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Francis Lai

Index Francis Lai

Francis Albert Lai (26 April 19327 November 2018) was a French composer, noted for his film scores. [1]

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  1. 99 relations: A Man and a Woman, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Awards, AllMusic, Alpes-Maritimes, And Now My Love, Andy Williams, Another Man, Another Chance, Attention bandits!, Édith et Marcel, Édith Piaf, BBC, Beyond the Reef (film), Bilitis (film), Billboard 200, Body of My Enemy, British Academy Film Awards, Carl Sigman, César Awards, Chance or Coincidence, Child Under a Leaf, Claude Lelouch, Composer, Dark Eyes (1987 film), Discogs, Dog Day (film), Dust in the Sun, Emmanuelle 2, Film score, French people, Golden Globe Awards, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Great Britain, Hannibal Brooks, Hello-Goodbye (1970 film), Henry Mancini, House of Cards (1968 film), I Think of You (1970 song), I'll Never Forget What's'isname, IMDb, International Velvet (film), Itinerary of a Spoiled Child, Jazz, L'aventure, c'est l'aventure, La Belle Histoire, La bonne année, Le Voyou, Les Uns et les Autres, Life Love Death, ... Expand index (49 more) »

A Man and a Woman

Un homme et une femme (English: A Man and a Woman) is a 1966 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Un homme et une femme: Vingt ans déjà; literally A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Already) is a 1986 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and is a sequel to Lelouch's 1966 film Un homme et une femme.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. Francis Lai and Academy Award for Best Original Score are best Original Music Score Academy Award winners.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alpes-Maritimes

Alpes-Maritimes (Aups Maritims; Alpi Marittime) is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast.

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And Now My Love

And Now My Love (Toute une vie), (Released as 'A Whole Lifetime' in Australia) is a French-Italian film released in 1974 by Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner, and Charles Gérard.

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Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.

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Another Man, Another Chance

Another Man, Another Chance (Un autre homme, une autre chance, UK title: Another Man, Another Woman) is a 1977 French western film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Attention bandits!

Attention bandits! is a 1987 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Édith et Marcel

Édith et Marcel is a 1983 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. Francis Lai and Édith Piaf are French people of Italian descent.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beyond the Reef (film)

Beyond the Reef is a 1981 American adventure film directed by Frank C. Clarke and written by Louis LaRusso II and James Carabatsos.

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Bilitis (film)

Bilitis is a 1977 French romantic and erotic drama film, directed by photographer David Hamilton, with a music score by Francis Lai.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Body of My Enemy

Le Corps de mon ennemi (also known as Body of My Enemy) is a 1976 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Carl Sigman

Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) was an American songwriter.

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César Awards

The César Award is the national film award of France.

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Chance or Coincidence

Hasards ou coïncidences is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch, released in 1998.

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Child Under a Leaf

Child Under a Leaf (released as Love Child in Britain) is a 1974 drama film directed by George Bloomfield and starring Dyan Cannon.

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Claude Lelouch

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music.

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Dark Eyes (1987 film)

Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie; Очи чёрные) is a 1987 Italian and Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Dog Day (film)

Dog Day (dog days) is a 1984 film by French director Yves Boisset starring Lee Marvin.

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Dust in the Sun

Dust in the Sun is a 1958 Eastmancolor Australian mystery film adapted from the 1955 novel Justin Bayard by Jon Cleary and produced by the team of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty.

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Emmanuelle 2

Emmanuelle 2 (Emmanuelle: L'antivierge, released as Emmanuelle, The Joys of a Woman in the US) is a 1975 French softcore erotica film directed by Francis Giacobetti and starring Sylvia Kristel.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer (or composers) for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Hannibal Brooks

Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright. It stars Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard and Wolfgang Preiss. The film follows a prisoner of war's attempt to escape from Nazi Germany to Switzerland during the Second World War, accompanied by a female Asian elephant.

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Hello-Goodbye (1970 film)

Hello-Goodbye is a 1970 British comedy film starring Michael Crawford, and was the final film directed by Jean Negulesco.

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Francis Lai and Henry Mancini are best Original Music Score Academy Award winners and Golden Globe Award-winning musicians.

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House of Cards (1968 film)

House of Cards is a 1968 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles.

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I Think of You (1970 song)

"I Think of You" is a song with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Rod McKuen, published in 1970, and included on McKuen's 1971 album "Pastorale".

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I'll Never Forget What's'isname

I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname, also known as The Takers, is a 1967 British comedy-drama film directed and produced by Michael Winner.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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International Velvet (film)

International Velvet is a 1978 American film and a sequel to the 1944 picture National Velvet starring Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins and Nanette Newman, and directed by Bryan Forbes.

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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child or Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté is a 1988 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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L'aventure, c'est l'aventure

L'aventure, c'est l'aventure is a 1972 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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La Belle Histoire

La Belle Histoire (1992) is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch, featuring Gérard Lanvin and Béatrice Dalle.

