A seasoned safecracker is torn between pulling one final, highly lucrative job and abandoning his criminal career in favor of...
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Victor Hazak
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2009
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After ending up in a scenic Sicilian town while trying to avoid his daughter's impending wedding to a devout Catholic, a...
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Prince of Gravina
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2008
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A certified insomniac, the celebrated belletrist Franz Kafka whiled away the hours between dusk and dawn authoring tomes -...
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2005
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2005
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When an indistinct woman named Charlotte (Isabelle Adjani) leaves a train station in hopes of changing her life forever,...
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Paul
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2002
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2000
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The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers...
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1998
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Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his...
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Marcus
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1996
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This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The...
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Nathan Le Cerf
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1995
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A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise...
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Aramis
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1994
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This French film offers a powerful fictionalized account of renowned French poet, actor, and intellectual Antonin Artaud who...
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Antonin Artaud
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1994
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Vietnamese director Pauline Chan, known for short films, made her feature debut with this story about a woman living in...
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Daniel
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1994
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Lorraine and Gille are sharing a romantic dinner at a cafe in Rome while they celebrate their relationship with a vacation...
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Gille
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1992
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The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down....
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1992
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1992
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Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the...
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1991
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Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is,...
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Victor
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1990
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1989
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The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree...
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Salmon d'Anglas
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1989
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1988
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The title of Sand and Blood has led some to assume that this 1988 French film is a remake of the old warhorse...
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Manuel Vasquez
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1988
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Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar....
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Prior
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1988
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Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of...
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Paul Nuytten
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1987
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Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about...
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Paul
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1986
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Antoine has a promising political career in front of him, if he can only keep from getting sidelined by inappropriate love...
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Antoine Lombard
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1986
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This routine drama's main distinctions are the musical numbers by Julia Migenes Johnson as a misbehaving singer and the...
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Colewsky
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1986
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Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Ania Francos, this tragi-comedy follows the diagnosis and internment of lawyer Lola...
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Dr. Tobman
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1986
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This is an affecting story about a father's attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his...
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Emmanuel
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1985
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Khalil
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1984
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Much of the suspense is excised from this ordinary comic "whodunit" by revealing too much about the protagonists before their...
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Julien
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1984
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In this suspense thriller inspired by the novel Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, Catherine (Isabelle Adjani), a serial...
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Ralph Forbes
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1983
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In this detective thriller, Alphand (Catherine Deneuve) is a private detective called upon to rescue the kidnapped daughter...
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Arnaud
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1978
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A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man...
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Fernand
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1977
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François (Sami Frey), a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered...
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Francois
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1977
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A psychiatrist (Sami Frey) takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death....
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Father
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1976
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Chafing under her suppressive parents, Nea begins keeping a secret diary, recording her innermost erotic yearnings. When...
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Axel
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1976
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The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little...
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Michel
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1975
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Like his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev's controversial 1974 feature Sweet Movie is firmly rooted in the...
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El Macho
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1974
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David
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1972
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In this French drama, the limitations of the medical system are exposed. Lila Kedrova plays a mature woman of Russian origin...
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David
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1972
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As they travel the Mediterranean, a Guide (Sami Frey) tells many stories to the Interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) -- at her...
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1972
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This French film is a tragic tale of thwarted love, set among the upper classes in turn-of-the-century Italy. As the only...
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Cirillo
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1972
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This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the...
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Marquis de Gueron
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1971
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This is a highly symbolic French drama in which truth and fantasy seem to mingle. When Mathieu's (Sami Frey) wife...
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Mathieu
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1971
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1969
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To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called...
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1969
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Manon (Catherine Deneuve) is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings....
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Des Grieux
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1968
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This uneven film has Colin (Jacques Perrin) marrying a delicate young girl who soon dies after their wedding. His friend...
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Partre
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1968
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1966
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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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1965
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Francesco Sami Frey is an idle nobleman who inherits a crumbling castle in this action drama. When Sicilian gangsters take...
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Francesco
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1965
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Polly Dorothy MacGowan is a model who tells about her experiences when she is interviewed by a television crew in this...
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Prince
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1965
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Franz
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1964
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1964
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Tibere (Sami Frey) is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling...
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Tibere
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1963
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are...
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1962
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Carlo
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1962
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The seven major sins receive treatment from some of France's greatest directors in this lively portmanteau. "Anger" by...
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1962
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Emmanelle Riva won a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of a tortured wife in this 1963...
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Jean Azevedo
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1962
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1961
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This French-Italian romantic crime thriller is titled The Truth in English. Henri-Georges Clouzot directed sexpot...
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Gilbert Tellier
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1960
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One of the several types of "New Wave" cinema emerging from France at this time, Le Travail C'est La Liberte does not make a...
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Luigi
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1959
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