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Sexy Beast (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Amanda Redman, Ian McShane, James Fox, Cavan Kendall
Ex-con and expert safe-cracker Gary "Gal" Dove (Ray Winstone) has served his time behind bars and happily retired to a Spanish villa with his beloved ex–porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman). He also has the company of long-time best friend Aitch (Cavan Kendall) and his wife Jackie (Julianne White). Their serene life is shattered by the arrival of an old criminal associate and sociopath Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), who is intent on enlisting Gal in a bank heist back in London. Organising the heist is Teddy Bass (Ian McShane), a powerful crime lord, who has learned about the bank's vault from Harry (James Fox), the bank's chairman whom he met at an orgy.
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
, 20minutesDirected by Alexandre Petrov
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney, Yoji Matsuda, Rentarō Mikuni
The film follows the plot of the original novel, but at times emphasizes different points.
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
, 1h40Directed by Patrick Timsit
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Patrick Timsit, Richard Berry, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Elbaz, Didier Flamand, Patrick Braoudé
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.
Himalaya (1999)
, 1h48Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about Tibet
Actors Tsering Dorjee, Gurgon Kyap, Thinle Lhondup, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jampa Kalsang Tamang
Dans les hautes montagnes du Népal, dans le Dolpo, au Tibet à 5 000 m d'altitude, deux caravanes de nomades du sel partent vendre leur sel.
Fait d'hiver (1999)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Berling, Claude Brasseur, Jean-François Stévenin, Michel Duchaussoy, Jacques Penot, Romaric Perche
Durant l'hiver 1970, Louis Riquier, un père de famille divorcé refuse de rendre ses enfants à sa mère. Les médias et la haute autorité s'emparent vite de l'affaire, devenue nationale..
, 1h55Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Carré, Eric Cantona
The film is set in a marsh, along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Érick Zonca
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, La précarité
Actors Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Corinne Masiero
The film is about two working class women, Isa and Marie. Isa is a drifter and searching for a lover she had met during the summer. When she realizes that her search for him is futile and turns elsewhere she meets Marie, who lives in a small French town near Lille. The two young women instantly find a connection as they both have been treated harshly by life and are living from day to day in short-time jobs, such as working in a textile factory or delivering leaflets in the streets. Marie lives in an apartment that she is looking after because the owners had a car accident in which everyone died, except for Sandrine, a teenager, who is in a coma. Marie invites Isa to live with her. Shortly thereafter Isa and Marie meet up with two bouncers, Fredo and Charly, whom they befriend. The men help them out and they have genuine fun together, although they are not much better off than the women.
Half a Chance (1998)
, 1h50Directed by Patrice Leconte
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis, Michel Aumont, Éric Defosse, Sandrine Caron
Alice (Vanessa Paradis) leaves prison after having served an eight month sentence for car theft. Her mother, who has just died, leaves her a cassette on which she admits to the mystery of her birth. Alice has never known her father. Twenty years before, her mother had loved two men (Belmondo, Delon). One of them is, unknowingly, her father. Alice goes off to find the two, but before discovering which is her father she gets them involved in an adventure.
Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
, 1h11Directed by Michel Ocelot
Origin France
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Films based on mythology, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Witches in film, Political films, Children's films, Mythologie d'Afrique de l'Ouest
Actors Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Maimouna N'Diaye, Robert Liensol, William Nadylam, Sébastien Hébrant, Rémi Bichet
In a little village somewhere in West Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born in a spectacular way. But he's not a normal boy, since he can speak and walk immediately after being born. He is also very determined. His mother tells him that an evil sorceress has dried up their spring and devoured all the males of the village except for one. Hence the tiny Kirikou decides to accompany the last warrior, his uncle, to visit the sorceress. Kirikou tricks the sorceress and saves his uncle, by waiting inside his uncle's hat, and pretending that it was magic. He saved the children from being kidnapped by the sorceress' boat, which sped off towards Karaba, and saved them later again from the sorceress' tree, which closed it branches, and once again sped off towards Karaba. Next, he bursts the monster who was drinking all the village's water. He then travels to ask his wise old grandfather about the sorceress, and faces many obstacles in the process. The grandfather finds that Kirikou is always asking questions, which is a good thing. The grandfather tells him that she is evil because she suffers: bad men put a poisoned thorn in her back. On the way to Karaba, Kirikou makes friends, who each in turn, give him presents, after he saves them from the skunk. Kirikou manages to trick the sorceress and removes the thorn, he also manages to take the gold, and return it to the rightful owners. The sorceress is cured. She kisses Kirikou and he becomes an adult. Love reigns. When they arrive back at the village, no one believes that the sorceress is cured, and only do they believe Kirikou, when a procession of drummers arrive. It turns out Karaba did not eat them, just turned them into watchmen, and other obedient objects.
