 An American in Paris 1951  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Dick Wessel, Paul Maxey, John Eldredge, Noel Neill, Madge Blake
Based on the music of George and Ira Gershwin, dance and music sequences contributed to the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story is about ex-GI Jerry (Gene Kelly) who stays in Paris after the war to study art and then falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron). The film also won five other Oscars, and Director Vincente Minnelli received a nomination.
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Austerlitz 1960  N/R, 180 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Battle of Austerlitz
Director: Abel Gance
Cast: Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Leslie Caron, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Marais, Jack Palance, Orson Welles, Ettore Manni, Claudia Cardinale, Elvire Popesco, Michel Simon, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Rossano Brazzi
At the beginning of this film, the private life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Pierre Mondy) unfolds–showing his family life with wife Josephine (Martine Carol)–before the story moves on to the battlefields of the Napoleonic War and Napoleon proclaiming himself Emperor of France.
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Chocolat 2000  PG-13, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Judi Dench, Victoire Thivisol, Hugh O'Conor, Peter Stormare, Leslie Caron, Carrie-Anne Moss
Adapted from Joan Harris' 1999 novel, this culinary fable takes place in a small French village where Vianne (Juliette Binoche) has moved with her young daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). Vianne opens a chocolate shop during the middle of Lent and, in the process, liberates (spiritually, mentally, and physically) the townsfolk. Nominations included: Picture, Actress (Juliette Binoche) and Supporting Actress (Judi Dench). 1 User Review
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| | You Won't Be Sorry | fringedweller 03/06/2007 | It's a graceful, quality movie, that's simply beautiful to watch.
It's a tale about social constraints, and how some people always seem to be caught up in them, while others seem to have an inner compass or knowingness that to steer clear of restraints is what's right for them...and in small towns life one often has to pay a price for not buying into prevailing attitudes of the day.
If this is a morality tale, it's at least told in a thouroughly entertaining, 'non-lectury' way. |
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Courage Mountain 1989  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Christopher Leitch
Cast: Juliette Cabon, Joanna Clarke, Nicola Stapleton, Charlie Sheen, Jan Rubes, Leslie Caron, Laura Betti, Yorgo Voyagis, Urbano Barberini
In this update of Johanna Spyri's "Heidi," Heidi (Juliette Cabon) is sent to a boarding school, and then war breaks out. With the help of a soldier (Charlie Sheen), she and her classmates escape over the Alps.
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Daddy Long Legs 1955 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark, Charlotte Austin, Larry Keating, Kathryn Givney, Ann Codee, Steven Geray
French orphan Julie Andre (Leslie Caron) is supported by her secret benefactor, Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire), who pays for her college education in New England. They meet, fall in love, and the Cinderella story lives on.
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Dangerous Moves 1984  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Richard Dembo
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Michel Aumont, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bernhard Wicki, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jacques Boudet
This story centers on a world chess championship as competitors, the old master (Michel Piccoli) and a young admirer (Alexandre Arbatt), become more and more obsessed with winning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Fanny 1961 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz, Salvatore Baccaloni, Lionel Jeffries, Victor Francen, Georgette Anys, Raymond Bussieres, Joel Flateau, Paul Bonifas
Fanny (Leslie Caron) is the young love interest of Marius (Charles Boyer), but this couple must make life-changing decisions about whether or not to spend their lives together. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Actor (Boyer).
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Funny Bones 1995  R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, George Carl, Leslie Caron, Freddie Davies, Lee Evans, Oliver Reed, Ruta Lee, Richard Griffiths, Ian McNeice
Tommy (Oliver Platt) discovers that his father (Jerry Lewis) stole material for the comedy act that made him famous. Now Tommy, who is hoping to follow in his famous father's footsteps, must come to terms with his information.
