László Szabó

László Szabó

László Szabó (born 24 March 1936) is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. Since 1952, he has appeared in more than 120 films. These include seven films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. He was born to Béla Szabó and Margit Gulyás. Between 1954-1956 he was a student at the Budapest University of Technology , during which he performed in an amateur theater group. He applied to the Theater and Film Academy as an actor, but was not accepted. He left the country in the fall of 1956 and went to Paris . Like the French new wavers, he also visited Henri Langlois ' "liberty university of film history" at the Cinématheque, watched the film series, met and talked to the directors who presented their films, and while writing in the "cahiers", interviewed Buster Keaton together with Jacques Rivette . He and a friend dropped by on the set of Chabrol (Cousins), from whom he immediately received a one-sentence role. And in his next film, Locked with the Key , a longer one. After that, Godard gave him the role of the interrogator in The Little Soldier , which was followed by other roles in more recent Godard films. He is the favorite character actor of all the directors of the new wave, everyone has a role for him, they entrust him with strange, boho characters, who always have some disturbing and annoying ulterior motives. He also took a liking to directing, and made two new-wave French films. Truffaut wrote an appreciative review of the amusing film noir The White Gloves of the Devil . Zig-Zig was played by the new wave's favorite anti-star actress, Bernadette Lafont , and a cool star, Catherine Deneuve . This is also where the self-confidence and sardonic pungency of the new wavers can be felt. Like all actor-directors, he brought out the best in his actresses, skillfully mixing dark humor and tenderness. In the meantime, from the end of the 1960s he appeared in Hungarian films, and after many character roles, he got the lead role from Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács : Miklós Dibusz, the big snooty, sumák organizer, The nice neighbor . His first and so far the only Hungarian-French direction was based on Nándor Gion's novel: Sortűz for a Black Buffalo , and his first and so far only Hungarian direction: The Man Who Slept During the Day

  • Title: László Szabó
  • Popularity: 1.319
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-03-24
  • Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
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  • Also Known As: Laslo Szabo
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László Szabó Movies

  • 1980
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    The Last Metro

    The Last Metro

    7.2 1980 HD

    In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

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  • 1965
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    Pierrot le Fou

    Pierrot le Fou

    7.387 1965 HD

    Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an...

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  • 1978
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    La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

    La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Doll

    The Doll

    5 1962 HD

    An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike...

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  • 1998
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    The Alchemist and the Virgin

    The Alchemist and the Virgin

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Last Judgement But One

    The Last Judgement But One

    1 1979 HD

    The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless...

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  • 1982
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    Godard's Passion

    Godard's Passion

    5.8 1982 HD

    While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did...

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  • 1990
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    The Big O

    The Big O

    1 1990 HD

    A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a...

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  • 1984
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    Full Moon in Paris

    Full Moon in Paris

    6.8 1984 HD

    Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience...

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  • 1992
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    The Sentinel

    The Sentinel

    6.7 1992 HD

    A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.

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  • 1967
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    Made in U.S.A

    Made in U.S.A

    6.1 1967 HD

    Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room,...

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  • 1975
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    Male of the Century

    Male of the Century

    8 1975 HD

    The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.

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  • 1975
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    Adoption

    Adoption

    6.75 1975 HD

    When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...

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  • 2001
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    Abandoned

    Abandoned

    6.364 2001 HD

    Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this...

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  • 1994
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    Cold Water

    Cold Water

    6.4 1994 HD

    An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their...

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  • 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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  • 1963
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    Ophélia

    Ophélia

    6.9 1963 HD

    A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.

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  • 1988
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    Mr. Universe

    Mr. Universe

    1 1988 HD

    Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for almost 15 years, embark on a quest for the former...

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  • 1978
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    Dossier 51

    Dossier 51

    6.5 1978 HD

    A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

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  • 1963
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    Le Petit Soldat

    Le Petit Soldat

    6.978 1963 HD

    During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young...

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  • 1984
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    Paroles et musique

    Paroles et musique

    5.1 1984 HD

    When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also...

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  • 1976
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    L'Affiche rouge

    L'Affiche rouge

    6.9 1976 HD

    A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.

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  • 2002
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    Special Delivery

    Special Delivery

    4.8 2002 HD

    An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they...

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  • 1999
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    The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

    The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

    1 1999 HD

    This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.

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  • 1968
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    Happening

    Happening

    1 1968 HD

    At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.

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  • 2003
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    Playing 'In the Company of Men'

    Playing 'In the Company of Men'

    6.9 2003 HD

    A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and...

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  • 2000
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    Seaside, Dusk

    Seaside, Dusk

    1 2000 HD

    Alex gets a well-paid job from his friend Zsolt: he must smuggle drugs from Germany. Alex wants to run away with the money to France, but suffering a...

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  • 1979
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    Wrong-doers

    Wrong-doers

    5.7 1979 HD

    The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really,...

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  • 2009
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    Parc

    Parc

    3.9 2009 HD

    Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by...

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  • 1989
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    Pleure Pas My Love

    Pleure Pas My Love

    6 1989 HD

    After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last...

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  • 1962
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    The Punishment

    The Punishment

    8 1962 HD

    An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.

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  • 1993
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    The Children Play Russian

    The Children Play Russian

    5.7 1993 HD

    A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though,...

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  • 2006
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    Gardens in Autumn

    Gardens in Autumn

    5.7 2006 HD

    When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the...

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  • 1968
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    The Fatal Shot

    The Fatal Shot

    1 1968 HD

    Laci and the divorced Klári decide to commit suicide, since neither's parents give them shelter, they have no place to sleep, no decent job...

