Stormy Waters
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
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On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
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Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is...
See moreThe Life and Loves of Beethoven
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...
See moreThe Opportunists
The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.
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The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who...
See moreThe Mark Of The Day
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young...
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Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very...
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A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the...
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Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...
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Bel Ami
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of...
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A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps...
See moreThe Thistles of The Bărăgan
Rumania's entry in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival was the excessively melodramatic Ciulinii Bărăganului. The title translates as Fools of Bărăgan...
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Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
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A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
See moreLa Bataille de la vie
Le Journal de la Résistance
Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in August 1944, this film captures the final French...
See moreThe Bouquinquant Brothers
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who...
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