This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding,...
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1973
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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Ruthless and for some viewers, also vulgar and unpleasant, this uneven comedy by Marcel Carne has a madhouse of characters of...
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Antoinette
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1963
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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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1960
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That fair city on the West Coast of America has almost nothing to do with this one-dimensional, undistinguished tale of a...
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Mother
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1960
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Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour...
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Virginie
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1956
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This Gallic farce is better known to "Late Late Show" fanatics as Fernandel the Dressmaker. Sure enough, horse-faced...
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Adrienne
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1956
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The title of this French bedroom farce translates to A Fly in the Ointment. That "fly" is music-hall performer Lucette...
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Lucette
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1954
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Cherie Lamour
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1951
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Two Italian films directed by Mario Soldati were released in Europe within two days of each other. The first was the...
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1951
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Botta e Rispota is Tales of Manhattan, Italian style. A modish dress gets lost while being shipped from Paris to Rome. This...
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1950
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Caprice
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1950
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In the traditions of Jean Renoir and Jean Cocteau, Pattes Blanches is a heady mixture of stark realism and fairytale...
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1949
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This French comedy offers a tour-de-force for Jouvet who plays most of the major characters. His main role is that of a...
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Caroline
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1948
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Following a three-year suspension from filmmaking after his Le Corbeau (1943) was judged too critical of his native France,...
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Jenny Lamour
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1947
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1947
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Coraline
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1946
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's maiden feature-length effort was the intricate mystery thriller The Murderer Lives at Number...
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Mila Malou
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1942
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1942
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Phemie
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1942
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Six friends who have won a large sum of money decide to split their fortune and reunite in five years to share all the money...
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Mila Malou
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1941
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