Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters...
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Jerome
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1978
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In this caper film, two separate individuals become embroiled in a search for a courier's illegal million-dollar haul. They...
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Director
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1976
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Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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Nolan (Serge Reggiani) was set up to take the fall for a crime committed by his whole gang, and as a result, his brother is...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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Catherine (Olga-George Picot) uses her feminine wiles to survive when enemy hordes attack Paris and kill her lover. The new...
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Captain
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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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Pirate
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1968
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This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera...
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1968
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Pirate
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1967
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1965
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1962
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Director
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1958
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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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Andres
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1954
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This French/Italian adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo began as a two-part film, the entire project running...
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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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Pietri
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1954
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The title of this French drama translates to The Most Beautiful Life. That "life" is the teaching profession, as practiced by...
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1954
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Jacqueline Audry, the director of the 1948 hit Gigi, called the shots on 1954's La Caraque Blonde (The Blonde Gypsy). Tilda...
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Antoine
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1954
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1951
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Roger Pigaut plays Sylvain, a tobacco smuggler working the border between France and Belgium. Sylvain lives with sexy bar...
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Sylvain
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1951
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1950
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Un Sourire dans la Tempete was filmed in the snowy wastes of Alaska. The "dramatis personae" consists of three men (J. P....
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Francois
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1950
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One suspects that the torrid melodrama The Wench had a somewhat stronger title when it was first released in France. The...
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Antoine
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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Bellman was based on the novel Horseman of Riouclare by Claude Boncompain. Lucien Coedel stars in this steadily-paced...
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1947
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Antoine
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1947
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1947
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Even someone who isn't conversant in French will probably be able to figure out that La Rose de la Mer translates as...
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1946
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1945
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1945
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Filmed in 1943, Autant-Lara's Douce (English title: Love Story) made it to American screens six years later. Overshadowed by...
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Fabien Marani
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1943
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1942
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