László Szabó
Also Known As: Laslo Szabo
Biography: László Szabó (born 24 March 1936) is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. Since 1952, he has appeared in more than 120 films. These include seven films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. He was born to Béla Szabó and Margit Gulyás. Between 1954-1956 he was a student at the Budapest University of Technology , during which he performed in an amateur theater group. He applied to the Theater and Film Academy as an actor, but was not accepted. He left the country in the fall of 1956 and went to Paris . Like the French new wavers, he also visited Henri Langlois ' "liberty university of film history" at the Cinématheque, watched the film series, met and talked to the directors who presented their films, and while writing in the "cahiers", interviewed Buster Keaton together with Jacques Rivette . He and a friend dropped by on the set of Chabrol (Cousins), from whom he immediately received a one-sentence role. And in his next film, Locked with the Key , a longer one. After that, Godard gave him the role of the interrogator in The Little Soldier , which was followed by other roles in more recent Godard films. He is the favorite character actor of all the directors of the new wave, everyone has a role for him, they entrust him with strange, boho characters, who always have some disturbing and annoying ulterior motives. He also took a liking to directing, and made two new-wave French films. Truffaut wrote an appreciative review of the amusing film noir The White Gloves of the Devil . Zig-Zig was played by the new wave's favorite anti-star actress, Bernadette Lafont , and a cool star, Catherine Deneuve . This is also where the self-confidence and sardonic pungency of the new wavers can be felt. Like all actor-directors, he brought out the best in his actresses, skillfully mixing dark humor and tenderness. In the meantime, from the end of the 1960s he appeared in Hungarian films, and after many character roles, he got the lead role from Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács : Miklós Dibusz, the big snooty, sumák organizer, The nice neighbor . His first and so far the only Hungarian-French direction was based on Nándor Gion's novel: Sortűz for a Black Buffalo , and his first and so far only Hungarian direction: The Man Who Slept During the Day
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: March 24, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
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Known For:
The Last Metro
Overview: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-17
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Pierrot le Fou
Overview: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-05
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-11-12
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The Doll
Overview: An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-07
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The Alchemist and the Virgin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1998-08-20
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The Last Judgement But One
Overview: The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-04-17
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Godard's Passion
Overview: While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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The Big O
Overview: A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a Hungarian director parachuted into Hollywood...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Full Moon in Paris
Overview: Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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The Sentinel
Overview: A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-20
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Made in U.S.A
Overview: Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-27
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Male of the Century
Overview: The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-12
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Adoption
Overview: When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-09-25
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Abandoned
Overview: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2001-08-28
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Cold Water
Overview: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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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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Ophélia
Overview: A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-06
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Mr. Universe
Overview: Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for almost 15 years, embark on a quest for the former body-builder/B-movie star. They cross America and find Mickey, living quietly in Southern California, running his businesses and raising his children, who have names like Mariska (ring a bell?) and Zoltan, speak Hungarian, and look like Jane Mansfield (of course).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-05-30
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Dossier 51
Overview: A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Le Petit Soldat
Overview: In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from France in Geneva. As a cover for deserting the French army, he is given a job as a photographer. The group's leader, a Poujadist MP, tasks him with killing a Swiss radio journalist, Palivoda, a supporter of the Algerian cause. A friend introduces Bruno to a young girl who "has the same kind of mouth as Leslie Caron" and who wants to become a model, and bets him $50 that he will fall in love with her; shortly after introducing him to Véronica, an aspiring actress, he succeeds. The Little Soldier is Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film after Breathless, and it is Godard's first film with Anna Karina. Filmed in 1960, but not released until January 25, 1963 due to a censorship ban.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Paroles et musique
Overview: When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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L'Affiche rouge
Overview: A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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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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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Overview: This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Happening
Overview: At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Overview: A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Seaside, Dusk
Overview: Alex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants to run away with the money to France, but suffering a car crash he loses his eyesight. One night, calling from a phone box in the street, he makes the acquaintance of a Hungarian woman living in a seaside town in Germany,
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Wrong-doers
Overview: The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really, really wants him to come home and stop gallivanting around the countryside. The only way he can figure to do this is to inform on the group to the authorities in as harmless a manner as possible. Unfortunately, these betrayals cause the group to lose many men, and the traitor grows fearful of the authorities. He gives officials every scrap of information he has in return for a full pardon, and he returns home. His wife, when she hears of these events, is infuriated. Such betrayal is far in excess of anything she can condone, and she kills him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-08-02
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Parc
Overview: Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this meeting as an opportunity to create a new friendship. On his side, Hammer sees it as a new reason for living : to crucify the perfect image of the happy western man and his incarnation in the person of Georges Nail. A nail is the perfect victim for a hammer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-14
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Pleure Pas My Love
Overview: After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-18
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The Punishment
Overview: An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-10
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The Children Play Russian
Overview: A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-08
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Gardens in Autumn
Overview: When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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The Fatal Shot
Overview: Laci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter, they have no place to sleep, no decent job and no future. Béla, who lives on stealing cars, joins them. He has a gun. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Unruly Heyducks
Overview: This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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Temporary Paradise
