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French Connection II is a 1975 American neo-noir action thriller film [3] starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer.It is a sequel to the 1971 film The French Connection, and continues the story of the central character, Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, who travels to Marseille in order to track down French drug-dealer Alain Charnier, played by Fernando Rey, who escaped at the ...
The Milice française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (lit. ' the militia ' ; French pronunciation: [milis] ), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy régime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II .
[1] [2] Based on Anthony Doerr's novel, [3] [4] it stars Aria Mia Loberti, Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie. [5] [6] The four-part series follows the stories of a blind French girl named Marie-Laure and a German soldier named Werner, whose paths cross in occupied France during World War II. [7] [8] The limited series was released on November 2, 2023.
French Chouans! Philippe de Broca: Adventure, History, War. Based on a novel Les Chouans. Chouannerie: 1989 French Italy West Germany Canada United Kingdom The French Revolution: La Révolution française: Robert Enrico Richard T. Heffron: Drama, History, Thriller, War. 1989 France The Austrian: L'Autrichienne: Pierre Granier-Deferre: Biography ...
This is a list of films featuring the French Foreign Legion in which the Foreign Legion is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.. The Foreign Legion is an elite unit of the French army, established in 1831, and it has seen action throughout the world, recently in Africa and the Middle East.
Ciné+ OCS is a group of French thematic pay television networks operated by Canal+ Thématiques, and distributed by Canal+ on satellite TV, cable, and IPTV. Launched in 1991, the channels were originally only dedicated to films, with the exception of Ciné+ Frisson which broadcast two television series from 2012 to 2017.
The series is set primarily in the offices of a fictional version of France's National Intelligence Agency. It paints a broad yet richly detailed portrait of the French Fifth Republic as the French state reemerges as a global power at the height of the Cold War, grappling with the aforementioned challenges.
The film was compared by critics to both Knives Out [3] and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley series. [11]David Katz of Cineuropa wrote that the film "feels like the sort of movie you might've caught half-asleep on late-night TV in the pre-streaming age, perhaps after having missed the first 15 minutes – forcing you to stay glued until the very end, drooping eyelids be damned.