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Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain aka Am lie (2001)
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Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Plot Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
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Le salaire de la peur aka The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Georges Arnaud, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jerame Geronimi
Cast Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck
Plot In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
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Trois couleurs : Rouge aka Three Colors: Red (1994)
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Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Agnieszka Holland
Cast Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder
Plot A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.
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Le scaphandre et le papillon aka The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
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Director Julian Schnabel
Writer Ronald Harwood, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Cast Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze
Plot The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc aka The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
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Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley
Plot In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
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Intouchables aka The Intouchables (2011)
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Director Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Writer Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
Cast Frana§ois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny
Plot After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
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Le voyage dans la lune aka A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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Director Georges Melies
Writer Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Georges Melies
Cast Georges Melies, Victor Andre, Bleuette Bernon
Plot A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
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Amour (2012)
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Director Michael Haneke
Writer Michael Haneke
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Plot Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tes...
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La grande illusion aka The Grand Illusion (1937)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
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Persepolis (2007)
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Director Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Writer Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Cast Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands
Plot A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
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La haine (1995)
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Director Mathieu Kassovitz
Writer Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saa¯d Taghmaoui
Plot 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
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Un prophete aka A Prophet (2009)
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Director Jacques Audiard
Writer Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
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Les diaboliques aka Diabolique (1955)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Plot The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
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Les quatre cents coups aka The 400 Blows (1959)
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Director Frana§ois Truffaut
Writer Frana§ois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
Cast Jean-Pierre Leaud, Albert Remy, Claire Maurier
Plot A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu aka Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
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Director Celine Sciamma
Writer Celine Sciamma
Cast Noemie Merlant, Adele Haenel, Lua na Bajrami
Plot On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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Un condamne a mort s'est echappe ou Le vent souffle ou il veut aka A Man Escaped (1956)
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Director Robert Bresson
Writer Andre Devigny, Robert Bresson
Cast Frana§ois Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Plot A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
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Z (1969)
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Director Costa-Gavras
Writer Vassilis Vassilikos, Jorge Sempraºn, Costa-Gavras
Cast Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
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Au revoir les enfants (1987)
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Director Louis Malle
Writer Louis Malle
Cast Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtaa, Francine Racette
Plot A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
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Du rififi chez les hommes aka Rififi (1955)
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Director Jules Dassin
Writer Auguste Le Breton, Jules Dassin, Rene Wheeler
Cast Jean Servais, Carl Maahner, Robert Manuel
Plot Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...
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Trois couleurs: Bleu aka Three Colors: Blue (1993)
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Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Agnieszka Holland
Cast Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy
Plot A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
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La regle du jeu aka The Rules of the Game (1939)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, Beaumarchais
Cast Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost
Plot A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
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Anatomie d'une chute aka Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
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Director Justine Triet
Writer Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Cast Sandra Haller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
Plot A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
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Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie aka The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
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Un chien andalou (1929)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Salvador Dala, Luis Bua±uel
Cast Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Bua±uel
Plot Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalà present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
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La Belle et la Bete aka Beauty and the Beast (1946)
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Director Jean Cocteau, Rene Clement
Writer Jean Cocteau, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Cast Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parely
Plot A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
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Jean de Florette (1986)
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Director Claude Berri
Writer Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach
Cast Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Plot A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
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Les enfants du paradis aka Children of Paradise (1945)
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Director Marcel Carne
Writer Jacques Prevert
Cast Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Plot The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
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L'Atalante (1934)
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Director Jean Vigo
Writer Jean Guinee, Albert Riera, Jean Vigo
Cast Dita Parlo, Jean Daste, Gilles Margaritis
Plot Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
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La vie d'Adele aka Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
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Director Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, Jul Maroh
Cast Lea Seydoux, Adele Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Plot Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ...
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Nuit et brouillard aka Night and Fog (1956)
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Director Alain Resnais
Writer Jean Cayrol
Cast Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler
Plot The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
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A bout de souffle aka Breathless (1960)
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Director Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Frana§ois Truffaut
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Richard Balducci
Plot A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
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Le samourai aka Le Samoura (1967)
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod, Georges Pellegrin
Cast Alain Delon, Frana§ois Perier, Nathalie Delon
Plot After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses, his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.
