Jean-Claude Brialy
Also Known As: J.C. Brialy, Jean Claude Brialy, Жан-Клод Бриали
Biography: Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director. Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland France with his family in 1942. He was an alumnus of the Prytanée National Militaire. When he was 21 years old, he went to Paris to work as an actor. In 1956, Brialy acted in his first role in the short film Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) by Jacques Rivette. By the late 1950s, he'd become one of the most prolific actors in the French nouvelle vague and a star. He appeared in films of nouvelle vague directors such as Claude Chabrol (Le Beau Serge, 1958; Les Cousins, 1959), Louis Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, 1958; Les Amants, 1958), François Truffaut (Les 400 Coups, 1959), Jean-Luc Godard, (Une femme est une femme, 1961), Éric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, 1970), as well as in films of other filmmakers such as Jean Renoir (Elena et les hommes 1958), Roger Vadim (La ronde, 1964), Philippe de Broca (Le Roi de cœur, 1966), Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté, 1974), and Claude Lelouch (Robert et Robert, 1978). In 2006, he appeared in his last role, as the eponymous character of the TV film Monsieur Max, directed by Gabriel Aghion. Godard described him as "the French Cary Grant," while Brialy's self-described "life models" had reportedly been actor Sacha Guitry and director Jean Cocteau. Brialy directed a number of films, including Églantine in 1971, which was loosely inspired by his own memories of a happy childhood spent in Chambellay with his grandparents, and Les volets clos (Closed shutters) in 1972. He owned the restaurant L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis; he'd also worked as a TV presenter, a singer, and a radio host. During the presentation of one of his books, Brialy described himself this way: "I'm a boy who got lucky enough to do what I love in life". Brialy, in 1959, acquired a château in the commune of Monthyon, near Paris. There, he accommodated and entertained many friends from the cinema and the theatre, such as Jean Marais, Pierre Arditi, and Romy Schneider whom he'd met during the 1958 production of the film Christine. Schneider, after the 1981 fatal accident of her son David, found a "refuge from the paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville used the château to shoot the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. ... Source: Article "Jean-Claude Brialy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aumale, Alger, France [now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 30, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 30, 2007
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Known For:
The Cousins
Overview: Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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The Lovers
Overview: A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-05
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Vivement Truffaut
Overview: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-12
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Claire's Knee
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Catherine & Co.
Overview: Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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The Bride Wore Black
Overview: Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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Swimming Instructor
Overview: Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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The Lady Banker
Overview: Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-27
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Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Overview: André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring! Lupin had indeed another son by a housemaid, Gérard Dagmar, a dancer, magician and - occasionally - burglar. Which complicates the task of François who, to respect the last wishes of the testator, has gone in search of the treasure of Poldavia. For he keeps finding Gérard on his way and his efforts are constantly thwarted by his half-brother. Will Gérard prevent François from becoming the worthy successor to their father or will the two young men decide to join forces? That is the question.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-08-29
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Male Hunt
Overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Christine
Overview: Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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The Burning Court
Overview: A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-30
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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Handsome Serge
Overview: After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Overview: Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Les Siffleurs
Overview: Young actors drift around Paris looking for job opportunities in pursuit of their happiness. The Finnish film, made with a French cast, follows the paths signaled by nouvelle vague and cinéma vérité.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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A Woman Is a Woman
Overview: Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Demon Is on the Island
Overview: An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the coast of France: the islanders are being murderously attacked by ovens and refrigerators acquired in the same department store. Enter the young Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey), who arrives here to escape her own personal tragedy and instead lands in the middle of the kitchen mania. She tracks down the cause of the rapidly spreading epidemic to another doctor on the island — quite as insane as any of the kitchen appliances (if the comparison could be made) — and finds that the villainous doctor and the appliances have a most unusual link. Graphic scenes of mutilation by an oven, as one example, leave nothing much to the imagination in this film, but the interpretations of actors Anny Duperey and Jean-Claude Brialy as the good and evil doctors are excellent.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-30
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As Luck Would Have It
Overview: Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of a parentless teenage boy named Antoine. Conflict comes into the story as Jean-Pierre, who has just accepted a major promotion, must now deal with caring for a teenage boy he doesn't want to care for, as well as handling his own jealous boyfriend. Then his wife steps into the picture. Things get complicated from there as Jean-Pierre tries to get out of his guardianship.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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The Night of Varennes
Overview: During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Pinot simple-flic
Overview: The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Bolero
Overview: The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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The Judge and the Assassin
Overview: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Genres: History Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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An Impudent Girl
Overview: Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-11
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Deadly Circuit
Overview: A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-09
