Inspired by director Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist classic Umberto D., Francis Huster's sentimental drama stars...
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2009
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A suicidal police detective travels from La Havre to Deauville at the behest of a mysterious femme fatale in the suspenseful...
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2007
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Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with...
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2005
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2004
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A visually stylish comedy with dramatic overtones from director Tonie Marshall, Vénus Beauté (Institut) looks at the lives of...
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2000
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In the grand tradition of Britain's Hammer low-budget horror films of the '60s, this Gothic and gory chiller is the third...
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1997
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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1995
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Paul Haslans
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1993
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In this straightforward drama, Marie (Emmanuelle Beart) is a prisoner at the time she sees a performance by a theatrical...
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Robert
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1989
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Director, Screenwriter, Alex
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1988
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In this comedy, young Moses Levy is a Hassidic Jew who lives a quiet existence, avoiding entanglement with the modern world....
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1987
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It is possible to enjoy Claude Lelouch's Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later on its own merits, though we advise that to fully...
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1986
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Andre Auerbach
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1983
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This screen version of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Italian actor Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean, a French peasant who --...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a French spy given the assignment of killing an African dictator, and when he arrives...
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Rosen
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1981
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A Jewish Mafia-like family is running a prostitution ring, selling "protection," and operating gambling casinos -- more or...
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Manuel Carreras
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1981
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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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Simon/Robert
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1981
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In this French spy thriller, a policeman with wide-ranging powers to protect an African dictator who is visiting France --...
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Kaminsky
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1975
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When he gets out of prison, Sam (Georges Gerret) seeks to track down his little girl, now a grown woman (Juliet Berto). After...
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1974
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Prevost
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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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Pierre
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1973
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This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a young priest (Robert Hossein) who falls in love with a young woman, has...
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Priest
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1973
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Carouse
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1972
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A British soldier and his German counterpart are equally affected by the heat of a North African desert during a battle. ~...
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1972
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Despite his best efforts, Julian (Bruo Bradei) cannot resist goading his younger brother Fabrice (Didier Haudepin) into doing...
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1972
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This French-made feature was based on a 1957 Hollywood "B" effort The Burglar. Both films were inspired by the same...
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Ralph
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1971
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1971
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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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Maurice
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1971
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Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector...
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'Dillinger'
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1970
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A kidnapper falls for his victim in this gangster feature highlighted by flashbacks. The film opens with the police...
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Director, Screenwriter, Chief
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1970
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Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to...
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Montanari
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1969
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1969
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This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after...
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Lover
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1969
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In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by...
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Klaus
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1969
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An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and...
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Painter
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1969
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The title Life Love Death (originally La Vie, L'amour, la Mort) pretty much runs the gamut of the subject matter which...
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1969
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No relation to the 1953 El Alamein (beyond a common "real life" source), The Battle of El Alamein was a French-Italian...
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1969
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A 19-year-old college student from an upper-middle-class family has an affair with the 25-year-old mistress of a famous...
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Fontana
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1969
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A pretty lady in waiting from the court of King Louis XIV is sold to an evil Sultan. Angelique (Michele Mercier) is separated...
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Rescator
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1968
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1968
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This western finds Manuel (Robert Hossein) visiting his friends only to discover the husband has been murdered in a feud...
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Director, Screenwriter, Manuel
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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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Louis
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1968
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Agent OSS 117 (John Gavin) is the American secret agent who battles an evil organization that carries out assassinations. He...
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Saadi
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1968
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This uneven docudrama concerns the monk Rasputin (Gert Frobe) and his friendship with Felix Youssopov (Peter McEnery)....
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Director, Serge
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1967
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Jeoffrey
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1967
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When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon...
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Bianchini
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1967
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Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A...
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Valbert
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1967
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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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Le Goff
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1966
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Pierre
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1966
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Maddalena (Catherine Spaak) masquerades as a heroic male named Teodoro and joins the army to gain insight on men in this...
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Alcibiade
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1966
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A doctor (Maurice Ronet) is kidnapped by a resistance group fighting the Nazis in this World War II action drama. A young...
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Carnot
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1966
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Man
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1966
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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Prince Nayam
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1965
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Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays...
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Marcel
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1965
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La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international...
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1965
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Director, Peter
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1965
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Michelle Mercier continues in her role as Angelique, the beautiful woman in the court of King Louis XIV. She beds down...
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Peyrac
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1965
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Angelique (Michele Mercier), the beautiful daughter of a once-wealthy nobleman, is married off to their rich neighbor Joffray...
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Peyrac
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1964
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A widow (Michele Morgan) in a small town begins to realize that her late husband was hated by nearly everybody. She begins to...
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Director, Franz
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1964
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In this Italian mystery-adventure, a government agent is assigned to look into a mysterious outbreak of a deadly virus in...
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Dr. Sinn
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1964
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Director, Massa
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1964
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In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of...
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Daniel Boisett
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1963
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Samuel
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1963
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The "vice and virtue" of the title of this wartime drama directed by Roger Vadim are exemplified in the personae of two very...
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SS Col. Schorndorf
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1963
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In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily...
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Corby
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1963
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1963
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Renaud Sarti
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1962
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In this standard murder mystery with a twist, an attractive woman, Marta (Lea Massari), picks up a man who has just been...
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Robert Herbin
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1962
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This specialized film by femme director Jacqueline Audry is strictly a lightweight, skim-the-surface drama with a touch of...
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1962
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Lefevre
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1961
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This unlikely, somewhat clichéd European "western" by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed...
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Director, Screenwriter, Perez
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1961
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La Menace is not the most suspenseful or convincing crime drama, though its story has potential. Josepha (Marie-Jose Nat) is...
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Savary
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1961
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Robert Hossein serves as both director and star of The Game of Truth. The scene is a party thrown by a capricious novelist....
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Director, Inspector
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1961
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1960
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In this routine spy story with primarily one setting -- a small cabin -- and only two protagonists, Peter (Robert Hossein,...
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Director, Screenwriter, Peter
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1959
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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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Marcel
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1959
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In this drama, the hero finds himself beaten by gang members whose operation involves capturing young women and selling them...
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Pierre Rossi
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1959
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Georges
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1959
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Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama...
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Director, Jess
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1959
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Robert Hossein was writer, director and star of the suspense melodrama Toi le Venin. Picked up by a beautiful motorist,...
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Director, Screenwriter, Pierre
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1958
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Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version...
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1958
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At the insistence of the Czechoslovakian judges, the French-Czech Liberte Sureveille (Provisional Liberty) was withdrawn from...
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1958
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Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as...
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1957
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This complex effort from French filmmaker Yves Allégret was distributed in English-speaking countries as Young Girls Beware...
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Raven
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1957
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Director
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1956
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Jules Dassin -- in his second European film after being driven out of the United States during the years of the house...
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1955
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The title of this French prison drama loosely translates to Heels Go to Hell. Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein...
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Director
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1955
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