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Gaby 1956 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cedric Hardwicke, Taina Elg, Margalo Gillmore, Scott Marlowe, Ian Wolfe, James Best, Ruta Lee, Joe Di Reda, Joseph Corey, Lisa Montell, Narda Onyx, Gloria Wood, Queenie Leonard
This remake of "Waterloo Bridge" stars Leslie Caron as ballerina Gaby, and John Kerr stars as the soldier Greg who fall in love amidst bombings of London during World War II. Before they can marry, Greg must leave for the V-Day invasion. When Gaby hears that Greg is missing in action and is presumed dead, her life changes, and she becomes a "loose woman." Greg shows up alive, and now Gaby will not marry him because she cannot tell him about her sexual encounters experienced when he was away. But, Gaby finally confesses, and Greg forgives her.
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Gigi 1958 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, John Abbott, Monique Van Vooren, Dorothy Neumann, Jean Ozenne, Bernard Musson, Edwin Jerome, Maurice Marsac, Corinne Marchand
This excellent film won nine Academy Awards. Gaston (Louis Jourdan) has his eye on Gigi (Leslie Caron) who, after a series of misadventures, becomes his wife. Narrated by Maurice Chevalier, this musical features such great songs as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and the title song (an Academy Award winner). Other Academy Awards included Best Picture and Director.
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Goldengirl 1979 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Susan Anton, Curt Jurgens, James Coburn, Robert Culp, Leslie Caron, Harry Guardino, Jessica Walter, Michael Lerner
Goldine Serafin (Susan Anton) is being groomed for an Olympic championship medal and, in the process, loses her own individuality.
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Is Paris Burning? 1966 N/R, 173 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rene Clement
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Orson Welles
This is the story of the liberation of Paris in 1944. When the Allies approached the city, the Nazis were ordered to burn it to the ground.
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The L-Shaped Room 1963 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Emlyn Williams, Patricia Phoenix, Harry Locke, Bernard Lee, Kay Walsh, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Leslie Caron deftly portrays a single, French woman, June, who is pregnant–but not alone. Living in a London boarding house, she intermingles with the other residents as she tries to make sense out of her predicament. Caron received an Oscar nomination.
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells 2000 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis, Cleo Laine, Joan Sims, Billie Whitelaw, June Whitfield, Thelma Ruby, Valentine Pelka
A seasoned cast brings energy and fun to this lighthearted film. Elizabeth (Judi Dench) played the sax in the all-girl (except for friend Patrick (Ian Holm) who played in drag) swing band–the Blonde Bombshells–during WWII. Fifty years later, after her husband dies, she pulls out the sax and before you know it, she and Patrick are searching for the rest of the band to once again tour.
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 Le Divorce 2003 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Stephen Fry, Thierry Lhermitte, Melvil Poupaud, Bebe Neuwirth, Sam Waterston, Samuel Labarthe
When Isabel (Kate Hudson) arrives in Paris to help her half-sister, Roxanne (Naomi Watts), she learns that Roxanne's husband (Melvil Poupaud) has walked out on her. So ends what should have been a peaceful visit as a complex comedy unfolds.
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 The Man Who Loved Women 1977 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud, Genevieve Fontanel, Brigitte Fossey, Nathalie Baye, Jean Daste, Valerie Bonnier, Sabine Glaser, Henri Agel
This movie starts with a funeral and then focuses on a bachelor who is obsessed with women–and they seem to return his passions. Another good Truffaut film.
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The Man Who Understood Women 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio, Conrad Nagel, Frank Cady, Harry Ellerbe, Ben Astar, Edwin Jerome
Willie (Henry Fonda) is a very successful filmmaker; however, he is not so fortunate in his relationship with his actress-wife (Leslie Caron).
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The Man with a Cloak 1951 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Fletcher Markle
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly, Richard Hale, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts
Set in New York during 1848, this mystery is about a plot to get money to support the cause of the new French republic.
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 Murder on the Orient Express 2001 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Carl Schenkel
Cast: Alfred Molina, Adam James, Fritz Wepper, Peter Strauss, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, Kai Wiesinger, Amira Casar, Natasha Wightman, Dylan Smith, Tasha de Vasconcelos, David Hunt, Nicolas Chagrin, Jason Croot
This is a made-for-TV movie featuring Agatha Christie's master detective Hercule Poirot (Alfred Molina). Poirot is returning home aboard the Orient Express when an American businessman (Peter Strauss) is discovered murdered in his compartment, and Poirot uses his sleuthing powers to solve the case.
