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Kanopy
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8.0
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4.3
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The 400 Blows (1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/13456/
73
/251/
72
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3.9
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96
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85
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Claire's Knee (1970)
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.7
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73
/300/
74
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4.0
/24765/
85
/26/
91
/244/

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
7.2
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68
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71
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3.7
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85
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80
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The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
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Kanopy
73
7.4
/20156/
71
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71
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3.9
/22104/
82
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88
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Queen Margot (1994)
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
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Criterion Channel
71
7.3
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74
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73
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3.9
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83
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71
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A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
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Criterion Channel
71
7.2
/2739/
64
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68
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3.6
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83
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80
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The Night of Varennes (1982)
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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Kanopy
77
67
7.3
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75
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69
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3.6
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89
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88
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King of Hearts (1966)
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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The Roku Channel
67
66
7.3
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71
/334/
69
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3.5
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40
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83
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The Monster (1994)
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.
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Criterion Channel
76
64
7.1
/4088/
71
/79/
69
/92/
3.6
/6880/
100
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76
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Le Beau Serge (1959)
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
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Criterion Channel
79
60
7.6
/3672/
74
/84/
74
/170/
4.0
/9924/
91
/11/
80
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I Knew Her Well (1965)
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
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Criterion Channel
76
58
7.2
/3544/
70
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68
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3.7
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94
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81
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The Cousins (1959)
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
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72
58
7.3
/2999/
66
/30/
69
/84/
3.8
/1901/
60
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89
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Bolero (1981)
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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Criterion Channel
70
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6.7
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64
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65
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3.6
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86
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Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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Criterion Channel
68
54
7.0
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68
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67
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3.5
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The Mischief Makers (1957)
A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend's love.
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70
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6.7
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71
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68
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3.6
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Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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Criterion Channel
70
51
7.3
/2580/
68
/54/
68
/138/
3.7
/3108/

The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
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75
48
7.1
/975/
62
/19/
67
/43/
3.8
/1267/
100

Shock Troops (1967)
A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy.
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Criterion Channel
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47
6.5
/1809/
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64
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3.4
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A Story of Water (1961)
A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
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47
6.8
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3.5
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An Impudent Girl (1985)
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
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MUBI
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43
7.3
/937/
67
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71
/48/
3.9
/6889/

Love at Sea (1965)
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
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Criterion Channel
65
43
6.7
/1566/
62
/41/
65
/70/
3.4
/8261/

Fiancés on the Bridge (1962)
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
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Criterion Channel
71
43
6.7
/1383/
54
/26/
60
/34/
3.7
/4978/
100
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75
/2/

No Fear, No Die (1990)
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
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Criterion Channel
69
42
7.0
/2662/
66
/43/
66
/65/
3.4
/4885/
79
/7/

All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.
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62
42
6.2
/2384/
65
/86/
60
/163/
3.1
/1726/

My New Partner II (1990)
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
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Kanopy
70
40
6.9
/3137/
61
/50/
61
/109/
3.5
/2311/
93
/2/

Deadly Circuit (1983)
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
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63
39
6.3
/1413/
60
/31/
62
/59/
3.3
/2129/

Christine (1958)
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
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Criterion Channel
64
38
6.5
/2130/
64
/43/
60
/59/
3.8
/7213/
55
/5/

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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55
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5.3
/1612/
57
/69/
51
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3.1
/1930/

The Car Keys (2003)
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Kanopy
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35
6.5
/1718/
61
/39/
62
/71/
3.3
/1801/
57
/10/

Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
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65
35
6.7
/1552/
68
/34/
66
/72/
3.3
/824/
70
/10/
57
/4/

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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33
6.7
/1085/
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/21/
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/32/
3.4
/397/
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/475/

The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
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31
5.9
/1410/
60
/38/
57
/102/
3.4
/2546/
50

Actors (2000)
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
poster
67
30
6.9
/1633/
67
/29/
69
/90/
3.5
/767/
62
/5/

Unfair Competition (2001)
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
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Criterion Channel
65
29
7.0
/1105/
68
/11/
64
/30/
3.5
/2277/
56
/2/

Fool’s Mate (1956)
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?
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6.1
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59
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3.3
/493/

Carom Shots (1963)
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
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61
27
6.1
/584/
60
/19/
61
/21/
3.2
/1902/

The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)
Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.
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55
27
6.2
/903/
48
/19/
53
/41/
3.3
/569/
43

The Lady Banker (1980)
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
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55
26
5.6
/1405/
49
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50
/36/
3.1
/1444/
57
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A Very Private Affair (1962)
After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
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65
25
6.8
/484/
65
/12/
55
/23/
3.5
/1336/

Anna (1998)
Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman he only knows through a photograph — of Anna.
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Hoopla
59
23
5.5
/715/
61
/6/
55
/16/
3.1
/555/
50
/3/
75
/10/

Circle of Love (1964)
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
poster
56
23
5.7
/597/
58
/9/
53
/18/
3.1
/851/
47
/47/

Manon 70 (1968)
Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.
poster
58
23
5.8
/626/
59
/29/
54
/49/
3.2
/626/

The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
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65
23
6.6
/782/
64
/24/
63
/34/
3.4
/472/

Kennedy et moi (1999)
If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the “normal” people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen into a sort of collective madness. Who knows. Because he has no choice, because he is in love with his wife and because he refuses to resign himself to the worst, Samuel Polaris decides to regain his dignity. Even if, to do this, he has to steal from his psychiatrist the watch that Kennedy was wearing the day he was assassinated.
poster
62
22
6.3
/714/
54
/15/
65
/32/
3.3
/456/

Male Hunt (1964)
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
poster
54
21
5.4
/817/
60
/41/
55
/100/
3.0
/811/
45
/2/

Pinot simple-flic (1984)
The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.
poster
51
20
5.8
/866/
53
/14/
58
/31/
3.2
/570/
29
/7/
44
/4/

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
poster
58
19
6.3
/740/
45
/4/
56
/17/
3.4
/900/

The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.


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