Films based on French novels

Vertigo

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but C...

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Planet of the Apes

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 8

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a...

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My Life as a Zucchini

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.8

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound f...

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The Man Who Laughs

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a p...

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Scarlet Street

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty...

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Jules and Jim

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.7

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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The Little Prince

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will chan...

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Dangerous Liaisons

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.6

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as pl...

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