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The French (French: Français) are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups. Within France, the French are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence.
However, the word can also refer to people of French descent who are found in other countries, with significant French-speaking population groups or not, such as Argentina (French Argentines), Brazil (French Brazilians), French West Indies (the French Caribbean people), Canada (French Canadians) and the United States (French Americans), and some of them have a French cultural identity. The United Kingdom also has a large French population, mainly in England, and due to historic relations and immigration.
To be French, according to the first article of the Constitution, is to be a citizen of France, regardless of one's origin, race, or religion (sans distinction d'origine, de race ou de religion). According to its principles, France has devoted herself to the destiny of a proposition nation, a generic territory where people are bounded only by the French language and the assumed willingness to live together, as defined by Ernest Renan's "plébiscite de tous les jours" ("daily referendum" on the willingness to live together, in Renan's 1882 essay "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?").
Actors: Demetrius Wren (composer), Demetrius Wren (director), Demetrius Wren (producer), Christina Wren (producer), Rachel Pontbriand (producer), Ann Carr (actress), Eboni Hogan (actress), Andres De Vengoechea (actor), Eboni Hogan (writer), Camille St James (actress), Summer Broyhill (actress), Ronald Austin Jr. (actor), Chad Carstarphen (actor), Matt Dubroff (producer), Darko Alexander (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Gina McKee (actress), Tim Bevan (producer), Michel Vuillermoz (actor), Keira Knightley (actress), Harriet Walter (actress), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Jérémie Renier (actor), Lionel Abelanski (actor), James McAvoy (actor), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor), Anthony Minghella (actor), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Peter Wight (actor), Eric Fellner (producer), Liza Chasin (producer),
Plot: When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, air-raid-shelter, airplane, apology, arrest, atonement, author, bandstand, banjoActors: Rob Schneider (writer), David Garrett (writer), Eddie Griffin (actor), Jack Giarraputo (producer), Rik Sinkeldam (actor), Adam Sandler (producer), Adam Sandler (actor), John Farley (actor), Til Schweiger (actor), Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Rob Schneider (actor), Fred Armisen (actor), Norm MacDonald (actor), Rob Schneider (writer), Rob Schneider (writer),
Plot: After an accident with dolphins and elders on a beach, the clumsy fish tank cleaner and former gigolo Deuce Bigalow (RobSchneider) is invited by his pimp friend T.J. Hicks (Edie Griffin) to travel to Amsterdam where he is presently living. Once there, T.J. Hicks is wrongly taken as a whore-men serial killer. Bigalow joins the gigolo's association trying to find the true identity of the murderer and clean TJ Hicks. Meanwhile, he meets the gorgeous Eva (Hanna Verboom), and while dating her, he suspects that she may be the wanted killer.
Keywords: american-flag, amsterdam-netherlands, aquarium, artificial-leg, award-ceremony, awards-show, baby-talk, bare-breasts, bead-curtain, black-humorActors: Igor Dmitriev (actor), Jerzy Hoffman (producer), Beata Tyszkiewicz (actress), Vladimir Eryomin (actor), Mikhail Kononov (actor), Jerzy Hoffman (director), Grazyna Szapolowska (actress), Ivan Krasko (actor), Albert Filozov (actor), Jerzy Hoffman (writer), Nikita Mikhalkov (actor), Edward Zentara (actor), Krzysztof Osiecki (editor), Natalya Arinbasarova (actress), Aleksei Tolstoy (writer),
Plot: Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The first-class carriage may be full of spies, and soon after the train embarks, the man in the next compartment searches Obozow's luggage. A beautiful stranger approaches him, a woman older than he, on a concert tour; a game of cat and mouse ensues with patriotism and emotion sometimes on opposite sides. Can Obozow consummate the affair, reach Stockholm, and maintain his ideals?
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Mauro Bonanni (editor), Pasquale Squitieri (director), Carla Mancini (actress), Pasquale Squitieri (writer), Raymond Pellegrin (actor), Pasquale Squitieri (writer), Pietro Torrisi (actor), Stefania Casini (actress), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Joe Dallesandro (actor), Angelo Boscariol (actor), Claudio Ruffini (actor), Lorenzo Piani (actor), Bruno Di Luia (actor), Ferdinando Murolo (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Robert Cornthwaite (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), King Donovan (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), Jerry James (actor), John Indrisano (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Fred Essler (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Jean Del Val (actor), John Daheim (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Monte Blue (actor), George Davis (actor), John Bagni (actor), Frederic Brunn (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), André Charlot (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Hans Conried (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Victor Francen (actor),
Plot: As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape. They are on a ship bound for Marseilles when France surrenders and fascist sympathizer Major Duval tries to seize the ship for Vichy.
Keywords: airplane, anti-aircraft, based-on-novel, beating, birthday, bomber, bombing-mission, bribe, burial, butterflyActors: Sigge Fürst (actor), Yngve Nyqvist (actor), Helge Mauritz (actor), Thor Modéen (actor), Ernst Brunman (actor), John Elfström (actor), Holger Löwenadler (actor), Arne Lindblad (actor), Weyler Hildebrand (actor), Emil Fjellström (actor), Hartwig Fock (actor), Knut Frankman (actor), Carl Deurell (actor), Hilda Borgström (actress), Georg Skarstedt (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jimmie Adams (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Charley Chase (actor), Bobby Dunn (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Charley Chase (director), William H. Terhune (editor), Marvin Hatley (actor), Hal Roach (producer), Leroy Shield (composer), Nita Pike (actress), Frank Gage (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Claud Allister (actor), Rolfe Sedan (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Max Barwyn (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), John Roche (actor), Jack Buchanan (actor), Jack Buchanan (actor), John Carroll (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Albert Conti (actor), Edgar Norton (actor), Tyler Brooke (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Frances Dee (actress),
Plot: Minutes before her wedding to Duke Otto Von Seibenheim, Countess Helene Mara flees, on a whim, to Monte Carlo, where she hopes her luck will save her poor financial state. There, Count Rudolph Farriere is taken by her beauty, but she rebuffs him, not even looking at him. Assuming the guise of a hairdresser, he finally succeeds in seeing her, night and morning. Sparks fly, and love ensues - but can she love a lowly hairdresser? As her finances worsen though, the Duke arrives, and his money and social status seem even more enticing. Shunning Rudolph, will her story follow the operatic "unhappy ending", or can she have it all?
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-play, bedroom, casino, class-differences, count, countess, france, gambler, gambling