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Bernard Fresson

Bernard Fresson

Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931- 20 October 2002) was a French cinema actor. He starred in over 160 films. Some of his notable roles include: Javert in the 1972 mini-series version of Les Misérables, Inspector Barthelmy in John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1974), Scope in Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Gilbert in Lover Boy (1978), and Francis in Garçon! (1983), for which he received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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Jean Moulin, une affaire française (2003)

Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation. ...

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The Adversary (2002)

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based ...

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La Beauté sur la terre (2001)

Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads. ...

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Without Family (2000)

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famou ...

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Taking Wing (2000)

This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's sh ...

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Six-Pack (2000)

A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair. ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception (1999)

Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Ha ...

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Place Vendôme (1998)

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing ...

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My Man (1996)

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then ...

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Shadow of a Kiss (1995)

Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, ...

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Germinal (1993)

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them. ...

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L'Interdiction (1993)

An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged husband stripped of his rights. ...

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Dingo (1991)

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and pla ...

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Quiproquos ! (1991)

A candidate for mayor of a small town decides to have the mayor's daughter kidnapped to induce him to withdraw his candidacy in the next elections. ...

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Money (1991)

A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers. ...

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No Time for Justice (1990)

A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison. ...

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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians. ...

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Équipe de nuit (1990)

Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents. ...

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Sons (1990)

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. ...

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L'Été de la Révolution (1989)

Part 1: In May 1789, in Versailles, a game tug of war takes place between conservative and more progressive bigwigs. Part 2: As the people of Paris revolt, King Louis XVI finds it increasingly difficult to get the situation under control. ...

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Street of No Return (1989)

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him. ...

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Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)

Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices. ...

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No Harm Intended (1988)

When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs ...

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Sweet Lies (1987)

An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the girls realize they are really falling for him. ...

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La Petite Roque (1986)

A teenager is found raped and strangled near a Norman village governed by a crude mayor. ...

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L'Affaire Marie Besnard (1986)

In the small town of Louvun, Marie and Léon Besnard live quite comfortably. But on 25 October 1947 Léon passes away. Nobody, including the doctor who issued the burial permit, is doubtful that his death was natural. Nobody except Louise Paniou, a friend ...

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L'Amour ou presque (1985)

Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenad ...

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La Dixième de Beethoven (1985)

Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing aid, and l istens in horror to his works. The critic wishes Beethoven to complete his tenth symphony, and o ...

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Zielscheiben (1985)

The police catch Zorro, a small-time crook who is to testify as a key witness in a trial against organized crime. When an assassination attempt is made on him in prison, Zorro is to be given a new identity and the prosecutor decides to let him go into hidi ...

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Le maître-chanteur (1985)

A César award nominated short feature. ...

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New Year's Eve At Bob's (1984)

On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob. ...

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Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)

Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal ...

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Clash (1984)

A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man. ...

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Waiter! (1983)

After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man. ...

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Spy, Stand Up (1982)

Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found ...

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Madame Claude 2 (1981)

A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny. ...

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Le Guépiot (1981)

A girl is placed in a strict Catholic boarding school by her hateful mother after the divorce of her parents. There she is physically and psychologically tortured by the nuns because of her brutal use of language and anti-clerical upbringing. Her only mome ...

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We Forget Everything! (1979)

Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili i ...

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Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978)

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl. ...

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Lover Boy (1978)

"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien' ...

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Le Dernier Baiser (1977)

The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and the other is a wealthy and idle bourgeois. ...

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The Passengers (1977)

A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck. ...

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To Each His Hell (1977)

After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst. ...

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Mado (1976)

A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute. ...

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Marie, the Doll (1976)

Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and be ...

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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. ...

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The Call of the Wild (1976)

A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country. ...

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Don't Bite, We Love You (1976)

Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old n ...

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The Probability Factor (1976)

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about h ...

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Rain over Santiago (1975)

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearance ...

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Cookies (1975)

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tires ...

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Le Futur aux trousses (1975)

A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold. ...

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French Connection II (1975)

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York. ...

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Where There's Smoke (1973)

An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ? ...

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Oh, Sun (1973)

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race. ...

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3000 Million Without an Elevator (1972)

Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition. ...

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Hearth Fires (1972)

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Too Small My Friend (1971)

Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank. ...

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Max and the Junkmen (1971)

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand. ...

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Portrait of Marianne (1971)

Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne. ...

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Macédoine (1971)

The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success. ...

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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)

Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why ...

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The Cop (1970)

A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A vio ...

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The American (1969)

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends. ...

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Z (1969)

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermat ...

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Woman in Chains (1968)

Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photogr ...

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Farewell, Friend (1968)

After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in d ...

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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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Spray of the Days (1968)

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers fr ...

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Zita (1968)

Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has ...

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Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

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My Love, My Love (1967)

An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion. ...

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Belle de Jour (1967)

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to ...

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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (1967)

A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression. ...

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Triple Cross (1966)

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII. ...

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Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, en ...

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The War Is Over (1966)

Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from goin ...

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The Big Swag (1965)

Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de ...

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How Not to Rob a Department Store (1965)

To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs. ...

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Skies Above (1965)

The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders. ...

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The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

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The Flamboyant Sex (1961)

24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school. ...

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Please, Not Now! (1961)

A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous. ...

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Girl in the Window (1961)

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, w ...

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Sahara on Fire (1961)

A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced ...

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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers ...

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Sunday Buddies (1957)

Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a fo ...

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