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A sparkling four-way affair overflowing with dialogue that showcases writer-director Sacha Guitrys wit, Quadrille stars Guitry as a magazine editor whose longtime girlfriendto whom he plans to finally proposeis uncontrollably drawn to a hands[...]![]()
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Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him fr[...]![]()
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. Although the original negative was destroyed during World Wa[...]![]()
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After making such American noir classics as The Naked City and Brute Force, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious heist in the City o[...]![]()
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In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tes[...]![]()
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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culturewith a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythologymaverick d[...]![]()
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In René Clair's irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. This witty exploration of love and human foibles, told primarily through song, capture[...]![]()
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Even among cinema's legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Lik[...]![]()
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The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young womans experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue Is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as[...]![]()
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A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavrass Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains among the most vital dispatches from that hallowed era of filmmaking. This Academy Award winner[...]