Fire in the Straw (Le Feu de Paille) was the final directorial effort of French filmmaker Jean Benoit-Levy before he left his...
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1943
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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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1943
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1941
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Director Max Ophuls managed to get three productions before the cameras in 1940, the best of which was De Mayerling a...
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1940
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1940
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In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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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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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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1938
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This drama is set in the Balkans just before WW II erupts and chronicles the marriage of a Serbian soldier to an Austrian...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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Filmed in 1936 but not released in the US until 1940, Julien Duvivier's Man of the Hour (L'Homme du Jour) was, believe it or...
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1936
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Tintin
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1936
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Filmed in Czechoslovakia, this French-language adaptation of the oft-filmed Jewish folk tale The Golem was one of the most...
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1936
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Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown...
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1936
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Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion...
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1935
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Accused by his critics of ignoring the social ills of the world, director Rene Clair responded with Le Dernier Milliardaire,...
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1934
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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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Fouillard
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1932
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Quatorze Juliet translates to "July 14th"--and if you know your French history, you'll know that July 14th is Bastille Day....
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1932
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Rene Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris is one of the first French films shot in sound. The film is a relaxed melodrama where a...
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1930
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