Françoise Vatel
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Department: Acting
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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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Brigitte and Brigitte
Overview: Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Overview: The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-28
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The Smugglers
Overview: Two young women leave claustrophobic city life behind and move to a small border town. There they meet a border guard, involved in smuggling to and from the country. Both women fall for him, resulting in jealousy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-11
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Melancholia
Overview: The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where a young man with whom she was hopelessly in love had lived. The tenants grow up, get married, die. A whole life passes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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La Nuit de Tom Brown
Overview: How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night when everything changed. In Canada, in a village where everyone seems more virtuous than he is, Tom Brown meets a man who claims to be the devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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The Comedy of Work
Overview: Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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An Overcooked Steak
Overview: Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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La Lucarne magique
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-04
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Les promesses dangereuses
Overview: Philippe Marcillac grew up in Sète, where he specialized in pranks of dubious taste. One day, as a teenager, he organizes a party in an abandoned villa. Philipe finds himself alone with Marie-Titite, who advises him to restart his life on a more serious footing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-14
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La P..... sentimentale
Overview: A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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In the Mouth of the Wolf
Overview: Photographer Henri Barbier is lured by his old friend Barbara to fake the theft of her jewels. It turns out that he is suspected of murder and extortion, while Barbara and her lover are the culprits, which is eventually revealed.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-20
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The First Outrages
Overview: Christian has just returned home after failing his A-levels. His father, incensed by his failure, asks a neighboring teacher to give him lessons. But Christian falls for Simone, the teacher's cousin. Jealous, Christian's girlfriend Bichette arranges for the father and the teacher to learn everything. Christian is sent away and reunited with Françoise, the house's pretty maid, who had been dismissed. Bichette has had it.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-28
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Soleil éteint
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Terres noires
Overview: Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Overview: A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sound and Fury
Overview: This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Secret File 1413
Overview: A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Les frangines
Overview: The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a student, named Nadine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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My Heart Is Red
Overview: A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-23
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Overview: At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-08
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Un jour comme les autres
Overview: A short love story between a young girl and a worker in the shoe industry. Social differences will be the undoing of this union.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Night Dance Hall
Overview: Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Forbidden World
Overview: French mondo film featuring (among other things) a black magic sex ceremony, a frog geeking ritual, a German toilet sex slave dungeon and some rope bondage in Amsterdam's red light district.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-15
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