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Long Live Life (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Viva la vie
other title: Viva la vita / Es lebe das Leben …
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.

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A Promise (2013) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Promise
director: Patrice Leconte actor: Rebecca Hall / Alan Rickman …
other title: Una promessa / Uma Promessa …
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

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1001 Nights (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Les 1001 nuits
other title: Le mille e una notte / Sheherazade - Mit 1001 PS ins Abenteuer …
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

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Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre
director: Jean-Paul Salomé actor: Sophie Marceau / Michel Serrault …
other title: Belfagor - Il fantasma del Louvre / Belphégor - Das Phantom des Louvre …
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.

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Intimate Strangers (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Confidences trop intimes
other title: Confidenze troppo intime / Intime Fremde …
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.

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The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) TMDB
Les Femmes du 6e étage
other title: Le donne del 6° piano / Kvinderne På Sjette Sal …
Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.

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My Mother's Castle (1990) IMDb TMDB
Le château de ma mère
director: Yves Robert actor: Philippe Caubère / Nathalie Roussel …
other title: Le château de ma mère / Das Schloss meiner Mutter …
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.

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Renoir (2012)
Renoir
director: Gilles Bourdos actor: Michel Bouquet / Christa Théret …
In the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.