A man about to be elevated into a position of great responsibility and power has a serious case of cold feet in this comedy...
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2011
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A filmmaker going though a midlife crisis stumbles into a new way of examining life in this comedy drama from France....
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2010
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2009
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Vidame de Pamiers
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2008
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A filmmaker looks to his family's history as the basis for a historical epic that reflects some of the most tumultuous events...
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2008
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Adapted from author Agustina Bessa-Luis' novel The Soul of the Righ, writer/director Manoel de Oliveira's Magic Mirror...
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2007
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The French-language psychological drama Boxes - which represents veteran actress Jane Birkin's (Blow-up) directorial debut on...
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Papa
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2007
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Acclaimed Kurdish director Hiner Saleem (Vodka Lemon, Dol) takes the reins once again for his seventh feature outing, the...
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Monsieur Marcel
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2007
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Though far better known in Europe than in the United States, Eastern European director Otar Iosseliani (who hails from...
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2007
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Located in Western Africa, Sierra Leone is a nation caught in a struggle between extreme poverty and extreme wealth; while...
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Narrator
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2006
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Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism, Belle de Jour,...
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Henri Husson
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2006
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A French government minister named Vincent (Severin Blanchet) resigns from his official duties to experience a loose life of...
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2006
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2004
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Master filmmaker Raúl Ruiz adds a black comedy to his far-reaching body of work with That Day, a playful meditation on money,...
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2003
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Voice of Ferdinand
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2003
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2003
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A man who's been confronted with new responsibilities must decide what to do with his career in this drama with comic...
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Gilbert Valence
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2001
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Respected French actor Michel Piccoli directed and co-wrote this allegorical drama. A (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) is a veteran...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2001
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2000
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Louis
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2000
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Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as...
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2000
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Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial...
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Michel des Assantes
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1999
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Rien sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple (Fabrice Luchini) is a journalist who...
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Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
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1999
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Loosely based on a story by Honore de Balzac, this historical drama is set in Egypt in 1798, as Napoleon was leading the...
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Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
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1998
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Distinguished French actor Michel Piccoli was 72-years-old when he made his directorial debut with this keen black comedy of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1997
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Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world....
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Georges Didier
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1997
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Mirroring the style of French graphic novels and dramatic comic strips, this adventure is set in a rundown lunar city and...
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Mac Bee
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1997
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This sumptuous French drama offers episodes from the notorious life of 18th century socialite and playwright Pierre-Augustin...
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1996
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This is a movie about walls, no not physical walls of wood and stone, but the psychological walls that protect and...
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1996
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This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of...
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Michel
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1996
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Internationally renowned French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard offers this documentary for his entry in the British Film Institute...
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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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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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Simon Cinema
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1995
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The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph...
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Adam
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1994
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In this stylish French drama fits well into the film noir genre. A visitor comes to the home of Stephane, the wife of an...
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Georges Feuvrier
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1994
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1994
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Henri Toussaint
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1993
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In this drama, filmed in a series of vignettes, a diverse cast of characters tries to pick up the pieces of their lives after...
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Paul
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1993
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France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the...
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1992
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In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
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1992
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Two couples traveling together in the same car are forced to take refuge at the country manor of a hermit-like old man when...
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Raymond
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1992
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A wealthy woman owns an exclusive private boarding school off the coast of England, where young men are taught in French and...
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Leonard Wilde
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1991
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In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new...
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Edouard Frenhofer
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1991
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Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with...
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M. Armand
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1991
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In this fascinating and unconventional examination of the creative process, an artist near the end of his career finds new...
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Edouard Frenhofer
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1991
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The story of this film was allegedly based on a true story witnessed by the director Nico Papatakis during his filmmaking...
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Marcel Spadice
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1991
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This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the...
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Milou
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1990
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Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do...
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Dr. Ernst Fuchs
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1989
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Mathieu (Robin Renucci) is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris in this...
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Batz
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1988
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A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this...