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  • 1974
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    Unruly Heyducks

    Unruly Heyducks

    4.7 1974 HD

    This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd...

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  • 1981
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    Temporary Paradise

    Temporary Paradise

    7 1981 HD

    1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an internment camp at Lake Balaton....

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  • 1988
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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    6.9 1988 HD

    Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised...

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  • 1997
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    Modré z neba

    Modré z neba

    3 1997 HD

    Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.

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  • 1998
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    Place Vendôme

    Place Vendôme

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love...

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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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  • 1978
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    Judith Therpauve

    Judith Therpauve

    6.3 1978 HD

    A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially...

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  • 1985
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    Favourites of the Moon

    Favourites of the Moon

    4.7 1985 HD

    A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different...

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  • 1967
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    Weekend

    Weekend

    7 1967 HD

    A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as...

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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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  • 1992
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    Rome Roméo

    Rome Roméo

    1 1992 HD

    David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with...

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  • 1970
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    The Confession

    The Confession

    7.3 1970 HD

    The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary...

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  • 1964
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    Le Grand Escroc

    Le Grand Escroc

    1 1964 HD

    Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which...

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  • 1979
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    Minden szerdán

    Minden szerdán

    1 1979 HD

    Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

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  • 1964
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    The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

    The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

    5.3 1964 HD

    Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

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  • 1979
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    Rue du Pied de Grue

    Rue du Pied de Grue

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1965
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    Alphaville

    Alphaville

    6.947 1965 HD

    Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by...

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  • 1989
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    Tolérance

    Tolérance

    2 1989 HD

    An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era,...

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  • 1984
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    Liberty at Night

    Liberty at Night

    5.9 1984 HD

    In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

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  • 1997
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    Mange ta soupe

    Mange ta soupe

    5.3 1997 HD

    A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him.

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  • 1980
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    Légitime défense

    Légitime défense

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1962
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    Vivre Sa Vie

    Vivre Sa Vie

    7.7 1962 HD

    Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

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  • 1979
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    A Nice Neighbor

    A Nice Neighbor

    1 1979 HD

    Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the residents of a large old house learn...

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  • 1987
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    Accroche-cœur

    Accroche-cœur

    1 1987 HD

    Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young...

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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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  • 2017
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    Ismael's Ghosts

    Ismael's Ghosts

    5.6 2017 HD

    Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife...

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  • 2001
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    On appelle ça… le printemps

    On appelle ça… le printemps

    7 2001 HD

    Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However, at the same time, Joss abandons the marital home....

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  • 1982
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    Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

    Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

    4.1 1982 HD

    A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

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  • 1988
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    Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

    Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

    1 1988 HD

    This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev...

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  • 1973
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    Salut, voleurs!

    Salut, voleurs!

    7 1973 HD

    In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld...

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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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  • 1983
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    Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

    Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

    3.2 1983 HD

    Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

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  • 1969
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    Do You Know Sunday-Monday?

    Do You Know Sunday-Monday?

    4.4 1969 HD

    Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who...

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  • 1988
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    The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

    The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

    4 1988 HD

    A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.

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  • 1967
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    Le Désir attrapé par la queue

    Le Désir attrapé par la queue

    1 1967 HD

    "Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher,...

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  • 2000
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    Esther Kahn

    Esther Kahn

    6 2000 HD

    A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

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  • 1982
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    The Vulture

    The Vulture

    6 1982 HD

    Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to...

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  • 1991
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    The Last Summer

    The Last Summer

    3 1991 HD

    Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and...

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  • 1978
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    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.3 1978 HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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  • 1959
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    À double tour

    À double tour

    5.9 1959 HD

    The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's...

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  • 1992
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    Laços de Sangue

    Laços de Sangue

    1 1992 HD

    Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they...

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  • 1959
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    Katia

    Katia

    6.5 1959 HD

    Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and...

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  • 1983
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    Cinématon XXIX

    Cinématon XXIX

    1 1983 HD

    Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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  • 2003
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    The Outskirts of Alphaville

    The Outskirts of Alphaville

    1 2003 HD

    Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)

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  • 1968
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    Silence and Cry

    Silence and Cry

    7.1 1968 HD

    Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just...

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  • 2006
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    Un an

    Un an

    1 2006 HD

    Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course...

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  • 1968
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    The Girl

    The Girl

    6.7 1968 HD

    A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern...

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  • 1969
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    Binding Sentiments

    Binding Sentiments

    6.3 1969 HD

    Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her...

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  • 1994
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    La Page blanche

    La Page blanche

    1 1994 HD

    1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and growing up. Christine convinces Gilles to run away...

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  • 1975
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    Zig Zig

    Zig Zig

    3 1975 HD

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  • 1985
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    Volley for a Black Buffalo

    Volley for a Black Buffalo

    5.7 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Volley for a Black Buffalo

    Volley for a Black Buffalo

    5.7 1985 HD

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  • 1973
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    The White Gloves of the Devil

    The White Gloves of the Devil

    4.2 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    The White Gloves of the Devil

    The White Gloves of the Devil

    4.2 1973 HD

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  • 1975
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    Zig Zig

    Zig Zig

    3 1975 HD

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  • 1969
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    Winter Wind

    Winter Wind

    7.125 1969 HD

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  • 1984
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    Point mort

    Point mort

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Man Who Slept at Daylight

    The Man Who Slept at Daylight

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Man Who Slept at Daylight

    The Man Who Slept at Daylight

    1 2003 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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