Belle Epoque 1992  R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Fernando Trueba
Cast: Jorge Sanz, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Maribel Verdu, Ariadna Gil, Miriam Diaz Aroca, Penelope Cruz, Gabino Diego, Michel Galabru, Agustin Gonzalez, Chus Lampreave, Mary Carmen Ramirez, Jesus Bonilla, Juan Jose Otequi, Joan Potao, Maria Galiana
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this sex comedy revolves around army deserter Fernando (Jorge Sanz) who finds refuge with a farmer, Manolo (Fernando Fernan Gomez), and his four beautiful daughters.
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Keep Your Right Up! 1987  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Dominique Lavanant, Jacques Villeret, Isabelle Sadoyan, Francois Perier, Michel Galabru, Pauline Lafont, Jean-Pierre Delamour, Carina Barone, Eva Darlan, Catherine Houssay, Anny Seneque, Eloise Beaune, Agnes Sourdillion
This film by Jean-Luc Godard consists of three stories, the main one concerning a director (Godard) who is to deliver a film in 24 hours. The other minor plots involve a pop band, Rita Mitsouko, rehearsing and an overweight man (Jacques Villeret) in a series of comedy scenes.
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La Cage Aux Folles 1978 R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent, Benny Luke, Carmen Scarpitta, Luisa Maneri, Venantino Venantini, Carlo Reali, Guido Cermiglia, Angelo Pellegrino
A gay couple Renato Baldi and Albin Mougeotte (Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault) pretend to be married heterosexuals for the pending marriage of Renato's son Laurent (Remi Laurent). In addition to two sequels, the story was made into a Broadway musical.
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La Cage Aux Folles 3 1985  PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Georges Lautner
Cast: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Stephane Audran, Benny Luke, Antonella Interlenghi, Saverio Vallone, Gianluca Favilla, Umberto Raho, Roberto Posse, Flora Carabella, Pier Francesco Aiello
This film is proof that when the first sequel is (usually) not as good as the original, the third entry has little chance of being a hit. The plot continues the saga of drag queen Alben (Michel Serrault) who discovers an inheritance is his–only if he marries and fathers a son.
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La Cage Aux Folles II 1980  R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Paola Borboni, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Benny Luke, Stephane Audran, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Glauco Onorato, Roberto Bisacco, Gianrico Tondinelli, Giorgio Cerioni
This sequel just does not match up to the original movie, but it is still a pretty good comedy in which a homosexual couple, Albin Mougeotte and Renato Baldi (Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi) unwittingly becomes embroiled in espionage after obtaining stolen microfilm..
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Special Section 1975  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Louis Seigner, Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Dux, Henri Serre, Roland Bertin, Ivo Garrani, Francois Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Heinz Bennent, Michel Galabru, Hubert Gignoux, Claude Pieplu, Eric Rouleau
Based on a true story involving Marxists killing a German officer in a Paris subway, this film explores forces behind the Vichy government's appeasement of Nazis even when judges and cabinet members were in no immediate danger themselves.
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Subway 1985 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean Bouise, Jean-Claude Lecas, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Jean Reno, Eric Serra, Arthur Simms, Alain Guillard, Constantin Alexandrov
Fred (Christopher Lambert) is a safecracker who steals major documents from the safe belonging to Helena's (Isabelle Adjani) husband (Constantin Alexandrov). Now–with the Metro police, the husband's thugs, and Helena in pursuit–Fred takes refuge in the Paris metro where he lives with a strange assortment of characters in a punk sub-culture.
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| 1. Belle Epoque (1992)
2. Keep Your Right Up! (1987)
3. La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
4. La Cage Aux Folles 3 (1985)
5. La Cage Aux Folles II (1980)
6. Special Section (1975)
7. Subway (1985)
8. Uranus (1991)
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