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The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Poster for the movie "The Crime of Monsieur Lange"
Poster for the movie "The Crime of Monsieur Lange"

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

80 min - Drama, Crime, Comedy - 24 January 1936
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A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

Director:  Jean Renoir
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The Cousins

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The Cousins (1959)

112 min - Drama - 11 March 1959
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Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

Director:  Claude Chabrol
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