Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny

Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor. He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942), by Marcel Carné; Les Amants (The Lovers 1958); La dolce vita (1960) and Satyricon (1969), the later two directed by Federico Fellini. During his life, he befriended women such as Hafida Elalama, and many other models and actresses Later in his career he had a role in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle (1974). Also in 1974 he played Sitting Bull in the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman!. One of his last roles was in Camille Claudel (1988) as Louis-Prosper Claudel, father of the film's heroine. Cuny worked in both France and Italy, and died in 1994 in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Cuny, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Alain Cuny
  • Popularity: 4.777
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1908-07-12
  • Place of Birth: Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
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Alain Cuny Movies

  • 1990
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    Film sur Georges Perec

    Film sur Georges Perec

    1 1990 HD

    A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival...

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  • 1958
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    The Lovers

    The Lovers

    6.6 1958 HD

    A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards...

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  • 1988
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    Camille Claudel

    Camille Claudel

    6.8 1988 HD

    The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin...

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  • 1956
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    6.6 1956 HD

    Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other...

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  • 1991
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    Sweet War, Farewell

    Sweet War, Farewell

    7 1991 HD

    A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War...

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  • 1974
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    Emmanuelle

    Emmanuelle

    6 1974 HD

    An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.

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  • 1969
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    The Milky Way

    The Milky Way

    7 1969 HD

    Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of...

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  • 1979
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    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    7.071 1979 HD

    In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty...

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  • 1976
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    Illustrious Corpses

    Illustrious Corpses

    6.787 1976 HD

    A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

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  • 1942
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    The Devil's Envoys

    The Devil's Envoys

    6.9 1942 HD

    At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

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  • 1943
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    The Phantom Baron

    The Phantom Baron

    6.1 1943 HD

    Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord,...

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  • 1998
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    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

    6.3 1998 HD

    Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.

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  • 1972
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    The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita

    5.3 1972 HD

    Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland,...

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  • 1985
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    Detective

    Detective

    5.3 1985 HD

    Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them,...

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  • 1974
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    Don't Touch the White Woman!

    Don't Touch the White Woman!

    5.6 1974 HD

    A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern...

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  • 1963
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    Banana Peel

    Banana Peel

    5.7 1963 HD

    Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.

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  • 1941
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    Stormy Waters

    Stormy Waters

    6.9 1941 HD

    A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

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  • 1946
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    Solita de Cordoue

    Solita de Cordoue

    1 1946 HD

    Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he...

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  • 1953
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    The Lady Without Camelias

    The Lady Without Camelias

    6.5 1953 HD

    A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.

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  • 1970
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    Many Wars Ago

    Many Wars Ago

    7.35 1970 HD

    Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the...

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  • 1968
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    La forêt noire

    La forêt noire

    10 1968 HD

    Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying,...

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  • 1963
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    Corruption

    Corruption

    7.5 1963 HD

    Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich...

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  • 1940
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    My Crimes After Mein Kampf

    My Crimes After Mein Kampf

    3 1940 HD

    The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939)....

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  • 1987
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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    7.3 1987 HD

    This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by...

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  • 1983
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    Fellini nel cestino

    Fellini nel cestino

    7.5 1983 HD

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  • 1975
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    Two in the Amsterdam Rain

    Two in the Amsterdam Rain

    7 1975 HD

    Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.

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  • 1976
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    I prosseneti

    I prosseneti

    4 1976 HD

    David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured...

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  • 1953
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    Les Crimes de l'amour

    Les Crimes de l'amour

    6 1953 HD

    Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars,...

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  • 1969
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    Safari 5000

    Safari 5000

    7.3 1969 HD

    A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is...

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  • 1970
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    Ciao, Federico!

    Ciao, Federico!

    6.6 1970 HD

    A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

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  • 1973
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    Valparaiso, Valparaiso

    Valparaiso, Valparaiso

    4.4 1973 HD

    Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current...

