Almost Peaceful 2002  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Michel Deville
Cast: Simon Abkarian, Zabou, Vincent Elbaz, Lubna Azabal, Denis Podalydes, Julie Gayet, Malik Zidi, Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Silvie Milhaud, Pierre Diot, Francois Clavier
Emotionally scarred during World War II, a group of Parisian Jews starts life anew working in a tailor shop, reawakens, and tries to come to terms with the past.
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Deterrence 2000  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rod Lurie
Cast: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sean Astin, Clotilde Courau, Badja Djola, Mark Thompson, Uzi Gal, Kathryn Morris, Michael Mantell
In the year 2008, U.S. President Emerson (Kevin Pollak), who took office after the death of the elected president, is now running for his own term as president. He and his staff get snowed in at a small diner in Colorado. That's a good time for Saddam Hussein's son, now running Iraq, to invade Kuwait and kill hundreds of members of the American peacekeeping force. The President warns that he will nuke Iraq if they don't retreat, and Hussein counters with his own threats. So, Emerson asks the people in the diner what to do. Made in 1998 but sat on the shelf until the 2000 release.
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La Vie en Rose 2007 PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Musical
aka: La Mome
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbe, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet
Writer-director Olivier Dahan's story skips back and forth as it chronicles events in the life of fabled French singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard). She was born into poverty to street singer mother Anetta (Clotilde Courau) and circus contortionist father Louis (Jean-Paul Rouve), but as a young girl (played by Manon Chevallier) Edith was given to Louis' mother (Catherine Allegret) to raise. Later, with support from friend Momone (Sylvie Testud), song writer Raymond Asso (Marc Barbe), and manager Louis Barrier (Pascal Greggory) she succeeds as a singer. As the story shows, Edith's powerful singing voice helps her survive when she goes through the trials and triumphs of her short, bittersweet life. The film received two Academy Awards including Best Actress (Cotillard) and received one other nomination.
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L'Appat 1995  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Fresh Bait
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos, Marie Ravel, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Louis Richard, Christophe Odent, Jean-Paul Comart, Alain Sarde, Daniel Russo
Beautiful, young Nathalie (Marie Gillain), her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk), and Eric's friend Bruno (Bruno Putzulu) need money to start a business in the U.S. They hatch a scheme in which Nathalie will pick up rich men, take them home, and have Eric and Bruno rob their apartments. But things go sour when they commit a murder. Based on a true story.
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Map of the Human Heart 1992 R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincent Ward
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, Annie Galipeau, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Jeanne Moreau, Clotilde Courau, Ben Mendelsohn, Jerry Snell, Jayko Pitseolak, Matt Holland, Rebecca Vevee, Josape Kopalee, Reepah Arreak
A young Eskimo, Avik (Robert Joamie), is sent from his home into the civilized world to cure his tuberculosis. As an adult, Avik (now played by Jason Scott Lee) serves as a pilot in World War II. He finds major obstacles in his way when he tries to bridge the culture gap between himself and Albertine (Anne Parillaud)–the young girl (Anne Parillaud) who has now grown into the woman he loves.
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The Pickle 1993  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller, Spalding Gray, Chris Penn, Stephen Tobolowsky, Dudley Moore
If you really have nothing else to do, check out this flick about Harry Stone's (Danny Aiello) midlife crisis. Stone is a movie director whose recent credits include a sci-fi story about a large pickle.
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| 1. Almost Peaceful (2002)
2. Deterrence (2000)
3. La Vie en Rose (2007)
aka: La Mome
4. L'Appat (1995)
aka: Fresh Bait
5. Map of the Human Heart (1992)
6. The Pickle (1993)
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