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Bellamy- Claude CHABROL
- France
- 2008
- 110min
Police chief Paul Bellamy is vacationing at his wife Francoise’s family estate, despite her wishes to get away from it all. As an inspector with a nearly insatiable thirst for myst...
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Just for Laughs- Lucas BELVAUX
- France
- 1997
- 100min
Gaspard is a sports photographer. Alice is a successful lawyer. Nicolas is, for lack of a better word, an unemployed househusband. Gaspard and Alice are lovers, and Alice is marrie...
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A Room in Town- Jacques DEMY
- France
- 1982
- 92min
A story of passion, Jacques Demy’s 1982 musical unfolds in 1955 Nantes against the backdrop of a shipyard strike. Francois, a striking metalworker, is engaged to Violette when he m...
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Bad Blood- Leos CARAX
- France
- 1986
- 119min
One time Les Cahiers du Cinema contributor Leos Carax’s ability to bend and sometimes break film conventions while paying homage to them showed early in his career. In Ba...
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Holy Motors- Leos CARAX
- France
- 2012
- 115min
Oscar’s day is filled with going back and forth between several lives. He is at the top of his industry, an assassin, a beggar and a monster and simultaneously a loving husband and...
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A Prophet- Jacques AUDIARD
- France
- 2008
- 155min
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19...
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Marianne of My Youth- Julien DUVIVIER
- France
- 1954
- 105min
At a boarding school in the lakeside town of Heiligenstadt, introverted Vincent keeps to himself and misses his mother. His only enjoyment is looking after deer at the school. Vinc...
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My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument- Arnaud DESPLECHIN
- France
- 1996
- 180min
Twenty-nine-year-old Paul is a reluctant teacher, aspiring doctoral candidate and would-be archaeologist living a half-life. Living with a cousin and romantically attached to Esthe...
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A Man and a Woman- Claude LELOUCH
- France
- 1966
- 102min
Claude Lelouch’s classic 1966 romance is as engaging and moving today as it was upon release. When a widow and a widower meet one Sunday evening at their children’s boarding school...
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Aparajito, The Unvanquished- Satyajit RAY
- India
- 1956
- 110min
*an extract from an original writing for Asian Cinema 100 Sixty years after its 1955 premiere, the charm of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy ? Pather Panchali ...