French films Action/Adventure
L'Homme de Rio (1964) 
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French airforce pilot Adrien Dufourquet returns to Paris for a week’s leave just before his girlfriend, Agnès, is kidnapped. Adrien discovers that Agnès has been taken to South America to help locate a lost treasure in the Amazon. Without a second to lose, he sets out to rescue her......
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La Tulipe noire (1964)
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June 1789. On the eve of the French Revolution, a masked bandit, "The Black Tulip", is prosecuting his own reign of terror in and around the town of Roussillon. The poor people of the district consider him a hero, as his victims are always the detested aristocrats. The Marquis de Vigogne is resolved to put an end to the Black Tulip’s exploits and engages the Baron de la Mouche to capture...
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L'Arme à gauche (1965)
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Whilst staying in the Caribbean, sailor Jacques Cournot, is hired by businessman Hendrix to check out a luxury yacht the latter is planning to buy. Shortly after Cournot gives Hendrix his report, the yacht goes missing, at the same time as a violent storm hits the area. Initially suspected by the police of having stolen the yacht...
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Le Corniaud (1965) 
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Antoine Maréchal is about to set off for a holiday in Italy when his 2CV is smashed to pieces by a Rolls-Royce, driven by the wealthy business man Léopold Saroyan. By way of compensation, Saroyan offers Maréchal an expenses-paid trip to Naples so that he can collect his luxury white Cadillac and drive it back to Bordeaux...
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Merveilleuse Angélique (1965)
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After her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac, has been executed for sorcery under the orders of Louis XIV, Angélique seeks refuge amongst the beggars of Paris. She is determined to recover her children and her position, but she has many enemies. Her worst enemy is the king’s disreputable brother. Fortunately, Angélique also has admirers who are prepared to risk everything for...
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Viva Maria! (1965)
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In 1907, Maria Fitzgerald O’Malley finds herself alone in South America. Her father, an Irish political agitator, has just been killed in his latest terrorist strike against the British Empire. Maria comes across a travelling troupe of entertainers who hire her to replace the stage partner of an erotic dancer, also named Maria...
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Angélique et le roy (1966)
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After her second husband, Philippe de Plessis-Bellières, has been killed in battle, the influential marquise Angélique withdraws from court life to look after her children. Her retirement is short-lived, however. The King of France, Louis XIV, summons her to fulfil an essential mission of state: she must charm the Persian ambassador into signing a vital pact with France...
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La Grande vadrouille (1966)
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During World War II... When their combat aircraft is shot down by the Germans, three English airmen parachute to the comparative safety of Nazi occupied France. One lands on the scaffold of an amiable painter and decorator, Augustin. Another lands on top of a concert hall and is rescued by the irascible but patriotic conductor Stanislas Lefort...
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Indomptable Angélique (1967) 
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Once she has learnt that her first husband, Joffrey de Peyrac, is still alive, having escaped execution for sorcery, Angélique sets out to the south of France to find him. Her quest leads her to a remote island where she meets Vivonne, a nobleman who has been sent by King Louix IV to return her to Versailles. Angélique coerces Vivonne into taking her to Marseilles in his galley...
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Adieu l'ami (1968)
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Dino Barran and Franz Popp, two ex-combatants of the Algerian War arrive in Marseilles, hoping to start a new life. Shortly after their parting, Dino is persuaded by a strange young woman to join in a bizarre scheme – to return some stolen bonds to a vault in her company’s basement. On the night on which Dino is to execute the plan...
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Angélique et le sultan (1968)
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No sooner has she been reunited with her husband, Jeoffrey de Peyrac, Angélique is kidnapped by an unscrupulous slave trader. She and taken to Algiers where she is bought for the harem of the Sultan of Marocco. Jeoffrey is determined to recover her at any cost…...
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Barbarella (1968)
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In the 41st century, space agent Barbarella is sent on a vital mission by the President of the Earth Republic to locate the missing scientist Duran Duran, creator of the deadly Positronic Ray. In the Tau Ceti star system, Barbarella’s ship crashes on an alien world where she encounters vicious children with killer dolls...
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Le Voyou (1970)
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Whilst serving time for kidnapping a child, Simon Duroc succeeds in escaping from prison. Pursued by the police, the once celebrated gangster takes refuge in a cinema where, with the help of a young woman in the audience, he evades capture. The woman invites Simon to stay with her at her home, and he accepts. Determined to take revenge against the man who was responsible for his arrest...
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Boulevard du rhum (1971)
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1925, the age of prohibition. A sailor named Cornelius von Zeelinga is on the run from the police, having just evaded arrest whilst trying to smuggle a huge consignment of rum. A few months later, he is back in Jamaica, a wealthy man and the proud owner of a fine new boat. He has a secret passion for Linda Larue, a silent movie diva...
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La Poudre d'escampette (1971)
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One evening, on the coast of Libya, Valentin, an arms smuggler, saves the life of a young British officer named Basil whose aeroplane has been shot down at sea. Valentin has an urgent business engagement and advises Basil to head south, to where the British troops are based on Italian soil. Basil instead chooses to follow Valentin to a hotel where he asks to spend the night...
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Le Casse (1971)
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A band of crooks led by ace safecracker Azad break into a mansion on the outskirts of Athens to steal a near-priceless collection of emeralds. The robbery is a success, but the crooks miss the cargo ship by which they had planned to leave the country. Whilst waiting for the next ship, Azad is pursued by Abel Zacharia, a crooked police chief who will stop at nothing to lay his hands on the...
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Les Mariés de l'an II (1971)
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Having fled his native France after killing an aristocrat, Nicolas Philibert arrives in the United States and soon makes his fortune as a crop merchant. His marriage to the daughter of a wealthy man is frustrated when it is revealed that he is already married, to a woman still living in France. The only solution is for Nicolas to return to France to divorce his wife...
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Le Magnifique (1973)
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When a secret agent is eaten by a shark in a telephone box, ace spy Bob Saint-Clair is sent on a mission to Mexico, to confront his arch-enemy Karpof, assisted by his beautiful partner Tatiana… Thus begins the latest pulp fiction novel by François Merlin, a lonely middle-aged writer who dreams of having a love affair with his neighbour Christine and of getting his revenge on...
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Les Gaspards (1974)
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Jean-Paul Rondin, the owner of a bookshop in the Latin Quarter of Paris, is just one of the many thousands of people to be vexed by endless construction projects that are changing the face of the French capital. When his daughter goes missing, he persuades Commissioner Lalatte to help him look for her, even though Lalatte is anxious to get away for his holidays...
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Zorro (1975)
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When Miguel de la Serna is murdered, his friend Don Diego takes his place as the new governor of the South American state of Nueva Aragon. Having sworn to uphold Miguel’s ideals of morality and justice, Diego immediately runs up against the sadistic Colonel Huerta. Adopting the guise of a local hero, Zorro, Miguel sets out on a one-man crusade to end Huerta’s tyrannous regime......
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