Pascal Bonitzer

Pascal Bonitzer

Pascal Bonitzer (born 1 February 1946) is a French screenwriter, film director, actor, and former film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. He has written for 48 films and has appeared in 30 films since 1967. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1978 film The Suspended Vocation. He has a daughter, actress Agathe Bonitzer, with filmmaker Sophie Fillières. Source: Article "Pascal Bonitzer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Pascal Bonitzer
  • Popularity: 1.148
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1946-02-01
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Pascal Bonitzer Movies

  • 1995
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    Son of Gascogne

    Son of Gascogne

    4.8 1995 HD

    You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because...

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  • 1978
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    The Suspended Vocation

    The Suspended Vocation

    6 1978 HD

    The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...

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  • 2007
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    The Key

    The Key

    5.5 2007 HD

    Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement...

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  • 1989
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    Winter's Child

    Winter's Child

    6.2 1989 HD

    Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome...

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  • 1996
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    Don't Forget You're Going to Die

    Don't Forget You're Going to Die

    6.8 1996 HD

    Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty,...

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  • 2001
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    Betty Fisher and Other Stories

    Betty Fisher and Other Stories

    6.1 2001 HD

    When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's...

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  • 2004
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    Why (Not) Brazil?

    Why (Not) Brazil?

    4.1 2004 HD

    A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book...

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  • 1981
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    The Red Shade

    The Red Shade

    5.1 1981 HD

    The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is...

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  • 2011
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    Chantrapas

    Chantrapas

    4 2011 HD

    A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

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  • 2014
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    Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

    Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1991
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    The Sky Above Paris

    The Sky Above Paris

    5.6 1991 HD

    Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.

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  • 1992
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    Chasing Butterflies

    Chasing Butterflies

    5.4 1992 HD

    Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the...

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  • 1988
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    Daniel Asleep

    Daniel Asleep

    1 1988 HD

    The love uncertainties of a young homosexual in search of himself.

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  • 1985
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    Rouge-gorge

    Rouge-gorge

    4.9 1985 HD

    After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious...

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  • 2024
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    Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited

    Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited

    1 2024 HD

    Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon;...

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  • 1996
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    Encore

    Encore

    5.5 1996 HD

    The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really...

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  • 2017
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    The Clouzot Scandal

    The Clouzot Scandal

    6.5 2017 HD

    Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the...

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  • 1999
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    Nothing About Robert

    Nothing About Robert

    6.034 1999 HD

    Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

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  • 1980
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    Snakes and Ladders

    Snakes and Ladders

    6.4 1980 HD

    A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

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  • 1980
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    The One-Eyed Man

    The One-Eyed Man

    1 1980 HD

    With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

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  • 1981
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    Cinématon XIV

    Cinématon XIV

    1 1981 HD

    Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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  • 1997
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    Genealogies of a Crime

    Genealogies of a Crime

    6.6 1997 HD

    An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.

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  • 2011
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    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

    1 2011 HD

    Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red...

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  • 1983
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    Stray Bullets

    Stray Bullets

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1969
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    Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

    Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

    1 1969 HD

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  • 2002
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    A Day in the Life of French Cinema

    A Day in the Life of French Cinema

    1 2002 HD

    Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors,...

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  • 1980
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    Simone Barbès or Virtue

    Simone Barbès or Virtue

    5.2 1980 HD

    Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and...

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  • 1999
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    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

    7 1999 HD

    The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one...

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  • 2025
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    La Fille d'un grand amour

    La Fille d'un grand amour

    1 2025 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Great Alibi

    The Great Alibi

    5.1 2008 HD

    Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this...

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  • 2008
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    The Great Alibi

    The Great Alibi

    5.1 2008 HD

    Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this...

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  • 1991
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    La Belle Noiseuse

    La Belle Noiseuse

    7.3 1991 HD

    The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas...

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  • 1991
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    La Belle Noiseuse

    La Belle Noiseuse

    7.3 1991 HD

    The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas...

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  • 2006
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    Made in Paris

    Made in Paris

    5.6 2006 HD

    Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair...

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  • 2007
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    The Duchess of Langeais

    The Duchess of Langeais

    5.2 2007 HD

    General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal...

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  • 1995
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    Up, Down, Fragile

    Up, Down, Fragile

    7.1 1995 HD

    The film will tell what happens to a group of characters, precisely between July 14 and August 15, 1994 in Paris. It will tell the story of three...

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  • 1986
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    Scene of the Crime

    Scene of the Crime

    5.7 1986 HD

    In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be...

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  • 2003
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    Small Cuts

    Small Cuts

    5.7 2003 HD

    Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his...

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  • 1998
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    Secret Defense

    Secret Defense

    6.3 1998 HD

    After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father...

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  • 1999
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    Nothing About Robert

    Nothing About Robert

    6.034 1999 HD

    Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

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  • 1992
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    La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento

    La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento

    6.5 1992 HD

    More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one...

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  • 2001
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    Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

    Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

    6.5 2001 HD

    After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting...

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  • 2001
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    Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

    Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

    6.5 2001 HD

    After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting...

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  • 1989
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    Gang of Four

    Gang of Four

    6.5 1989 HD

    Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other...

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  • 1989
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    Gang of Four

    Gang of Four

    6.5 1989 HD

    Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other...

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  • 1979
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    The Bronte Sisters

    The Bronte Sisters

    5.7 1979 HD

    In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters...

