6.4

From Paris with Love

2010, France

• Actors: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Yin Bing, Amber Rose Revah, Eric Godon, François Bredon, Chems Dahmani, Sami Darr, Julien Hagnery, Mostéfa Stiti, Rebecca Dayan, Michaël Vander-Meiren, Didier Constant, Alexandra Boyd, Stephen Shagov, Mike Powers, Nick Loren, Farid Elouardi, Melissa Mars, Yin Hang, David Gasman, Frédéric Chau, Tam Solo, Luc Besson, Lexie Kendrick, Kelly Preston
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Pierre Morel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

James Reece is an ambitious aide to the U.S. Ambassador in Paris, doing little jobs for the CIA and hoping to get into black ops. On the night he and his girlfriend, Caroline, become engaged, he's told to pick up Charlie Wax at Orly. Charlie is an unorthodox government employee - large, bald and bearded, foul-mouthed and eccentric. Charlie immediately takes James on a wild ride of murder and mayhem, through ethnic enclaves. As bodies pile up, the purpose remains opaque to James. Caroline, unhappy that James has been out of touch for a day, tells him to bring Charlie for dinner. Charlie can be charming - where will it lead? Does the chess-playing James have what it takes?

  6.4

Largo Winch

2008, France, Belgium

• Actors: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry, Gilbert Melki, Karel Roden, Steven Waddington, Anne Consigny, Radivoje Bukvic, Nicolas Vaude, Benedict Wong, Gérard Watkins, Wolfgang Pissors, Theodore Thomas, David Gasman, Elizabeth Bennett, Eddy Ko, Bojana Panic, Ivan Marevich, André Oumansky, Digger Mesch, Emmanuel Avena, Micaelle Mee-Sook, Benjamin Siksou, Kerian Mayan, Jake Vella, Aidan Aquilina, Andre Agius, Léo-Paul Salmain, Julian De Gorgio
• Genre: Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Jérôme Salle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Billionaire Nerio Winch is found dead, drowned. An obviously suspicious death as Nerio is the founder and majority shareholder of the powerful and sprawling W Group. Who will inherit this financial empire? Officially, Nerio had no family. But he had a secret he kept well-hidden: a son, Largo, adopted nearly thirty years before from a Bosnian orphanage. The only problem is this young heir has just been thrown in prison deep in the Amazon. Accused of drug trafficking, he claims he's innocent. Nerio murdered. Largo in prison. What if these two events were part of a plot to take control of the Winch empire?

  5.3

Babylon A.D.

2007, USA, France, UK

• Actors: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, Gérard Depardieu, Joel Kirby, Souleymane Dicko, David Belle, Radek Bruna, Jan Unger, Abraham Belaga, Gary Cowan, David Gasman, Lemmy Constantine, Peter Thias, Curtis Matthew, Magda Vavrusova, Filip Matejka, Robert Polo
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Mathieu Kassovitz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a near future, the mercenary Toorop is hired by the powerful criminal Gorsky to bring a woman named Aurora from a Noelite Convent in Central Asia to New York. In return, he would receive a large amount of money and a clear passport. Toorop joins Aurora and her guardian Sister Rebeka as they cross the dangerous Russian landscape chased by mercenaries that also want Aurora. Along their journey, Toorop discovers that Aurora has special abilities and once in New York, they see on the news that the Noelite Convent has just been bombed. When Aurora discloses that she is virgin and pregnant with twins, Toorop realizes that there is something sinister behind his mission and that he and Sister Rebeka are not part of Gorsky's plans.

  5.9

Immortel (ad vitam)

2003, France, Italy, UK

• Actors: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette, Frédéric Pierrot, Thomas M. Pollard, Joe Sheridan, Corinne Jaber, Olivier Achard, Jerry Di Giacomo, Dominique Mahut, Gary Cowan, Augustin Legrand, Javon Constantin, Owen Steketee, Thomas Murat, Barbara Scaff, Dominic Gould, Geoffrey Carey, Allan Wenger, Paul Bandey, Coralie Seyrig, Goran Vejvoda, Helen Later, Paul Barrett, Leslie Clack, Lemmy Constantine, Robert Dauney, Geoffrey Greenhill, Irene Palko
• Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Enki Bilal
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This movie is set in the year 2095, hence the presence of mutant humans and extraterrestrials. The main character is known as Jill. She is not human. When she is discovered by Dr. Elma Turner she is diagnosed as being the most interesting genetic test subject Turner has ever come across. Her organs are not in the right place, she has no memory and she appears, biologically to be only three months old. Turner gives her a break, gives her an identity card and a place to stay, in exchange for being her guinea-pig to work on and discover more about. Nicopol is a frozen prisoner who is due to be released a year after the film is set. There is a problem in the prisoner ward and several are thrown down to grow (dying in the process), including Nicopol (but only his leg). There is a lot more to this story but I can't disclose it in this summary, I don't have the words.

  7.8

The Bourne Identity

2001, USA, Germany, Czech Republic

• Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Nicky Naude, David Selburg, Demetri Goritsas, Russell Levy, Anthony Green, Hubert Saint-Macary, David Bamber, Gwenaël Clause, Emanuel Booz, Philippe Durand, Vincent Franklin, Paulette Frantz, Thierry René, Roger Frost, David Gasman, Harry Gilbert, Delphine Lanson
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Doug Liman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.