A teenager girl learns some vital lessons about growing up as her family struggles with a variety of crises in this drama...
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2010
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Laetitia Casta stars in director Gilles Legrand's drama concerning an Edwardian-era girl whose fate becomes permanently...
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2008
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A man born and raised on France's Southern coast is exiled to the Northern territories in this comedy from actor, director...
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2008
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2004
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2003
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Voice of Roger the Elephant
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2003
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2000
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1999
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Karim Dridi, best known for Pigalle (1994) and Bye-Bye (1995), directed this French comedy-drama about actor Angelo Bastiani...
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1998
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1998
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In this film, director/screenwriter Jean Teule adapts his novel Rainbow pour Rimbaud. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a...
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Father
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1996
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A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French...
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1995
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Danglard Amalia's Manager
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1992
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1992
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1991
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1991
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Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a...
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Monglat
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1990
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1990
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Robert Cavaillon
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1990
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1989
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Eric Blanc plays a man who has witnessed a car-bombing and become a major media celebrity. He just can't say enough about...
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1989
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Before was made into the famous Mozart opera, Le Mariage de Figaro was an incredibly famous French comedy and political...
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1989
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This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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Bison
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1988
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Fred Segal (Richard Anconina) is a commercial director whose marriage is headed for disaster in this light romantic comedy...
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Dino Pizzoli
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1988
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Luis Rego stars as a philandering husband who runs a concession stand in this uneven sex comedy. He is successful for years...
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Martinez
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1987
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Advertising executive Gerard Floque (Roland Giraud) has the worst day of his life in this routine comedy. He comes home after...
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1987
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Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and starred in this offbeat comedy. He appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film...
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The Admiral
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1987
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Simon Charrier
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1986
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Momo's Father
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1986
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Albert
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1986
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A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy...
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1986
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A traveling theater troupe is divided by the romantic unrest of several couples in this sometimes macabre and uneven comedy...
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Germaine
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1986
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1986
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Mixing real locations with a Louis XIV stage setting, director Michel Mitrani interprets the story first told in Moliere's...
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
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1985
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The universally recognized topic of this light comedy is the struggle between refusing to fall in love only to be rejected,...
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1985
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Charlie
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1985
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Inspector Gesberg
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1985
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1985
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1985
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The social and personal conflicts that arise when a bisexual, married policeman takes a male lover are carefully handled by...
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the Morane brothers
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1984
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In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon)...
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Emile
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1984
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Les Fausses Confidences is a commedia dell'arte written in 1735 by the French playwright Pierre de Carlet Chamblain de...
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M. Rémy
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1984
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1984
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1983
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1983
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1983
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In this tragic tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and increasing madness, "she," a beautiful young woman (Isabelle Adjani)...
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1983
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In this uneven take-off on some reluctant resistance fighters in World War II, a family of musicians find themselves the...
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Papy
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1983
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1983
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1982
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1982
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Students with nothing better to do than hoodwink the authorities at their school provide the fodder for this film on the...
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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Molière's play about a "bourgeois gentleman" was the basis for this cinematic interpretation of the same story, which...
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Monsieur Jourdain
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1982
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1981
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1981
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Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie...
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Bailiff
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1981
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A clever adaptation of Moliere's play Les Fourberies de Scapin, this cinematic re-creation was directed by Roger Coggio who...
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Geronte
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1981
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1981
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In this routine, somewhat disconnected story, Louis Alban (Jean Rochefort) has been divorced from his wife for awhile when a...
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Douglas
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1981
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1981
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This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of...
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Bonnardot
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1981
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This standard comedy thriller is more a vehicle to show off Jean-Paul Belmondo's stunts than to convey a suspenseful tale to...
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Achille
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1980
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1980
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A few bumps in modern education provide an underlying, tongue-in-cheek theme for this enjoyable comedy by Claude Zidi. The...
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1980
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1980
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French director Bernard Tavernier once again successfully translates the fragile intimacy of human relationships to the...
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Macheron
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1980
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Spiced with French humor and insouciance, this otherwise routine comedy is carried by the acting talents of Jean-Luc Bideau...
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Lucien
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1980
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1980
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Haragon Louis De Funes is such a miserable miser that he even steals oats from horses in this comedy from celebrated...
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Jacques
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1979
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In this comedy, an Italian man in Paris is looking for his wife who has walked out on him. However, before he can get very...
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1979
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When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz...
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Commissaire Grimaud
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1979
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Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre...
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Charles Dreant
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1979
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1979
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In this funny French entry in the "Gendarme" series of films, bungling inspector Cruchot (played by Jerry Lewis-like French...
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Gerber
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1978
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An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La Cage aux Folles depicts the farcical chaos that...
