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Le Plaisir = House of Pleasure

France, 1951
film

An adaptation of three ironic short stories by Guy de Maupassant ostensibly linked by a common theme: the paradoxical deceptions of pleasure. The first story,..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir = Successive Slidings Of Pleasure

France, 1973
Similarity: 72%

France panorama. [No. 73/07]

France, 1973
Similarity: 72%

Loulou [DVD]

France, 1980
Similarity: 71%

Certaines Nouvelles = Certain News

France, 1980
Similarity: 71%

The Lovers = Les amants

France, 1958
Similarity: 71%

La Drolesse = the Hussy

France, 1978
Similarity: 71%

La Chambre

France, 1964
Similarity: 70%

Death in a French garden = Peril en la demeure

France, 1965
Similarity: 70%

Pot-Bouille = House of Lovers

France, 1957
Similarity: 70%

Le Bonheur = Happiness

France, 1934
Similarity: 70%

Noir et blanc

France, 1986
Similarity: 70%

My night with Maud = ma nuit chez Maud

France, 1969
Similarity: 69%

La Proie Pour L'ombre = Shadow of Adultery (Cinemascope Print)

France, 1960
Similarity: 69%

La Regle du jeu = Rules of the game

France, 1939
Similarity: 69%

Le Bonheur et la Mort = Happiness and Death

France, 1978
Similarity: 69%

Pour Clemence = for Clemence

France, 1977
Similarity: 69%

Belle de Jour

France, 1967
Similarity: 69%

Getting it up = Les Valseuses [Widescreen]

France, 1974
Similarity: 69%
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