The bleakest and most claustrophobic nightmare of many a European actualizes in director Régis Wargnier's apocalyptic...
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2007
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Gustave
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2006
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The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front...
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2006
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2004
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2004
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2003
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Directed and written by Philippe Muyl, the family-friendly Le Papillon (The Butterfly) concerns a search for the title...
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Julien
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2002
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Carlo Semenza
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2001
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Can a thirtysomething gal from the city find happiness with a goat farm and its aging overseer? Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner)...
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Adrien Rochas
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2001
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The story of a vengeful ghost (which spawned both a popular silent thriller and a mid-'60s TV miniseries that drew record...
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Verlac
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2001
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2000
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Gabriel Aghion directs this bawdy period romp about a day in the life of 18th century philosopher and sensualist Denis...
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2000
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A lighthearted and nostalgic drama about life among a group of close-knit friends, Les Enfants du Marais/Children of the...
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Pépé
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1999
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Victor
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1997
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This historical drama is based on the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman to achieve success as a painter....
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Orazio Gentileschi
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1997
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Mr. Wagner
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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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Lots of people wish they could be someone else, but a French businessman decides to do something about it in this satirical...
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Francis Bergeade
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1995
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Pierre Arnaud
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1995
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Alex Pontin
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1993
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In this murder farce, a hitchhiker lopes into one of France's decaying industrial towns where unemployment is much higher...
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Rousselot
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1992
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Darius Caunes is so charming, you want to forget that he killed his wife. He is so charming that you will probably want to...
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Darius Caunes
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1992
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1992
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Pompilius
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1991
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In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to...
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Gino
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1990
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Serial killers appear in small numbers almost everywhere. Their motives vary, but in every case they are a peculiar breed....
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Docteur Petiot
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1990
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Michaud (Michel Serrault) is a timid and anxiety-ridden security-systems technician who is prone to daydreams like Walter...
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Michaud
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1989
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The very busy actor Michel Serrault lends his talents to the depiction of a monstre sacree of French literature, the...
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Paul Leautaud
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1989
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1989
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This "policier" was co-written by producer and star Alain Delon with director Jose Pinheiro. It tells the story of a group of...
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Roger Scatti
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1988
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Paul Duchene
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1987
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Baudin
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1987
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Albin Mougeotte
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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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Octave
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1986
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Insurance investigator Ronald Fox Terrier (Michel Serrault) looks into a questionable claim of disability feigned by Papu...
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Ronald Fox Terrier
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1986
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This is an often wilted, occasionally flat spoof of the French Revolution by Jean Yanne, France's answer to Mel Brooks. The...
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Louis XVI
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1985
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Gaetan (Michel Serrault) is a television comic whose jokes have kept his program alive, but in more recent times, his senior...
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Gaetan/Wellson
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1985
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On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with...
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Insp. Robert Staniland
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1985
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A stolen letter creates all sorts of trouble for the president of France in this political comedy. The letter is hidden...
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Minister of the Interior
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1984
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The mindless frenzy of sports fans is expertly captured in the first half of this action film by Jean-Pierre Mocky on soccer...
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Rico
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1984
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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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Otarius
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1984
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In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial...
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Beauvoir, The "Eye"
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1983
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The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is a non-fiction book by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomblin about a man who first...
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Barral
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1982
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The setting for this story is Rahatlcoum, a Roman colony in North Africa, but the "colonists" watch television, have gay...
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Producer
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1982
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Based on a mystery novel by Leo Malet, lead character Detective Burma (comic Michel Serrault) has luxurious office digs -...
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Nestor Burma
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1982
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In this murder mystery, based on a Georges Simenon novel, a homicidal maniac goes on a killing spree beginning with his wife,...
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Leon Labbe
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1982
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In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take...
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Emmanuel
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1981
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This is a minimalist interrogation drama about a wealthy, influential attorney (Michel Serrault) in a small French town falls...