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Promise Her Anything 1966 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Keenan Wynn, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bessie Love, Donald Sutherland, Mavis Villiers
Porn filmmaker Harley Rummell (Warren Beatty) gets saddled with his downstairs neighbor's infant son while she plots marriage to a psychologist.
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QB VII 1974 TV, 315 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gries
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Leslie Caron, Lee Remick, Juliet Mills, Robert Stephens, Dan O'Herlihy, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Edith Evans
Originally a TV miniseries, this story is based on Leon Uris' book and tells the story of Adam Kelno, a Polish doctor who escaped from a Nazi death camp in World War II. Being anti-Communist, he is targeted by them after the war and is accused of war crimes. Acquitted, he and his wife go to Arabia where they work to improve the health of the Arabian people. After he returns to England 20 years later, he is again maligned, this time in a book, which accuses him of conducting medical experiments on Jews. An exciting courtroom battle ensues. Great cast, especially Anthony Hopkins as the doctor. QB VII refers to the courtroom where the trial occurs (Queen's Bench, room #7).
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 The Ring 1996 TV, 178 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Danielle Steel's The Ring
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Michael York, Rupert Penry-Jones, Linda Lavin, Jon Tenny, James Sikking, Carsten Norgaard, Leslie Caron, Alessandro Nivola, Elizabeth Barondes, Tim DeKay, Kenneth Haigh, Jack May, Geno Lechner
Imprisoned by the Nazis and separated from her family, Ariana von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) falls in love and marries a German soldier. He is killed, and now-pregnant Ariana treasures the ring her mother gave to her before she committed suicide. With that precious possession reminding her of her family, Ariana sets off for a new life in America. Based on Danielle Steele's novel.
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The Story of Three Loves 1953 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger, Agnes Moorehead, Ricky Nelson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Richard Anderson
While traveling on an ocean liner, three passengers remember their love stories in this movie which is actually a trio of short films.
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That's Entertainment, Part II 1976  G, 130 min.
Genre: Family / Documentary / Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Kathryn Grayson, Doris Day, Jeanette MacDonald, Greer Garson, Nelson Eddy, Leslie Caron, Ann Miller, Ann Sothern
Hosts Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly introduce classic M.G.M. film clips in this well-made documentary filled with snapshots of film history that include musicals, dramas, and comedies.
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Valentino 1977 R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal, Seymour Cassel, Peter Vaughan, Huntz Hall, David de Keyser, Alfred Marks, Anton Diffring, Jennie Linden, William Hootkins, Bill McKinney, Don Fellows
This biopic of famous sex idol Rudolph Valentino's (Rudolf Nureyev) life begins with his funeral, and then the story is told through flashbacks. Valentino started out as a dishwasher, then found employment as a dancer, and quickly rose to stardom. Along the way, Valentino serves time in prison before finding work in films. Valentino died in 1926 after a short life during which he became a national celebrity.
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| 1. An American in Paris (1951)
2. Austerlitz (1960)
aka: The Battle of Austerlitz
3. Chocolat (2000)
4. Courage Mountain (1989)
5. Daddy Long Legs (1955)
6. Damage (1992)
7. Dangerous Moves (1984)
8. Fanny (1961)
9. Father Goose (1964)
10. Funny Bones (1995)
11. Gaby (1956)
12. Gigi (1958)
13. The Glass Slipper (1955)
14. Goldengirl (1979)
15. Is Paris Burning? (1966)
16. The L-Shaped Room (1963)
17. The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
18. Le Divorce (2003)
19. The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
20. The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
21. The Man with a Cloak (1951)
22. Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
23. Promise Her Anything (1966)
24. QB VII (1974)
25. The Ring (1996)
aka: Danielle Steel's The Ring
26. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
27. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
28. Valentino (1977)
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