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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To the Extreme
Overview: Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a living, so his days are bacchanalia-filled affairs that run into each other in a hazy bliss. The only one capable of eking out genuine affection from him is his neighbor, Caroline. When she dies and leaves her son in his care, Thomas learns the joys of commitment and selflessness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-23
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Inspector Lavardin
Overview: Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-12
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Août
Overview: The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-08
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Circle of Love
Overview: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Anna
Overview: Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman he only knows through a photograph — of Anna.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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Grand Guignol
Overview: Sarah, the wife of a theater director, decides to leave her mutt of a husband because she is tired of his morbid fantasies. It is true that Baptiste has a rather unstable troupe that rehearses horror plays in a dance hall. Sarah comes out of the wings for life, but it turns out to be as incongruous and phantasmagorical as her husband's plays. This is why she returns to him. "The real grand guignol is life. The other is the farce."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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A Story of Water
Overview: A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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The Girl from Trieste
Overview: A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-28
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Barocco
Overview: A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Son of Gascogne
Overview: You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-18
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Les filles, personne s'en méfie
Overview: Eight-year-old Judith was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the rocks. She makes her way back to Paris with her friend Nora, and the two of them do what they can to survive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-06
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Marriage of the Century
Overview: Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-08
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The Innocents
Overview: A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Overview: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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The Accuser
Overview: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Actors
Overview: Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Overview: It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Kennedy et moi
Overview: If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the “normal” people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen into a sort of collective madness. Who knows. Because he has no choice, because he is in love with his wife and because he refuses to resign himself to the worst, Samuel Polaris decides to regain his dignity. Even if, to do this, he has to steal from his psychiatrist the watch that Kennedy was wearing the day he was assassinated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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The Big Night
Overview: The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Wise Guys
Overview: In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a trivial parking incident, he meets Arthur, a young man with a straight face who hurts his pride. It is at this moment that Ambroisine, a beautiful young woman, appears... she will be the instrument of Ronald's revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-17
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Illegal Cargo
Overview: A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Fiancés on the Bridge
Overview: A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Mandrake
Overview: A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Cinq-Mars
Overview: In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Operation San Pietro
Overview: Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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A Very Private Affair
Overview: After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Overview: An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Overview: An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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L'amour à la chaîne
Overview: Catherine Guérande (Valeria Ciangottini), a 19-year-old attractive Parisian girl, decides to become a prostitute after a messy love affair. She did not count on Pornotropos (Jean Yanne), a brutal racketeer who runs the profitable business of model agencies, cabarets, and camping sites, backed by Thanatos (Jean-Marie Fertey), his brother, who runs the mugging and murder side of their business. Pornotropos is not taking it well that a freelancer is around reducing his profits, and he sets his girls to harass and beat her up. Catherine does not take his mistreatment and moves to another brothel. But luck has it that an old man (Roger Karl) dies in her room, and that he was the owner of a marketing agency. Paul (Jacques Destoop), a young and handsome executive in his company, decides to investigate the shady causes of death of his late boss, and when Paul meets Catherine it's love at first sight.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-11
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The Lions Are Loose
Overview: A young woman leaves her hometown and husband to explore Paris, where she becomes entangled in a rivalry between a doctor and a novelist in high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-20
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Overview: Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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One Hundred and One Nights
Overview: Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Special Delivery
Overview: An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close friends or casual acquaintances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-11
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Jean-Claude Brialy, l'homme qui voulait tant être aimé
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-28
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All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Overview: A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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Hitch-Hike
Overview: Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-16
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Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Overview: Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-23
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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Le Moustachu
Overview: The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this, the captain Duroc will give to the traitor a car filled with explosives. But the whole thing is a double trap. One of the officer of the Service, Leroy, has plan a dreadful blow to discredit his new director. He had chosen Duroc because is not supposed to be an intelligent agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-04-08
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Quartier V.I.P.
