While practically everyone is aware of the fact that birds fly south for the winter, and return home in the spring, few are...
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Associate Producer
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2001
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French/Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan has fashioned an unusual documentary about the Holocaust from video footage (originally...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2000
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Sex, avant-garde art, and Communist ideology are at the heart of this compelling historical drama. The film opens just as the...
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1999
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In 1917, the French army used a brutal technique in its attempt to prevent mutinies by its increasingly disaffected soldiers....
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Producer
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1996
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After raising her daughter to be a beautiful young woman and developing a lively career as a wallpaper designer, one would...
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Director, Screenwriter, Leo
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1994
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In this comedy, Victor thought he really had it bad when he lost his wife and his job on the same day. However, when he...
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Victor's Father
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1992
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In this comedy, veterinarian Henri Sauveur (Jean Rochefort) maintains his dignity and calm in the face of an incredible...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1992
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This charming motion picture relives the beautiful childhood memories of noted film director and writer Marcel Pagnol. While...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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This 1990 French film presents idyllic episodes from the childhood of novelist and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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When Jenny Quester (Catherine Deneuve) is harassed over the phone by a mysterious caller, she enlists the help of her...
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Producer
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1989
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Le Crime D'Antoine stars Tom Novembre as a sensitive composer. Novembre's world comes crashing down upon him when his new...
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Pilou
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1989
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"Billy ze Kick" is the nickname of a character in a bedtime story, told by a French police inspector to his little daughter....
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1985
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Gene Wilder's remake of this 1976 French comedy is a Hollywood version of what happens when Theodore (Wilder), an ordinary ad...
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From Screenplay by
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1984
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When a man decides to play the role of twins in order to romance another set of twins, life becomes much more complicated...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1984
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In this charming, semi-autobiographical look at his politicized past, director Gerard Mordillat focuses on the ironic, the...
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The Father
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1983
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Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and...
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1983
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In making this film about a director who is presently working on an autobiographical movie, real-life director...
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Producer
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1982
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Anne (Jane Birkin) is a seriously disturbed young woman who is driven to leave her husband for awhile and go home to her...
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Producer
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1981
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A father-daughter relationship is melded, strained, and deepened by a shared angst: the grandmother in the family left her...
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Producer
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1981
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This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is...
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Rene Calgagni
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1980
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Martin (Jean Rochefort) is a coward who is swept up in the revolt by French students in May, 1968 in this Gallic comedy of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1979
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Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives...
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Producer
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1979
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This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made...
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Mancini
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1976
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When this French romantic comedy was released in English-speaking countries, its French title was changed to Pardon Mon...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1976
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Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to...
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1975
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The second of director Bernard Tavernier's first three critically acclaimed films, this historical costume drama was the...
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Associate Producer
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1975
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Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French...
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1975
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1974
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Marcello Mastrioanni stars as an aging actor whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1973
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In this wacky French spy comedy, the chief of the French secret service wants very much to keep his job and stoops to...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1972
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In this French romance, Louise (Jeanne Moreau) lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and...
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1972
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In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of...
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1972
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The young protagonist of this French film has decided to live his life "as a poem," but finds that this is not possible. He...
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1972
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This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the...
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1972
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The notable French comedian Pierre Richard stars in and directs this, his second feature film. Here he plays Alfred, about...
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Producer
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1971
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1971
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1970
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Claude (Guy Bedos) is content with his life. He has a girlfriend Tania (Zorica Lozic) and he aspires to become an actor. When...
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Father
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1970
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Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father (Yves Robert) owns a...
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Father
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1970
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Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with a harridan mother and plenty of unresolved anger about his life. After his...
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Producer
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1969
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Clerambard (Philippe Noiret) feeds his large family by killing cats and dogs. He also makes his family run hand looms with...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1969
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A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is...
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1968
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This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1967
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Fulbert (Robert Hirsch) is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter in this slapstick situation...
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Director
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1966
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Henri
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1965
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Director, Producer
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1964
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Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the...
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Director, Producer
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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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In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1962
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Transference of guilt, a theme near and dear to the heart of French author Georges Simenon, forms the basis of Passion of...
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Bartender
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1961
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Love and the Frenchwoman (La Francaise et L'Amour) concentrates on the nature of love by illustrating seven separate aspects...
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1960
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This innovative though uneven comedy by Yves Robert, known for his droll sense of humor, is based on a late 19th-early...
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Director
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1960
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A repeat featuring the same gentleman burglar, Signe Arsene Lupin is the effective, leisurely told sequel to the 1956...
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Director, Laballu
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1959
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In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings...
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Zephe Maloret
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1959
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Director
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1958
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This uneven comedy was the last feature film by director and writer Carlo Rim, and it features French comic Darry Cowl in a...
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1958
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1958
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1957
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Eddie Constantine stars as Bob, an American GI at large in Paris. After attending a performance of the fabled Folies-Bergere,...
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Jeff
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1957
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1956
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1956
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Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays...
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Felix Leroy
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1955
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Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she...
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1955
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The title of this Gallic "filmed essay" translates to Men Think Only of That. What plot there is concerns "timid soul" Jean...
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Director
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1954
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Musician
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1951
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1950
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