Claude Autant-Lara

La Franciscain De Bourges (1968)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Suzanne Flon Hardy Kruger Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost   

Tags: Psychological Drama War Drama Drama Religious Drama 

Length: 110min

Albert (Hardy Kruger) is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members and gives medical treatment to anyone who needs it. Albert helps two Frenchmen who...

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Une Femme En Blanc Se Revolte (1966)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Bernard Dheran Danielle Volle   

Tags: Melodrama Medical Drama Drama 

Length: 115min

This sequel to Diary Of A Woman In White finds a concerned nurse accompanying an alcoholic who seeks treatment for his disease. She befriends a pregnant woman who seeks an abortion and finds herself falling in love with her alcoholic patient. The...

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Le Journal D'Une Femme En Blanc (1965)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Marie-José Nat Claude Gensac Jean Valmont   

Tags: Melodrama Drama Social Problem Film 

Length: 110min

This moral melodrama follows a female gynecologist (Marie-Jose Nat) who aggressively promotes birth control methods (at a time when birth control was still taboo in France) in order to avoid unnecessary abortions. In a twist of irony, the unmarried...

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Le Magot De Josefa (1963)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Bourvil Pierre Brasseur Anna Magnani   

Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy 

Length: 90min

Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are indifferent to her until the rumor she will receive a monetary fortune from an American gangster relation. The mayor tries to butter...

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The Oldest Profession (1967)

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard Jeanne Moreau Claude Autant-Lara Philippe de Broca Raquel Welch   

Tags: Comedy Drama 

Length: 97min

In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Tu Ne Tueras Point (1963)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Suzanne Flon Jean Aurenche Horst Frank Laurent Terzieff   

Tags: Psychological Drama Message Movie Drama 

Length: 125min

An Italian/French/Yugoslavian/Liechtensteinian coproduction (whew!), Thou Shalt Not Kill features Laurent Terzieff as a French conscientious objector. Interwoven with his story is the saga of a German priest (Horst Frank) who faces stiff punishment...

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Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour! (1961)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Bernard Blier Jean Aurenche Jean Sorel Henri Jeanson   

Tags: Period Film Sex Comedy Historical Film 

Length: 120min

This is a ribald though talkative look at the life and loves, mainly loves, of Henri IV, France's lecherous, 17th-century king. Henri (Francis Claude) has the misfortune of being married to a sharp-tongued woman but the good fortune of being king....

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Le Meurtrier (1963)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Robert Hossein Marina Vlady Maurice Ronet Gert Fröbe   

Tags: Crime Thriller Psychological Thriller Thriller 

Length: 104min

In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily married architect becomes obsessed with a murder trial in which a husband allegedly murdered his wife. The architect begins...

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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1961)

Cast: Claude Autant-Lara Louis Jourdan Yvonne Furneaux Pierre Mondy Max Douy   

Tags: Adventure Drama Costume Adventure Period Film Adventure 

Length: 180min

Claude Autant-Lara's 1961 Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most faithful screen versions of the evergreen Alexandre Dumas story -- and one of the most compelling, thanks to the director's ability to squeeze the last drop of romanticism out of the...

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