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Father Jean-Marie
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1988
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Kassar
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1987
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Juliette (Nastassja Kinski) is a hairstylist who is diagnosed with cancer in this tearjerking romantic drama. Her illness...
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Raoul Bergeron
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1987
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The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo...
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Malleville
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1987
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Set in Vienna, Austria before World War I, an industrialist grows weary of his cold-hearted wife. He seeks vengeance in a...
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Friedrich Hofreiter
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1987
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This portrayal of the reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production. The...
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Pierre
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1986
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This critically acclaimed French drama blends film noir and science fiction elements in a story about a strange and deadly...
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Marc
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1986
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This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well, making it more of an exercise...
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Etienne
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1986
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With ingenious camera work, witty dialogue, and a setting that almost never wanders from the cavernous interior of a mod...
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Nonentity
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1986
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Gen. Caffarelli
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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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Simon Lerner
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1985
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Mixing together the erotic and a theme of imminent death, director Michel Deville has fashioned an increasingly unsettling...
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Graham Tombsthay
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1985
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Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet...
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Akiva Liebskind
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1984
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Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam...
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French Official
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1984
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Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a...
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Michel Perrin
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1984
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Falling a little short of either comedy or drama or whatever the intent may have been, this bland film directed by...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Benetandi
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1983
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Tom Berenger seems bemused by his surroundings in the Italian Beyond Obsession. An American engineer, Berenger falls in love...
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Mr. Mutti
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1982
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Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for...
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Nigi
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1982
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This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee...
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1982
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Despite a fast-paced story that slams the broadcast industry and lotto mentality, this sci-fi action thriller emphasizes...
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Frederic Mallaire
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1982
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A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max...
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Max Baumstein
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1982
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Andre Joeuf (Jean Poiret) is the coldly calculating president of an insurance company who, when faced with the imperative of...
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Jose Viss
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1982
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Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses...
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Michel
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1982
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Edmond Leroyer
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1982
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Sebastien Grenier (Lino Ventura), a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich and cultivating an...
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Jean-Paul Chance
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1982
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Louis (Gerard Lanvin), an advertising executive in a Paris department store, is not the world's most ambitious man, but he...
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Bertrand Malair
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1981
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Anne (Jane Birkin) is a seriously disturbed young woman who is driven to leave her husband for awhile and go home to her...
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Her father
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1981
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Judge Ponticelli
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1980
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Joseph
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1980
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German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is...
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Rene Winterhalter
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1980
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Crime specialist Sergio Corbucci directed this madcap comic mystery that is just waiting to be discovered by cult audiences....
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1979
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In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want...
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Philippe
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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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Pierre Chazerand
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1979
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The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for...
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Konrad
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1978
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L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles...
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Orlaville
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1978
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In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a...
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Grezillo
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1978
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A group of carping critics and whiny would-be artists who have never been confronted with the reality of having their works...
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Strauberg (Publisher)
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1978
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Marchand
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1977
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La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a...
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Hansen
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1977
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Spoiled Children (Des enfants gates) finds director Bertrand Tavernier tempering his New Wave impulses with an overwhelming...
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Bernard
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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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Saint-Rame
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1977
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Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife...
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Simon
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1976
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This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a...
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Michel
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1976
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Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian...
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Excellency
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1976
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1976
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Patrick Dewaere plays Andre, a hot-tempered young man who whiles away his spare time by fantasizing about the action films of...
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Etienne
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1976
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Richard (Michel Piccolo) is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault,...
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Richard
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1975
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This international collaboration has five unrelated titles in four languages, and includes filmmakers and stars from France,...
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Enqueteur
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1975
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Losseray (Michel Piccoli) is a surgeon who has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is being hassled...
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Losseray
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1975
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country...
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Francois
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1974
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One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a...
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Prefect
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1974
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When Michel (Michel Piccoli) gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it...
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Michel
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1974
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Michel Piccoli is irresistibly slimy in the role of a conniving attorney. Making the acquaintance of two lovely sisters...
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Sarret
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1974
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Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain...
