This epic World War II film focuses on the final days of the war, when the French attempted to liberate Paris, and the Nazis made a last-ditch effort to destroy the city before their retreat. Employing a documentary style, the movie shows the Paris uprising, the German army’s efforts to stop the French Resistance, the Allied troops’ arrival in the city and their eventual victory over the Germans. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, and Anthony Perkins headline a star-studded cast. Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola were contributors to the screenplay.

With: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron.

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Farce of the troubles of a restaurant when a President of a South American state is kidnapped while dining at his restaurant.

With: Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez.

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Veteran gangster Gustave (Lino Ventura) escapes from prison to find his sister is being blackmailed by some petty thugs in this crime thriller. He plans one last caper to steal enough money in hopes of retiring to a tropical paradise. He and his gang are sought by a detective (Paul Meurisse), the cop who plays by the book and avoids the sadistic torture practiced by his less-honorable cohorts. Soon Gustave is caught between the police and the double-crossing gangsters and discovers too late that there is no honor among thieves.

With: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin.

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Catherine Deneuve stars in this romantic comedy as Marie, the beautiful and bored wife of Jerome (Noiret), a man content to live in his creaky chateau on the French countryside near Normandy. It’s 1944 and Marie longs for the excitement of Paris and to leave the German occupied countryside. However, her life unexpectedly gets a jolt of drama when a group of German soldiers make Marie and Jerome’s chateau their new home and their commanding officer makes it clear to Marie who he’s pursuing. Meanwhile, Marie also meets a French spy who is gathering information on the German position in Normandy who becomes smitten with her, generating some fierce competition between her three admirers that could have disastrous international consequences.

With: Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Philippe Noiret.

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Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers (’the children of Marx and Coca Cola’, as the credits announce) and their social and emotional politics.

With: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert.

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An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis de Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans. France’s number one boxoffice hit for almost 30 years.

With: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook.

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