Following Marius and Fanny in Nicholas Ribowski's La Trilogie Marseillaise, Cesar finds Fanny (Gaela Le Devehat) living a...
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2000
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2000
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A prominent French surgeon of Jewish heritage (Phillippe Noiret) suffers a massive heart attack in the film's prologue and as...
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Director, Screenwriter, Professor Meyer Levy
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1997
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1995
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Bajou (Michel Boujenah) is an enterprising, talented man. He has risen from poor, humble beginnings, and thanks to a gift for...
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1993
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The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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Raymond Bettoun
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1992
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The 1926 commercial and social structure of French Guiana, the French former penal colony in South America, differed little...
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Picard
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1990
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Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track...
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Barrès
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1987
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The carefree life at a decadent cabaret in Paris is overshadowed by the darkening cloud of war in this thrilling drama. Beppo...
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Director, Screenwriter, Beppo
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1987
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In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris...
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Victor Harris
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1986
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This melodramatic, clichéd story loosely based on a true, 1983 racially-motivated murder, starts with three men arrested for...
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Director, Screenwriter, Couturier
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1984
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Dale (Clio Goldsmith) is a married, expectant mother who holds down a job as a radio announcer and when a Frenchman, Maurice...
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Maurice
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1984
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Aime Prado (Roger Hanin) is the boisterous manager of a successful restaurant in Marseilles, a man biased against Arabs but...
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Aime Prado
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1983
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Philippe
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1983
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Set against the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, this overly-ambitious, comedy-drama focuses on the relationship...
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Leon Castelli
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1983
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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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Raymond Beitoun
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1981
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1980
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The "pieds-noir" were Algerians of French heritage who were forced to return to France in 1962, when Algeria became...
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Albert Narboni
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1979
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In this story, the ambitions of the get-rich-quick crowd come crashing down around their ears as they hitch a ride on a...
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Karbaoui
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1978
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1975
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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A Mafia hitman's decision to leave his profession results in bloodshed and tragedy. The violence begins when his bosses, to...
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1973
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When sanitarium cook Surveillant (Raymond Devos) liberates a couple of patients and takes them on a trip to gaze on the ocean...
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1973
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Despite the fact that most of the westerns made at this time (early '70s) were "deconstructionist" westerns, which either...
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1972
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This drama is based on a 1953 one-act play by Georges Amaudi. It details the confrontation between a determined young...
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1971
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An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in early childhood searches to...
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Father
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1970
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This suspense story finds a severed hand leading to the psychological demise of the people who come in contact with it. The...
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Producer
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1969
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Bruno (Christian Mesnier) is the 12-year-old boy whose parents are contemplating a divorce. He spends a weekend with his...
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Michel
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1969
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Gino (Jean Servais) breaks out of jail and visits his friend Tony (Gary Lockwood) with a plan to rob an armored car. Although...
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1969
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1967
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An espionage saga as a secret agent tries to infiltrate a spy ring in the Middle East, this one holds no real surprises. ~...
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1967
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1966
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Plastic surgery allows a notorious criminal to continue his trade. ~ Rovi...
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1966
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1966
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1966
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An extremely sub-James Bond orientation drives this thriller -- made in Europe but trying to look and sound American -- about...
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1966
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The nefarious Fu Manchu strikes again in this crime drama. This time the megalomaniacal Manchu plots to earn the money he...
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1966
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Tigre (Roger Hanin) is a French undercover agent sent to stop ex-Nazis in their attempt to take over Latin America. He is...
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Tigre
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1965
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1965
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1965
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When a French secret agent is set the task of securing a shipment of sunken gold somewhere off Martinique, he finds that he...
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1965
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Larson (Ray Danton) is a CIA agent who breaks a communist spy ring that has infiltrated key United States agencies in Europe...
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Stewart
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1965
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Roger Hanin stars as the secret agent LeTigre in this routine spy actioner. The film recycles a scene from Goldfinger with a...
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1964
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Before French director Claude Chabrol was adopted by the auterists, he was a workaday craftsman turning out purely commercial...
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1964
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In this espionage drama, international spies stalk a German scientist in possession of important information about a rocket...
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1964
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Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to...
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Capt. Paolinelli
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1963
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1963
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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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Maurice
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1962
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Jean
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1962
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1962
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A secret formula for making synthetic petroleum becomes the bone of contention in this drama. Included in the race to get...
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1962
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Roger Hanin plays "The Gorilla" in Deadly Decoy. No, he doesn't have elongated arms or hair all over his body. The Gorilla...
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1962
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Based on a novel by Henri Dupuy-Mazuel, this costume drama is set in the 16th century during the time of the French king,...
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Charles
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1961
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1961
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A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He...
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1961
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Les Bras de la nuit is another of the typical love vs. duty stories in which a police inspector, Landais (Roger Hanin) is...
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Landais
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1961
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Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who...
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Morini
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1960
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The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story...
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1960
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His successor's death prompts the retaliation of this top agent against the murderers. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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The protagonists in this routine sexual drama are less than appealing, which makes involvement in their one-night peccadillo...
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Michel
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1960
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1960
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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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The Bug
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1959
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This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier...
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Le Gorille
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1959
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In this suspenseful WW II drama a Parisian widow assists with the Resistance. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a German...
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1959
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Antoine
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1959
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Adapted from a novelette by Prosper Merimée, Tamango ran into censorship problems in the U.S. for several reasons, not least...
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First Mate Bebe
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1958
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Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a...
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Simoni
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1958
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This routine story by director Maurice Cloche is about two gangs at war over the possession of a valuable cache of crude...
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Bob
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1958
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1958
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1958
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Dick
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1958
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Sois Belle et Tais Toi is more popularly known by its American-release title Be Beautiful but Shut Up. Mylene Demongeot plays...
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Charlemagne
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1957
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Vous Pigez! (You Get It!) stars Eddie Constantine in his standard guise of hard-boiled American G-man Lemmy Caution. The plot...
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1955
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1955
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