7.7

Munich

2004, USA, Canada, France

• Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Meret Becker, Marie-Josée Croze, Yvan Attal, Ami Weinberg, Lynn Cohen, Amos Lavi, Moshe Ivgy, Michael Warshaviak, Ohad Shahar, Rafael Tabor, Sharon Alexander, Samuel Calderon, Oded Teomi, Alon Aboutboul, Makram Khoury, Yigal Naor, Hiam Abbass, Mouna Soualem
• Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?

  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.

  6.2

Jakob the Liar

1998, France, USA, Hungary

• Actors: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Éva Igó, István Bálint, Justus von Dohnanyi, Kathleen Gati, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Mark Margolis, János Gosztonyi, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ádám Rajhona, Antal Leisen, Mathieu Kassovitz, Péter Rudolf, Jan Becker, János Kulka, Gregg Bello, Nina Siemaszko, Grazyna Barszczewska, Judit Sagi, Ilona Psota, Ági Margittay, Iván Darvas, László Borbély, Zoltan Barabas, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz, Józef Mika
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Director(s): Peter Kassovitz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.

  7.5

The Fifth Element

1996, France

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Lee Evans, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tricky, John Neville, John Bluthal, Mathieu Kassovitz, Christopher Fairbank, Kim Chan, Richard Leaf, Julie T. Wallace, Al Matthews, Maïwenn Le Besco, John Bennett, Ivan Heng, Sonita Henry, Tim McMullan, Hon Ping Tang, George Khan, John Hughes, Roberto Bryce, Said Talidi, Clifton Lloyd Bryan
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Luc Besson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the Fifth Element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is assisted by a former elite commando turned cab driver, Korben Dallas, who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg, who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

  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).