Ellen Bahl
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Farewell, Friend
Overview: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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To Skin a Spy
Overview: A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Rider on the Rain
Overview: A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Tender Scoundrel
Overview: Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-12
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Les Livreurs
Overview: These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-24
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Chicken Soup
Overview: The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Tales of Paris
Overview: A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-17
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That Obscure Object of Desire
Overview: After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-17
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Overview: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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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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Versatile Lovers
Overview: Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert Hossein), a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot. Isabelle takes him in and hides him in an attic of this strange house. In love with Isabelle, Philippe Lansac (Alberto Dalbes), the owner of the place, decides to close the castle...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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À belles dents
Overview: An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-05
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Overview: A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-07
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And Hope to Die
Overview: A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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