6.5

Coco avant Chanel

2009, France, Belgium

• Actors: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Régis Royer, Etienne Bartholomeus, Yan Duffas, Fabien Béhar, Roch Leibovici, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Pierre Diot, Vincent Nemeth, Bruno Abraham-Kremer, Lisa Cohen, Inès Bessalem, Marie-Bénédicte Roy, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Fanny Deblock, Claude Brécourt, Karina Marimon, Bruno Paviot, Franck Monsigny, Marie Parouty, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Marie-Josée Hubert, Patrick Laviosa, Kim Schwarck, Franz Herman
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Director(s): Anne Fontaine
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.

  6.4

The Da Vinci Code

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Rita Davies, Francesco Carnelutti, Seth Gabel, Shane Zaza, Andrew Clark, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Joe Grossi, Denis Podalydès, Harry Taylor, Clive Carter, Garance Mazureck, Daisy Doidge-Hill, Lilli Ella Kelleher, Crisian Emanuel, Charlotte Graham, Xavier De Guillebon, Tonio Descanvelle, David Bark-Jones, Seretta Wilson
• Genre: Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Ron Howard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Symbologist Robert Langdon is thrown into a mysterious and bizarre murder. Alongside Langdon is the victims granddaughter and cryptologist Sophie Neveu, who with Robert discovers clues within Da Vinci's paintings. To further find the truth, Robert and Sophie travel from Paris to London, whilst crossing paths with allies and villains such as Sir Leigh Teabing and Silas. Wherever their path takes them, their discovery which is about to be revealed could shake the foundations of mankind.

  7.5

Dirty Pretty Things

2002, UK

• Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj, Deobia Oparei, Jeffery Kissoon, Zlatko Buric, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi López, Benedict Wong, Kenan Hudaverdi, Damon Younger, Paul Bhattacharjee, Darrell D'Silva, Sotigui Kouyaté, Abi Gouhad, Jeillo Edwards, Rita Hamill, Ron Stenner, Jemanesh Solomon, Naomi Simpson, Barber Ali, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Josef Altin, Fisun Burgess, Sabina Michael, Michael Mellinger, Noma Dumezweni
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Stephen Frears
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.

  8.5

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

2001, France, Germany

• Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Clotilde Mollet, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Maurice Bénichou, Michel Robin, Andrée Damant, Claude Perron, Armelle, Ticky Holgado, Kevin Fernandes, Flora Guiet, Amaury Babault, André Dussollier, Eugène Berthier, Marion Pressburger, Charles-Roger Bour, Luc Palun, Fabienne Chaudat, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jacques Viala
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.