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La bonne année

La bonne année (also known in the United States as Happy New Year) is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Le Voyou

Le Voyou, also known as The Crook, is a 1970 French action film which follows Simon the Swiss during his largest heist.

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Les Uns et les Autres

Les Uns et les Autres (English: The Ones and the Others) is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch.

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Life Love Death

La Vie, l’Amour, la Mort is a film directed by Claude Lelouch in 1968 (released in France in 1969).

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Live for Life

Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre) is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch starring Yves Montand, Candice Bergen and Annie Girardot.

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Love Is a Funny Thing

Love Is a Funny Thing (Un homme qui me plaît, a.k.a. A Man I Like) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 novel of the same name.

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Marie (1985 film)

Marie (also known as Marie: A True Story) is a 1985 American biographical film starring Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in 1977 after refusing to release prisoners on whose behalf bribes had been paid to aides to Governor Ray Blanton.

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Market garden

A market garden is the relatively small-scale production of fruits, vegetables and flowers as cash crops, frequently sold directly to consumers and restaurants.

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Mayerling (1968 film)

Mayerling is a 1968 romantic tragedy film starring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Geneviève Page, James Robertson Justice and Andréa Parisy.

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Men, Women: A User's Manual

Men, Women: A User's Manual (Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi) is a 1996 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Michael Winner

Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality.

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Michel Magne

Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer. Francis Lai and Michel Magne are French film score composers and French male film score composers.

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Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946) is a French singer.

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Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My New Partner

My New Partner, also called Le Cop, is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi that stars Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte.

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My New Partner II

My New Partner II (Ripoux contre ripoux) is a 1990 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Oliver's Story

Oliver's Story is a 1978 American romantic drama film and a sequel to Love Story (1970) based on a novel by Erich Segal published a year earlier.

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Panorama (British TV programme)

Panorama is a British current affairs documentary programme broadcast on the BBC.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Passion Flower Hotel

Passion Flower Hotel (also known as Leidenschaftliche Blümchen, also known as Boarding School) is a 1978 coming of age comedy film directed by André Farwagi.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer, actor, and television personality.

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Place du Tertre

The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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René Clément

René Clément (18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Rider on the Rain

Rider on the Rain (French: Le passager de la pluie) is a 1970 French mystery thriller film starring Marlène Jobert and Charles Bronson, directed by René Clément and scripted by Sébastien Japrisot, produced by Serge Silberman, with film music composed by Francis Lai.

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Robert et Robert

Robert et Robert is a film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Rod McKuen

Rodney Marvin McKuen (né Woolever, April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer. Francis Lai and Rod McKuen are Golden Globe Award-winning musicians.

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Salaud, on t'aime

Salaud, on t'aime (translated as We Love You, You Bastard) is a 2014 French drama film directed, produced and co-written by Claude Lelouch.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Sins (miniseries)

Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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The Best Years of a Life

The Best Years of a Life (Les plus belles années d'une vie) is a 2019 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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The Bobo

The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland.

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The Forbidden Room (1977 film)

The Forbidden Room (Anima persa) is a 1977 thriller film directed by Dino Risi.

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The Games (film)

The Games is a 1970 British sports drama film directed by Michael Winner.

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The Good and the Bad

Le Bon et les Méchants is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch and released in 1976.

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The Legend of Frenchie King

The Legend of Frenchie King (Les Pétroleuses) or Petroleum Girls is a 1971 French, Spanish, Italian and British international co-production western comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot.

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The Private Lesson (1968 film)

The Private Lesson (French: La leçon particulière) is a 1968 French drama film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring Nathalie Delon, Renaud Verley and Robert Hossein.

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There Were Days... and Moons

There Were Days...

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Three into Two Won't Go

Three into Two Won't Go is a 1969 British drama film directed by Peter Hall and starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson.

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Un homme libre (1973 film)

Un homme libre (released in English as A Free Man) is a 1973 feature film written by Roberto Muller and Pierre Uytterhoeven and directed by Roberto Muller himself and starring French singer Gilbert Bécaud and actress Olga Georges-Picot.

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Un plus une

Un plus une ("One plus one", with the 'one's being grammatically masculine and feminine respectively) is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert, and Alice Pol.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Visit to a Chief's Son

Visit to a Chief's Son is a 1974 American biographical adventure film directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Richard Mulligan and Johnny Sekka.

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Wanted: Babysitter

Wanted: Babysitter (La Baby-Sitter, Babysitter - Un maledetto pasticcio, Das ganz große Ding, also known as Scar Tissue, The Babysitter and The Raw Edge) is a 1975 Italian-French-West German thriller–drama film directed by René Clément as his final film before his retirement in 1975.

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World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement

The Lifetime Achievement Award is an award given each year at the World Soundtrack Awards.

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World Soundtrack Awards

The World Soundtrack Awards, launched in 2001, are the annual awards for best film music, presented during the Film Fest Gent.

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(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story

"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman.

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13 jours en France

"13 jours en France" is a French film from 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lai

Also known as Frances Lai, Francis Albert Lai.

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