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Criterion Channel
81
7.6
/7266/
73
/154/
69
/195/
3.9
/9630/
86
/14/
87
/72/

My American Uncle (1980)
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/6533/
68
/106/
68
/138/
3.9
/10731/
82
/34/
77
/105/

Lola Montès (1955)
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
76
7.8
/11747/
74
/206/
75
/304/
3.9
/13991/
97
/32/
90
/146/

Le Corbeau (1943)
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.5
/50744/
73
/1008/
76
/1202/
3.9
/64252/
85
/39/
87
/718/
71
/12/

The Tenant (1976)
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
68
7.5
/5755/
69
/105/
75
/131/
3.9
/7655/
80
/10/
85
/40/

Le Plaisir (1952)
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
50
7.5
/1993/
75
/31/
70
/40/
3.8
/2339/
90
/10/
81
/9/

Comradeship (1931)
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
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74
40
7.1
/1178/
76
/48/
72
/74/
3.7
/1241/
78
/17/

The President (1961)
At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
37
7.3
/1152/
67
/41/
69
/76/
3.6
/1173/

Les Misérables (1982)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Kanopy
65
35
6.8
/1431/
70
/31/
69
/57/
3.4
/1554/
50
/6/
70
/2/

Manon (1949)
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
poster
54
21
6.1
/657/
36
/9/
56
/25/
3.2
/822/

Agent Trouble (1987)
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
poster
67
20
7.2
/774/
62
/16/
66
/21/
3.4
/558/

Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941)
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
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Hoopla
70
17
7.0
/534/
71
/17/
70
/19/
3.5
/359/

Strangers in the House (1942)
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
poster
65
17
7.1
/684/
61
/9/
58
/26/
3.5
/292/

People of No Importance (1956)
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
poster
59
14
6.6
/578/
74
/5/
53
/19/
3.4
/589/
36
/3/

Madame Bovary (1934)
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?
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10
/1/
60
/1/

La fille perdue (1954)
Marguerite Le Goff has a sad destiny. Daughter-mother to a holidaymaker at the age of sixteen, she tried to earn a living in Nantes, but succumbed to the promises of the disreputable Pierre who had found her in a sailors' box. Deprived of her child, what would she do if good people didn't sympathize and her childhood friend Jean-Marie didn't take her with him?
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?
10
/1/

Bonjour jeunesse (1957)
After her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins, brutal farmers, obtain guardianship of the young girl. Unhappy, she flees and finds refuge with a young shepherd living on alms.
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?
10
/1/

Born of Unknown Father (1950)
By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
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?
7.0
/20/

Endless Night (1947)
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
poster
?
6.0
/30/
83
/3/

The Murderer Is Not Guilty (1946)
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
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?
6.6
/23/
50
/1/

Her Last Part (1946)
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish because she is terminally-ill.
poster
?
7.2
/18/

Mermoz (1943)
Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the South Atlantic, militated in the Crosses of Fire and perished at the controls of "La Croix du Sud" during its twenty-fourth crossing.
poster
?
6.1
/75/
53
/3/
60
/4/

The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942)
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
poster
?
5.8
/11/
50
/3/

Fedora (1934)
Fedora swears to avenge the death of her fiancé, Prince Yarischkine, killed by Ipanoff who fled to Paris. She finds Ipanoff whom she falls in love with and he confesses to having killed her fiancé because Yarischkine was his wife's lover. But learning that her brother was executed because of Fedora, Ipanoff leaves her. Fedora commits suicide.
poster
?
60
/2/

Un amour de jeunesse (1977)
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
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?
6.5
/11/

Mr. Duke (1931)
The Duc de Latour-Maubert falls in love with an intriguer when he had better think about the business of the ruined family, by marrying a rich American!
poster
?
4.9
/66/
30
/1/
60
/2/

Rail Pirates (1938)
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
poster
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6.1
/27/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Children of Love (1953)
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
poster
?
6.6
/45/
62
/4/
30
/2/

Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
poster
75
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6.5
/125/
85
/2/
72
/6/

The Benefactor (1942)
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
poster
62
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6.9
/209/
60
/10/
62
/12/

Black Dossier (1955)
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.
poster
?
6.5
/44/
30
/2/
40
/2/

Torticola versus Frankensberg (1952)
A comedic take on the Frankenstein story.
poster
?
6.0
/98/
53
/3/
53
/7/

The Vocation of André Carel (1925)
At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he falls in love with Reine, the beautiful daughter of a simple boatsman. In order to impress her solely through his personality and character, he conceals his wealthy origins and, disguising himself as a migrant laborer, takes up work on board her father's ship.
poster
?
6.2
/46/
35
/2/
73
/3/

Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl (1956)
Goubbiah is a Yugoslav sponge fisherman. He loves Trinida, but she is promised to Peppo, the village drunkard. Jao tries to keep Goubbiah away from his daughter.
poster
72
?
6.5
/117/
75
/2/
71
/7/

Marie-Martine (1943)
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?
poster
54
?
7.0
/175/
35
/4/
58
/9/

An Eye for an Eye (1957)
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
poster
46
?
5.6
/199/
33
/3/
55
/2/
40
/8/

The Vintage (1957)
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
poster
60
?
6.3
/101/
60
/4/
57
/7/

The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
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?
6.1
/59/
35
/2/
56
/6/

The Ferret (1950)
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
poster
?
5.4
/13/
10
/1/

In Venice, One Night (1937)
Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs to find her a lover. He thinks he has found the ideal candidate in the person of a manly private detective by the name of Robert Arnaud. But the experience gets out of Mortal's control as, on the one hand, Robert and Nadia fall in love for good, and, on the other hand, Robert, assisted by resourceful young Toto, manages to expose Mortal as the jewel thief he is.
poster
60
?
7.3
/208/
50
/8/
61
/4/

Peace in the Fields (1970)
This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues of prejudice and superstition in the Belgian countryside through the troubles of a middle-aged farmer whose mother has been accused of being a witch. In French, this picture is based on a true story which took place in the late 1920s and early '30s.
poster
64
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6.9
/149/
50
/5/
73
/13/

Paris in August (1966)
A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
poster
64
?
6.8
/373/
60
/7/
66
/11/

Blonde in a White Car (1959)
Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
poster
67
?
7.0
/289/
72
/9/
62
/14/

Return to Life (1949)
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
poster
56
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5.9
/226/
63
/3/
47
/12/

The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers (1989)
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...
poster
?
10
/1/
30
/1/

Le Secret d'une mère (1952)
After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.
poster
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5.4
/37/
30
/3/
45
/2/

Les Truands (1956)
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in anecdotal fashion.
poster
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5.5
/13/
70
/1/

Two Women (1940)
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
poster
56
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5.6
/454/
61
/15/
51
/12/

Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.


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