Twenty-five years after losing his position as the conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra for his refusal to fire the Jewish...
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Guylène de La Rivière
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2010
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A hard-working husband and father finds his family life in shambles after being forced into early retirement. Jean-Paul and...
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Anne
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2010
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2009
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La Mère
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2008
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A brother and sister face the traumas of middle age while their mother loses her battle with Alzheimer's in this comedy-drama...
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2008
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A man is shot dead, but is the woman with the gun really the killer? That's the all-important question in this thriller from...
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Elaine
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2008
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Christine Miroux
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2006
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A would-be nun pays a visit to an outside world that's full of surprises in this comedy-drama from France. Avril (Sophie...
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2006
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A down-and-out sleight-of-hand artist tries to pull off the trick of a lifetime by keeping a decaying cabaret in business in...
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2006
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The staid lives of a mother and daughter eking out a living in a coastal French resort town seem to take a turn for the...
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Antoinette
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2005
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2004
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Laure
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2000
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Karim Dridi, best known for Pigalle (1994) and Bye-Bye (1995), directed this French comedy-drama about actor Angelo Bastiani...
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1998
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Shot in Lisbon, this drama examines the issue of aging as seen from the viewpoints of five women facing middle age --...
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Eva
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1998
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This French-Spanish drama depicts a flat marriage that picks up a few new wrinkles. Nicole (Miou-Miou) and Jean-Marie...
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Nicole Kunstler
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1997
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Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a...
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Julie
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1996
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Misunderstandings create romantic mayhem in this French comedy. Joanna Martin is an investigative television reporter who has...
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Joanna Martin
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1996
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After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would...
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Julie
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1994
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A jungle boy comes to Paris in this French adventure that while primarily aimed towards children, will be equally enjoyable...
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Patricia
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1994
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Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the...
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Maheude
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1993
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If such a thing as gentle humor can be wrung from murderous misogyny, this all-star comedy is the embodiment of it. The basic...
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Marie
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1993
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The Breton-born French actor Patrick Dewaere (1947-1982) was acclaimed as one of the two best actors of his generation, along...
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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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Louise Sherry
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1992
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François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant...
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Helene
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1991
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Brigitte
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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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Camille
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1990
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At the suggestion of a friend, Constance (Miou-Miou) places an ad in the paper offering her services as a reader in this...
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Constance/Marie
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1989
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Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented...
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Lauda
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1988
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1988
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Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier...
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Monique
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1986
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1986
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Blanche
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1985
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Stereotyped and predictable, this is a feeble romantic adventure story about Laura (Miou-Miou), her estranged husband...
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Laura
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1984
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French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a...
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Madeleine
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1983
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Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman...
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Jessica
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1983
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Alice
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1983
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An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a...
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Josepha
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1982
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When a nurse who is already morose has a patient die under her care, she is so overwhelmed by this death that she starts out...
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Marie
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1982
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This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to...
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Gisele
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1982
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Gerard Louvier (Gerard Lanvin), a young criminal trying to stay a few steps ahead of a police manhunt, winds up with Julie...
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Julie Boucher
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1981
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A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in...
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1979
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Corinne (Miou-Miou) is a Parisian detective who is transferred to a small village in Northern France when an investigation...
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Corinne Levasseur
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1979
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Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is...
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Marie
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1979
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Two francophones have become roommates in Montreal. One is from France, the other is from Quebec. Their love-lives revolve...
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Nicole
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1979
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Roads to the South is often omitted from the "official" lists of Joseph Losey's films, principally because it was made for...
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Julia
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1978
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Juliette
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1977
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The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college...
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Rosanna
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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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Marie
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1976
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Jip (Julien Clerc) is a piano teacher with two girlfriends who live in entirely different worlds. One is a young, kooky lass...
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Rita
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1976
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A professional still photographer (Pierre Richard) has long wanted to make a movie from a story about love and politics. When...
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1976
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The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the...
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Marie
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1976
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An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western....
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Lucy
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1975
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Following a car chase and shootout, a man stumbles into a girl's apartment and dies. Frantic to be rid of this encumbrance,...
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Anita
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1975
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1975
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Marie-Ange
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1974
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When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances,...
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1974
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This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding,...
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1973
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In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These...
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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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1973
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1973
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In order to fight gangsters, the local townspeople and some hippie tourists overcome their differences in this French...
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1972
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1971
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