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Charrier
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1978
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1978
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In this comedy, over-achieving men who are involved in a multi-car automobile accident meet and get to know one another in...
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TV Man
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1978
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Nobody expects much of the goofy prankster who teaches at a public school. When his students get word of the principal's...
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1978
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The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry...
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Gabriel
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1978
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Every year, in France, there is a national celebration of sorts when that year's pressing of beaujolais grapes has become a...
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Captatin
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1978
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In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier...
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Man
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1978
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Police Chief
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1977
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This French psychological detective drama owes much of its tone to Existentialism, even though that philosophy had its heyday...
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Nestor
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1977
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The West German/French Group Portrait with Lady (Gluppenbild mit Dame) is based on a bestselling novel by Heinrich Böll. The...
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Pelzer
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1977
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1976
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1976
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The first love of Marc (Pascal Meynier), a 16-year-old boy, is discovered by his parents when his grades fall. He is...
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Father
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1976
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The rather overweight Italian lad (Michel Galabru), the hero of this comedy, would seem to be an unlikely ladykiller, but in...
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Director
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1976
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Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to...
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1975
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By day, Monsieur Balboss (Michel Galabru) is a respectable policeman. By night, he seeks solace with prostitutes. Neither...
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Inspector
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1975
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This crime drama, with elements of comedy and satire, is most notable as the final screen appearance of Michel Simon. In the...
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Husband
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1975
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1975
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Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French...
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Bouvier
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1975
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This French farce depicts Hitler as the sort of man who issues challenges to opposing countries: win a soccer game against...
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1974
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The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity...
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1974
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1974
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Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky)....
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Thomas
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1973
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1973
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1973
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This is one of the seemingly innumerable French comedies made in the early '70s featuring the musicians-turned-comedians,...
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Emile
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1973
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Tunisia is a rough placed to be trapped in, especially if you are an Israeli spy (Jean-Pierre Marielle) on the run....
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1973
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In this satirical French comedy, Rosemunde (Annie Girardot) earns her living selling relics to the Catholic church. She...
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1972
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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Leon Galipeau
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1972
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In order to fight gangsters, the local townspeople and some hippie tourists overcome their differences in this French...
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Peloux
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1972
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The Egg is "the system," and Magis (Guy Bedos) wants to be a part of it, somehow. He works in a stuffy store and, out of...
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1972
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1972
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1972
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Superintendant
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1972
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This French film goes for extremely broad humor, as it tells the story of the various transformations undergone by a man who...
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1971
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A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of...
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1971
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In this characteristic French farce, Louis De Funes in the role of Antoine spoofs the 1959 American classic black comedy,...
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1971
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A retired policeman (Louis De Fumes) is happily married to a devoted wife (Claude Gensac) in this uneven comedy. He does not...
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Adjutant
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1970
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This slapstick comedy finds a train conductor Pierre Richard unable to sleep at home due to his neighbor's rooster crowing....
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Friend
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1970
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1969
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A veteran police officer becomes the chief when he passes a test given to all the members of the police force. The power of...
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Gerber
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1968
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This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is...
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Scipio
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1968
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A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is...
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Besson
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1968
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This uneven comedy finds two inept gunmen always being beaten out of their next caper by a conniving rival crook. They wait...
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Colonel
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1968
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A doctor joins a group opposed to Napoleon in this drama. The physician believes the Emperor is a tyrant and must be...
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Florin
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1966
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1966
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1966
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Gerbert
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1965
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In this French comedy, a clever fellow proves himself smarter than the gangsters who would exploit him. The trouble begins...
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1965
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1965
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In this French drama, a Parisian postman decides to deliver mail in the army and finds himself fighting involved in the...
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1965
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Inspector Cruchot takes his daughter to visit beautiful St. Tropez to celebrate his recent promotion to sergeant and ends up...
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Gerber
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1964
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1964
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In this WWII comedy, a French POW escapes and hides at an inn. After the war, he stays at the inn to help the innkeeper,...
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Screenwriter, Maximin
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1963
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1963
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There is nothing especially exceptional about this comedy-drama which focuses on a certain Guillaume (Fernandel) who lives in...
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Touffanel
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1963
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The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen....
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1962
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1962
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In this convoluted drama, a young woman and two cousins, whom she doesn't know, find that they are named as beneficiaries in...
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1962
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In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with...
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Balatier
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1962
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1962
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In this uneven tragedy by director Philippe Ducrest, a misunderstanding brings out the murderous side of one of the...
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Thief
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1961
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In this standard comedy of sex and odd manners, a few men and women converge on a picturesque chateau for the reading of a...
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César
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1960
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1955
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In this French tragedy, a soldier, celebrating the liberation of France in 1944, sneaks into Germany to see his lady and...
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