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  • 1952
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    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

    6 1952 HD

    The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

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  • 1983
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    The Basileus Quartet

    The Basileus Quartet

    1 1983 HD

    The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30...

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  • 1988
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    Van Gogh à Paris, repérages

    Van Gogh à Paris, repérages

    1 1988 HD

    "What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests...

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  • 1991
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    The Annunciation of Marie

    The Annunciation of Marie

    5.5 1991 HD

    During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so...

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  • 1982
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    Time Masters

    Time Masters

    7.4 1982 HD

    On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend...

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  • 1951
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    The Forbidden Christ

    The Forbidden Christ

    6.3 1951 HD

    Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.

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  • 1984
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    Buio nella Valle

    Buio nella Valle

    1 1984 HD

    The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders...

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  • 1969
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    Fellini Satyricon

    Fellini Satyricon

    6.7 1969 HD

    After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has...

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  • 1978
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    The Song of Roland

    The Song of Roland

    4.8 1978 HD

    Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a...

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  • 1941
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    Madame Sans-Gêne

    Madame Sans-Gêne

    1 1941 HD

    Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.

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  • 1988
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    Zeno's Conscience

    Zeno's Conscience

    6.2 1988 HD

    La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988.

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  • 1975
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    Irene, Irene

    Irene, Irene

    1 1975 HD

    The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the...

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  • 1965
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    Mission of Fear

    Mission of Fear

    1 1965 HD

    A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

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  • 1972
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    The Audience

    The Audience

    6.661 1972 HD

    Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.

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  • 1995
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    Dear Antonioni

    Dear Antonioni

    1 1995 HD

    A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.

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  • 1971
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    The Big Black Sow

    The Big Black Sow

    1 1971 HD

    Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.

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  • 1952
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    The Solitary Conquerors

    The Solitary Conquerors

    1 1952 HD

    After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the...

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  • 1990
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    Les chevaliers de la table ronde

    Les chevaliers de la table ronde

    1 1990 HD

    The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur, the love affairs of Lancelot and...

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  • 1973
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    La rosa rossa

    La rosa rossa

    8 1973 HD

    A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.

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  • 1960
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    La Dolce Vita

    La Dolce Vita

    8.1 1960 HD

    Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the...

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  • 1973
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    La divine comédie

    La divine comédie

    1 1973 HD

    Dante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer.

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  • 1961
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    Scano Boa

    Scano Boa

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1962
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    Cross of the Living

    Cross of the Living

    5 1962 HD

    Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz,...

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  • 2003
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    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

    6.3 2003 HD

    A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he...

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  • 1987
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    The Distant Land

    The Distant Land

    5 1987 HD

    The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard...

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  • 1987
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    Lucky Ravi

    Lucky Ravi

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1992
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    The Return of Casanova

    The Return of Casanova

    5.5 1992 HD

    After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't...

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  • 1974
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    Antigone

    Antigone

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1979
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    Roberte

    Roberte

    4.2 1979 HD

    Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old...

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  • 1953
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    Mina de Vanghel

    Mina de Vanghel

    1 1953 HD

    A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work...

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  • 1975
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    E il Casanova di Fellini?

    E il Casanova di Fellini?

    1 1975 HD

    During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

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  • 1991
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    The Annunciation of Marie

    The Annunciation of Marie

    5.5 1991 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Vanquished

    The Vanquished

    6.4 1953 HD

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  • 1991
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    The Annunciation of Marie

    The Annunciation of Marie

    5.5 1991 HD

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  • 1982
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    Deuil en 24 heures

    Deuil en 24 heures

    8 1982 HD

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  • 1974
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    Le Roman de Renart

    Le Roman de Renart

    7 1974 HD

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  • 1989
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    Histoire(s) du cinéma

    Histoire(s) du cinéma

    3.6 1989 HD

    An 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century.

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1979
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    Le Journal

    Le Journal

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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