This drama is an adaptation of a 1935 novel by Jorge Amado. Baldo is a black man from the wrong side of the tracks whose...
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1986
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This epic story about a Louisiana plantation owner trying to hold on to her estate before, during, and after the American...
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1984
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Through a series of convoluted turns, like a tornado going through Kansas, director Claude Lelouch has managed to keep a...
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1984
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Jean-Claude Missiaen had a very brief career as a director in the mid-1980s, and this is one of his typical police dramas...
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Sissia Carpelli
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1983
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1982
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Claude Lelouch's Bolero covers a time span of half a century, concentrating on several generations of music lovers, all...
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1981
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1980
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1979
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1978
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In this tragic drama, the neglected wife (Lisa Gastoni) of a purveyor of antique glass finds sexual fulfillment with a...
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Henri
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1976
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In this violent police drama, a determined officer single-handedly takes on gangsters to get his bloody revenge. ~ Sandra...
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1976
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1976
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1975
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Old bank robbers never retire; if the heist is good enough they'll gather a crew and try again. In this film, a bank guard...
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Jo
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1975
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An insurance agent, informed that he will die young from a heart ailment, decides to live a wild and uproarious life in the...
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1974
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The action comedy Piedone Lo Sbirro concerns a police officer who goes to great and unusual lengths to put some nasty drug...
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1973
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Le Complot is based on a true spy story of double-, triple- and quadruple-cross. The plot is galvanized by Charles DeGaulle's...
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Chief
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1973
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While in prison, aloof and stand-offish loner Eric (Hardy Kruger) longs to see his daughter, whom he remembers as a young...
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Guard
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1973
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This French suspense drama concerns the efforts of a small-time criminal (Robert Hossein) to spring his older brother from...
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1973
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A tabloid newspaper reporter becomes confused with guilt after one of his stories causes the death of an innocent man, and...
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1972
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This crime melodrama features a dramatic performance by singer Charles Aznavour. In the film, he plays a doctor whose summer...
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1972
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1972
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In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a...
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1971
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In this French caper film, Charles Aznavour stars as Eric, an architect-turned-writer who has grown increasingly dissatisfied...
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1971
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1970
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1969
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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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Moncerf
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1968
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1968
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A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World...
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Novak
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1967
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1966
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A kidnapped soccer player leads to a gang of young thugs demanding the release of a jailed comrade in this routine crime...
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Roger
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1966
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1966
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Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in...
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Paul Ricci
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1966
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1966
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O.S.S 117 (Frederick Stafford) is an American CIA operative who is sent to South America to thwart the attempt of a group of...
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Leandro
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1965
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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Armand
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1964
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By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to...
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Carlos
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1964
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This French/Italian historical spectacle was released in the US as Imperial Venus. Gina Lollobridgida, in her considerable...
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Napoleon
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1962
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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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Baron de Lansignac
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1962
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This routine drama set during World War II in Algeria is based on a true and tragic incident. A French garrison has been...
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Bourgeon
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1962
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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Marco
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1962
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L'Improvisto is a suspenseful, effective drama by Alberto Lattuada about the careful planning and execution of a kidnapping....
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Serizeille
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1961
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Following the pattern of a classical Greek tragedy, this first-time drama by director Andre Veraini focuses on a vendetta...
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Noel
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1961
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A social worker endeavors to rehabilitate Parisian streetwalkers in this drama. Two men later meet a pair of these reformed...
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1961
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A retired gangster leaves his life of crime and settles down on a ranch to raise bulls. The local rice farmers complain his...
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Robert
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1960
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Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being...
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1958
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1958
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This uneven crime drama by director Tony Saytor is based on a tale by novelist Peter Cheney (author of the 1945 La Mome Vert...
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1958
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This French crime melodrama was released outside of Europe as Until the Last One. The film begins with a daring robbery,...
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1957
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The literal translation of Le Feu aux Poudres is The Burning Fuse. The title itself is symbolic, referring to the fact that...
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1957
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Mekrane
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1957
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1956
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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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Napoleon
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Dr. Nerac
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1955
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Astarita
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1954
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1954
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert...
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Mario
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1954
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La Rage au Corps (Tempest in the Flesh) stars Francoise Arnoul as Clara, a woman with quite a past and a questionable future....
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Tonio
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1954
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The French Les Impures was one of a cycle of filmed "exposes" of the white slavery trade. The heroine, played by...
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1954
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The world of the theater is the backdrop for this sublimely assembled whodunit. A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes...
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Andrieux
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1954
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Brigitte Bardot is the sensual gamine once more in Light Across the Street. She pouts and purrs her way through a romantic...
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Georges Marceau
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1954
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French novelist-turned-film director Marcel Pagnol made this black and white feature in 1953, He later wrote a novel based on...
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The Schoolmaster
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1953
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Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who...
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Gino
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1952
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1952
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Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders...
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1952
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1951
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1947
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1947
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1945
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Frederic
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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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