In rural Italy, agent Kelly is kidnapped by a vindictive family headed by the embittered Don Fernando (Victor Francen)....
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1966
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Triquet (Bourvil) is a policeman who is forced to retire early when he nabs too many crooks while he is not on the clock in...
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Calbert
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1964
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Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's...
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1961
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This unrealistic, routine drama is the second half of a story that began with Der Tiger von Eschnapur. This sequel was later...
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1959
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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1957
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In this dark drama, a young American is on his way to take his final vows as a priest when he encounters a troubled...
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1955
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Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a...
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Prof. Montel
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1954
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La Taverne de N.O. is the French title for the Franco-American costume drama Adventures of Captain Fabian. As sea captain...
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Henri Brissac
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1951
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1949
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To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or...
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Capt. Beauvals
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1948
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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This movie is an early horror film classic and certainly one that a well-rounded horror movie aficionado should not miss. An...
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Francis Ingram
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1946
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Licata
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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Legare
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1945
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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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Von Mohr
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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Wladislaw Grodek
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino...
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Count Pavel Orvid
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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1943
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Caid Yousseff
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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When two young island-dwelling people fall for each other, their rival parents do not embrace the romance with welcomed arms...
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Dr. Blondin
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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Florimond Massey
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1942
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Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life...
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Prof. Van Den Luecken
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1941
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In this French drama, based on a story by Tolstoy, the public prosecutor decides to sacrifice himself so that his wife can...
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Fedor Andreiev
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1940
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Originally La Chemineau, The Open Road is a generally satisfying if overlong rural drama. Returning after a 20-year absence,...
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The Vagabond
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1940
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This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home....
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Marny
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1939
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Edouard VII
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1939
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The Maginot line, designed to be the deepest war trench in the world, provides the focus for this espionage drama. The...
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Capt. Bruchot
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1939
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L'Homme du Niger (The Man from the Niger) is set in the Sudan, which in 1940 was still under French colonial rule. The story...
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1939
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Viere Folle (Foolish Virgin) was the latest in a long line of cinemadaptations of Henri Bataille's famous story. Married to...
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1938
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In this French war drama, a battleship captain tries to keep an enemy cruiser from sinking his vessel; he then must defend...
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Capt. de Corlaix
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1938
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This 1938 sci-fi and horror-tinged war drama from writer/director Abel Gance is an updated remake of Gance's own 1919 silent...
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Jean Diaz
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a...
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de Corlaix
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1936
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Captain Villette
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1936
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Filmed two years before the Nazi takeover of France, The King (Le Roi) made its way to the U.S. in 1941. Victor Francen plays...
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1936
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1935
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1934
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1933
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1933
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Constantin
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1932
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Also known as Der Traumende Mund and Dreaming Lips, Melo was filmed in both French- and German-language versions by director...
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1932
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Never one to do anything by halves, director Abel Gance delivers just what the title La Fin du Monde promises: The End of the...
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Martial Novalic
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1923
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1921
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