7.2

Micmacs à tire-larigot

2009, France

• Actors: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon, Michel Crémadès, Marie-Julie Baup, Urbain Cancelier, Patrick Paroux, Jean-Pierre Becker, Stéphane Butet, Philippe Girard, Doudou Masta, Emy Lévy, Eric Naggar, Arsène Mosca, Manon Le Moal, Félicité N'Gijol, Bernard Bastareaud, Tony Gaultier, Stéphanie Gesnel, Noé Boon, Pascal Parisat, Cendrine Orcier, Rachel Berger, Dominique Bettenfeld, Gérald Weingand
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Available languages:
  • French French,
  • English English.

Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.

  6.0

La jeune fille et les loups

2008, France

• Actors: Laetitia Casta, Jean-Paul Rouve, Stefano Accorsi, Miglen Mirtchev, Michel Galabru, Patrick Chesnais, Lorànt Deutsch, Didier Bénureau, Urbain Cancelier, Laurent Gamelon, Jean-Michel Ribes, Yves Gasc, Elisa Tovati, Agnès Sourdillion, Sophie-Charlotte Husson, Capucine Legrand, Grégoire Gempp, Yvonne Penz, Roland Marchisio, Marie Vincent, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Chica Bigarnet, Franck Adrien, Fabienne Chaudat, Marc Beacco, Ludovic Debache, Philippe Bailly, Léopold Legrand, Nicolas Legrand
• Genre: Drama, Family
• Director(s): Gilles Legrand
• Available languages:
  • French French.

At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves.

  6.0

Mr. Bean's Holiday

2006, UK, France, Germany

• Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Steve Pemberton, Lily Atkinson, Preston Nyman, Sharlit Deyzac, Francois Touch, Emma de Caunes, Arsène Mosca, Stéphane Debac, Willem Dafoe, Philippe Spall, Jean Rochefort, Karel Roden, Max Baldry, Pascal Jounier, Emmanuelle Cosso, Francis Coffinet, Catherine Hosmalin, Zazie Delem, Anthony Morabito, Adilson Monteiro, Michel Estrade, Stefane Mellino, Francois Chanut, Fabien Arnaud, Evelyne Guyon, Adrien Rodrigue, Francois Roche, Bams Betga-Tchouni, Louis Gomis
• Genre: Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Steve Bendelack
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director's son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay's film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings.

  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.