A bodyguard hired to look after a lawyer ends up protecting the man from himself in this breezy comedy from France. Bertrand...
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Edith Lasalle
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2008
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Iconoclastic film director Samuel Fuller spent decades nurturing his dream project, a movie about his experiences in the...
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Walloon
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2004
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In this broad farce from French director Jean-Marie Poire, a Parisian must scramble to save his house, marriage and...
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2004
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As directed by Olivier Bourbeillon, this documentary profiles Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), one of the most vital contributors...
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2002
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2000
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Who is the worst person you could fall in love with, and what would be the worst moment to fall for them? One possible...
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Brigitte
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1999
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Daisy von Sherler Mayer directed this family film, an adaptation of the famed book series that Austrian-born...
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1998
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A middle-aged, slightly pudgy and earthy waitress finds herself wooed by a handsome marine animal trainer from a local theme...
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1997
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Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French cop whose colleagues make a startling discovery -- a man named Mikhail, who...
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Chantal Moreau
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1996
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For 30 years the title eatery has delighted its customers with good family style French cooking, but as with many good...
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Josephine
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1995
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This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a...
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1995
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1994
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In this suspenseful mystery, two rival sisters vie for the love of a powerful businessman. One of them ends up murdered and...
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Min
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1993
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This film offers yet another film version of Henry James classic supernatural thriller. It all begins when an aristocratic...
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Mrs. Gross
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1992
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Laure
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1992
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In this unusual feature, Manika (Ayesha Dharker) is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is...
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Sister Ananda
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1989
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Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet...
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Florence
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1989
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Charles Heidseick's fight to introduce and popularize French bubbly in the 19th-century US provides the basis of this...
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1989
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1989
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In this routine sex comedy, Jean Chabert (Philippe Khorsand) is the newspaper editor called on to revive the fortunes of a...
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Edna Chabert
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1989
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Henry Miller's novels were almost entirely autobiographical, and concerned not only his environment and friends, but also...
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1989
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The English-language title of this Italian thriller is The Spider's Nest. Ronald Wybenga plays an American scientist, who...
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1988
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The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa...
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Babette Hersant
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1988
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Charles (Charles Vanel) is a 100-year-old perfume magnate who decides to marry the equally ancient Emmanuelle (Denis Grey) in...
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1988
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Originally shown in two parts, this massive TV movie adaptation of C. David Heymann's biography stars Farrah Fawcett as...
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1987
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Matrimonia
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1986
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A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy...
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1986
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1986
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The clash in this Philippe De Broca comedy between a bored middle-class stiff and a much more exciting, lawless female offers...
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Brigitte
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1986
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1985
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In this fantasy-drama-romance, forbidden love between an angel (Carole Laure) and a singer (Nick Mancuso) is set against the...
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Janice
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1985
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This television miniseries derives its plot from The Sun Also Rises, the 1926 novel by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Set in...
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1984
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1984
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Madame Cuno
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1984
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Produced on behalf of the HBO cable service, The Blood of Others is a rare venture into English-language filmmaking by...
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Gigi Grandjouan
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1984
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1984
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In this French domestic comedy, a young boy lives in a Paris apartment surrounded by three generations of single women: his...
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Minon Palazzi
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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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Woman in Grey
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1983
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Sam Fuller (1911-1997) directed this rather mediocre crime story about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and...
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Isabelle's Mother
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1983
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1982
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Martin Terrier (Alain Delon) has a problem. He wants to quit his job, but unlike everyone else, he cannot do it because he is...
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1982
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In this sci-fi film a suicidal salesman is saved when he encounters a scientist who is working on a revolutionary new...
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Edith
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1982
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Hughuette Cordier
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1981
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The Plouffe Family, aka Les Plouffe, is a Canadian assault to the kidneys directed by Quebec's "critic's darling"...
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1981
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1981
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Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally...
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1981
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1981
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Though boasting a British star and director, The Devil's Advocate was essentially a West German production; it was released...
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1980
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Samuel Fuller's valedictory war picture, The Big Red One follows the First Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during the...
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Walloon
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1980
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Le Soleil en Face is a somewhat glib drama about a serious matter -- death. In this case, the death of a writer. Marat...
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Genevieve
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1980
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A potentially destructive relationship between mother and son is the topic of this drama by Franck Apprederis. Laure...
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Jeanne
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1980
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1980
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The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the...
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1979
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Though made in Britain and Europe, Eagle's Wing qualifies as a Western. Easterner Pike (Martin Sheen) does a lot of growing...
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The Widow
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1979
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1979
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Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and...
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Germaine Noziere
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1978
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Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives...
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Mrs. Lowery
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1977
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Shireen Firdausi
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1977
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Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet)...
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Christine Dubaye
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1977
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French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex...
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Wife
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1976
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An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great...
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Ilona Morgan
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1975
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Anna Kemidon
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1975
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country...
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Catherine
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1974
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In this broad French satire, a thoroughly unappealing salesman manages not only to sell his wares, but succeeds in forging...
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Cecile
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1974
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Alexandre (Eric Damain), the neglected teenager in this drama, finally gets some attention when he has a very serious...
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Claire
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1974
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Lucienne Delamare
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1973
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At first glance, we were prepared to designate B Must Die as a hybrid TV feature, consisting of two episodes of either...
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1973
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In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society....
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Alice Senechal
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1972
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This German-produced film was made by American B-movie director Sam Fuller especially for his European fans who have far more...
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1972
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In this drama, a jealous wife murders her husband, a French antique dealer, after she suspects him of marital infidelity. In...
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1972
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Anne,Marie
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1972
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This hard-boiled French crime thriller begins with the bold murder of a well-heeled Frenchman. The detective assigned to the...
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1971
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Claude Chabrol, the French filmmaker known for his masterful explorations of crime, suspense, and the darker sides of human...
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Hélène
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1971
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In this French romance by documentary director Frederic Rossif, a young woman whose life has lost its savor after she has had...
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1971
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Wife
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1970
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A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama. Dominique...
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Dominique
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1970
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Sexual frustration is the focus of this Hitchcockian thriller from French director Claude Chabrol. Schoolteacher Hélène...
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Helene
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1970
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Dany (Samantha Eggar) is the ad agency secretary to Caldwell (Oliver Reed) in this psychological crime drama. She is asked to...
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Anita
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1970
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Stéphane Audran plays the title character, Hélène Desvallées, the bored wife of insurance executive Charles Desvallées...
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Helene
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1969
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Frederique
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1968
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This stylish psychological thriller from Claude Chabrol has such labyrinthine plotting that many critics called it too...
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Jacqueline
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1966
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The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by...
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Wife
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1966
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A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's...
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Wife
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1965
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This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed,...
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1963
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A mystery playwright finds that he is the target of a killer. Fancying himself a sleuth, he insists upon solving the puzzle...
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Ricka
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1963
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In this French drama, a struggling writer is taken in by a successful author and his wife who allow him to use their...
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Helene Hartmann
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1962
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A generally destructive atmosphere settles over this New Wave drama about a trio of youths looking to debunk hypocrisy...
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1961
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The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of...
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Ginette
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1960
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This was the first film directed by Eric Rohmer, and although it is not without flaws, this story of a down-and-out foreigner...
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1959
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This was the first of several films that would win international awards for French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. His...
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1959
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