Simultaneously recalling Richard Curtis's Love Actually (2003), and - on a more culturally proximate note - Cedric Klapisch's...
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Max
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2009
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The lives of a great artist, a corrupted holy man, and a beautiful woman cross paths at a crucial moment in history in this...
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Inquisitor General
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2007
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2007
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2005
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The rise and fall of one couple's marriage goes under the microscope in this drama from French filmmaker François Ozon....
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2005
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"Fontaine Leglou" (Emmanuelle Devos) is a silly name, and so, perhaps, that is why many silly things keep happening. As...
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2005
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2005
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2004
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Prof. Stangerson
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2003
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Jean-Daniel Pollet directed this story of spiritual research and study. Linda (Valentine Vidal) is a young woman whose...
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2001
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2000
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1998
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1998
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Actor Jacques Weber made his directorial debut with this film adaptation of Don Juan written in 1665 by Moliere (1622-1673)....
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1998
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The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives....
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1997
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1997
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1996
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1995
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Best known for their historical epics that examine class and social issues in British life through a thick lens of tasteful...
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1995
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1993
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1992
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1992
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1991
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Léah (Josiane Balasko) has been longing to be beautiful for years, but the best she's been able to accomplish on her own is...
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Archangel Gabriel
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1991
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1989
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Balthazar Kober (Rafal Wieczynski) is a young man who ventures across plague-ridden Germany during the 16th century....
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Cammerschulze
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1988
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Based on the novel The Pork Butcher by David Hughes, this melodrama was directed by literary adaptation specialist...
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Xavier Lorion
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1988
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The Abbot
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1986
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This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main...
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Antoine
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1985
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1985
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"Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter....
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Commissaire Bellanger
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1985
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In this low-brow satire, French comedian Coluche exploits his talents for comic vulgarity in his role as the 10th-century...
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St. Eligius
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1984
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Based on the real-life assassination of a judge in Marseilles in 1981, this fictionalized account of how he came to die lacks...
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The Doctor
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1984
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This tantalizing blend of eroticism and mysticism was adapted from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Erendira...
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Senator Onesimo Sanchez
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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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Bodley
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1982
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It took animator/filmmaker Piotr Kamler nearly half a decade to make this fantastic animated 3-D sci-fi film that is set in a...
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1982
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A lightweight, sentimental story, a middle-aged French couple remember their courtship and the beginnings of their romance....
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1981
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This exhaustive (and exhausting) 3-hour TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his...
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1981
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This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the...
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1981
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Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who...
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1981
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After a businessman is captured by kidnappers, his rescue seems incumbent on a group of filmmakers, rather than a lackluster...
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1980
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A paean to Darwin and his theories, this documentary on the increasing complexity of life forms as they go up the...
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1980
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Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the...
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Ludovic
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1980
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In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her...
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Bertrand
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1980
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Hugo Drax
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1979
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Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the...
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1979
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1978
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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based...
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The Waiter
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1977
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After serving faithfully for over 10 years, the mid-level executive in this film has received notice that he is being fired...
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Aubert
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1977
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Director Jean Eustache has included two identical stories told in contrasting ways in this very short festival feature. In...
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Storyteller
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1977
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In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his...
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Aberaud
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1977
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Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes...
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Pierre
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1976
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After a computer-tested set of features is found to be the face most likely to win the confidence of the French people,...
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President
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1976
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1976
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After having been sent to a mental asylum following being raped by a policeman, Julie (Marlene Jobert) is released to a job...
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Uncle
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1975
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When a young Englishwoman (Mimsy Farmer) crosses the paths of an annual hunting party, two of the hunters rape and try to...
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David
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1975
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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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Minister
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1975
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1975
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In this sad French romance, a factory owner gives up everything to win the love of a hooker who loves only her job. ~ Sandra...
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Morrison
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1975
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When Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French vice-consul, grows weary of her oppressive life in 1930s India, she...
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French vice-consul
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1975
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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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1974
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Mezy
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1974
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The friendship between three men and a woman who is the wife of one of them is explored in this French drama. The gentle...
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1974
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1974
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1974
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In Serieux Comme le Plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably...
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Fournier
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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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1974
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This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half...
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1974
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This glossy Alistair MacLean action programmer concerns the machinations involved in smuggling an Eastern European scientist...
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Duc de Croytor
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1974
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The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of...
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Doctor
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1974
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The erotomaniac girl in this French film likes to tie her boyfriend up and make love to him. She also likes to cover herself...
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Judge
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1973
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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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1973
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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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Lebel
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1973
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This French comedy/thriller is partly a spoof of the police/action genre and of The French Connection. The police inspector...
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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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Monod
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1972
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Chut is an exclamation in French, rather stronger than "darn." It is the sort of thing one might say on being caught in a...
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1972
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Phillippe, a high-strung and extremely inhibited French department-store manager, vents his sexual repression by treating...
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1972
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In France, the position of "magistrate" resembles that of the American district attorney; those in either post have broad...
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1971
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Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem...
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Father Henri
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1971
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1971
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1971
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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 surrealistic French film juxtaposes two unrelated sequences of events: the experiences of one young man who is a...
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1970
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This comedy finds a family turned upside down by a new addition to the house. Hubert (Louis De Funes) and his wife...
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Doctor
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1969
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1969
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This sexually suggestive comedy also manages to simultaneously lampoon the French social security system. Chaminade (Bourvil)...
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Inspector
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1969
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A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation....
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Stein
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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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Morane
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1968
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This slapstick comedy concerns a college professor who stages a one-man vendetta against television. A hare-brained inventor...
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Man
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1968
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The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which...
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Georges Tabard
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1968
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Marc (Jean-Claude Bercq) is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate in this routine spy feature. With...
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1967
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Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied...
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1967
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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A mild-mannered family man is tried for war crimes 20 years after the end of World War II. The obvious questions are raised...
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Defense
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1966
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1966
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In this crime drama, an American fugitive in France is pursued by two thugs for two different reasons. One of the pursuers...
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1965
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By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to...
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1964
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1964
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1964
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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1963
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Director Jean-Pierre Mocky takes jabs at the arrogant attitudes of the social and corporate elite in this routine satire...
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1962
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Adorable Menteuse is a mild French comedy starring Marina Vlady. She plays a garrulous 18-year-old girl who can't go five...
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1961
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A few gratuitous erotic scenes undermine the supposed seriousness of this routine drama of murder and intrigue by director...
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1961
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Intermittent sexual encounters and a sleazy group of protagonists provide some interest in this otherwise undistinguished...
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1960
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1960
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1958
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C'East Arrive a Oden is partly a serious adventure yarn, and partly a spoof of its own genre. A French acting troupe finds...
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1956
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