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La Jetee aka La Jet e (1962)
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Director Chris Marker
Writer Chris Marker
Cast Etienne Becker, Jean Negroni, Helene Chatelain
Plot The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
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Les parapluies de Cherbourg aka The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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Director Jacques Demy
Writer Jacques Demy
Cast Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
Plot A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
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La nuit americaine aka Day for Night (1973)
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Director Frana§ois Truffaut
Writer Frana§ois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
Cast Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Frana§ois Truffaut
Plot A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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L'armee des ombres aka Army of Shadows (1969)
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer Joseph Kessel, Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Plot An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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Cet obscur objet du desir aka That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Loua¿s
Cast Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, angela Molina
Plot Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
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Le quai des brumes aka Port of Shadows (1938)
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Director Marcel Carne
Writer Pierre Mac Orlan, Jacques Prevert
Cast Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan
Plot A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
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Le corbeau (1943)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Louis Chavance, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Plot A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
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Pepe le Moko aka P p le Moko (1937)
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Director Julien Duvivier
Writer Henri La Barthe, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Constant
Cast Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Plot A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.
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Les triplettes de Belleville aka The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
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Director Sylvain Chomet
Writer Sylvain Chomet
Cast Michele Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin
Plot When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
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Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
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Director Alain Resnais
Writer Marguerite Duras
Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
Plot A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
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Ascenseur pour l'echafaud aka Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
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Director Louis Malle
Writer Roger Nimier, Louis Malle, Noel Calef
Cast Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Plot A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Le ballon rouge aka The Red Balloon (1956)
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Director Albert Lamorisse
Writer Albert Lamorisse
Cast Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier
Plot A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
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Le trou aka The Hole (1960)
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Director Jacques Becker
Writer Jose Giovanni, Jacques Becker, Jean Aurel
Cast Andre Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin
Plot Distrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.
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Jules et Jim aka Jules and Jim (1962)
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Director Frana§ois Truffaut
Writer Henri-Pierre Roche, Frana§ois Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Cast Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
Plot Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
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Le cercle rouge aka The Red Circle (1970)
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonte
Plot After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
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Playtime (1967)
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Director Jacques Tati
Writer Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
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Mon oncle aka My Uncle (1958)
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Director Jacques Tati
Writer Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hate, Jacques Tati
Cast Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Plot Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
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Cleo de 5 a 7 aka Cl o from 5 to 7 (1962)
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Director Agnes Varda
Writer Agnes Varda
Cast Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Plot Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
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Le jour se leve aka Daybreak (1939)
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Director Marcel Carne
Writer Jacques Viot, Jacques Prevert
Cast Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent, Arletty
Plot After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
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Quai des Orfevres aka Jenny Lamour (1947)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Stanislas-Andre Steeman, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry
Cast Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Plot A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.
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La bete humaine aka The Human Beast (1938)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Emile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Cast Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Plot In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
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Incendies (2010)
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Director Denis Villeneuve
Writer Wajdi Mouawad, Denis Villeneuve, Valerie Beaugrand-Champagne
Cast Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
Plot Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
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Le passe aka The Past (2013)
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Director Asghar Farhadi
Writer Asghar Farhadi
Cast Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
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La marche de l'empereur aka March of the Penguins (2005)
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Director Luc Jacquet
Writer Luc Jacquet, Michel Fessler, Jordan Roberts
Cast Morgan Freeman, Romane Bohringer, Charles Berling
Plot In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
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Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Writer Edmond Rostand, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez
Plot Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
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Jeux interdits aka Forbidden Games (1952)
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Director Rene Clement
Writer Frana§ois Boyer, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost
Cast Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amedee
Plot A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
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Apocalypse: La 2eme guerre mondiale aka Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
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Cast Mathieu Kassovitz, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Booth
Plot This six-part series traces the Second World War, from the rise of the Nazis to the surrender of the Japanese, with detailed portraits of key figures.
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Manon des sources aka Manon of the Spring (1986)
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Director Claude Berri
Writer Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach
Cast Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil
Plot A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
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Partie de campagne aka A Day in the Country (1946)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Jean Renoir, Guy de Maupassant
Cast Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux
Plot The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
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L'Age d'or (1930)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Luis Bua±uel, Salvador Dala, Marquis de Sade
Cast Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque
Plot A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
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Zero de conduite aka Zero for Conduct (1933)
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Director Jean Vigo
Writer Jean Vigo
Cast Jean Daste, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre
Plot In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
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Jour de fete aka The Big Day (1949)
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Director Jacques Tati
Writer Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Rene Wheeler
Cast Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Plot A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
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Le silence de la mer aka The Silence of the Sea (1949)
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer Vercors, Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain
Plot In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
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Mob Psycho 100 (2016)
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Cast Setsuo Ito, Takahiro Sakurai, Miyu Irino
Plot A psychic middle school boy tries to live a normal life and keep his growing powers under control, even though he constantly gets into trouble.
