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1. Paradise: Love (2012)

Unrated | 120 min | Drama

7.0

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65 Metascore

Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz

Votes: 10,061 | Gross: $0.02M

2. The Lovers (1958)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

7.2

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Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre

Votes: 5,937

3. The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy

7.1

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52 Metascore

In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by a group of Spanish maids that live in the same building.

Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura

Votes: 10,710 | Gross: $0.72M

4. À Nous la Liberté (1931)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical

7.4

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Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier

Votes: 4,976

5. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)

96 min | Drama

6.6

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A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.

Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Georgette Anys

Votes: 365

6. Remember Me, My Love (2003)

R | 125 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

6.4

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53 Metascore

The members of a comfortable Italian family each struggle with their own secret issues and dilemmas.

Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Monica Bellucci

Votes: 4,456 | Gross: $0.22M

7. The Night Affair (1958)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.5

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A vice inspector for the Paris police takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur

Votes: 752

8. Cop Au Vin (1985)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

6.5

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In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Jean Topart

Votes: 2,234

9. Le Grand Amour (1969)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

7.5

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After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.

Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey

Votes: 1,395

10. How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

6.3

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A film consisting of three short stories: "The Closure", "The Trial", "Men of Good Taste". The events of all three parts develop around an ordinary street lamp.

Directors: Gilles Grangier, Georges Lautner | Stars: Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Andréa Parisy

Votes: 641

11. Goya - oder Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis (1971)

136 min | Drama

7.1

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As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King ... See full summary »

Director: Konrad Wolf | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren, Tatyana Lolova

Votes: 384

12. Brick and Mirror (1966)

126 min | Drama

7.6

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Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), ... See full summary »

Director: Ebrahim Golestan | Stars: Taji Ahmadi, Zackaria Hashemi, Goli Bozorgmehr, Masoud Faghih

Votes: 895

13. Ein Herz und eine Seele (1973–1976)

45 min | Comedy

8.6

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The series shows, in a highly exaggerated way, the coexistence of a West German family in a North Rhine-Westphalian row house settlement at the beginning of the 1970s.

Stars: Heinz Schubert, Hildegard Krekel, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Diether Krebs

Votes: 859

14. The Blessed (2017)

102 min | Drama

6.6

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Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.

Director: Sofia Djama | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Nadia Kaci, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Amine Lansari

Votes: 236

15. Twist again à Moscou (1986)

89 min | Comedy

5.6

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Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christian Clavier, Martin Lamotte, Bernard Blier

Votes: 658

16. Familie Heinz Becker (1992–2004)

25 min | Comedy, Family

8.0

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A comedic show about a typical family from the Saarland.

Stars: Gerd Dudenhöffer, Gregor Weber, Alice Hoffmann, Sabine Urig

Votes: 328

17. Le sang à la tête (1956)

83 min | Drama

6.5

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François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Claude Sylvain, Georgette Anys

Votes: 272

18. Baby's Laxative (1931)

46 min | Comedy

6.0

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A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon, Olga Valéry

Votes: 523

19. Hyppolit a lakáj (1931)

72 min | Comedy

7.7

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A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, Mici Haraszti, Éva Fenyvessy

Votes: 1,756

20. Young Husbands (1958)

98 min | Comedy, Romance

6.4

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A movie about the mixed feelings of young adulthood. Main characters rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they're ... See full summary »

Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Isabelle Corey, Antonio Cifariello, Franco Interlenghi, Raf Mattioli

Votes: 178

21. Chotard and Company (1933)

83 min | Comedy

5.8

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François Chotard , wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet , a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father-in-law, until Julien receives the Prix Goncourt, a prestigious literary award.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jeanne Boitel, Fernand Charpin, Georges Pomiès, Jane Loury

Votes: 133

22. Romanze in Moll (1943)

98 min | Drama, Romance

7.4

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A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke, Ferdinand Marian, Siegfried Breuer

Votes: 382

23. To vary... peponi (1977)

95 min | Drama

6.7

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Mimis, owner of a coffee shop in Chalkidiki has to come to Athens and work as a waiter. Life in Athens isn't easy for Mimis.

Director: Pavlos Tasios | Stars: Mimis Hrysomallis, Katerina Gogou, Lida Protopsalti, Antonis Antoniou

Votes: 195

24. Le chasseur de chez Maxim's (1953)

96 min

5.7

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Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Yves Deniaud, Pierre Larquey, Raymond Bussières, Jean Debucourt

Votes: 11

25. To ergostasio (1981)

101 min | Drama

7.1

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In high hopes of getting a loan to update his antiquated machinery, a financially hard-pressed owner of an old tannery turns to a well-to-do migrant who wants to marry his young daughter. Could he be the solution to the family's problems?

Director: Tasos Psarras | Stars: Vasilis Kolovos, Vana Fitsori, Dimitra Hatoupi, Dimitris Spyrou

Votes: 90

26. La maison Bonnadieu (1951)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

6.5

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Director: Carlo Rim | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Françoise Arnoul, Michel François

Votes: 72

27. Anton Sittinger (1979 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

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The lower-middle-class Munich postal inspector Anton Sittinger only reads philosophical books like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and considers himself apolitical. The good civil servant and ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Wolffhardt | Stars: Walter Sedlmayr, Veronika Fitz, Alfons Scharf, Werner Eichhorn

28. The Door in the Wall (1990)

19 min | Animation, Short, Drama

7.3

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The hero of the film, Wallace, is trying to reconcile the dream of a world of beautiful souls and human relationships with the reality of a prosperous bourgeois.

Director: Boris Akulinichev | Stars: Natalya Romashenko, Vladimir Soshalsky, E. Zinkovskiy, Tatyana Sergeeva

Votes: 11

29. Fast wia im richtigen Leben (1979– )

43 min | Comedy

8.9

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Stars: Gerhard Polt, Gisela Schneeberger, Helmut Brasch, Erhard Kölsch

Votes: 200

30. Kassbach - Ein Portrait (1979)

110 min | Drama

7.5

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The Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of the right-wing extremist organization "Initiative", which plans numerous attacks and assassinations in the Vienna.

Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Walter Kohut, Immy Schell, Maria Engelstorfer, Konrad Becker

Votes: 82

31. Lena Rais (1979)

121 min | Drama

6.7

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Director: Christian Rischert | Stars: Krista Stadler, Tilo Prückner, Kai Fischer, Tana Schanzara

Votes: 15

32. Voto + fusil (1971)

70 min | Drama

6.8

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During the election that finally brought Salvador Allende to power, the volatility of the left-wing spectrum was evident in Chile.

Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Leonardo Perucci, Marcelo Romo, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra

Votes: 31

33. Una donna ha ucciso (1952)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.8

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During World War II, a young Italian woman falls in love with a British soldier, who turns out to be a worthless bum. Things deteriorate to the point where tragedy strikes and the woman is ... See full summary »

Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Frank Latimore, Lianella Carell, Alessandro Serbaroli, Vera Palumbo

Votes: 74

34. Herbst der Gammler (1967)

67 min | Documentary

7.2

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The Gammlers of the 60s were German equivalents of the US beatniks.With their unkempt appearance and disdain for the work ethic they shocked the comfortable Munich citizenry of the time.

Director: Peter Fleischmann

Votes: 48