Overview: 1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an internment camp at Lake Balaton. Jacques meets Klári here, who was abandoned by her military officer husband for her Jewish origin. Both want to have a short affair, but love unfolds between them.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Overview: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Modré z neba
Overview: Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1997-07-17
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Place Vendôme
Overview: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Overview: Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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Judith Therpauve
Overview: A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Favourites of the Moon
Overview: A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross paths in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Weekend
Overview: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Rome Roméo
Overview: David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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Up, Down, Fragile
Overview: A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Minden szerdán
Overview: Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning brigade and accidentally meets József Draskóczi, who denounced him. Draskóczi lives in an unloving, troubled atmosphere with his barren daughter and cynical son-in-law, ascetic about his youthful communist beliefs. He feels responsible for Istvan's fate, offering him a human voice and love. Despite his daughter's hysterical jealousy, he sends Istvan to school and then, through his previous connections, provides him with an apartment...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Le Grand Escroc
Overview: Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chaplin had already thought to adapt into a film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Overview: Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Rue du Pied de Grue
Overview: A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking direction, becomes entangled with a group of outsiders—misfits, lovers, and wanderers—who live on the city's margins. As he moves through this world, he connects with a woman whose struggles mirror his. Their relationship is fragile, shaped by fleeting moments of intimacy and the harsh realities of their surroundings. The film captures their attempts to escape their circumstances, but fate and the weight of their pasts make change elusive.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Alphaville
Overview: Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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Tolérance
Overview: An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Liberty at Night
Overview: In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Mange ta soupe
Overview: A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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Légitime défense
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Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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Vivre Sa Vie
Overview: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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A Nice Neighbor
Overview: Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the residents of a large old house learn that it is to be torn down and that they will be relocated elsewhere, an intense game gets underway. As is usual in such instances, the residents will be given new apartments commensurate in size with their old ones. Dibusz sees this as an opportunity to temporarily enlarge his "assigned" space in the condemned building. He wants to be reassigned to an apartment which is larger than his current bathless one-room space. He and a neighbor cooperate to break down the walls that separate their spaces from that of an old woman who just died after a brief tussle. Still not satisfied, he tries to marry one of two spinster women who live together but is rejected. In the course of the film, he has intense encounters of one sort or another with anyone who might be of help to him in his quest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-03-26
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Accroche-cœur
Overview: Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young girlfriend, an unperceptive sprite, is too much in love with him to let him out of her sight. He is on his way to a resort in the south of France, and despite his persistent, obvious and repeated attempts to get her to leave him alone, she sticks to him like glue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Love on the Ground
Overview: A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-17
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Ismael's Ghosts
Overview: Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-17
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On appelle ça… le printemps
Overview: Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However, at the same time, Joss abandons the marital home. Fanfan and Joss have only to knock on the door of Manu, Fanfan's sister, who gathers them until Mytch, Manu's companion, throws everyone out. The three young women find themselves in the street and continue their run, while their lovers gang up to track them down. The mini-war of the sexes will flare up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Laissé inachevé à Tokyo
Overview: A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Overview: This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Salut, voleurs!
Overview: In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But when members of the gang start shooting at one another, it becomes clear that he is definitely in over his head.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-21
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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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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Overview: Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-17
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Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
Overview: Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who has worked there before. The two friends are ogled by male workers who have overactive libidos and imaginations. Juli spurns the advances of a deluded Romeo while Piri continues to work and endure open hostility from the older female workers while her slothful parents sink deeper into alcoholism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-08-14
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Overview: A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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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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Esther Kahn
Overview: A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-04
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The Vulture
Overview: Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-07-29
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The Last Summer
Overview: Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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À double tour
Overview: The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé suspects that she may have been murdered by someone else.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-04
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Laços de Sangue
Overview: Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Katia
Overview: Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Cinématon XXIX
Overview: Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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The Outskirts of Alphaville
Overview: Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Silence and Cry
Overview: Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Un an
Overview: Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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The Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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Binding Sentiments
Overview: Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-09
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La Page blanche
Overview: 1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and growing up. Christine convinces Gilles to run away together to a hypothetical community of artists living in the south of France, in Lozère. This TV movie is the basis of Olivier Assayas' feature "L'Eau froide".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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Front woman
Overview: Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in girlfriend (carrot-top cutie Helene Lapiower) pose as author Rosine de Beaumont for book jacket and autograph signings. She's an immediate hit but rebels against being exploited, and throws Leaud out of their apartment. Complications occur when she meets a nerd (Rufus) claiming to be the book's author, leading to discovery of the real author (Thierry Fortineau), a bookseller who"s so happy to be in print at last that he's not to miffed at the deception. Climax shot at Charles de Gaulle Airport neatly weaves plot threads together for a blissfully happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-07
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