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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Zizi
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1975
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The Grand Magic Circus, which performed on streets and in theaters in the 1970s, here takes to film. The story told concerns...
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1975
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This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was...
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Prosecuting Attorney
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1972
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Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche is a tragic romantic tale set in 13th century France. While visiting the castle of an old...
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Master
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1971
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This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest....
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Cavazza
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1970
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Louis (Michel Simon) is the elderly science professor who is visited by the daughter of an American colleague. Lorraine...
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Louis
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1970
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Jericho (Michel Simon) is a grandfather and a veterinarian who invites his grandson for a visit. The grandson and his wife...
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Jericho
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1968
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In this drama, a couple embroiled in marital turmoil decide to go on a three-week vacation to save their marriage. They end...
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1968
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Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a...
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Pepe
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1968
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Laurent (Pierre Brasseur) is a newspaper reporter sent to investigate a string of mysterious small-town murders. Although he...
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Consigne
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1965
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Papa Boule
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1964
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French dialogue and English subtitles are featured in this review of the career of Michel Simon who worked with Jean Vigo and...
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1964
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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Jerome Chambard
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1962
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Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a...
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Charles
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1962
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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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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Nanar
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1960
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In this routine crime drama, popular French actor and comic Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not...
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Pierrot
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1960
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A horror film of dubious taste, a least for the early '60s when it was released, this Gothic tale about transplanted heads...
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Prof. Abel
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1959
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A Swiss-French coproduction, It Happened in Broad Daylight is an austere but shocking story of the hunt for a human monster....
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Jacquier
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1958
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1957
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A film company on location happens to photograph a murder in progress. Ambitious police inspector Bernard (Michel Simon)...
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Bernard
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1957
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1956
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1955
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1955
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This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their...
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1954
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Par Ordre du Tsar (At the Order of the Czar) is liberally based on an incident in the life of famed composer -- and notorious...
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Prince
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1954
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1954
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Even allowing for its translation into modern French, this is a remarkably unfaithful adaptation of William Shakespeare's...
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Shylock
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1953
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Bou Rezza
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1953
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The English-language title of this French "omnibus" film is Full House. Three stories by three famed detective-fiction...
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Maigret
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1952
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Bertal
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1952
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Tutor
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1952
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It all begins when astronomer Charles (Michel Simon) spots a heretofore undiscovered exploding star while peering through his...
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Charles
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1952
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La Vie d'un Honnette Homme was the sole 1953 contribution from indefatigable French filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who scripted and...
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Albert
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1952
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As the title of this French crime melodrama indicates, there's always two sides to the story when murder is involved. The...
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Maitre
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1952
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Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a...
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Pierre
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1952
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1952
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Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
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1951
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La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the...
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Faust as an old man; Mephistopheses
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1950
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After several years of wartime austerity, the Italian film industry returned to spectacle with Fabiola. French actress...
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Fabian
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1949
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The King's Jester is a non-musical Italian film version of the tragic opera Rigoletto. While we hear no vocal renditions of...
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Rigoletto
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1947
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In keeping with its title, The Story of Tosca is more beholden to the original Victorien Sardou novel than the Giacomo...
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Scarpia
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1947
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1947
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1947
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1946
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Non Coupable translates as Not Guilty, which is definitely not the legal standing of provincial doctor Michel Simon. Already...
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1946
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For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to...
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M. Hire
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1946
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Returning to films after a six-year absence, French director Raymond Bernard called the shots on Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir (A...
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Michel Lemaret
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1945
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Michel Simon stars in this cinemadaptation of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Simon is cast as Vautrin, a Robin Hoodlike...
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Vautrin
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1943
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Andre Cayatte's Shop Girls of Paris was originally released in 1943 as Au Bonheur des Dames. Adapted from a novel by Emile...
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Baudu
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1943
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This film is the first western ever made in Italy. It tells the tale of a young saloon dancer who inadvertently gets...
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1942
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This troubled film version of the Puccini opera was begun by Jean Renoir while lecturing in Italy at the invitation of...
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Scarpia
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1940
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1940
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Paris-New York is set aboard the French luxury liner Normandie, and it goes without saying that the story takes place before...
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1940
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Le Sentencier
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1939
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In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll....
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Jo
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1939
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This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home....
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Cabrissard
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1939
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Returning to the screen after a lengthy absence, Rene Lefevre co-stars in this adaptation of his own novel Musiciens du Ciel...
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1939
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Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de...
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1939
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Nick Marino
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1939
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Naples au Baiser de Feu (The Kiss of Fire) was one of several films made in France by veteran Italian director...
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Michel
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Missing from St. Agil) would be worth watching if only for the chop-licking performance by Erich...
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Lemel, prof. de dessin
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1938
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Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin....
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Zabel
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1938
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Le Ruisseau (The Stream) begins as orphan girl Gaby Sylvia escapes from her guardians and stows away on board a ship. She is...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Adapted from a story by Joseph Conrad, Sous les Yeux D'Occident (Under Western Eyes) is set in Russia during the Revolution....
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Lesparra
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1936
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1936
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Moutonnet is a dim-witted French peasant, played by Noel-Noel. Merac is a sarcastic stage comedian, also played by Noel-Noel....
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Megger
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1936
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In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by...
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Irwin Molyneux/Felix Chapel
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Noel Malpas
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1935
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The most acclaimed (and sentimental) film in Jean Vigo's short career. L'Atalante is the name of the barge owned by Jean...
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Pere Jules
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1934
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1933
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Marc Allegret's Lac Aux Dames (Ladies' Lake) boasts an impressive pedigree, having been adapted by novelist Collette from a...
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1933
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This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored...
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1933
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Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by...
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Producer, Boudu
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1932
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The inimitable Michel Simon stars as Baleydier, a dishevelled dimwit who works as a hairdresser's assistant. Through an...
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1932
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Jean Renoir's first sound film was a bitter and highly controversial psychological drama, so controversial that it was never...
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Maurice Legrand
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1931
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Flower-shop owner Clo-Clo (Michel Simon) is known to his friends as "Jean de la Lune" ("Moondreaming John") because he...
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Clo-Clo
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1931
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Chouilloux
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1931
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1929
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is widely regarded as Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's finest...
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1928
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1926
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Originally released in 1926 in hand-tinted prints, for years this silent classic, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello...
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Jerome Pomino
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1925
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