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2007
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Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A...
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2006
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A man looking for a reason to live gets more than he bargained for in this black comedy from France. Edy (François Berléand)...
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Louis
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2005
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Narrator
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2003
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Rene Boirond
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2003
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Directed by Michel Boujenah, Pere et Fils (Father and Son) centers around retired traveling salesman Leo Serano's...
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2003
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Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex...
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Léonce
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2003
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Investigating the murder of the entire family of a known drug lord, Brussels police round up and interrogate another wily...
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Mr. Louis Chevalier
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2002
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Alfredo
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2002
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This is a comedy with an edge about a world-famous cellist, Jascha Steg, in love with Ana, a violinist. Jascha's world tour...
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1998
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The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers...
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1998
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This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized...
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1997
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Based on an acclaimed, popular historical novel by Dacia Maraini, this 18th-century set costumer follows the adventures of a...
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1997
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A prominent French surgeon of Jewish heritage (Phillippe Noiret) suffers a massive heart attack in the film's prologue and as...
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Joseph Levy
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1997
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Based on an award-winning play by Jean-Noel Fenwick, this fact-based drama offers a lively account of the lives and...
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Shutz
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1997
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Three old French jamons attempt to make a comeback by working in a road-show production of Scoubidou in this hilarious French...
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Victor Vialat
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1996
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Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently...
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Philippe Bruneau-Tessier
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1996
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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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Victor Derval
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1995
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1995
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This French WW II action-adventure is based on a fascinating footnote in history. Set just after the Franco-German armistice...
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The General
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1995
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Pablo Neruda
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1994
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This highly intellectual European documentary examines the benefits and moral basis for war reporting in the 20th century....
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1994
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A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual...
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Philippe
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1994
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A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise...
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D'Artagnan
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1994
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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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L'Elegant
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1993
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Toussaint
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1992
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Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up...
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Robert 'Max' Maxendre
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1992
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Isabella is the much-loved child of a movie producer, growing up in the 1950s. Key moments in her life are seen as she...
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Alberto
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1992
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1992
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Young, naive and innocent, Pierre (Manuel Blanc) has dreams of becoming an actor. He is a good-looking and personable boy,...
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Romain
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1991
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Three very odd relationships provide the basis for this thought-provoking Italian anthology that is overseen by director...
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Barber
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1991
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Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the...
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1991
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Uranus is set in a post-war French village that has been all but obliterated by the bombing. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays a...
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Watrin
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1990
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The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But....
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Maj. Dellaphanne
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1990
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A "ripoux" is, in French slang, a policeman who accepts bribes, shakes down "honest" criminals for a cut of their action, at...
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Rene Lesbuch
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1990
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Anatole Hirsch (Phillippe Noiret) has already made his mark as a writer, and has garnered critical acclaim and financial...
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Anatole Hirsch
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1990
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1989
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This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches...
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Hotel Manager
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1989
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Ornella Muti plays a Kept Woman whose keeper has the bad taste to die. Silvana (Muti) attaches herself to another wealthy...
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Gabriele Battistini
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1988
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Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title...
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Alfredo
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1988
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1988
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Savinien de Kerfadec
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1988
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Inspecteur Leroyer
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1987
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A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th...
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1987
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Academy Award-winning animator Frédéric Back adapts acclaimed author Jean Giono's inspirational tale of the difference a...
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1987
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In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in...
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Dr. Fadigati
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1987
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Christian Legagneur
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1987
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A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody...
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1986
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The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by...
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Edouard
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1986
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Originally titled Speriamo che sia Femmina, Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of...
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Count Leonardo
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1986
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A look at Communism behind the Iron Curtain, this comedy is set in a posh Moscow hotel run by the hypocritical Igor...
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Igor Tatiatev
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1986
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In this crime story, Antoine (Jacques Bonnafe) is suddenly called home from the North Sea where he works on an oil rig; his...
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Pierre Franchin
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1986
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Sophia Loren plays an Italian cab driver whose 12-year-old son (played by her real-life son Edoardo Ponti) is blinded in an...
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1985
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In this political drama, freedom of the press, government intrigue, and the murder of an Arab diplomat form the knots of...
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Yves Dorget
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1985
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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This run-of-the-mill police comedy drama focuses on two policemen, René (Philippe Noiret), a somewhat grubby plainclothes...
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René
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1984
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In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu), the sweep of this...
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Dubreuilh
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1984
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This well-articulated, engaging story about the differing fortunes of two brothers just after Algeria's war for independence...
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1984
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In this plodding drama about a man searching for his friend's wronged lover, there is neither high action nor high suspense...
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1983
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Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship...
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Etienne Labrouche
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1983
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Searching for the ideal place for a new resort in Central Africa, Catherine Deneuve stumbles into an ex-lover,...
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Victor
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1983
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In a series of vignettes that serve as a sequel to Amici Miei, director Mario Monicelli brings back several of his stars from...
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Giorgio Perozzi
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1982
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Edouard Binet
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1982
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Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an...
