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Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress… Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
2) Humanité
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Pharaon de Winter is a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in northern France. He agonizes over the evil he confronts every day during the course of his work. The brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl tests Pharaon's profound humanity to its limits as the investigation proceeds to its climax, and as Pharaon struggles to grasp the crime's meaning.
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Somewhere in Kurdistan, Bahar, commander of the battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from the hands of extremists, hoping to find her son who is held, hostage. A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack and bear witness to the story of these exceptional warriors. Since their lives have been turned upside down, they find themselves fighting for women, life, and liberty.
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In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.
5) The accident
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In this compelling French mystery, Gabriel Cauvy contends with the sudden death of his wife, Rebecca, in a suspicious car wreck. When the police blame the crash on Rebecca for drunk driving, Gabriel sets out to clear her name, but his search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.
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A grieving teenager discovers he has a superpower, an old fisherman thinks the cure for his ailing wife can be found in the sea, and a muse struggles to exit the story her author is penning, in this magical neorealist fable set in a coastal village Haiti, five years after a devastating earthquake.
7) Alphaville
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American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film₂s title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard₂s irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
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The final film of Henri-Georges Clouzot's brilliant career, A sensuously colorful film of voyeuristic sexual obsession. It maps a love triangle between abstract sculptor Gilbert, his TV editor girlfriend Josě, and art gallery owner Stanislas. At an art opening, Gilbert ditches Josě, so she ends up going home with Stanislas, who shows her a photograph of a woman in bondage. The image is shocking and alluring, and Josě asks to attend his next erotic...
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Suffused with wry humor, this underworld comedy of manners melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication to lay the roadmap for the French New Wave. As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen and nav̐e associates while plotting one last score, the heist of the Deauville casino.
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The wealthy, white, well-intentioned, family of one of her schoolmates takes in an eight-year-old black child, named Victoria, for a night. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family's youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again.
15) Wine calling
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While there are more than 3,000 wine growers in France, less than three percent of them are working in bio, biodynamic or natural methods of wine production. The film showcases some of the most exciting new French wine makers, leaders of a rising global movement calling for superior taste and sustainability.
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A revolt has erupted in a mining town in the Amazon. As a result, a group of men and women are forced to take refuge in the virgin forest under the supervision of an adventurer called Chark. Djin, a prostitute, Castin, a mystic, his deaf and dumb daughter Maria, and a missionary called Lizardi will have to confront thirst, fear, wild animals and insects to survive.
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Yassine has arrived in Paris with a student visa. After a night of partying, he loses his visa so his situation in France becomes illegal. To remedy this problem, the only solution he finds is to beg his best friend to marry him, and when everything seems settled, a tenacious inspector proposes to demonstrate that this wedding has not been entirely for love.
18) Un carnet de bal
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After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other.
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A romantic connection blossoms between two young Parisians during a succession of dreamlike nocturnal visits to a singular, beguiling park. Anna meets Theodore at a party, and together they impulsively climb the fence and enter the nearby city park, an unusual and striking hillside public garden in northeastern Paris. The two part at dawn, but find themselves drawn back the following night, and, falling in love under the park's spell, embark on nightly...
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