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Flushed Away (2006)
The story of an
uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse
apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a
whole new and different way of life.
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Flyboys (2006)
The adventures of
the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the
French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became
the country's first fighter pilots.
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Margaret (2006)
A young woman (Paquin)
witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where
the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many
people's lives.
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
While in Paris on business,
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of
Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu
(Audrey
Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
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The
Pink Panther (2006) Comedy and
Crime/Gangster
In this new Inspector Clouseau adventure, the
incompetent French detective (Martin) investigates the
murder of the nation's soccer team coach while also
looking into the disappearance of the famous Pink Panther
diamond, the national treasure of the nation of Lugash.
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Empire des loups, L'
(2006)
If You Can't Remember Your Past...You Can't Save Your Future.
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Tigre e la neve, La
(2006)
A
love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of
an American invasion.
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Tais-Toi
(2004)
Art/Foreign
and Comedy
1 hr. 25 min. A prison psychiatrist pairs a thief with
a brute.
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Jet
Lag (2003)
1 hr.
31 min. A contemporary romantic comedy about an
encounter at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
between a world-weary frozen-food businessman (Reno) and a
troubled beautician (Binoche).
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The
Quiet American (2002)
Drama
and Romance
1 hr. 58 min. Set in Vietnam in 1952 during the
Vietnamese liberation war from French rule, this is the
story of an opium-addicted British reporter, Fowler (Caine),
in love with a young Vietnamese woman, Phuong (Yen), who
is dismayed when a young American CIA agent, Pyle
(Fraser), seems to have eyes for her as well.
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Rollerball
(2002)
Action/Adventure
and Science Fiction/Fantasy
1 hr. 39 min. A deadly sport that combines roller
derby and basketball thrives in the year 2005 and packs
arenas around the world. A global viewership bets and
roots for the star players Jonathan Cross, Marcus Ridley
and their beautiful teammate Aurora who skate and
motorcycle past opponents to score. Despite the danger of
the game, the real threat lies in the team owner Petrovich
who sacrifices anything and anyone to maximize ratings,
which are worth more to him than the final score. In a
heroic move, Jonathan and his teammates attempt to expose
the corruption and treachery. It is a risky play and the
penalty is lethal.
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Wasabi
(2002)
Art/Foreign,
Comedy and Drama
1 hr. 39 min. Hubert is a police inspector with a
tender heart and a tough manner. After Hubert punches out
the police chief's son without realizing who he is, the
commissioner forces Hubert to take a vacation.
Reluctantly, he agrees, and decides to focus on his
personal life, something he hasn't done for a long time.
He soon gets a telephone call from Japan. A lawyer informs
him that Miko, the love of his life who disappeared nearly
twenty years ago, has died under strange circumstances.
She hasn't forgotten him, in fact has named him as
executor of her will. Miko has left him more than just a
piece of paper, and more than just one problem, along with
a daughter he never knew he had. Now the chase is on, with
old grudges and new villains pursuing Hubert.
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The
Crimson Rivers (Les Rivieres Pourpres) (2001)
Action/Adventure,
Art/Foreign and Thriller
1 hr. 45 min. Veteran cop Pierre Niemans is sent to
Guernon to investigate a bizarre murder near a legendary
private school isolated in the Alps. And it's no ordinary
murder; the killer has been very methodical, leaving
twisted inexplicable clues to his motive. Complicating
matters are the university administrators who are
uncooperative and somewhat defiant to Niemans'
questioning. Meanwhile Max Kerkerian, an impetuous young
cop and former car thief, arrives at a desecrated
graveyard 180 miles away. Someone has disturbed the grave
of a child who died twenty years before. These two
seemingly random events are about to collide as the
separate investigations lead the detectives right to one
another. The more experienced Niemans begrudgingly joins
forces with the brash Max to track down the killer.
Despite his ribbing and constant sarcastic banter, Max
respects the older cop. The two crimes are assuredly
linked--but how? What could the prestigious school
possibly have to hide?
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Just
Visiting (2001)
Comedy
French writer-director Jean-Marie Poirי retools
his 1993 European box-office hit comedy, LES VISITEURS,
with the two original stars, Jean Reno (THE PROFESSIONAL)
and Christian Clavier (who co-wrote both films and is
France's answer to Jim Carrey) reprising their roles. On
the eve of his wedding, 12th Century knight Count Thibault
of Malfete (Reno), mistakenly kills his beloved Princess
Rosalind (Christina Applegate), while under an evil spell.
Grief-stricken, Thibault enlists a wizard (Malcolm
McDowell) to send him back in time to avert the murder.
When the wizard's potion malfunctions, Thibault and his
faithful servant, Andrי (Clavier) are deposited in
21st Century Chicago, where they meet museum curator Julia
Malfete (Applegate), who is the living image of Rosalind.
Believing Thibault to be an eccentric cousin, Julia takes
the bewildered Frenchmen home, where they encounter (and
destroy) a vast array of modern conveniences. Desperate to
return to his proper time, Thibault enlists Julia's help
against the wishes of her controlling, money-hungry fiancי,
Hunter (Matthew Ross). Meanwhile, Andrי falls for a
pretty, free-spirited gardener, Angelique (Tara Reid).
This slapstick, fish-out-of-water comedy-fantasy
introduces American audiences to one of the French film
industry's most successful writer-director-comedian teams.
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Godzilla
(1998)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
2 hrs. 19 min. Nasty, brutish and very, very tall, the
rampaging Godzilla does Manhattan -- and shows a lot more
personality than most of the actors in this high-tech,
big-budget, dramatically inept variation on the Japanese
A-bomb monster movie classic.
