This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was...
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Defense Attorney
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1972
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This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the...
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1971
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This film details a pretty girl's rise (with its attendant hazards) from obscurity to fame as she becomes a top model....
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Boss
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1971
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In this modernized adaptation of the much-filmed Alexandre Dumas story, The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes was sent to...
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Faria
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1968
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This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring...
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Le Mari
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1968
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This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and black-and-white and concerns the residents of the mythical island of...
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Goto III
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1968
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A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she...
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Olnick
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1968
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This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love....
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Father
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1967
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1967
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The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been...
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Gen. Geranium
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1966
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A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes...
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Boss
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1966
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Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been...
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1966
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In this Italian bedroom farce, a humble village peasant has managed to remain a bachelor despite the fact that he has...
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Simone Palumbo
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1966
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1966
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1965
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It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major...
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1965
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Laurent (Pierre Brasseur) is a newspaper reporter sent to investigate a string of mysterious small-town murders. Although he...
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Laurent
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1965
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1965
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Patache
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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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Dimanche
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1965
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1964
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1964
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1964
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Jo (Eddie Constantine) is a gangster who is down on his luck. His cronies avoid him like the plague because his presence...
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Inspector
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1964
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Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are...
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1963
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In a biting, critical look at "justice" and how it does not necessarily work, director Christian-Jaque develops this tale of...
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Cassidi
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1963
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Distributed in the US in 1963, Agent of Doom was originally released in France four years earlier. The plot is set in motion...
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1963
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1963
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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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Martin Fenayrou [The Fenayrou Case]
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1962
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Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a...
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Francois
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1962
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A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection....
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1962
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1962
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Pierre Brasseur stars in this undistinguished drama about a pianist who is traumatized by an accident. He is so much...
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Husband
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1962
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Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin is a passable murder mystery by Georges Franju set in the atmospheric interior of an old chateau...
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Herve
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1961
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This standard melodrama by director Robert Siodmak, active in Germany, France, and the U.S., is nuanced with shades of film...
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Berrera
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1961
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Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay,...
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Alfio Magnano
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1960
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French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film....
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Prof. Genessier
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1960
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This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director...
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Sidone
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1960
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Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic...
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Pangloss
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1960
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Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an...
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Don Cesare
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1959
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1959
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Juvenile actor Joel Flateau is the center of attention in Sans Familie (Nobody's Boy). Heir to a fortune, the young...
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1958
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Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home...
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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Pierre Careau
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1958
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Marbeau
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1958
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Based on a story by one of France's favorite satirists, Georges Courteline, this is the second time a director has taken on...
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Negre
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1958
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Port de Lilias was Rene Clair's first film since 1955, and his last until 1960. It is more serious than most of Clair's...
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Juju
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1957
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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Buridan
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1955
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Germany's first CinemaScrope feature, Oase (Oasis) was directed by France's Yves Allegret and distributed by Hollywood's 20th...
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Doctor
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1955
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Pierre Brasseur plays the "mad monk" Rasputin -- or "Raspoutine" -- in this French historical melodrama. Insinuating himself...
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Raspoutine
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1954
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Pitrre
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1952
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A Simple Case of Money (originally released in 1950 as Millionaires d'un Jour) is set in motion when a greenhorn reporter...
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1952
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Ludovic
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1952
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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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Hoederer
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1951
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It has been said that French filmmaker Christian-Jacque specialized in two types of films: romantic mysteries and the...
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Paul
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1950
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1950
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Based on a stage play, Maitre Apres Dieu concentrates on a mercenary cargo-ship captain, played by Pierre Brasseur. The...
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Skipper
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1950
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Barbe-Bleue
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1950
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Thanks to the popularity of the 1948 cinemazation of Gigi, the "fin de siecle" novels of Colette suddenly became hot...
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1949
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Fabius
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1949
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1948
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Per its title, Lovers of Verona is an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film was a joint project of...
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Raffaele
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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This French romantic melodrama moved a bit too slowly for American audiences, but its original Gallic fans were more than...
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Twelve Apostles
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1946
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Petrus is a tailor-made vehicle for lantern-jawed French farceur Fernandel. The star plays a naïve photographer who falls in...
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1946
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The title of this French domestic comedy translates as Noah's Ark, but there's nothing remotely Biblical about the film. Much...
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1946
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Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted...
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Georges
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1946
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Having been forced to put his directorial career on hold during WWII, Georges Lacombe returned to the screen with Le Pays...
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1945
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1945
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Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world...
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Frederick Lemaitre
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1945
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Once the French film industry was able to make WWII epics, it did so with a vengeance. Jericho is the true story of the...
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1945
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The French upper class is chastised in this socially conscious drama that centers on a naive young woman who travels to a...
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Roland
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1943
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Leonard
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1943
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1942
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1941
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Son-in-Law
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1941
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1941
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1940
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Based on a novel by Colette, Claudine stars Blanchette Brunoy as the title character. The 16-year-old heroine finds herself...
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Dr.Dubois
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1940
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1939
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Le Schpountz (Heartbeat) stars Fernandel as a feckless country boy named Saturnin who fancies himself the second coming of...
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1938
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1938
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This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who...
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1938
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1938
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Giuseppe Verdi was also released as The Life of Verdi for the benefit of filmgoers who had trouble grasping the obvious....
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1938
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1938
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Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin....
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Lucien Laugardier
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1938
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1938
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1937
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Mademoiselle Ma Mere was adapted for the screen from the stage farce by Louis Verneuil. The title translates as My Mother is...
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Georges
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1935
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Un Oiseau Rare (Rare Bird) is a wide-ranging satire of several mid-1930s aberrations, including giveaway contests,...
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Jean Berthier
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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1934
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1933
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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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Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor...
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1932
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1932
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The "unaware papa" of the title is played by French comedian Noel-Noel. Ordered by his father to marry a wealthy heiress, our...
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1932
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1932
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Victor de Fleury (Rene Lefebvre), a handsome young nobleman, has fallen upon hard times. Victor is hired by wealthy but...
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Edgar Flachon
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1931
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Circulez (Move On) was directed by Jean De Limur, whose apprenticeship in Hollywood served him well while guiding this Gallic...
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1931
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Anatole
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1930
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1927
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1924
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