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Le Parti des Choses Le Parti Des Choses (a.k.a. "Bardot et Godard" or "Paparazzi") is a short documentary directed by Jacques Rozier on the making of Jean-Luc Godard's film "Le Mépris". It is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of "Le Mépris."
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Contempt (film) Contempt (released in the UK as French: Le Mépris ) is a 1963 French drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel "Il disprezzo" ("A Ghost at Noon") by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Giorgia Moll.
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Pola X Pola X is a 1999 French romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel "". It revolves around a successful young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, "Pierre ou les ambiguïtés", plus the Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth draft version of the script that was used to make the film.
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Le Chant du monde (film) Le Chant du monde is a 1965 Italian film directed by Marcel Camus. It is based on the novel "The Song of the World" (Fr. "Le Chant du monde", 1934) by French author Jean Giono.
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Querelle of Brest Querelle of Brest (French: "Querelle de Brest" ) is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel formed the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, "Querelle" (1982).
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The Red Head (1952 film) The Red Head (French: Poil de carotte) is a 1952 French drama film directed by Paul Mesnier and starring Raymond Souplex, Germaine Dermoz and Pierre Larquey. It is based on the novel "Poil de carotte" by Jules Renard which had previously adapted into films twice by Julien Duvivier before the Second World War.
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Intersection (novel) Intersections is a 1967 novel by the French writer Paul Guimard. Its French title is Les Choses de la vie, which means "the things of life". It tells the story of a lawyer who has a serious car accident and lies in bed at a hospital, where he is unable to communicate but hears the people around him, as he remembers his life up until the accident. The book was published in English in 1994, translated by Shaun Whiteside. It received the Prix des libraires in 1968.
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The Light at the Edge of the World The Light at the Edge of the World is a 1971 adventure film, adapted from Jules Verne's classic 1905 adventure novel "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" ("Le Phare du bout du monde"). The plot involves piracy in the South Atlantic during the mid 19th century, with a theme of survival in extreme circumstances, and events centering on an isolated lighthouse.
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The Charterhouse of Parma (film) The Charterhouse of Parma (French: "La Chartreuse de Parme" , Italian: "La Certosa di Parma" ) is a 1948 French-Italian drama film based on the novel of the same name by Stendhal. It entered the competition at the 1948 Locarno International Film Festival, being awarded for best cinematography.
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Les Liaisons dangereuses (film) Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a 1959 French-language film, loosely based on the 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, though is set in present-day France.
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Night Flight (novel) Night Flight , published as "Vol de Nuit" in 1931, was the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It went on to become an international bestseller and a film based on it appeared in 1933. Its popularity, which only grew with the ideological conflicts of the 1930s – 1940s, was due to its master theme of sacrificing personal considerations to a cause in which one believes.
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The Red and the Black (film) The Red and the Black (French: "Le rouge et le noir" ) is a 1954 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, based on the novel "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal. The film starred Gerard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi and Danielle Darrieux, and won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics award for the best film of 1955 and the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Cinéma the same year.
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A Secret A Secret (French: "Un secret" ) is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.
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Le choc Le choc (English: "The Shock" ) is a 1982 French crime thriller film directed by Robin Davis and starring Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Philippe Léotard. Based on the novel "The Prone Gunman" ("La position du tireur couché") by Jean-Patrick Manchette, the film is about a hitman who wants to retire from his life in organized crime and flees to the country where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman.
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Les Misérables (1909 film) Les Misérables is a 1909 American silent historical drama proto-feature film (four short films that can be seen separately, but when combined appear as a short film series resembling that of a full-length feature film). The proto-feature movie is based on the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, and stars Maurice Costello and William V. Ranous. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
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The Idea (wordless novel) The Idea (French: "Idée, sa naisance, sa vie, sa mort" , "Idea, her birth, her life, her death") is a 1920 wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). In eighty-three woodcut prints, the book tells an allegory of a man's idea, which takes the form of a naked woman who goes out into the world; the authorities try to suppress her nakedness, and execute a man who stands up for her. Her image is spread through the mass media, inciting a disruption of the social order. Filmmaker Berthold Bartosch made an animated adaptation in 1932.
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Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, internationally released as A Few Hours of Sunlight and "A Little Sun in Cold Water", is a 1971 French film directed Jacques Deray adapted from the novel of Françoise Sagan. The title quotes the poet Paul Éluard.
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Call Me Elisabeth Call Me Elisabeth (French title: Je m'appelle Elisabeth) is a 2006 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Améris, and based on a novel written by Anne Wiazemsky.
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Diary of a Country Priest Diary of a Country Priest (French: "Journal d'un curé de campagne" ) is a 1951 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu. It was closely based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Published in 1936, the novel received the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française. It tells the story of a young, sickly priest, who has been assigned to his first parish, a village in northern France.
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Le Silence de la mer (1949 film) Le Silence de la mer (English: "The Silence of the Sea" ) is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was Melville's first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely under the pen name "Vercors"). The story, which takes place in 1941, concerns the relationship of a Frenchman (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) with a German lieutenant, Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon), who occupies their house during the German occupation of France. The film was actually shot inside Bruller's own home outside of Paris.
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Détruire, dit-elle Détruire, dit-elle is a 1969 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras based on her book of the same title.
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Dans le ciel Dans le ciel (In the Sky) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. First published in serialized installments in "L'Écho de Paris" between September 1892 and May 1893, "Dans le ciel", assembled and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet, first appeared its present form in 1989.