Western (1997)
, 2h4Directed by Manuel Poirier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Sergi López, Sacha Bourdo, Élisabeth Vitali, Marie Matheron, Serge Riaboukine, Catherine Riaux
Un homme prend un autostoppeur qui ne tarde pas à lui voler sa voiture. Il est conduit au commissariat par une femme dont il tombe très rapidement amoureux. À la demande de cette dernière, ils conviennent de rester trois semaines sans se voir pour tester leur amour. Dans l'intervalle, il erre au gré des rencontres sur les routes de Bretagne en compagnie de son voleur qu'il a recroisé...
The Bet (1997)
, 1h40Directed by Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Obésité, Films about disabilities
Actors Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Isabel Otero, Isabelle Ferron, Hélène Surgère, Roger Ibáñez
Bernard is a teacher in the suburbs and lives with Victoria. Didier is a wealthy Parisian pharmacist and is married to Murielle, Victoria's sister. While the former drives a rusty car, the latter drives a black Mercedes. Both brothers-in-law are complete opposites and hate each other. During dinner, Didier and Bernard make a bet: to stop smoking for fifteen days, until the next family get-together. The first days go off like a dream and both are on top of the world. But things quickly turn sour. Didier and Bernard find it harder and harder to resist the temptation. They become irritable, suspicious, they lie; until the fifteenth day: the family get-together. They have kept their word, but relations between them and their wives are at an all time low. Despite this, they are both determined to remain non-smokers.
Same Old Song (1997)
, 2hDirected by Alain Resnais
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Agnès Jaoui, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Lambert Wilson
Odile (Azéma), a business executive, is married to weak, furtive Claude (Arditi). In the past Odile was close to successful businessman Nicolas (Bacri), now married with kids and returning to Paris after an eight-year absence. She is looking for a new, bigger apartment from estate agent Marc (Wilson). Her younger sister Camille (Jaoui), has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon (Dussollier) is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her, although he claims to be researching his historical radio dramas. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
Marius and Jeannette (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Guédiguian
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La banlieue française, La provence
Actors Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jacques Boudet, Blanche Guichou
Marius and Jeannette live in the same working-class apartment complex in Marseille, in close proximity with their neighbors. The lame Marius is a security guard at an abandoned cement works, and since the company has gone out of business and the plant will soon be demolished, he is squatting in order to save money. Jeannette is a single mother raising her two children on her own on a meagre supermarket checkout operator salary. They meet when Jeannette tries to steal two cans of paint from the cement lot, and Marius catches her and tries to chase her. The following day Marius comes to her door to apologize, and brings her the two cans of paint. A relationship soon develops between them, but as both have been wounded by marital difficulties, and life in general, they are hesitant to become committed. It does not help that Jeannette's romantic fantasy notions are different from Marius' practical ideas. The two must learn how to love again in order for their relationship to blossom.
Jaguar (1996)
, 1h40Directed by Francis Veber
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Indiens d'Amazonie
Actors Jean Reno, Patrick Bruel, Patricia Velásquez, Danny Trejo, Alexandra Vandernoot, Roland Blanche
In this fast-paced French comedy, a gambler, anxious to escape the thugs who pursue him after her reneged on a bet, mistakenly agrees to enter the safety of the Amazon jungle with an ethnologist's son to search for the missing soul of an ailing Indian. Perrin's ordeal begins in an elevator where he encounters Campana, the French scientist who was raised in the distant jungle, and his companion Wanu, an Amazon shaman who has left his remote home to help Campana campaign on the rain forest's behalf. When Wanu, wearing little more than feathers, skins and a plate in his lip, suddenly tweak's the nose of Perrin and proclaims him the "chosen one", Perrin is naturally surprised. He is more surprised when Wanu shows up in his lavish apartment that night, drugs him and covers him with ritual markings thereby creating a magical link between them. The next day Wanu suffers a heart attack that he interprets as the theft of his soul. He beckons Perrin beside him and insists that he go to the jungle and find his soul, which has taken the form of a jaguar. Unfortunately for Perrin, the dense jungle proves to be far more dangerous than any gambler's henchmen and comical chaos ensues as he struggles to survive.
Two Dads and One Mom (1996)
, 1h25Directed by Smaïn, Jean-Marc Longval
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Arielle Dombasle, Antoine de Caunes, Julie Gayet, Smaïn, Abder El Kebir, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Delphine et Jérôme veulent avoir un enfant mais ce dernier apprend qu'il est stérile. Ensemble, ils vont demander à Salim — le meilleur ami de Jérôme — de faire un don de sperme pour permettre une insémination artificielle à la future maman.