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Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) sensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut's own[...]![]()
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This masterpiece by Jean-Pierre Melville about the French Resistance went unreleased in the United States for thirty-seven years, until its triumphant theatrical debut in 2006. Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melvilles most persona[...]![]()
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Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinema critics turned filmmakers who transformed French film history, Claude Chabrol was the first to direct his own feature. His absorbing landmark debut, Le beau Serge, follows a successful yet sickly young [...]![]()
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Based on the classic Emile Zola novel. Jean Renoir's La Bête humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes - and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Part poetic realism, part noir, t[...]![]()
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Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible od he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing paths with a notor[...]![]()
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Gangster condamné à mort par contumace et recherché par la police, Abel Davos s'est réfugié en Italie avec sa femme Thérèse et ses deux enfants. Mais après un coup avec son ami Raymond, sur le point d'être retrouvé, il doit rentrer clandestineme[...]![]()
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Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffauts gripping, humanist character study. Against all oddsa Jewish theater manager in hid[...]![]()
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The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure sha[...]![]()
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The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos have only one guiding principle: "Lie or die". A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for sq[...]![]()
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Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise, the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert re[...]![]()
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Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stépha[...]![]()
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Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaques devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XVs army to avoid a forc[...]![]()
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Director Jean Renoirs entrancing first color featureshot entirely on location in Indiais a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of[...]![]()
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When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La Haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically[...]![]()
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In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city of Le Ha[...]