Rita Renoir
Biography: Rita Renoir was a French strip-tease-dancer and actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 19, 1934
Deathday: May 04, 2016
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Red Desert
1964-09-04
Red Desert
Overview: In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-04
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Le Futur aux trousses
1975-08-05
Le Futur aux trousses
Overview: A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-05
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The Sicilian
1958-11-26
The Sicilian
Overview: A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Chappaqua
1966-08-30
Chappaqua
Overview: Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-30
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Cannabis
1970-09-02
Cannabis
Overview: Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-02
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Les Compagnes de la nuit
1953-07-28
Les Compagnes de la nuit
Overview: Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the death of another who was crushed, will launch the Inspector Maréchal on the trail of a prostitution network. The girl-mother Olga, a friend of the trucker, confesses her the underwear of the women's exploitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-28
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
1967-07-24
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
Overview: "Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-24
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The Angel
1982-05-25
The Angel
Overview: The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs- Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-25
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Sweet and Sour
1963-09-04
Sweet and Sour
Overview: Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-04
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Ecco
1963-11-15
Ecco
Overview: A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967-03-16
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-16
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Pas vu, pas pris
1974-01-09
Pas vu, pas pris
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981-03-04
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Overview: The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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