Overview: Gardien à la Santé, Alex mène une petite vie tranquille aux côtés de son épouse Louisette et de son collègue et copain René. Muté au quartier des V.I.P., il se voit proposer par l'un des détenus, Bertrand, un businessman condamné pour affaires frauduleuses, un étrange marché : Claire, l'épouse de Bertrand, a décidé de se séparer d'un mari devenu encombrant tout en profitant de sa fortune. Alex est alors chargé de lui proposer une affaire financière alléchante mais bidon qui pourrait permettre à Bertrand de récupérer son argent. Désireux de mettre un peu de piment dans sa vie, Alex accepte de jouer le jeu et de se comporter pendant ses soirées en homme d'affaires suisse et discret ! Claire est séduite. Très vite, Bertrand réalise qu'Alex s'intéresse vraiment à sa femme, Claire découvre la supercherie financière et Louisette la trahison conjugale...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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The Oldest Profession
Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Manon 70
Overview: Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Follow My Gaze
Overview: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Overview: Documentary about the making of French director Claude Chabrol's first film Le Beau Serge in 1958.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Tribute to Alfred Lepetit
Overview: Who is Alfred Lepetit? Unknown by the general public but glorified by all the movie industry, Alfred is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his film career. A portrait of a living legend among stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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Holy Year
Overview: Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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A Girl in a Pocket
Overview: A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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A French Woman
Overview: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-14
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Le Débutant
Overview: The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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Jean Gabin intime
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-09
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Un amour de pluie
Overview: Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-10
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The Sword and the Balance
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Cover Up
Overview: A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-24
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Overview: To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-12
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Tonio Kröger
Overview: This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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A Murder Is a Murder
Overview: Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Sentimental Education
Overview: Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in love with Frédéric and in order to keep him away from Anne, pushes him into Barbara's arms.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-02
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Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes...
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-04
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Robert et Robert
Overview: Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-13
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Overview: The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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A Season in Hell
Overview: The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-10
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Cap Canaille
Overview: Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Overview: Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Mafia Things
Overview: A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-08
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Vous êtes de la police ?
Overview: A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Fool’s Mate
Overview: Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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The Tricyclist
Overview: Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Comédie d'été
Overview: Adrien does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their improprieties, and he is rabidly pro-military. Adrian, kicked out of his military school for his own improprieties (and hiding that from his father), is naturally drawn to Vicky a beautiful divorced woman and friend of the family who is staying at their mansion. The family tutor, a man of ordinary background (with some ideas which seem radical in this household) is similarly smitten. On the basis of their shared attraction, the two men form a friendship. Meanwhile, the object of their affection finds it diverting to toy with them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-10-04
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The 400 Blows
Overview: For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Love at Sea
Overview: During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Monsieur Max
Overview: Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the Gestapo in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Dear Caroline
Overview: Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-18
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Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-22
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Die schöne Wilhelmine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Overview: For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Elevator to the Gallows
Overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Young Girls Beware
Overview: Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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No Fear, No Die
Overview: Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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A Friend of the Family
Overview: Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-02
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The Gigolo
Overview: Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shores of Lac du Bourget, not far from Aix-les-Bains. For the past four years, she has been involved in an affair with a twenty-four-year-old artist, Jackie, that is beginning to weigh heavily on her. The frequent visits of a brilliant Aix doctor to the sick old man's bedside have distracted Agathe from her very young lover. She'd like to send him away, but he clings to her desperately, and we witness the drama of this break-up, both feared and rejected by Agathe. Blinded by jealousy, Jackie decides to leave, but not without behaving like a spoiled, insolent child.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Shadow Play
Overview: Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise meets producer Alphonse, who is nearly 20 years older than she. Because he is unhappy with his girlfriend a secret relationship evolves. Ada has problems as well, but she's not the only one. There are also the young Emma and Nina, as well as Yves and Guido - enough people to get into complicated relationship entanglements.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-12
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Sarah
Overview: An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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L'Herbe rouge
Overview: Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Focal Point
Overview: Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-25
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Scrambled Eggs
Overview: Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Quoi? L'éternité.
