In this crime drama, a criminal mastermind and his gang plan to rob the Bank of Belgium during the Brussels Exposition as...
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The Pirate
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1959
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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Koubaroff
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1959
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In Le Bal Cupidon, an amusing comedy-mystery in the Thin Man tradition, Pierre Blanchar plays Dominique-Phillippe, a suave...
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Dominique-Phillippe
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1949
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Dr. Laennec
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1949
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1949
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This French WW II film chronicles the invasion of France by scores of English paratroopers who have come to bedevil the Nazi...
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Ferane
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1948
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The troubled turn-of-the-century marriage of a Nobel Prize winner provides the basis of this complex French domestic drama....
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Francois Mezaule
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1948
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Adapted by Pierre Bost and Jean Aurenche from a novel by Andre Gide, Symphonie Pastorale proved yet another box-office...
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Pastor Martin
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1946
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1946
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1944
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Hermann
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1944
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The French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara...
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Director, Gerard de Clergue
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Van Bergen
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1940
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1940
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1939
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The Courier of Lyons stars Pierre Blanchar as both hero and villain. Blanchar is introduced as Joseph Lesurques, who has the...
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Dubosc,Lesurques
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1938
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1938
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A Royal Divorce is the misleading title bestowed upon this dramatization of certain events in the lives of Napoleon and...
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Napoleon
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1938
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1938
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Though its title and director are Russian, The Volga Boatmen was lensed in its entirety in France. Set in pre-revolutionary...
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Vadime Borzine
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1938
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1937
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Hermann
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1937
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The title character of L'Etrange Monsieur Victor is a seemingly respectable storekeeper, happily married to the lovely...
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Bastien
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1937
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Having been showered with critical adulation for his 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, writer-director Pierre Chenal...
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Mathias Pascal
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1937
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1937
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In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all...
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Dr. Thierry
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1937
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1936
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Coudoyan
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1936
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Raskolnikov
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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L'Or is the French-language version of the simultaneously filmed German melodrama Gold. Brigitte Helm repeats her...
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Francois Berthier
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1934
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1933
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The great Harry Baur plays the title character in Cette Vielle Canaille -- which translates as "That Old Bum"! But he's no...
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses) may well be the most powerful anti-war film ever made; certainly it is the grimmest and...
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Gilbert Demachy
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1932
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Rollon
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1932
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Also known as Der Traumende Mund and Dreaming Lips, Melo was filmed in both French- and German-language versions by director...
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1932
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Lieutenant Saint-Avit
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1932
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The first of three film versions of Theophile Gautier's popular adventure novel Le Capitaine Fracasse was co-written and...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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1928
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Boleslas Vorowski
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1927
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1925
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1924
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Members of a highland clan battle the farmers of the lowlands in a dispute over water rights in this romantic adventure...
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1923
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1923
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