In an attempt to boost his then-flagging career, comedian Buster Keaton starred in the 1935 French production Le Roi de...
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Germaine
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2004
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2000
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This French film is an old-fashioned melodrama with a love triangle, a talented starlet, and a duel. It is set in 1930 when...
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1995
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1992
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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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1990
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1990
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A female job counselor tries to find work for two very different unemployed men in this comedy. She is in love with a man who...
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1988
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1982
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In this French melodrama, the unexpected, untimely death of her husband leaves Jeanne (Annie Girardot) struggling to come to...
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1981
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This sequel to Dear Detective suffers from the same trouble as most sequels in that it does not live up to the original film....
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1980
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The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director...
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1980
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Simone
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1977
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In this French drama, when magazine journalist Juliette (Annie Giradot) goes to work on a story, she gets serious. This gets...
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1974
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Madame Diogene
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1965
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1964
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1963
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Maigret (Jean Gabin) is the detective who investigates a murder conspiracy. Gangsters from the United States try to kill a...
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1963
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In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily...
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1963
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Mother
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1963
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One of several versions of a steamy novel by Eugene Sue, Les Mystères de Paris is set at the turn of the 20th century and...
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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1962
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1962
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Georges Lautner, a popular French director of comedies and romantic dramas, tries his hand at a war film in this routine tale...
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1961
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Intermittent sexual encounters and a sleazy group of protagonists provide some interest in this otherwise undistinguished...
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Madame Lacoste
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1960
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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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No relation to the Jacques Tati film of the same name, the French Playtime has also been released as La Recreation and Love...
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1960
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This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a...
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1959
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1959
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Jean Renoir never made any secret that Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) was inspired by the impressionist...
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1959
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The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who...
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1958
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1958
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Christa Winsloe's novel Maedchen in Uniform was first filmed in Germany in 1933. The story, about a sensitive schoolgirl's...
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1958
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1958
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Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg....
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1957
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1956
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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1955
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The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. We first see the horse-faced...
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1954
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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1952
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Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of...
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1952
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1951
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It's a lucky thing that Four in a Jeep was bankrolled by a Swiss production company; if ever a movie needed a neutral...
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1951
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1951
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The Naked Woman is the mildly exploitive American title for this French filmization of the Henry Bataille novel La Femme Nue....
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1946
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1946
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French film favorite Danielle Darrieux had only recently cleared herself of a wartime "collaboration" charge when she starred...
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1945
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1945
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1943
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1943
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1943
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1942
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Lisette
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1939
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1939
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1939
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The inimitable Fernandel stars as Barnabe in this French musical farce. Most of the action takes place at a huge chateau,...
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1938
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1938
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Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by...
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1938
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Le Mensonge de Nina Petrova (The Lie of Nina Petrova) was filmed in 1937, one year before its director, Russian-born...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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Pauline
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1933
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L'Odonnance (The Orderly) is based on the Guy de Maupassant story of the same name. After the sudden and unexpected suicide...
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Marie
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Based on a novel by Helen Nimirosky, The Ball was filmed simultaneously in German and French-language versions. The French...
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1931
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