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The Nun
1966 film directed by Jacques Rivette
The Road to Glory
1936 film by Howard Hawks
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 film by Jack Cardiff
The Children of Captain Grant
1936 film by Vladimir Vajnshtok
Uranus
1990 film by Claude Berri, Arlette Langmann
Jacquou le Croquant
2007 film by Laurent Boutonnat
Limonov: The Ballad
2024 film
The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024 animation film by Michel Hazanavicius
Le Bossu
1959 film by André Hunebelle
An Impossible Love
2018 film directed by Catherine Corsini
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 film by Jean Renoir
Someone Behind the Door
1971 film directed by Nicolas Gessner
Boulevard du Rhum
1971 film directed by Robert Enrico
Section spéciale
1975 film by Costa-Gavras
Master of the World
1961 film by William Witney
Who You Think I Am
2019 film directed by Safy Nebbou
The Roots of Heaven
1958 film by John Huston
Untamable Angelique
1967 film directed by Bernard Borderie
Thérèse Desqueyroux
2012 film
10:30 P.M. Summer
1966 film by Jules Dassin
La Vache et le Prisonnier
1959 film by Henri Verneuil
Both Sides of the Blade
2022 film directed by Claire Denis
Marie-Octobre
Marie-Octobre is a 1959 French drama mystery film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier and Robert Dalban. It is based on the eponymous novel by Jacques Robert. The entire action takes place in real time over 99 minutes. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It is also known by the alternative title Secret Meeting The film was remade in 2008 by director Josée Dayan, starring Nathalie Baye.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 film by Harold Young
On Guard
1997 film by Philippe de Broca
Bitter Victory
1957 film by Nicholas Ray
Confessions of a Queen
1925 film by Victor Sjöström
Martin Roumagnac
1946 film directed by Georges Lacombe
The Gypsy
1975 French-Italian film directed by José Giovanni
The Blood of Others
1984 film by Claude Chabrol
Lady J
2018 film directed by Emmanuel Mouret
Anatomy of Hell
2004 film by Catherine Breillat
Beau-père
1981 film by Bertrand Blier
The Ogre
1996 film by Volker Schlöndorff
Rosebud
1975 film by Otto Preminger
Idiot in Paris
1967 film by Serge Korber
Sirocco
1951 film by Curtis Bernhardt
Love Me No More
2008 film by Jean Becker
Paradise
1991 film by Mary Agnes Donoghue
Love at the Top
1974 film directed by Michel Deville
The Horsemen
1971 film by John Frankenheimer
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 film by Jesús Franco
Devil in the Flesh
1986 Italian film by Marco Bellocchio
Le chemin des écoliers
1959 film by Michel Boisrond
The Little Sister
2025 film directed by Hafsia Herzi
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 film by Yves Robert
The Speech
2020 film directed by Laurent Tirard
Les Enfants Terribles
1950 film by Jean-Pierre Melville
The Stolen Airship
1967 film by Karel Zeman
Romance of Astree and Celadon
2007 film directed by Éric Rohmer
Afterwards
2008 film by Gilles Bourdos
Heal the Living
2016 film by Katell Quillévéré
Les amitiés particulières
1964 film by Jean Delannoy
Mademoiselle Chambon
2009 film directed by Stéphane Brizé
The Long Teeth
1952 French film by Daniel Gélin
The Hedgehog
2009 film by Mona Achache
In Search of the Castaways
1962 film by Robert Stevenson
L'amour dure trois ans
2012 film by Frédéric Beigbeder
A Real Young Girl
1976 film by Catherine Breillat
The Possessors
1958 film by Denys de La Patellière