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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Diary of a Seducer 1995  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Daniele Dubroux
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric, Daniele Dubroux, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Micheline Presle, Karin Viard, Jacques Nolot
This entertaining, philosophical romance revolves around the copy of one of Gregoire's (Melvil Poupaud) books–actually Soren Kierkegaard's "Diary of a Seducer." The book's treatise on love casts a love spell on an assortment of not-quite-"normal" characters and provides the catalyst for an entertaining storyline.
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Samson 1961 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sampson
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Jan Ciecierski, Elzbieta Kepinska, Tadeusz Bartosik, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irena Netto, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Jan Ibel, Bogumil Antczak, Alan Steel
Director Wajda again returns to the Nazi occupation of Poland that occurred in World War II during his youth. A young, Jewish man (Serge Merlin) is imprisoned during World War II, but he escapes. Now, the quiet man is trapped in a world on non-Jews as he tries to survive.
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| 1. Amelie (2001)
2. Diary of a Seducer (1995)
3. Samson (1961)
aka: Sampson
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