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  • 1988
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    The Beggars

    The Beggars

    5 1988 HD

    This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

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  • 2009
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    Around a Small Mountain

    Around a Small Mountain

    6 2009 HD

    Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus...

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  • 1991
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    Night and Day

    Night and Day

    5.8 1991 HD

    Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day...

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  • 1994
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    Joan the Maid I: The Battles

    Joan the Maid I: The Battles

    6.7 1994 HD

    Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the...

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  • 1994
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    Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

    Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

    6.8 1994 HD

    Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her...

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  • 1985
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    6.8 1985 HD

    In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for...

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  • 2012
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    Looking for Hortense

    Looking for Hortense

    5.5 2012 HD

    Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a...

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  • 1997
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    Genealogies of a Crime

    Genealogies of a Crime

    6.6 1997 HD

    An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.

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  • 1998
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    Secret Defense

    Secret Defense

    6.3 1998 HD

    After biologist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father...

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  • 1984
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    Love on the Ground

    Love on the Ground

    5.8 1984 HD

    A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.

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  • 1996
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    Three Lives and Only One Death

    Three Lives and Only One Death

    6.5 1996 HD

    Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers...

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  • 2003
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    The Story of Marie and Julien

    The Story of Marie and Julien

    6.3 2003 HD

    Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he...

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  • 1970
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    Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2014
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    Gemma Bovery

    Gemma Bovery

    6.1 2014 HD

    Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple...

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  • 2004
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    Changing Times

    Changing Times

    5.4 2004 HD

    In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years...

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  • 1993
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    My Favorite Season

    My Favorite Season

    6.2 1993 HD

    Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not...

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  • 1994
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    Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

    Joan the Maid II: The Prisons

    6.8 1994 HD

    Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her...

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  • 2015
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    Valentin Valentin

    Valentin Valentin

    5.7 2015 HD

    In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.

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  • 2014
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    Murder in Pacot

    Murder in Pacot

    4.2 2014 HD

    In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when...

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  • 1996
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    The Lambs

    The Lambs

    4.2 1996 HD

    In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love...

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  • 2021
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    Benedetta

    Benedetta

    6.6 2021 HD

    A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to...

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  • 1996
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    Encore

    Encore

    5.5 1996 HD

    The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really...

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  • 2016
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    Right Here Right Now

    Right Here Right Now

    4.8 2016 HD

    Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a...

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  • 2016
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.064 2016 HD

    Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to...

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  • 2006
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    Made in Paris

    Made in Paris

    5.6 2006 HD

    Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair...

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  • 2003
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    Small Cuts

    Small Cuts

    5.7 2003 HD

    Bruno, a communist newspaper journalist, is suffering a mid-life crisis. Torn between his wife Gaëlle and his young girlfriend Nathalie, his...

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  • 2016
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    Right Here Right Now

    Right Here Right Now

    4.8 2016 HD

    Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a...

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  • 2024
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    Auction

    Auction

    6.259 2024 HD

    André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns...

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  • 2024
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    Auction

    Auction

    6.259 2024 HD

    André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns...

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  • 2024
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    Auction

    Auction

    6.259 2024 HD

    André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns...

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  • 2024
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    Auction

    Auction

    6.259 2024 HD

    André Masson, an auctioneer at Scottie’s, receives a letter from a lawyer claiming that a common worker in the suburbs of Mulhouse owns...

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  • 2017
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    The Young Karl Marx

    The Young Karl Marx

    6.8 2017 HD

    26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son,...

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  • 1983
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    Liberty Belle

    Liberty Belle

    3.6 1983 HD

    Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983...

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  • 2012
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    Looking for Hortense

    Looking for Hortense

    5.5 2012 HD

    Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a...

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  • 1987
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    5.2 1987 HD

    A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.

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  • 1987
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    5.2 1987 HD

    A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.

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  • 1984
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    Cheaters

    Cheaters

    4.9 1984 HD

    Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the...

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  • 1990
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    Un jeu d'enfant

    Un jeu d'enfant

    1 1990 HD

    During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins,...

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  • 2016
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    The Innocents

    The Innocents

    7.064 2016 HD

    Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to...

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  • 2000
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    Lumumba

    Lumumba

    6.7 2000 HD

    The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...

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  • 2023
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    Last Summer

    Last Summer

    5.973 2023 HD

    One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside,...

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  • 1986
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    Golden Eighties

    Golden Eighties

    6.4 1986 HD

    Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's...

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  • 1999
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    Nothing About Robert

    Nothing About Robert

    6.034 1999 HD

    Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

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  • 1991
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    The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

    The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

    3 1991 HD

    The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted...

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  • 2001
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    Man of the Crowds

    Man of the Crowds

    1 2001 HD

    Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

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  • 1994
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    Joan the Maid

    Joan the Maid

    1 1994 HD

    Part 1: Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Joan of Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir...

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  • 2009
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    Great life

    Great life

    4.7 2009 HD

    Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom...

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  • 2019
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    The Spellbound

    The Spellbound

    5.2 2019 HD

    For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist...

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  • 2019
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    The Spellbound

    The Spellbound

    5.2 2019 HD

    For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist...

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  • 1976
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    I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

    I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

    5.9 1976 HD

    Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place...

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  • 2003
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    Hot House

    Hot House

    4 2003 HD

    Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is that the young woman is already the mistress of...

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  • 1989
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    Dark Woods

    Dark Woods

    1 1989 HD

    In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette, a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin, a...

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