Overview: Fifty-eight minutes of mixed images from yesterday and today and about twenty voices of men and women, real Rimbaud lovers, known or unknown, disturbed by the reading of extracts of his poems or his letters, like a magic ceremony, bewitching, provoking the heart by the emotion of the senses, arousing the spirit, awakening the soul.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-08
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Overview: Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-30
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The Real Bargain
Overview: The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-09
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Shock Troops
Overview: A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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Julie pot-de-colle
Overview: Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-20
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Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Un animal doué de déraison
Overview: A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shared his project with a journalist friend, who decided to make it the theme of a novel he imagined in 18th century Brazil...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-24
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La banda Casaroli
Overview: Based on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who were dedicated to robbing banks.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-08
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Lamiel
Overview: Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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I Knew Her Well
Overview: A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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People - Jet set 2
Overview: John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an alliance with John-John, and put an end to life as persona non grata in Paris, and again take his place as the party prince of Paris. Written by HardHouseClubber
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-19
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Eyes of Love
Overview: During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she's ugly, which she also believes. She takes in Pierre Ségur, who was fleeing the Germans and had his eyes burned out. His life is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-25
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Overview: Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Malady of Love
Overview: Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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Queen Margot
Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Overview: Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-05
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The Monster
Overview: A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Arletty, Lady Paname
Overview: A biography of the French actress Arletty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-07-16
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My New Partner II
Overview: The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-07
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Male Companion
Overview: A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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King of Hearts
Overview: An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Côté cour, côté champs
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Levy & Goliath
Overview: A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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Like a Pot of Strawberries
Overview: Amandine is twenty years old, the most beautiful buttocks in Paris, and unfortunately a very ugly nose, which forces her in her profession of model, to pose only from behind. Trying in vain to save money that her sister Joëlle constantly borrows from her, she will finally be reimbursed and will thus be able to afford aesthetic surgery and become a lovely cover girl...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Edith and Marcel
Overview: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Et ta sœur…
Overview: Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no problems with justice. The trouble is that he has a sister, Lucrèce, who is agony aunt in his newspaper and who tends not to mince her words. To make matters worse, Francine, his daughter, has fallen in love with Bruno, a penniless student and Lucrèce is prepared to do anything to prevent her marriage..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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Famous Love Affairs
Overview: Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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Unfair Competition
Overview: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-02-23
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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Overview: An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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La Jalousie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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The Song of Roland
Overview: Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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The Overworked
Overview: A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Maschenka
Overview: Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-05
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South Kensington
Overview: A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson, Judith Godrèche).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-17
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Le Bel Âge
Overview: Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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How to Make a French Dish
Overview: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Overview: Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Army Game
Overview: Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate Lerat manages to get on the wrong side of his bullying colonel…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Overview: Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a real "conscience of the theater", so much had he thought about his art. He received six Molière awards and was always unanimously praised by his peers. “THE GHOST OF LAURENT TERZIEFF” is a daring portrait, as it explores in depth “the secrets of a soul” and the atypical journey of the actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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The Fourth Power
Overview: Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-02
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Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Double Murder
Overview: Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Way of Youth
Overview: This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-23
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Paris Belongs to Us
Overview: A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-13
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School for Coquettes
Overview: A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-21
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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Overview: Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zoé in the capital... In this version freely inspired by Emile Zola's work, Nana's trajectory is a cross-section of contemporary society, from the jungle of the suburbs to the golden world of business.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Overview: Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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People in Luck
Overview: A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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Dreyfus: The Intolerable Truth
Overview: Since the contemporary turn of the century short subjects of Georges Melies, the first French-made film to discuss the long taboo topic of the Dreyfus Case.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Père Noël et fils
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Les Filles à papa
Overview: Jean-Jacques Daloiseau has worked as civil servant in the Ministry of Health and his now retired.Jean-Jacques and his old friend Robert have always dreamed of a sailboat and a trip around the world by sailboat.They have found a nice sailboat: Robert has paid his part but Jean-Jacques needs to sell a ground in the Soth of France.And also Jean-Jacques needs to speak with his wife Carole about this trip around the world with Robert.Then begin all the difficulties and impediments.Carole doesn't agree with this and runs away to London.Then one daughter ,Pauline, has problems with her husband and has come back home with her children.So Jean-Jacques becomes a nanny and has to solve all the problems of his daughters, find the money for boat and recover the love of Carole.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-19
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Greed
Overview: A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery among themselves so that at least the winner will enact their fantasy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Stella
Overview: During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-13
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Man of My Life
Overview: Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his psychoanalyst, Charles, hits him with the news: his analysis is over. It turns out to be a nightmare. Charles also has his own dilemma: his actress wife is pregnant, but she hesitates to keep the child as she has an upcoming performance, and feels that she no longer loves Charles. Worse things comes as Simon receives a manuscript that portrays his private life and fetishistic desires, and his partner insists on publishing the novel. He blames Charles for writing the novel. On the other hand, Charles simplifies the matter, thinking Simon's misunderstanding is the reason that his wife leaves him. The two angry men have a big fight in Simon's home. Charles is wounded at the end. Now, Simon believes Charles and nurses him. Simon's mother drops by and suspects that Charles is Simon's gay lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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The Mischief Makers
Overview: A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend's love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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Adieu Philippine
Overview: Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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