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Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice

It’s silly to suffer needlessly


Truffaut, Denner
L’Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)

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Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice

Les Illusions perdues. Have you read that?

Guy Decomble recommande à Gérard Blain un roman de Balzac qui, comme Les Cousins, raconte l’histoire d’un jeune provincial qui arrive à Paris.

Chabrol, Blain
Les Cousins (1959)

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Inspirational, advice

I tell them, “Read Dostoyevsky. He addresses all your concerns”

Chabrol
Les Cousins (1959)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sadness

Don’t let him get you down; boys aren’t everything


Chabrol
Les Cousins (1959)

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Inspirational, advice

And then there are the intellectual pleasures


Chabrol, Audran
Les Biches (1968)

Categories
Good News Inspirational, advice

Don’t worry. Nothing bad will happen to you

Demy, Deneuve
Peau d’âne (1970)

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Inspirational, advice Love

Love hides within the heart


Demy
Peau d’âne (1970)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Love

I’d die for you without the least hesitation


Lewin, Gardner
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

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Inspirational, advice Refusal Threat, orders

Il n’est plus l’heure de jouer


Demy
Lady Oscar (1978)

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Inspirational, advice

C’est le moment d’être courageuse


Demy, MacColl
Lady Oscar (1978)

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Inspirational, advice Threat, orders

Alors le peuple doit être exterminé


Demy
Lady Oscar (1978)

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Inspirational, advice

Il faut maintenir l’ordre pour que le monde reste le même


Demy
Lady Oscar (1978)

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Inspirational, advice

You have to try everything, learn who you really are


Demy
La Baie des anges (1963)

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Inspirational, advice

And you butter the top one


Truffaut, Léaud, Jade
Baisers volés (1968)

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Inspirational, advice

Dad used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes


Capra, Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Disappointment Inspirational, advice Sadness

I think you’ll feel differently about things when you get in your own house


Borzage, Rogers
Magnificent Doll (1946)

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Inspirational, advice

But you’d better get some strong coffee inside of you

 

McLaglen, Douglas
The Way West (1967)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice

It’s the effort that’s most important, not what we achieve. Isn’t it?


Ingmar Bergman, Ulmann, Andersson
Persona (1966)

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Inspirational, advice Refusal Wedding, marriage

Refuse ton personnage d’épouse bafouée et abandonnée


Visconti, Antonelli
L’innocente (1976)

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Inspirational, advice

Ne tolère pas qu’on te plaigne


Visconti, Antonelli
L’innocente (1976)

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Inspirational, advice

Inverse les rôles


Visconti
L’innocente (1976)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice

Laisse-les jaser


Visconti, Antonelli
L’innocente (1976)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Moi aussi j’ai un rêve


Titli, une chronique indienne (2015)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

Les hommes n’aiment pas ça


Hitchcock, Fontaine
Rebecca (1940)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

Je ne renoncerai pas


Mifune
Gojumannin no isan (1963)

Categories
Disappointment Inspirational, advice

If you only think of yourself


Kurosawa
Les Sept Samouraïs (1954)

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Inspirational, advice Love

C’est facile de devenir général


Walsh, Flynn, Havilland
They Died With Their Boots On (1941)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Disappointment Inspirational, advice

C’est la vie !


Hitchcock, Fontiane
Rebecca (1940)

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Good News Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

But here’s where we start paying back the Japs


Walsh
Objective, Burma! (1945)

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Inspirational, advice Sex

Fous tout en alerte générale et attends que je te recontacte


Kubrick, Scott
Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

Je peux essayer ?


Capra, Gable, Colbert
It Happened One Night (1934)

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Inspirational, advice

J’arrêterai une voiture sans utiliser le pouce


Capra, Gable, Colbert
It Happened One Night (1934)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Let us unite!

 

Chaplin
The Great Dictator (1940)

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Disgust, dislike Inspirational, advice

Let them laugh. The swine


Browning
Freaks (1932)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Let us fight!


Chaplin
The Great Dictator (1940)

Categories
Birthday, aging Inspirational, advice

You’re a woman of 50. Grow up


Wilder, Swanson, Holden
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Congratulations, compliments Inspirational, advice Invitation, party Work

J’ai besoin d’un homme efficace, comme… vous


Sirk, Sanders
A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Categories
Good News Inspirational, advice

Demain, nous allons épater la ville


Wilder, Matthau, Lemmon
The Front Page (1974)

Categories
Disappointment Inspirational, advice Sex

You are not chickening out, are you?


Malle, Bardot, Birkin
Don Juan 73 (1973)

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Inspirational, advice

You began with too much self-mortification


Pialat, Depardieu
Notorious (1946)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Happiness, satisfaction Inspirational, advice Sex

Do it again. I like it. Do it again


Conway, Harlow, Morris
Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Threat, orders

I kill with my heart. That’s why I never miss my aim


Juran
The Black Castle (1952)

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Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice Refusal

It’s better to be a live coward than a dead hero


Huston, Trevor
Key Largo (1948)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sadness

I keep saying to myself, “You mustn’t cry”


L’Autofictif

Cassavetes
Shadows (1959)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Girls are like rosebuds. You get me?


Forman
Les Amours d’une blonde (1965)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Le Seigneur est avec vous…


Il conformista (1970)

Categories
Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice

Si c’est le prix de son pardon, je le paierai

Bertolucci, Trintignant
Il conformista (1970)

Categories
Hope, desire Inspirational, advice Love

Oh, yes. Let’s get lost! — Forever

 

Mamoulian, Dietrich, Ahern
The Song of Songs (1933)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice Love

My love endures after death


Ratoff, Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman
Intermezzo (1939)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

ESCAPE

On both sides of the fictitious Escape, the books on the shelf are : Methods of Criminal Investigation; James B. Connoly, Coaster Captain (a Tale of the Boston Waterfront), 1927; Frank Swinnerton, Sketch of a Sinner, 1929; ; Ford Maddox Ford, The Rash Act, 1933; Conquerors of Time; Bad Company (film de Tay Garnett pour RKO, 1931), inspiré par Jack Lait, Put on the Spot, 1930.

Otto Kruger presently threatens Robert Cummings by pointing at another book: The Death of a Nobody, which is a translation of Jules Romains’ Mort de quelqu’un (1911).


Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942)