Amelie 2001  R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Romance
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Artus de Penguern, Urbain Cancelier, Dominique Pinon, Maurice Benichou, Claude Perron, Michel Robin, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, James Debbouze, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty
Amelie (Audrey Tautou), a shy waitress working in the Montmarte section of Paris, begins meddling in the lives of those around her. While the result is brighter lives for those she touches, Amelie is forced to face her own loneliness and must find enough confidence to pursue Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz) in her quest for love. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Foreign-Language Film.
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Delicatessen 1991  R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Ticky Holgado, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Anne-Marie Pisani, Howard Vernon, Pascal Benezech, Rufus, Dominique Zardi, Jean-Francois Perrier, Marc Caro, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker
In a future world, after the "Big One," life is not easy, and food is in short supply. But the tenants of an old apartment complex get meat from time-to-time when the butcher provides human cutlets for his tenants. Now, along comes a young man who falls in love with the butcher's daughter. Believe it or not, this original-thinking comedy is interesting.
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Le Grand Role 2004  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Steve Suissa
Cast: Stephane Freiss, Berenice Bejo, Peter Coyote, Lionel Abelanski, Laurent Bateau, Sephen Guerin-Tillie, Francois Berleand, Olivier Sitruk, Valerie Benguigui, Rufus, Clement Sibony, Steve Suissa
The same day he learns his wife, Perla (Berenice Bejo), has terminal cancer, film director Maurice Kurtz (Stephane Freiss) thinks he has nailed an acting role in an upcoming film. He reports the news to Perla and later learns that the role is awarded, instead, to a famous actor. Determined to keep bad news from Perla, Maurice gets help from his friends to make Perla believe he is acting in the film. But the deception backfires, and comedy mixes with pathos in the lives of Maurice and Perla.
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March or Die 1977  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Dick Richards
Cast: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Holm, Jack O'Halloran, Rufus, Marcel Bozzuffi, Vernon Dobtcheff, Marne Maitland
Major William Sherman Foster (Gene Hackman) heads up a group of Foreign Legionnaires who fight marauding Arabs to defend their position in the Sahara Desert.
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Metroland 1997   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Philip Saville
Cast: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Lee Ross, Elsa Zylberstein, Rufus, Jonathan Aris, Ifan Meredith, Amanda Ryan, John Wood, Brian Protheroe
Chris (Christian Bale) is living a placid life in London with his wife, Marion (Emily Watson), and their baby. Then, the appearance of his friend Toni (Lee Ross), after a 10-year absence, causes Chris to question his decision to choose marriage and family over his old life as a carefree bachelor.
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Train of Life 1998 R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Cast: Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Clement Harari, Marie-Jose Nat, Agath de La Fontaine, Bruno Abraham-Kremer, Michel Muller, Johan Leysen, Gad Elmaleh, Serge Kribus
During 1941, residents of a Jewish community in Central Europe fear the arrival of Nazi forces and devise their own plan: take over a train, fake their own deportation, escape the Nazis, and reach Palestine.
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| 1. Amelie (2001)
2. Delicatessen (1991)
3. Le Grand Role (2004)
4. March or Die (1977)
5. Metroland (1997)
6. Train of Life (1998)
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