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A heart in winter
(1992)
Un coeur en hiver
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Director:
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Claude Sautet
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| Starring:
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Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart
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A love triangle develops among a concert violinist, her lover, and his business partner.
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A man escaped
(1956)
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé
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Director:
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Robert Bresson
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| Starring:
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Charles Le Clainche, Francois Leterier
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A French Resistance activist, imprisoned by the Nazis, devotes his waking hours to planning his escape.
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A man escaped
(1956)
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle où il veut
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Director:
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Robert Bresson
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| Starring:
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Charles Le Clainche, Francois Leterier
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A French Resistance activist, imprisoned by the Nazis, devotes his waking hours to planning his escape.
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A Sunday in the country
(1984)
Un dimanche à la campagne
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Director:
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Bertrand Tavernier
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An aging impressionist painter spends a Sunday afternoon visiting with his family and ruminating over life's pleasures and disappointments.
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A very long engagement
(2004)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
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Director:
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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| Starring:
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Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel
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A young woman relentlessly searches for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme in WW I.
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Alice and Martin
(1998)
Alice et Martin
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Director:
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Andre Techine
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| Starring:
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Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret
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An emotionally scarred male model and a reclusive violinst are drawn to each other.
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Alphaville
(1965)
Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
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Director:
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Jean-Luc Godard
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| Starring:
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Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina
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Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy, one run by computers, in which emotion is outlawed.
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Amelie
(2001)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
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Director:
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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| Starring:
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Mathieu Kassovitz, Audrey Tautou
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A naive girl in Paris decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
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And God created woman
(1956)
Et Dieu créa la femme
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Director:
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Roger Vadim
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| Starring:
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Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens
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In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one man but marries his brother.
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Angel-A
(2005)
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Director:
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Luc Besson
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| Starring:
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Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen
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A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
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Après vous
(2003)
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Director:
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Pierre Salvadori
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| Starring:
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Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia
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Antoine saves Louis from suicide, and in trying to get Louis back on his feet, gets caught in a love triangle.
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Army of shadows
(1969)
L'armée des ombres
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Director:
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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| Starring:
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Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura
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A chief in the French resistance is betrayed and sent to a prison camp, but he escapes and brings the traitor to justice.
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Avenue Montaigne
(2006)
Fauteuils d'orchestre
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Director:
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Danièle Thompson
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| Starring:
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Cecile De France, Valerie Lemercier
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A waitress in a chic Paris bistro has a transforming effect on her customers.
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Battle of Algiers
(1966)
La bataille d'Alger
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Director:
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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| Starring:
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Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin
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In 1957, during the Algerian fight for independence, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism.
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Beauty and the Beast
(1946)
La belle et la bête
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Director:
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Jean Cocteau
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| Starring:
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Josette Day, Jean Marais
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The love of a self-sacrificing beauty releases the prince that is inside a kindly beast.
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Bed and board
(1970)
Domicile conjugal
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Director:
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François Truffaut
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| Starring:
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Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Léaud
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A married man and father tires of domesticity and is lured into a disastrous affair.
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Belleville rendez-vous
(2003)
Les triplettes de Belleville
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Director:
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Sylvain Chomet
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| Starring:
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Voices of Michèle Cacheteux, Jean-Claude Donda
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Animated: When a cyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France, his grandmother, her dog, and an aged song-and-dance team come to the rescue.
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Blame it on Fidel
(2006)
La faute à Fidel
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Director:
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Julie Gavras
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| Starring:
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Julie Depardieu, Nina Kervel
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A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her home when her parents become radical political activists in 1970s Paris.
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Bob the gambler
(1955)
Bob le flambeur
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Director:
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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| Starring:
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Daniel Cauchy, Isabel Corey
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An aging gambler plots one last score--the heist of the Deauville casino.
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Breathless
(1960)
A bout de souffle
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Director:
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Jean-Luc Godard
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| Starring:
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
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A car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a young woman to go with him to Italy to hide.
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