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Raffaele
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1981
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Birgitt Haas (Lisa Kreuzer) has become the target of the German Secret Service -- she is a German terrorist and the Secret...
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Athanase
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1981
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Lucien Cordier
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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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Antoine Lemercier
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1980
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Baroni
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1980
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French director Bernard Tavernier once again successfully translates the fragile intimacy of human relationships to the...
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Michel Descombes
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1980
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Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. An old friend of his, Robert...
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Robert Maurisson
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1979
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Peppe
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1979
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Intended as a kind of satire on a certain type of social-climbing mania, this routine comedy misses like a faulty engine. The...
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Father
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1979
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Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is...
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Moulineau
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1978
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Working people put the factory owners of the world on notice when they rebelled in France following that country's defeat in...
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Pottier
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1978
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Antoine
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1977
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An ambitious musical adaptation of Michel Déon's best-selling novel, Un Taxi Mauve is set in Ireland during a time in which...
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Philippe
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1977
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With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked...
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General
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1976
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Social classes and different cultures collide as three disparate men try to court a wealthy young woman (Romy Schneider) in...
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Raoul
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1976
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In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine...
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Albert
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1976
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Perozzi
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1975
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Georges
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1975
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The second of director Bernard Tavernier's first three critically acclaimed films, this historical costume drama was the...
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Philippe d'Orleans
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1975
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Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French...
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Rousseau
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1975
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Old Gun (Le Vieux Fusil) stars Philippe Noiret as an aging, embittered French physician. During the occupation, Noiret loses...
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Cesar
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1975
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Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain...
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Terry
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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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Gaspard
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1974
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Thomas Berthelot
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1974
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Descombes
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1974
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Malisard
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1974
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Philippe
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1973
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In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and...
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Berthon
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1973
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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1972
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1972
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Muriel (Annie Giradot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her...
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Gabriel
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1972
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In this French family film, the worst-laid plans of an unpleasant, grasping family come to naught in the face of the...
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Alfred
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1972
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Lepic
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1972
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1971
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This drama is based on a 1953 one-act play by Georges Amaudi. It details the confrontation between a determined young...
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1971
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Peter Yates directed this quirky World War II war drama starring Peter O'Toole as Murphy, an Irishman who survives the...
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Brezan
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1971
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A play by Jean Anouilh is the basis for A Time for Loving. In this Gallic blend of La Ronde and Plaza Suite, a single Paris...
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1971
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Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins...
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Gabriel
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1970
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Clerambard (Philippe Noiret) feeds his large family by killing cats and dogs. He also makes his family run hand looms with...
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Clerambard
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1969
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Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris....
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1969
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The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl...
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Lucoville
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1969
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Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial...
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Pombal
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1969
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To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called...
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Moujik Man
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1969
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Henri (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a young filmmmaker who convinces a nobleman to let him use his sprawling chateau to film a...
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Pointasan
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1968
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Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery...
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Inspector Morand
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1967
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This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his...
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Alexandre
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1967
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In this drama, a repertory actress suffers a creative block and ends up blaming her boyfriend. The fellow is a gifted...
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Andre
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1967
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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1967
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women...
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1966
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Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered...
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Traveller
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1966
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Michou
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1966
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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Ambroise Gerome
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1965
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A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France,...
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Jerome
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1965
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Polly Dorothy MacGowan is a model who tells about her experiences when she is interviewed by a television crew in this...
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Commentator
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1965
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Left a young widower, banker Monsieur (Jean Gabin) discovers that his late wife was having an affair before her death. About...
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Husband
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1964
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Laure (Pascale Audrei) enters a convent to escape the real world and surround herself in pity in this distaff drama that...
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1964
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1964
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1963
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1963
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1963
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In this thriller a fugitive from prison must clear her name after she was wrongly convicted of a crime. She had already...
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1963
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Risqué and bawdy, this sex comedy is by Italian director Lucio Fulci, who is also known for his horror films. The story...
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Bellini
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1962
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Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An...
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1962
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Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963...
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Bernard Desqueyroux
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1962
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In his Ballade Pour un Voyou, first-time director Jean-Claude Bonnardot has put together an uneven, occasionally suspenseful...
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Fabien
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1962
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1962
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This standard comedy was one of the last films by director René Clair, who began his career in 1922! The story deals with two...
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Victor Hardy
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1961
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Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A...
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1961
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Based on a novel by Theophile Gautier, this costume drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit is set in 17th-century France and centers...
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1961
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Ravissante is a lackluster, uneven situation comedy written, directed by, and starring Robert Lamoureux, normally a good...
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Maurice
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1960
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Uncle Gabriel
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1960
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1956
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At the time of its release, much was made of the fact that La Point Courte was directed by a mere "25-year-old girl". That...
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1955
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1951
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Noel (Bernard Blier), a grown-up mama's boy, falls heir to a busy matrimonial bureau. Assuming command of the operation, Noel...
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1951
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This French film version of Colette's best-selling novel Gigi predated both the 1950 stage adaptation and the 1958 Hollywood...
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1949
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