Posts Tagged ‘France’

Misérables, Les (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Geoffrey Rush | Uma Thurman | Claire Danes | Hans Matheson | Reine Brynolfsson | Peter Vaughan | Christopher Adamson | Tim Barlow | Timothy Bateson | David Birkin | Václav Chalupa | Ian Cregg | Ben Crompton | Zdenek David
Directors: Bille August
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: France | Japan | USA
Actors: Kirsten Dunst | Jason Schwartzman | Judy Davis | Rip Torn | Rose Byrne | Asia Argento | Molly Shannon | Shirley Henderson | Danny Huston | Marianne Faithfull | Mary Nighy | Sebastian Armesto | Jamie Dornan | Aurore Clément | Guillaume Gallienne
Directors: Sofia Coppola
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Based on Antonia Fraser’s book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, ‘Marie Antoinette’ tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.

Flyboys (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Jesse James | Reiley McClendon | Stephen Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | J. Todd Adams | Dallen Gettling | Jennifer Slimko | Robert Costanzo | Vince Cecere | Frank D'Amico | Harrison Young | Blaire Baron | Tommy Hinkley | Joanne Baron | Dylan Kasch
Directors: Rocco DeVilliers
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Two kids from a small town accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.

Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: France | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rowan Atkinson | Max Baldry | Steve Campos | Willem Dafoe | Stéphane Debac | Clint Dyer | Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus | Jean Rochefort | Karel Roden | Pierre-Benoist Varoclier | Emma de Caunes | Catherine Hosmalin
Directors: Steve Bendelack
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Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director’s son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay’s film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings.

Secondhand Lions (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Caine | Robert Duvall | Haley Joel Osment | Kyra Sedgwick | Nicky Katt | Josh Lucas | Michael O'Neill | Deirdre O'Connell | Eric Balfour | Christian Kane | Kevin Haberer | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Adam Ozturk | Jennifer Stone | Mitchel Musso
Directors: Tim McCanlies
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter’s mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he’s going to do with it.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Jean-Marie Lhomme | Naomi Watts | Esmée Buchet-Deàk | Jean-Jacques Pivert | Melvil Poupaud | Catherine Samie | Samuel Labarthe | Leslie Caron | Thierry Lhermitte | Nathalie Richard | Samuel Gruen | Peter Wyckoff | Sandrel Lonnoy | Glenn Close
Directors: James Ivory
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

Funny Face (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Fred Astaire | Kay Thompson | Michel Auclair | Robert Flemyng | Dovima | Suzy Parker | Sunny Hartnett | Jean Del Val | Virginia Gibson | Sue England | Ruta Lee | Alex Gerry | Iphigenie Castiglioni | Nesdon Booth
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton’s (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

Charade (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Grant | Audrey Hepburn | Walter Matthau | James Coburn | George Kennedy | Dominique Minot | Ned Glass | Jacques Marin | Paul Bonifas | Thomas Chelimsky | Grégoire Aslan | Marcel Bernier | Raoul Delfosse | Colin Drake
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband’s former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.

Maximum Risk (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Natasha Henstridge | Jean-Hugues Anglade | Zach Grenier | Paul Ben-Victor | Frank Senger | Stefanos Miltsakakis | Frank Van Keeken | David Hemblen | Stéphane Audran | Dan Moran | Donald Burda | Rob Kaman | Herb Lovelle | Denis Costanzo
Directors: Ringo Lam
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A policeman takes his twin brother’s place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.

Just Married (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ashton Kutcher | Brittany Murphy | Christian Kane | David Moscow | Monet Mazur | David Rasche | Thad Luckinbill | David Agranov | Taran Killam | Raymond J. Barry | Toshi Toda | George Gaynes | Massimo Schina | Valeria Andrews | Alex Thomas
Directors: Shawn Levy
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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah’s friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah’s parents send Sarah’s ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage.