And Now My Love 1974  PG, 121 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Marthe Keller, Andre Dussollier, Charles Denner, Carla Gravina, Herbert Lom, Charles Gerard, Gilbert Becaud, Daniel Boulanger, Venantino Venantini, Gabriele Tinti
One century of different political and social backgrounds come together in this drama about a man and a woman who eventually meet and fall in love.
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A Crime in Paradise 2001  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean Becker
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Josiane Balasko, Andre Dussollier, Suzanne Flon, Gerard Hernandez, Roland Magdane, Valerie Mairesse, Maryse Deol, Jenny Cleve, Daniel Prevost, Jacques Dacqmine
Jojo (Jacques Villeret) and his mean-spirited wife, Lulu (Josiane Balasko), live in the French countryside where Lulu makes Jojo so unhappy that, when he discovers the method for committing a perfect murder, he executes the plan.
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A Heart in Winter 1992  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
Director: Claude Sautet
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre Dussollier, Elisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon, Maurice Garrel, Myriam Boyer, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Dominique De Williencourt, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Van Doude
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a violin repair shop. Troubles arise when Maxime's young girlfriend, Camille (Emmanuelle Beart), enters the scene, and Maxime tells Stephane that he is leaving his wife for Camille. A romantic, but repressed, triangle forms as Stephane enters into a platonic relationship with Camille.
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Just the Way You Are 1984  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter, Andre Dussollier, Catherine Salviat, Robert Carradine, Alexandra Paul, Lance Guest, Tim Daly, Patrick Cassidy
A physically handicapped flute player, Susan Berlanger (Kristy McNichol), cleverly hides her lame leg in a cast while visiting a ski resort and finds the love of her life, Peter (Michael Ontkean).
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Lemming 2005 N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Dominik Moll
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Andre Dussollier, Jacques Bonnaffe, Veronique Affholder, Michel Cassagne, Florence Desille, Emmanuel Gayet, Felix Gonzales
Alain and Benedicte Getty (Laurent Lucas and Charlotte Gainsbourg) invite Alain's boss Richard Pollock (Andre Dussollier) and Richard's wife Alice (Charlotte Rampling) over for dinner. The dinner sets off a series of incidents that are far from the norm–including Alice's suicide.
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Life Is a Bed of Roses 1983  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Louis Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Robert Manuel, Martine Kelly, Samson Fainsilber
The possibility of a perfect world is examined in this fable, which uses a World War II "Temple of Happiness" from that era and compares its purpose with a present-day conference on education. The findings are that utopia does not seem to be the answer to society's problems.
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Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me 1972 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: A Gorgeous Bird Like Me
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand, Andre Dussollier, Philippe Leotard, Anne Kreis, Gilberte Geniat, Daniele Girard, Martine Ferriere, Michel Delahaye, Jerome Zucca
While writing his book "Criminal Women," criminology student Stanislaus (Andre Dussollier) visits a prison and interviews inmate Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont). As she relates her past to Stanislaus, she reveals that while she is accused of attempting to kill both her husband (Philippe Leotard) and her lover (Charles Denner), she has indirectly been involved in the killing of her father and mother-in-law as well. By the time she finishes her stories, Stanislaus, like others before, falls in love with Camille, and now he determines to prove her innocence.
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Three Men and a Cradle 1985 PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Coline Serreau
Cast: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, Andre Dussollier, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Dominique Lavanant, Marthe Villalonga, Annick Alane, Josine Comellas, Gwendoline Mourlet, Jennifer Moret
This Cesar (French Academy Award) winner is often trite but at other times is fairly well done. Three swinging bachelors in Paris have a baby delivered to them. One of them is the father. Meanwhile, bad guys are after heroin that was supposedly delivered to the men. This was remade in the U.S. as "Three Men and a Baby."
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 A Very Long Engagement 2004 R, 133 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, Andre Dussollier, Jerome Kircher, Clovis Cornillac, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ticky Holgado
Convinced that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel)–who has disappeared between the French and German lines during World War I–is still alive, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) gets help in her search from private detective Germain Pire (Ticky Holgado). Two Academy Award nominations were received.
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| 1. And Now My Love (1974)
2. A Crime in Paradise (2001)
3. A Heart in Winter (1992)
4. Just the Way You Are (1984)
5. Lemming (2005)
6. Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
7. Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972)
aka: A Gorgeous Bird Like Me
8. Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
9. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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