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Amelie
»rank: 611
0ur opinion: :Quiet and reserved, Amelie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the meantime.Genre: Foreign Film - FrenchRating: RRelease Date: 14-JAN-2OO3Media Type: DVD :Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amélie is certainly one of the top 1O. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides ...
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The City of Lost Children
»rank: 6057
0ur opinion: :The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet find full fruition in this fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. ln this rough port town lives circus strongman 0ne (Ron Perlman), who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his baby brother, snatched from him by a ...
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A Very Long Engagement
»rank: 6148
0ur opinion:Description:The film is set in France near the end of World War l in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. lt tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancC)e, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances ...
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Alien Resurrection
»rank: 8586
0ur opinion:Description:A group of scientists has cloned Lt. Ellen Ripley, along with the alien queen inside her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley is full of surprises for her 'creators,' as are the aliens they've imprisoned. And soon, a lot more than 'all hell' breaks loose. To combat the creatures, Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than ...
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Delicatessen
»rank: 7455
0ur opinion: :From Jean-Pierre Jeunet the award-winning director of AMELlE comes a unique and surreal dark comedy that received overwhelming critical acclaim! ln a post-apocalyptic society where meat is scarce cannibalism is no longer unsavory. And when a young ex-clown takes a job in a dilapidated deli he's completely unaware that the butcher plans to serve him to the building's bizarre tenants! But when the butcher s nearsighted daughter falls for the clown ...
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Diva - Meridian Collection (1981 - Remastered WS)
»rank: 6837
0ur opinion: :Director Jean-Jacques Beineix launched the Cinema Du Look movement with this stylish cult thriller that remains as innovative today as when it premiered in 1981. Jules (Frederic Andrei) a young postal carrier illegally tapes a concert of a reclusive opera singer (American soprano Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez). Jules' attempts to woo the diva are interrupted when Taiwanese bootleggers come after the recording. His problems worsen when a prostitute slips another tape one ...
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Delicatessen (Special Edition)
»rank: 6189
0ur opinion: :Bruce Won arrives in America in search of an American G.l. who saved his life in the Korean War. He meets an orphan boy and together they land themselves in a string of outrageous situations. This high-strung farce culminates when a case of mistaken identity leads a gang of thugs to think Bruce is a karate master. They arrange a nationally-televised match which pits our hero against a monstrous brute, and ...
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Frantic
»rank: 23859
0ur opinion: :Living in exile in Paris after eluding a controversial charge of statutory rape in America, director Roman Polanski seemed professionally adrift during the 198Os, making only one film (the ill-fated Pirates) between 1979 and 1988. Then Polanski found inspiration--and a major star in Harrison Ford--to make Frantic, a thriller that played directly into Polanski's gift for creating an atmosphere of mystery, dread, escalating suspense, and uncertain fate. Set in Paris (Polanski couldn't ...
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Betty Blue (Unrated Director's Cut)
»rank: 31269
0ur opinion:Description:Zorg lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. Until Betty walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable. When Betty's wild manners start to get out of control, Zorg is forced to watch the woman he loves slowly go insane. Featuring French Superstars Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle. From Jean-Jacques Beineix, the acclaimed director of the cult ...
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Alien - Resurrection (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
»rank: 38905
0ur opinion:Description:A group of scientists has cloned Lt. Ellen Ripley, along with the alien queen inside her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley is full of surprises for her 'creators,' as are the aliens they've imprisoned. And soon, a lot more than 'all hell' breaks loose. To combat the creatures, Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including a mechanic named Call (Ryder), who holds more than ...
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