Born in 1932, French composer Michel Legrand moved swiftly into film and television and attained celebrity by his early...
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Conductor
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2010
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In this unique 2009 music event, composer extraordinaire Michel Legrand heads to Paris's Salle Pleyel, to conduct...
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Conductor
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2009
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This musical release by jazz conductor Michel Legrand with the London Big Band Orchestrea captures an epic performance by...
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Director
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2009
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Composer (Music Score)
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2003
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Based in part on the autobiography of Gale Sayers, an Football Hall of Fame inductee and one of the finest halfbacks in the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2001
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Noted French screenwriter Daniele Thompson makes her directorial debut with this lighthearted romantic comedy. After the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2000
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Swiss born Léa Pool, who settled in Montreal, Quebec in 1975, set her sixth feature film, Emporte-Moi, in Mile's End,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2000
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Daisy von Sherler Mayer directed this family film, an adaptation of the famed book series that Austrian-born...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1998
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1995
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This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise. The images within the...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1995
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This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1995
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An amalgam of fairy tales penned by Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, this charming animated musical tale is set in Chelm,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1995
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1995
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This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1994
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In 1967, the phenomenally successful director of the films Lola and the groundbreaking musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1993
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Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1993
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Jazz great Miles Davis makes his acting debut and farewell playing an inspirational jazz trumpeter in this lively drama that...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1992
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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In this blend of fantasy and romantic comedy, a man isn't sure if he's stuck between past and present or if his imagination...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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This made-for-cable feature film stars Edward Asner as a fashionable confidence trickster. Asner masterminds an investment...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson, Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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The 1920s-era play The Front Page was about a Chicago reporter who wants to retire and get married but is tricked by his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1988
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Composer (Music Score)
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1988
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In this reportedly autobiographical piece, Michel Legrand makes his directorial debut. He is much better known for his...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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Nicolas (Francis Perrin) is the director of a swinging club for singles in this routine sex comedy. In addition to his own...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1987
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Composer (Music Score)
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1987
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Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1987
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This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1986
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As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1986
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A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic...
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Cinematographer
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1986
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In this family drama, the life of a woman and her son are severely disrupted when her estranged husband, who abandoned them...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1986
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Composer (Music Score)
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1985
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In this drama, a woman struggles to rise to the top of the fashion industry, but as she does, her past business sins come...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1985
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In a standard story of brotherly conflict during the severity of detention in a German prison camp at the end of World War...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1985
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This melodrama, set in WW II during the French occupation, tells the story of the members of a Jewish family who flee the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1985
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1984
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Composer (Music Score)
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1984
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In this film, set in a British girls school just before the outbreak of WW II, two young girls build a beautiful friendship...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1984
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This melodramatic, clichéd story loosely based on a true, 1983 racially-motivated murder, starts with three men arrested for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1984
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Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl, is a musical adaptation of a story by the beloved Jewish writer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1983
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The title of the 1983 James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again is a self-mocking reference to star Sean Connery's...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1983
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Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1983
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The Gift was based on Bankers Also Have Souls, a play by Valme and Terzolli. To honor retiring co-worker Gregoire...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1982
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We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1982
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1982
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This feeble cartoon story starring the "Smurfs" is set in Medieval times when Pee Wee and his friend Johan set off for the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1982
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In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1982
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A Woman Called Golda is a made-for-television account of the life and times of Golda Meir, Israel's powerful prime minister...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1982
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Sexual obsession provides the basis of this taut thriller, an adaptation of a Romain Gary novel. The story centers upon a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1981
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Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1981
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1980
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Composer (Music Score)
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1980
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This gorgeously shot western, filmed in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Shoshone National Forest, stars Charlton...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1980
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Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1980
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An truly international production if there ever was one, this costume epic was based on a Japanese comic book, directed by a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1979
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In this animated children's feature, the 18th-century Baron regales his dinner guests with tall tales about his incredible...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1979
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Produced by the animation firm of DePatie-Freleng, this ABC Afternoon Special is a deft and dextrous blend of live-action,...
