculieres) is set in a boy's boarding school of the early 1930s. Two...
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Father Trennes
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1964
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1962
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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1959
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Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a...
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1955
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The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls...
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Lesable
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1952
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In the traditions of Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau, Pattes Blanches is a heady mixture of stark realism and fairytale...
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1949
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Pierre Fresnay stars as St. Vincent De Paul in this reverent but realistic French biopic. The film traces "Monsieur...
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1947
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