An anonymous love letter leads to a slew of misunderstandings in this lighthearted comedy starring Audrey Tautou (Amelie)....
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Maddie
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2010
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2010
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Gallic actress-turned-director Josiane Balasko - a Euro cinema mainstay best known for her unconventional romantic lead in...
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Judith
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2008
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An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller...
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Elisabeth Feldman
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2008
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A group of women struggling with their sexuality speak openly with the female counselors who wonder if such a thing as...
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2008
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Two people fleeing different sorts of danger find one another in this screwball romantic comedy from France. Danny...
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Irène Montier Duval
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2008
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2007
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It is 1960. France encroaches on the wrap-up of the Franco-Algerian war, but for Gallic patriot and military veteran Georges...
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2007
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A young, inexperienced detective is inducted into an elite Paris plainclothes unit in Le Petit Lieutenant, directed by...
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Caroline Vaudieu
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2006
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A good-natured adolescent struggles to find himself as his controlling mother attempts to bind him with her love in director...
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2006
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2004
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2004
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Co-written by Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol's La Fleur Du Mal (The Flower of Evil) concerns three generations of the...
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Anne
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2003
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Sofia
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2003
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Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues in director Noemie Lvovsky's 2003...
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Carole
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2003
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A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this...
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Paula Abagnale
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2002
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The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed...
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Patsy
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2001
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A man keeping a few too many secrets finds them coming back to haunt him in this farcical comedy. Barnie (Fabrice Luchini) is...
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2001
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A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of...
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Angele
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2000
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In this drama, two people discover that it's not as simple as they thought to have a purely sexual relationship. A man and...
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Her
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2000
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A screwball comedy that covers one week in the lives of a group of Parisians, Ca Ira Mieux Demain relies on chance encounters...
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2000
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One man's attempt to avenge his father has unexpected consequences in this drama from France. Matthieu (Benoit Magimel) and...
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Claire
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2000
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Jeanne Labrune wrote and directed this French psychological drama that begins on a train when impoverished carpet salesman...
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Muriel
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1998
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1998
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In this British-French co-production, assistant bank manager Alex (Richard E. Grant), a part-time theater instructor, decides...
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Michele
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1997
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In a Brussels courthouse, notoriously brutal killer Julius Mandenne stands trial for dismembering a woman and cryptically...
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Sophie
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1996
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1995
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This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc...
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Marie
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1994
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The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by...
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1993
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Emma
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1993
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In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including...
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1993
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Lorraine and Gille are sharing a romantic dinner at a cafe in Rome while they celebrate their relationship with a vacation...
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Lorraine
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1992
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Narrator
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1992
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One might assume that the original title of this French production was C'est La Vie. Wrong: the film was initially released...
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Lena
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1990
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Adapted from a true story, West German investigative journalist Gunther Wallraff (Jurgen Prochnow) decides to fight sleaze...
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Christine
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1990
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Without undue melodrama or moral judgment, this evocative French drama paints a painfully realistic portrait of a woman who...
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Camille Valmont
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1990
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Alice
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1989
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Leonore
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1988
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Catherine
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1987
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In a standard psycho-killer thriller, Cecile (Nathalie Baye) goes from her home in Canada to New York after her boyfriend is...
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Cecile Carline
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1985
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After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to...
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Francoise Chenal
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1984
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In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon)...
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Donatienne
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1984
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Sacha Vernakis
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1984
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The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is...
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Bertrande de Rols
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1982
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In the French-made film (La Balance), a couple get caught between the French underworld and the cops who pledge to destroy...
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Nicole
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1982
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A young woman is abandoned by her lover after she tells him she is pregnant. Deeply depressed and longing for home, she...
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Helene
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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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Nina Coline
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1981
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The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the...
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Anna
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1981
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In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted...
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Charlotte
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1981
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French director Bernard Tavernier once again successfully translates the fragile intimacy of human relationships to the...
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Laurence
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1980
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1980
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In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite...
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1980
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The caustic cartoons of Gerard Lauzier on the condition of the French middle classes are brought to life in this story about...
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Brigitte
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1980
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In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their...
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Judith
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1979
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Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard's return to cinema after having...
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Denise Rimbaud
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1979
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This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really...
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Fabienne
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1978
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The Green Room (La Chambre Verte) is perhaps the least well-known of Francois Truffaut's 1970s films. Truffaut himself stars...
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Cecilia Mandel
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1978
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In this family comedy, Papa (Claude Brasseur) has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend. ~...
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Janine
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1977
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When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier,...
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Martine
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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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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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1976
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In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least...
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1976
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A group of free-spirited young performers attempt to enliven a rather grim housing development for working-class people, only...
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Girl
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1975
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In this film, a group of French kids face the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood as they struggle through...
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1974
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Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous...
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1973
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When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible...
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La femme du fils
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1973
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