Danton 1982  PG, 136 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chereau, Boguslaw Linda, Angela Winkler, Roland Blanche, Roger Planchon, Anne Alvaro, Emmanuelle Debever, Krzysztof Globisz, Gerard Hardy, Tadeusz Huk, Ronald Guttman, Andrzej Seweryn
During the French Revolution, Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) and Georges Danton (Gerard Depardieu) represented opposing ideas on how best to carry out the plans for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Robespierre's "Reign of Terror" prevailed, and Danton joined the aristocrats on the guillotine.
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Les Comperes 1983  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu, Anny Duperey, Michel Aumont, Stephane Bierry, Philippe Khorsand, Jean-Jacques Scheffer, Maurice Barrier, Roland Blanche
A tough newsman, Jean Lucas (Gerard Depardieu), and a meek teacher, Francois Pignon (Pierre Richard), are both past lovers of Christine Martin (Anny Duperey). The story evolves from Christine's manipulative plan to get them to search for her missing son by telling each man that he is the boy's father.
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 Nikita 1990 R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller / Romance
aka: La Femme Nikita
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Reno, Jean Bouise, Philippe Du Janerand, Roland Blanche, Philippe Leroy, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathiere, Philippe Leroy
A drug addict who commits robbery and murder, Nikita (Anne Parillaud), is tried, convicted, and then sent to a school for special operatives. She is given a second chance when she is recruited as a hired assassin, then is pronounced dead and presumed buried. One night, Nikita is enjoying a dinner at a restaurant when she is handed a gun and told to kill the man seated next to her. She does and heads back to headquarters where she is told she has graduated. Thus begins her double life, but she is torn between this new life and leading a normal one. Remade in 1993 as "Point of No Return."
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Too Beautiful for You 1989 R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, Roland Blanche, Francois Cluzet, Didier Benureau, Myriam Boyer, Denise Chalem, Philippe Loffredo, Stephane Auberghen
When Bernard Barthelemy (Gerard Depardieu) falls for his secretary, Colette Chevassu (Josiane Balasko), his marriage to the beautiful Florence (Carole Bouquet) takes a U-turn.
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| 1. Danton (1982)
2. Les Comperes (1983)
3. Nikita (1990)
aka: La Femme Nikita
4. Too Beautiful for You (1989)
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