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Leslie Caron
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Chocolat
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom's CHOCOLAT is set in the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong north wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette ..read more »
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70%
from 35,400 members
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Last Of The Blonde Bombshells
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Elizabeth, the youngest of The Blonde Bombshells, recalls her days during the Second World War when the group entertained the nation. When she meets up with Patrick, the only male member of the group, she has the idea on reforming the band to play together again for one last time.
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71%
from 624 members
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Funny Bones
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans
Director: Peter Chelsom
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A young comic actor returns to his home town when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He meets up with the seemingly dim Jack Parker who helps him uncover some family secrets to form the basis of a new comedy routine.
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65%
from 640 members
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Damage
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
Director: Louis Malle
Certificate: 
In this gripping romantic thriller, a married and respected middle-aged MP becomes romantically and obsessively involved with his son's fiancee, ultimately ruining his career. Willing to pay any price for his passion, he goes a step too far, and ultimately arranges his own tragic demise.Academy ..read more »
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55%
from 1,869 member
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Man Who Lived At The Ritz
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Perry King, Cherie Lunghi, David McCallum
Director: Desmond Davis
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This is an intruiging film about an American art student (Perry King) who visits Paris and stays at the Hotel Ritz during a critical moment in World War II. As Germans take greater hold of France, the American suddenly finds himself living amongst a sea of Nazis at the hotel and enmeshed in their ..read more »
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38%
from 43 members
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Dangerous Moves
(1984)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann
Director: Richard Dembo
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Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
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41%
from 6 members
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Darling
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Director: John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
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62%
from 1,700 member
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Father Goose
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Director: Ralph Nelson
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During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
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74%
from 683 members
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The L-Shaped Room
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron
Director: Bryan Forbes
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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
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75%
from 210 members
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Fanny
(1961)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer
Director: Joshua Logan
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Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love ..read more »
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56%
from 5 members
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Gigi
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out ..read more »
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62%
from 2,294 members
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Daddy Longlegs
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Fred Astaire, Terry Moore
Director: Jean Negulesco
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A globe-trotting playboy played by Fred Astaire spies a young woman living in an orphanage, and on impulse decides to anonymously sponsor her college education. The mystery of her benefactor's identity fuels romantic speculation in the girl, and her letters fuel romantic speculation in Astaire. ..read more »
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64%
from 194 members
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An American In Paris
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon falls in love with Caron, an engaged mademoiselle, much to the ..read more »
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63%
from 3,275 members
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Is Paris Burning?
on DVD
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron
Director: Rene Clement
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This epic World War II film focuses on the final days of the war, when the French attempted to liberate Paris, and the Nazis made a last-ditch effort to destroy the city before their retreat. Employing a documentary style, the movie shows the Paris uprising, the German army's efforts to stop the ..read more »
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63%
from 302 members
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Leslie Caron facts
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Two for one 19 October 2004
...The L-Shaped Room
Leslie Caron plays a French girl who comes to London for an abortion. She takes up lodgings in a run down London house peopled by a host of colourful cha...
A great film about comedians, and the best ever about Blackpool 27 October 2004
