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Jean-Paul Rappeneau has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s.

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Dir. Philippe de Broca · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Dir. Philippe de Broca · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Dir. Louis Malle · With Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi
A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau · With Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Luigi Vannucchi
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