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Kanopy
89
8.1
/74685/
78
/1195/
78
/856/
4.5
/115908/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
84
7.7
/6018/
78
/267/
77
/405/
4.0
/25047/
100
/22/
90
/81/
87
/14/

The King and the Mockingbird (1980)
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
poster
84
7.8
/52299/
76
/1317/
75
/650/
3.9
/31700/
91
/35/
88
/550/
80
/8/
cc age 14+

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
7.3
/31830/
74
/1138/
72
/1019/
3.7
/24594/
100
/7/
83
/375/
68
/6/
5.9
/498/

My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
poster
75
7.2
/13481/
74
/762/
72
/944/
3.8
/29767/
81
/52/

The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
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66
6.6
/1562/
71
/40/
64
/71/
3.3
/1892/
74
/23/
64
/12/
61
/22/

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
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75
62
7.1
/3664/
68
/95/
64
/97/
3.8
/9995/
90
/10/
81
/26/

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
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Kanopy
77
59
7.5
/3516/
73
/80/
71
/100/
4.0
/13050/
86
/21/
80
/14/

The Nun (1967)
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
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Criterion Channel
70
55
6.7
/2927/
64
/44/
65
/72/
3.6
/6555/
86
/14/
71
/23/

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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71
52
6.9
/4843/
70
/139/
72
/271/
3.6
/4805/
75
/8/

The Night Caller (1975)
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Plex
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49
6.2
/6313/
66
/204/
62
/182/
3.1
/2062/
54
/14/

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
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74
42
7.2
/943/
74
/19/
69
/47/
3.6
/821/
86

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (1977)
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
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39
6.4
/1702/
68
/58/
60
/93/
3.2
/1664/

I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
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34
6.3
/1551/
60
/39/
63
/89/
3.3
/1045/

The Inheritor (1973)
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
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34
6.1
/1554/
58
/45/
61
/57/
3.6
/3599/
70
/2/

Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
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32
6.2
/1421/
65
/44/
61
/80/
3.2
/935/

The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
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71
27
7.2
/1131/
57
/17/
64
/52/
3.6
/731/
91
/5/

Dossier 51 (1978)
A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
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64
25
6.8
/736/
61
/15/
59
/48/
3.4
/573/

The Cat (1977)
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
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21
5.4
/428/
59
/15/
50
/10/
2.9
/5117/

The Beguines (1972)
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
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21
6.8
/419/
48
/7/
65
/19/
3.8
/846/

The Messiah (1975)
Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
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20
6.8
/613/
70
/11/
57
/36/
3.4
/346/

La Femme flic (1980)
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...
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63
20
6.1
/505/
63
/21/
63
/37/
3.3
/279/

Troubleshooters (1971)
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
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?
60
/1/

The Carpathian Castle (1976)
In 1898, strange things happen in a castle not far from the small village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Twenty years earlier, the castle had been abandoned due to some nefarious dealings there but a shepherd sees smoke coming out of the chimney, which stirs up the village with whispers Chort (a demon) is now occupying the place. Count Franz de Télek, a visitor to the area, becomes intrigued by all this turmoil and decides to investigate. Made for French television and based on the 1892 Jules Verne novel of the same name.
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?
6.0
/6/

Le Gentleman des Antipodes (1976)
N/A
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?
4.2
/29/
10
/1/
40
/2/

La Puce et le privé (1981)
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
poster
?
10
/1/

HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire (1971)
Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and megalomaniac. He lived a childhood in the Paris of the 1920s, upset by his love of drawing and painting thwarted by an abusive mother. Delivered to his own fantasies, the hero indulges in the most disordered introspection and will end up consuming himself to become the reincarnation of the one he is trying to copy: Hans Pauli Weyergans, painter of the 18th century.
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?
5.1
/13/
10
/1/
60
/1/

La nuit bulgare (1972)
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
poster
?
7.4
/62/
76
/3/
72
/4/

Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers (2004)
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and producer Saadi Yacef, who discuss the process of representing Algeria's struggle for independence and the challenges of presenting a balanced view of the conflict.
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?
10
/1/

Forgotten Stones (1952)
N/A
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?
10
/1/
70
/1/

Les filous (1967)
N/A
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Hoopla
64
?
6.8
/380/
62
/7/
60
/6/

Cecile Is Dead (1944)
Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
poster
57
?
5.7
/163/
51
/6/
64
/9/

The Associate (1979)
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
poster
?
5.4
/54/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Cry of the Heart (1974)
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tries to come to terms with his new existence. He quickly adopts a cruel attitude towards those closest to him, blackmailing the house gardener and his mother, who has a lover. Obsessed with sex, he is unable to have an affair with a girl and ends up committing suicide.
poster
60
?
7.2
/413/
47
/4/
63
/3/

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
poster
42
?
6.2
/231/
10
/1/
53
/9/

Promise at Dawn (1970)
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
poster
?
6.2
/11/
10
/1/

Gustave Moreau (1962)
A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to these days an influential figure in the birth of modern art.
poster
59
?
6.1
/403/
63
/6/
53
/19/

L'Homme en colère (1979)
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the deceased is not his son, but an individual who was using his passport. Dupree begins a frantic search for his son, who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
poster
68
?
7.1
/338/
57
/4/
75
/27/

Fortunate (1960)
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
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?
7.2
/55/
46
/3/
27
/3/

The Time of the Beginning (1974)
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
poster
48
?
5.7
/271/
32
/4/
55
/6/

Safety Catch (1970)
A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's alleged suicide.
poster
51
?
5.7
/145/
53
/3/
43
/6/

Your Turn, Darling (1963)
In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.
poster
?
6.5
/75/
55
/2/
70
/1/

Soldier Martin (1966)
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
poster
68
?
7.1
/104/
60
/5/
73
/8/

The Invention of Morel (1967)
Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…
poster
?
5.9
/88/
58
/6/
65
/10/

Les Culottes rouges (1962)
Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
poster
?

Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead (1975)
Thanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his childhood. But he is obsessed by the memory of this house, because the owners were, one by one, victims of an evil spirit. With a troupe of actors, he attempts to reconstruct the dramatic scenes he witnessed.


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