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6.9
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3.3
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Beau Pere (1981)
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
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Criterion Channel
74
56
7.3
/5116/
72
/110/
72
/197/
3.8
/7438/
79
/16/

Any Number Can Win (1963)
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
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73
55
7.2
/2281/
72
/74/
71
/141/
3.6
/1927/
82
/392/

Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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72
47
7.0
/1562/
74
/61/
70
/107/
3.6
/1218/
77
/366/

The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
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65
43
6.9
/3403/
68
/63/
64
/107/
3.5
/2304/
56
/8/

Flic Story (1975)
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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38
7.5
/1117/
71
/33/
68
/64/
3.9
/1274/

The Seventh Juror (1962)
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
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Plex
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34
6.9
/1918/
64
/30/
65
/64/
3.5
/1339/
69
/6/

The Last Train (1973)
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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33
6.7
/1085/
59
/21/
55
/32/
3.4
/397/
81
/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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Criterion Channel
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33
5.8
/1153/
61
/29/
57
/72/
3.4
/5874/
48
/11/

A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
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25
6.3
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66
/32/
63
/47/
3.3
/717/
44
/2/

The Gypsy (1975)
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
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22
6.6
/649/
67
/18/
62
/46/
3.4
/336/

Cloportes (1965)
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
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18
5.8
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59
/33/
54
/49/
3.2
/299/
54
/2/

Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
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5.6
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59
/30/
3.3
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
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Criterion Channel
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10
6.0
/486/
47
/16/
59
/9/
3.2
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/3/

Land of Milk and Honey (1971)
Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society.
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Why Paris? (1964)
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
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Amazon Prime Video
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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)
A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
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3.6
/41/
25
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13
/3/

Hello, Sisters (1975)
Denis spends a holiday at his friend's Marc home. Staying with the family for several days, even though the Chotards have other things in mind than sex, he will have nice encounters with the girl of the house, Marianne, a young maid, and more.
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10
/1/

Chicken Soup (1963)
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
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10
/1/

L'Or et la fleur (1974)
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6.5
/16/
10
/1/

No Big Deal for Johnny (1955)
Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
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10
/1/

Mon enfant, ma mère (1981)
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40
/1/

Pierrot mon ami (1979)
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
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10
/1/

The Happiest of Men (1952)
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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4.1
/13/
10
/1/

Wonderful Mentality (1953)
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.
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6.4
/29/
10
/1/

Carrot Top (1952)
As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
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5.3
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10
/1/
45
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Jamais deux sans trois (1951)
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
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4.0
/33/
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/1/

La bande du Rex (1980)
What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the working world or from the Army. Their meeting place is "La Javanaise", a bar held by no-nonsense Janine and her lighter husband Lucien. There they mix with their idol, Daniel, also known as Frankie Mégalo, a film projectionist and a rocker without a band. Most of the efforts of these born idlers will consist in finding a band and a venue for Frankie to perform and in laying hands on cash by means fair or foul to go to the Southern sun.
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71
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7.8
/110/
70
/1/
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/5/

Bartleby (1976)
Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
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5.5
/109/
43
/3/
56
/5/

Too Many Lovers (1957)
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
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7.2
/6/

L'affaire Matzneff (2020)
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time." Vanessa Springora denounces thus, in an interview with the Parisian , the support which benefited the writer Gabriel Matzneff , in the years 1970 and 1980. The author fifties then maintains an affair with the young girl, aged 14 years. A relationship under control that the editor tells in Le Consentement (éd. Grasset), published Thursday. "After having analyzed the work " , the Paris public prosecutor's office announced Friday January 3 the opening of an investigation for "rapes committed on the person of a minor of 15 years".
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5.4
/26/
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/2/

Les deux font la paire (1955)
Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder.
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5.2
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10
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My Husband, His Mistress and I (1974)
Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wife.
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10
/1/

Ça c'est Claude François (1967)
Claude François, his claudettes, Maurice Ribaud, France Gall... Such is the five-star cast of this original show directed by Jean Christophe Averty. A sort of musical self-portrait, the program looks back on the singer's career. A true showman, he gives a spectacular demonstration of the dances in vogue: twist, madison, hoolie goolie...
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10
/1/

The Adventures of Salavin (1964)
Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother...
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51
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6.4
/107/
35
/2/
55
/5/

Premier mai (1958)
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to have made a success of his life. This man, Blanchot, decides to return to Jean a sum of money he had once borrowed. Trusted, Jean is drawn into a clandestine circle, where his apparent luck delivers him without ulterior motive to Blanchot, who is one of the ringleaders. The police interrupt the dangerous game, putting Jean, who has no identity papers, in an awkward situation.
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47
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6.2
/156/
27
/5/
53
/8/

The Conspiracy (1973)
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
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3.0
/27/
16
/3/
10
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War Spies (1972)
Professor Meier has stolen the plans of his own infernal machine, the T-14, and intends to sell to the highest bidder in a transaction organized in an Avoriaz hotel belonging to "Pasha", a mob boss who acts as go between. To retrieve the famous case, the SDECEE release Peter Finshh, a professional gentleman thief, from prison to return to the plans. Peter is ordered to recover the T-14 from the possession of a group of spies in Avoriaz.
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5.4
/27/
10
/1/
53
/3/

Quai des blondes (1954)
The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
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5.1
/80/
50
/3/
50
/5/

OK Patron (1974)
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
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58
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6.1
/306/
51
/10/
60
/12/

The Eye of the Monocle (1962)
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?
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58
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5.8
/327/
60
/15/
58
/28/

April Fools' Day (1954)
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
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5.4
/15/
10
/1/
68
/2/

Good Enough to Eat (1951)
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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56
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4.9
/121/
58
/5/
59
/8/

Why Not Us? (1981)
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
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6.4
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54
/7/
54
/11/

Three Days to Live (1958)
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
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6.3
/27/
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/3/
55
/2/

The Slave (1953)
A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted.
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49
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5.5
/120/
55
/6/
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/7/

Le Concierge (1973)
Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.
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6.6
/12/
10
/1/

Teuf-teuf (1963)
An automobile tribute
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44
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6.3
/126/
10
/1/
61
/7/

Give Me My Chance (1957)
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.


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