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1) Charade
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Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
2) Madame Curie
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"In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science"--Container.
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A tale of love, romance and jealousy in Post-War France. In the midst of celebrating V-E Day, two sisters meet an army lieutenant. The free-spirited sister wins his heart. Their marriage is less than idyllic, and though they are very much in love, the pairing results in tragedy.
4) Scaramouche
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Disguised as a stage clown, Andre Moreau perfects his skill as a swordsman in order to strike a blow for the French Revolution.
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Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
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When John Barratt meets Count Jacques De Gué while vacationing in the South of France, the lonely university professor can't believe his eyes, the Count is his exact double! But when Barratt awakens after a night of heavy drinking, he finds De Gué has vanished, leaving the professor in his place. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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Combatants are captured and held in a POW camp after Nazi troops overrun France. A former cab driver is chained to a wall in solitary confinement because of his defiance of prison authorities. His will to fight is crushed by the torment of solitary confinement. But his passions rekindle when, after being smuggled out of camp as part of a POW escape, he witnesses courage of fellow escapees and resistance partisans in combat against Nazi troops.
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Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia, a dotty Parisian countess who looks as if she stepped out of a Georges Seurat painting. But sooner or later, Aurelia had to find out about the so-called sane world and its student unrest, the bomb, even its greedy scheme to transform the City of Light into a forest of oil derricks. If this is sanity, she'll do anything to stop it! This spirited and timelier than ever satire based on Jean Giradoux's famed play...
11) Conquest
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A historical portrayal of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1807 through 1815 and his romantic involvement with Polish Countess Marie Walewska, who bore him a son, and the eventual parting of their relationship. The story begins in Poland in 1807 and continues through the departure of Napoleon from France in 1815.
12) Love on the run
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"A stolen British munitions map concealed in a bouquet meant for an elusive spy leads to a freewheeling race through pre-war European hotspots for an American heiress, a news-hungry reporter, and the reporter's hapless rival, who's always just one misstep behind them. Also close behind: foreign agents with murder on their minds"--Container.
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"The prairie meets Paree when a Texas rancher brings his daughter Liz to the City of Light. There's a lot for a Lone Star gal to experience: romance with a handsome young Frenchman, chic fashion, and finding her long-lost mother, a glamorous chanteuse who may still be carrying a torch for Liz's dad even though she's won the heart of her nightclub-act partner. With plenty of songs and dance to help the mood along, will each Jacques find his Jill? Mais...
14) Madame X
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A woman's lover is shot by a jealous competitor. Fearing scandal she begs for her husband's mercy but he throws her out, forbidding her to see her young son ever again. Falling into a sordid life, she finally faces the truth about her past as an unscrupulous gambler tries to extort money from her husband.
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In the middle of the 18th century two sets of twins are mis-matched at birth only to be reunited on the eve of the French Revolution. The problem is that the twins are members of both the peasant and aristocratic classes. Their meeting, their mixup and the mistaken identities would ultimately constitute one of the most tumultuous events in modern history.
16) The merry widow
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Sonia, a bubbly widow who owns 52% of every cow and cowtown in the tiny East European country of Marshovia relocates to glittery Paris with suave ladies' man Captain Danilo in hot pursuit. His mission: avert his homeland's financial ruin by bringing Sonia back on the wings of love. A frothy, high-spirited comic operetta, "The Merry Widow" set the standard for musicals to come.
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This film explores relationships--from the whimsical to the dramatic--recalled by passengers aboard a sleek ocean liner. In the first story, an impresario loses his heart to a lovely ballerina with tragic results. Next, an elderly enchantress uses magic to help a naive governess find romance. Finally, a trapeze artist who was responsible for the death of his last partner trains a new one, a beautiful woman with a mysterious past.
18) Wonder bar
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Proprietor Al Wonder, a master showman keeps the champagne flowing, the patrons glowing and the bills paid. In just one night at this merrily sophisticated Parisian watering hole, anything can happen ... and almost everything does.
19) Saint Joan
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Graham Green's adaptation of Bernard Shaw's play about the life of Joan of Arc.
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