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Ronin
(1998)
Action/Adventure
and Thriller
David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name
Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless
samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th
Century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with
highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a
deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam (Robert De Niro), an
American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent (Jean Reno), the
terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer
whiz Gregor (Stellan Skarsgaard) is presumably ex-KGB, and
Spence (Sean Bean), a British demolitions man, and Larry (Skipp
Suddith), another Yank, round out the team. They've been
hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre (Natascha
McElhone), to steal a briefcase of unknown contents
somewhere in Europe. As the unit races from one
spectacular location on the French Riviera to another, the
Tec-9 reigns, the body count mounts, some Russian
gangsters get into the act, and the betrayals come fast
and furious. In a rare comic moment, Sam stitches up his
own bullet wound, an act of tongue-in-cheek Hemingwayism,
and asks a friend to finish before he passes out. RONIN
features an exceptional cast, sumptuous locations, and the
kind of realistic, high-coefficient-of-adversity car
chases and action scenes that one expects from a director
of John Frankenheimer's skills.
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For
Roseanna (1997)
Drama
A beleaguered restauranteur (Reno) promises his
terminally-ill wife she'll be interred in the same
cemetery as her child, but the boneyard is so close to
capacity that he finds himself on a frenzied mission to
keep everyone else in their bucolic Italian village alive.
Meanwhile, his wife prepares her younger, sexier sister to
replace her as the family matriarch. An awkward marriage
of black comedy and family drama.
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Mission:
Impossible (1996)
Action/Adventure
and Thriller
1 hr. 50 min. Tom Cruise is the leading guided missile
in this daffy but highly entertaining reprise of the old
TV spy show -- complete with a virtual-reality trip into
Brian De Palma's head. With John Voight, Emmanuelle Beart,
Henry Czerny, Vanessa Redgrave, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames,
Kristin Scott-Thomas. Screenplay by David Koepp and Robert
Towne, directed by Brian De Plama.
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The
Visitors (1996)
Art/Foreign
1 hr. 46 min. The King of France has decided to reward
the valiant Godefroy de Papincourt for saving his life by
betrothing him to a charming noblewoman. On the way home
to his wedding, Godefroy and his squire cross paths with a
powerful witch and soon find themselves transported into
the twentieth century, where they proceed to slay several
fierce modern appliances.
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Beyond
the Clouds (1995)
Art/Foreign
Antonioni's first film since suffering a stroke in
1985 is based on stories from his book THAT BOWLING ALLEY
IN THE TIBER and was realized with help from Wim Wenders.
It is a loosely connected series of beautifully shot
romantic vignettes tied together by "the
Director," (John Malkovich) who wanders around Italy
observing the inhabitants of various cities: a beautiful
young couple have two magical evenings three years apart;
The Director learns the secret of a beautiful young woman
(Sophie Marceau); a married man (Peter Weller) must choose
between his young mistress or his loyal wife; and,
finally, a young man (Vincent Perez) tries to win over an
aloof young woman (Irene Jacob).
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French
Kiss (1995)
Comedy
A woman with a phobia about flying gets caught up with
a shady French smuggler while flying to Paris to retrieve
her wayward fiance. Director Lawrence Kasdan's first stab
at romantic comedy.
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Leon
the Professional (1994)
Action/Adventure
and Crime/Gangster
Leon (Jean Reno) is a precise, calculating hit man--a
consummate professional, with no family and no friends.
However, he has casually befriended Mathilda (Natalie
Portman, in an auspicious debut), a 12 year-old neighbor
whose entire family, including her adored 4-year-old
brother, is wiped out by some crooked DEA agents. The girl
pleads with Leon to teach her how to be a
"cleaner" and avenge her little brother's death.
However, once she learns a few skills, Mathilda saunters
into the DEA offices with the sole intention of killing
the psychotic agent (Gary Oldman) who actually
masterminded the executions. But her intended victim turns
the tables on her, and Leon must rescue her. LEON was
French director Luc Besson's first film shot in America.
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The
Big Blue (1988)
Action/Adventure,
Art/Foreign and Romance
Jacques (Barr) and Enzo (Reno) are friends and rivals
in the dangerous world of deep-sea diving. Jacques feels
an unusual affinity for the sea and is able to slow his
heartrate during dives and stay underwater for superhuman
durations. When Jacques meets a ditzy American insurance
adjuster (Arquette), a love triangle develops with Jacques
torn between his two great loves: a woman, and the ocean.
Breathtaking underwater photography and a meditative,
fairy-tale story have made this film a cult classic. THE
BIG BLUE was heavily cut for its American release, and
this Director's Cut (re-released in 2000) restores over
forty minutes of footage as well as the original score by
composer Eric Serra. The resulting footage has lifted the
film's rating to an "R."
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Subway
(1985)
Art/Foreign
This strange combination of comedy, violence, fantasy,
and suspense tells the story of Fred (Christopher Lamber),
a safe cracker who is hiding in the dark tunnels of the
Paris subway system after stealing documents from a shady
businessman. There he meets a subterranean society of
strange characters and small time crooks. He also finds
love with Helena (Isabelle Adjani), robs a train, and
starts a rock band. Director Besson went on to mainstream
worldwide success with THE PROFESSIONAL and THE FIFTH
ELEMENT.
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Le
Dernier Combat (1984)
Art/Foreign
Director Luc Besson's (THE FIFTH ELEMENT, LEON: THE
PROFESSIONAL) first feature tells the tale of a bleak
post-nuclear war world where survival is a day-to-day
struggle. One man (known only as The Man) struggles to
build an airplane so that he can fly about in search of a
mate. His goal is complicated by the fierce Brute (Jean
Reno)-- but with help from a mad old scientist, The Man
may eventually rise above his oppressive surroundings to
find true love. Shot in black and white, with no dialogue
to speak of, this unusual work won numerous French Film
Awards.
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