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Buffalo Bill
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1974
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Michel
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1973
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Pierre
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1973
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This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution...
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Themroc
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1973
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In this French tragicomedy, once Pierre sees Auriele, he cannot rest until he finds her. Pierre is just minding his own...
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Pierre
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1973
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This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as...
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1973
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1972
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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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Kassar
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1972
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In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society....
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1972
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1972
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This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal...
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French Priest
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1972
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In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems...
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Paul
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1971
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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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Valentin
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1971
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Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom,...
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Max
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1971
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When she discovers her husband has come home with a mistress, Anne (Joanna Shimkus) leaves her home in Paris and spends the...
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Francois
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1970
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A group of amoral students pay a visit to their professor, a noted architect with plans to construct his buildings in Africa....
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Marcello
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1970
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After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with...
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Pierre
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1970
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While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a...
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1969
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This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial...
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Glauco
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1969
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Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris....
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Jacques Granville
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1969
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French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda writes and directs the intellectual drama Les Creatures. Michel Piccoli plays a...
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Edgar
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1969
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A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution....
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1968
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In this romantic melodrama, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is a young woman who takes comfort in the arms of her older wealthy...
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Charles
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1968
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Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is the criminal mastermind who has just pulled off a huge heist. He spends most of his free time...
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Inspector Ginko
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1968
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Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a...
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1968
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Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel....
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Henri Husson
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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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1967
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In this WW II drama, twelve captured French soldiers await their impending executions in a German prison camp. Fortunately,...
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The Extra Man
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1967
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An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer in this plodding romantic drama. She ends up...
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Friend
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1967
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Under the tutelage of one-time husband, director Roger Vadim, Jane Fonda plays the much-younger wife of stuffed-shirt...
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Alexandre Saccard
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1966
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La Guerre est Finie represents one of the few "linear" films of French director Alain Resnais. Instead of indulging in his...
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1st Customs Inspector
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1966
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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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Werner Kreuz
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1966
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1965
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Bruno (Michele Piccolo) returns for some strange reason to the small French town where he was an informant to the Nazis in...
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Bruno
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1965
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1965
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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1965
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1965
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1965
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1965
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In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation...
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1965
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Michel Piccoli stars as an amorous dentist whose philandering seemingly knows no bounds. He is no sooner shooing such...
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Raoul
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1964
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1964
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The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts...
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Monsieur Monteil
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1964
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Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul...
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Paul Javal
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1963
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This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles Le Jour Et L'Heure, Il Giorno e L'Ora and Viviamo Oggi in Europe. In...
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Antoine
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1963
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Confusion and wrong assumptions are the cause of tragedy in this stylish gangster noir by director Jean-Pierre Melville....
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Nuttheccio
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1962
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1962
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Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A...
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1961
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This French/Italian sword 'n' sandal effort is set in the Rome of 476 BC. The Eternal City is threatened with invasion from...
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1961
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1961
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In this crime drama, a crook tries to pull off the biggest job of his illustrious career by stealing extremely important,...
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1960
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1959
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Not reaching much beyond a routine and predictable crime-romance story, La Bete a L'Afflut features (Francoise Arnoul) as an...
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Jacques
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1959
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Though much of its glory had faded by 1958, France's Tabarin nightclub still held a fascination for tourists and patrons....
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1958
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1958
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Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes...
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Frank Marchal, Policeman
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1957
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American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were...
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1957
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Though nearly as lavish as the 1938 MGM film of the same name, the 1955 French historical epic Marie Antoinette is not...
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1956
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Recharging his creative batteries with a "commercial" venture, director Luis Bunuel came up with the stylish if...
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Father Lisardi
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1956
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Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she...
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1955
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Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it...
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1954
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1954
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John Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
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1950
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Veteran French filmmaker Louis Daquin was the recipient of worldwide plaudits for his realistically detailed drama Le Point...
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1949
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1949
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Bellman was based on the novel Horseman of Riouclare by Claude Boncompain. Lucien Coedel stars in this steadily-paced...
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1947
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