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The Salt of the Earth (2014)
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Director Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Writer Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Cast Sebastia£o Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lelia Wanick Salgado
Plot The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
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Ma vie de Courgette aka My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
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Director Claude Barras
Writer Celine Sciamma, Claude Barras, Morgan Navarro
Cast Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
Plot After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to an orphanage with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
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Les choristes aka The Chorus (2004)
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Director Christophe Barratier
Writer Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler, Noel-Noel
Cast Gerard Jugnot, Frana§ois Berleand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Plot Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
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La double vie de Veronique aka The Double Life of V ronique (1991)
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Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cast Irene Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska
Plot Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
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Un long dimanche de fiancailles aka A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer Sebastien Japrisot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
Cast Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster
Plot Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
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Close (2022)
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Director Lukas Dhont
Writer Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Cast Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Emilie Dequenne
Plot The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
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Belle de jour (1967)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Joseph Kessel, Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Plot A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
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Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
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Director Robert Bresson
Writer Robert Bresson
Cast Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, Frana§ois Lafarge
Plot The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
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Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux aka Vivre sa vie (1962)
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Director Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Marcel Sacotte, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre S. Labarthe
Plot Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Les yeux sans visage aka Eyes Without a Face (1960)
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Director Georges Franju
Writer Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Cast Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Plot A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
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Pickpocket (1959)
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Director Robert Bresson
Writer Robert Bresson
Cast Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri
Plot Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
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L'annee derniere a Marienbad aka Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
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Director Alain Resnais
Writer Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cast Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
Plot In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
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La grande vadrouille aka Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
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Director Gerard Oury
Writer Gerard Oury, Daniele Thompson, Marcel Jullian
Cast Bourvil, Louis de Funes, Claudio Brook
Plot Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
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La planete sauvage aka Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Director Rene Laloux
Writer Stefan Wul, Roland Topor, Rene Laloux
Cast Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin
Plot On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
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Le sang d'un poete aka The Blood of a Poet (1932)
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Director Jean Cocteau
Writer Jean Cocteau
Cast Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
Plot Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
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Las Hurdes aka Land Without Bread (1933)
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Director Luis Bua±uel
Writer Luis Bua±uel, Rafael Sa¡nchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
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A nous la liberte aka Freedom for Us (1931)
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Director Rene Clair
Writer Rene Clair
Cast Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France
Plot Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
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La chienne aka The Bitch (1931)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Georges de La Fouchardiere, Jean Renoir, Andre Girard
Cast Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant
Plot Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship ...
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Boudu sauve des eaux aka Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Rene Fauchois, Jean Renoir, Albert Valentin
Cast Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczinska
Plot A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
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Les vampires (1915)
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Director Louis Feuillade
Writer Louis Feuillade
Cast Musidora, Edouard Mathe, Marcel Levesque
Plot An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
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Delicatessen (1991)
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Director Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien
Cast Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech
Plot Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
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Entre les murs aka The Class (2008)
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Director Laurent Cantet
Writer Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo, Frana§ois Begaudeau
Cast Frana§ois Begaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angelica Sancio
Plot Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
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La pianiste aka The Piano Teacher (2001)
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Director Michael Haneke
Writer Michael Haneke, Elfriede Jelinek
Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoat Magimel
Plot A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
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Ma nuit chez Maud aka My Night at Maud's (1969)
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Director Eric Rohmer
Writer Eric Rohmer
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frana§oise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Plot A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
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Orphee aka Orpheus (1950)
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Director Jean Cocteau
Writer Jean Cocteau
Cast Jean Marais, Frana§ois Perier, Maraa Casares
Plot A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Bande a part aka Band of Outsiders (1964)
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Director Jean-Luc Godard
Writer Dolores Hitchens, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Daniele Girard
Plot Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
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Le locataire aka The Tenant (1976)
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Director Roman Polanski
Writer Roland Topor, Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski
Cast Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Madame de... aka The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
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Director Max Ophals
Writer Louise de Vilmorin, Marcel Achard, Max Ophals
Cast Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Plot When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...
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Plein soleil aka Purple Noon (1960)
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Director Rene Clement
Writer Patricia Highsmith, Rene Clement, Paul Gegauff
Cast Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforet
Plot Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
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Les bas-fonds aka The Lower Depths (1936)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Maxim Gorky, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Jacques Companeez
Cast Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Plot A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
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Le voyage a travers l'impossible aka An Impossible Voyage (1904)
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Director Georges Melies
Writer Georges Melies, Jules Verne, Adolphe d'Ennery
Cast Georges Melies, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy
Plot Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
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La Mome aka La Vie En Rose (2007)
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Director Olivier Dahan
Writer Isabelle Sobelman, Olivier Dahan
Cast Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Plot Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
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Ernest et Celestine aka Ernest & Celestine (2012)
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Director Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Writer Daniel Pennac, Gabrielle Vincent
Cast Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner, Anne-Marie Loop
Plot The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
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Journal d'un cure de campagne aka Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
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Director Robert Bresson
Writer Georges Bernanos, Robert Bresson
Cast Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre
Plot A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