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Himself
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1978
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Composer (Music Score)
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1978
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Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1978
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The battle for good and against evil never ends in this long series of episodes about attempts to capture the phoenix, a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1978
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This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1978
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One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1977
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Jonathan Swift's satire about a sailor's strange voyage is the source of this, one of many filmed adaptations of the tale. ~...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1977
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While on their second honeymoon, a long-married couple discuss the past and are surprised to discover their separate...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1976
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The love affair between two of Hollywood's greatest stars of the 1930s and '40s is recounted in this biopic. Clark Gable...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1976
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Bobbie Gentry's hauntingly enigmatic 1967 hit single served as the inspiration of this story of unrequited teenage love. In...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1976
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In this romantic adventure comedy from French writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Catherine Deneuve stars as Nelly, a young...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Susan Dey inaugurated her long and successful campaign to shuck her Partridge Family image in the made-for-TV Cage Without a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Sheila (Jeannie Berlin) is not one of life's golden people: she's not especially good-looking, charming, charismatic, or...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Set in a girls' school in New England during the 1950s, Peter Hyams' nostalgic drama stars Betsy Slade as Abby, whose fling...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1974
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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In this Counterculture vs. Establishment romance, Frank Harmon (William Holden) is a middle-aged businessman, recently...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Based on a play by Terence Rattigan, The Nelson Affair recounts an infamous 18th century British scandal in slow-paced,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Director Jacques Demy's propensity for making a workable comedy out of the least likely material is once more put to the test...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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This French-produced thriller was shot entirely in English. Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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This Joseph Losey-directed 1973 version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House marks one of two cinematizations of the story...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Looking as if he's just stepped out of a 16th century painting, Rex Harrison plays the title role in this TV-movie adaptation...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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Two lawmen decide to find out if a life of crime pays better in this gritty action comedy. Joe (Joseph Bologna) and Tom...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1973
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This tragic French melodrama brings to the screen the story of Marie-Louise (Anne Giradot), a woman whose love for her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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A woman struggles to rebuild her life after her husband leaves her in this drama. Amy Brower (Trish VanDevere) is a...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1972
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Diana Ross plays the magnificent, tragic song stylist Billie Holiday, who while writhing in a strait jacket in a prison cell,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1972
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1972
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Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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Based on a melancholy romance by Francoise Sagan, this film recounts the circumstances of a relationship from start to tragic...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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A surprise success in 1971 ($20 million worth of "surprise"), The Summer of '42 is a coming-of-age piece, drenched in...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1971
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Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1971
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A play by Jean Anouilh is the basis for A Time for Loving. In this Gallic blend of La Ronde and Plaza Suite, a single Paris...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1971
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Don Johnson makes his acting debut in this way-out take on college life from 1970. He plays a college student searching for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1970
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Father Gregory Lind (Robert Forster) is the Catholic priest who questions his dedication to his parishioners. He becomes...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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This romantic drama concerns two star-crossed lovers who are half-brother and sister to each other. Catherine...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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One of the best known and most enthusiastically reviewed made for television films of the 1970's, this drama was based on the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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A wealthy French matron drives her captors crazy when she is kidnapped and help for ransom. Mathilde (Jacqueline Maillan) is...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1970
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is the British army leader who is ordered to lead a band of mercenaries into the desert....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Composer (Music Score)
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1969
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1968
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Friends don't let friends mess around on the side in this comedy, though it quickly becomes obvious that making this happen...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1968
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Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a self-made Boston millionaire who masterminds a bank heist in hopes of leaving it all...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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Sarah Deever (Sandy Dennis) is an idealistic young woman living in Brooklyn. Her altruistic nature finds her taking in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1967
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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A clairvoyant 15-year old girl meets an enterprising rock star in this drama shot in the Ozarks. The rock star has come to...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1966
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An extremely sub-James Bond orientation drives this thriller -- made in Europe but trying to look and sound American -- about...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1964
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot stars as Penny, a scatterbrained young lady who is a beautician to the wife...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Bay of the Angels (La Baie des anges) stars Jeanne Moreau as a middle-aged Parisian gambling addict who leaves her husband...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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In this light romantic comedy Charles Boyer plays the enigmatic Mr. Pimm, a man with a Cupid complex who grooms men to be...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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This is an untraditional film documentary that concerns Paris. Instead of covering the usual sights and sounds of the city,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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In this romance, a youthful painter, vacationing in the French Riviera, falls in love with a beautiful woman who,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1962
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Three screenwriters pooled their talents for the French racetrack drama Duke of the Derby. Jean Gabin plays a handicapper...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are...
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Composer (Music Score), Bob, the Pianist
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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