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.

  7.7

La cité des enfants perdus

1995, France, Germany, Spain

• Actors: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin, Rufus, Ticky Holgado, Joseph Lucien, Mapi Galán, Briac Barthélémy, Pierre-Quentin Faesch, Alexis Pivot, Léo Rubion, Guillaume Billod-Morel, François Hadji-Lazaro, Dominique Bettenfeld, Lotfi Yahya Jedidi, Thierry Gibault, Marc Caro, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ham-Chau Luong, Bezak, Thomas Hong-Maï, Frankie Pain, René Pivot, Daniel Adric
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Marc Caro
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Krank (Judith Vittet), he soon arrives in La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children).

  7.8

Delicatessen

1991, France

• Actors: Pascal Benezech, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker, Rufus, Jacques Mathou, Howard Vernon, Chick Ortega, Silvie Laguna, Jean-François Perrier, Dominique Zardi, Patrick Paroux, Maurice Lamy, Marc Caro, Eric Averlant, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jean-Luc Caron, Bernard Flavien, David Defever, Raymond Forestier, Robert Baud, Clara
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Marc Caro
• Available languages:
  • French French.

The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it's invaluable and is used as currency. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and he is in need of a new maintenance man since the original "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for a little while and then serve him to quirky tenants who pay the butcher in, of course, grain. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. The "trogs" are possibly the most sensible of the lot, as they see food as food and not money.

  6.1

March or Die

1977, UK

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm, Jack O'Halloran, Rufus, Marcel Bozzuffi, André Penvern, Paul Sherman, Vernon Dobtcheff, Marne Maitland, Luigi Bonos, Wolf Kahler, Matthias Hell, Jean Champion, Walter Gotell, Paul Antrim, Catherine Willmer, Arnold Diamond, Maurice Arden, Albert Woods, Liliane Rovère, Elisabeth Mortensen, Leila Shenna, François Valorbe, Villena, Ernest Misko, Guy Deghy, Jean Rougerie
• Genre: Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
• Director(s): Dick Richards
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), an American haunted by his memories of the recently-ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at their dig. Foster's unit includes the charming, thieving rascal Marco (Hill), who joined the Legion only to avoid prison. After long stretches portraying the boredom and hardship of day-to-day life in the Legion, Foster's command occupies a small village where the archaeologists believe they've found a burial site sacred to the Arabs. An Arab leader (Holm) uses this affront to unite the tribes in Jihad, and attacks the tiny Legion garrison at the dig. An epic battle follows, very reminiscent of the film "Zulu". Costumes, firearms, and props are all very authentic-looking, and show great attention to detail.