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Jerome Martinaud
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1981
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Albin
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1980
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Morlaix
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1980
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This French comedy stars Michel Serrault as a bland corporation functionary who'll never get ahead so long as he remains a...
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Julien Pardot
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1980
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Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the...
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1979
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Michel Serrault plays a double role in this lighthearted comedy. An ineffectual actor is called on to portray his look-alike...
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Martial Perrin / Gilbert Brossard
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1979
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1978
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The most powerful officers of a bank are implicated in a financial scandal, despite their efforts to disassociate themselves...
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Miremant
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1978
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An international comedy sensation based on a successful French stage play, La Cage aux Folles depicts the farcical chaos that...
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Albin/ZaZa
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1978
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The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed...
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Neighbor
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1978
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1977
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1975
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In this wartime comedy, Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he...
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1975
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This crime drama, with elements of comedy and satire, is most notable as the final screen appearance of Michel Simon. In the...
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Killer
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1975
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Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her...
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Henricot
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1974
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In this French fantasy/comedy, the Maoist Chinese, by some miracle, have occupied Paris (and France) overnight. The patience...
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Gregoire
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1974
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1974
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Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky)....
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1974
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The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity...
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Rondin
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1974
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In this French comedy/satire, director Jean Yanne plays Benoit, an economist who sets out to prove that, with money, one can...
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Priest
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1973
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1973
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This is one of the seemingly innumerable French comedies made in the early '70s featuring the musicians-turned-comedians,...
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Manager
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1973
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Jean Yanne directs and stars in this French comedy. He plays a radio reporter who is fired when he recounts on the air just...
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Marcel Jolin
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1972
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Superintendant
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1972
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Emile
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1972
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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Martinet
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1972
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Alfred (Michel Serrault) doesn't work. He lets his wife do that. Instead, he plays the horses, and wanders about,...
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Alfred
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1971
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A young man leaves home when he finds the marriage of his mutually adulterous parents to be hypocritical in this romantic...
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Father
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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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Chief
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1970
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1969
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1969
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1969
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Morelli
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1968
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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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Patan
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1967
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This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love....
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1967
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1967
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The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been...
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1966
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This episodic film is for those who have ever wondered about the lives of the people who buy beds in a furniture store. Each...
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Albert
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1965
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A inept group of crooks conspire to rob a department store before the Christmas holiday in this crime comedy. They get the...
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Elevator Man
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1965
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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 French comedy, a desperate gambler has one week to repay a large debt; and therefore, enlists the aide of a bungling...
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1965
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In this French comedy from director Edouard Molinaro, a young Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Fernand, a groom-to-be who is...
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1964
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Caroline (Dany Saval) is a young woman who turns her attention to older men in this romantic situation comedy. She has hopes...
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Husband
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1964
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The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film....
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Mr. Crow [The Fox And The Crow]
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1963
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A mystery playwright finds that he is the target of a killer. Fancying himself a sleuth, he insists upon solving the puzzle...
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Detective
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1963
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Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the...
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Berthoin
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1963
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When a girl falls for her younger brother's teacher, she attempts to capture his attention. She finds that a little male...
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Father
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1963
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A jealous ex-convict is released from prison and tries to kill the man who had been seeing his girlfriend in this offbeat...
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Jerome
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1963
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An overly ambitious young man hopes to rise to the top of the advertising business. When he feels his progress is being...
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Policeman Baudu
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1963
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Inspector
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1962
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1962
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1962
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1962
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In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a...
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le clochard
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1961
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1961
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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1960
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Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic...
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1960
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1959
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1958
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Based on a story by one of France's favorite satirists, Georges Courteline, this is the second time a director has taken on...
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Curator
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1958
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1958
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1957
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Albert Le Cagneux
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1957
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1956
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Inspector
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1956
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1954
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A bevy of beautiful strippers team up with a handful of risqué comedians in this feature that documents a typical burlesque...
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1953
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