France movies

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Aaran Thomas | Gaspard Ulliel | Li Gong | Helena-Lia Tachovská | Richard Leaf | Dominic West | Rhys Ifans | Michele Wade | Richard Brake | Martin Hub | Kevin McKidd | Ingeborga Dapkunaite | Joerg Stadler | Stephen Walters | Ivan Marevich
Directors: Peter Webber
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Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Elisabeth Shue | Julian Sands | Richard Lewis | Steven Weber | Kim Adams | Emily Procter | Stuart Regen | Valeria Golino | Graham Beckel | Al Henderson | Shashi Bhatia | Carey Lowell | Anne Lange | Thomas Kopache
Directors: Mike Figgis
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Ryan Reynolds | Bob Wiltfong | Ryder Chasin | Blake Benitez | Ashtyn Greenstein | Dylan Hartigan | Paul Mott | Alexander Pickett | Marquis Rodriguez | James Biberi | Keith Patterson | Daniel Eric Gold | Adam Ferrara | Derek Luke | Nestor Serrano
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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will’s best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a “PG” version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Mathieu Amalric | Emmanuelle Seigner | Marie-Josée Croze | Anne Consigny | Patrick Chesnais | Niels Arestrup | Olatz López Garmendia | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marina Hands | Max von Sydow | Isaach De Bankolé | Emma de Caunes | Jean-Philippe Écoffey | Gérard Watkins | Nicolas Le Riche
Directors: Julian Schnabel
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Vin Diesel | Michelle Yeoh | Mélanie Thierry | Gérard Depardieu | Charlotte Rampling | Lambert Wilson | Mark Strong | Jérôme Le Banner | Chris Astoyan | Abraham Belaga | Radek Bruna | Justin Rodgers Hall
Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Taken (2008)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Liam Neeson | Maggie Grace | Famke Janssen | Xander Berkeley | Katie Cassidy | Olivier Rabourdin | Leland Orser | Jon Gries | David Warshofsky | Holly Valance | Nathan Rippy | Camille Japy | Nicolas Giraud | Gérard Watkins | Don Abernathy
Directors: Pierre Morel
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A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade.

Dragon Hunters (2008)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
Countries: France | Germany | Luxembourg
Actors: Vincent Lindon | Patrick Timsit | Philippe Nahon | Amanda Lear | Marie Drion | Jeremy Prevost | Jean-Marc Lentretien | Rob Paulsen | Mary Matilyn Mouser
Directors: Guillaume Ivernel
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Dragon Hunters is a fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters: the world has become a vast conglomerate of islands of varying size and shape. This babbling universe is mainly peopled with ruthless rogues, surly peasants and illiterate, petty lords Their main concerns revolve around two fundamental rules : Eat and don’t get eaten. For this new world has become infested with a terrible plague: omnipresent, monstrously famished, mutant creatures, are wreaking havoc. They are known as : THE DRAGONS GWIZDO and LIAN-CHU are two dragon hunters, but are a long way from being among the best. Their only real talents: the size of the hulking brute with the heart of gold, Lian-Chu, and Gwizdo’s talent for scams of all and any shape or form. Their sole ambition: to buy a little farm where they can chill out and raise mussels, a creature that is a lot less unpleasant and difficult to hunt down than dragons. A few islands away rises the fortress of Lord Arnold. Arnold has a problem: he’s living in terror at the thought of the return of World Eater, that horrible dragon that returns every thirty seasons to spread terror and destruction. Nobody has been able to conquer him. In fact nobody’s ever returned alive to spread the news of how the fight went. Zoe, the grand-niece of the lord, has decided to take matters in hand, and has met Gwizdo and Lian-Chu. Persuaded that she has found the heroes of her dreams, she is going to drag them into the maddest of adventures…

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Carlo Cecchi | Sinéad Cusack | Joseph Fiennes | Jason Flemyng | Anna-Maria Gherardi | Jeremy Irons | Jean Marais | Donal McCann | D.W. Moffett | Ignazio Oliva | Stefania Sandrelli | Francesco Siciliano | Mary Jo Sorgani | Leonardo Treviglio | Liv Tyler
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

3 Blind Mice (2003)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Edward Furlong | Emilia Fox | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Sara Stewart | Gary Connery | Elsa Zylberstein | Valérie Decobert | Ben Miles | Philip Whitchurch | Peter Wight | Craig Kelly | Maria Pereira de Andrade | Martin Wenner | Victoria Willing | Hannah Eckersley
Directors: Mathias Ledoux
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Thomas (Edward Furlong) is a young computer specialist who spends most of his (spare ?) time on the net. He logs regularly on Cathy’s site and apparently runs a very strong - but platonic! - relationship with her: they only see each other through webcams. One day, while Thomas is connected, Cathy is murdered under his eyes. But when he calls the police to try to “do something” he realizes that he doesn’t even now her “real” name or adress…. Apparently the only witness, Thomas will soon find himself involved in the investigation held by Claire (Emilia Fox) a young police officer also web specialist. Together they will discover in the real world as well as in the virtual one, very weird things….

Alice Upside Down (2007)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Luke Perry | Lucas Grabeel | Dylan McLaughlin | John Golden | Joshua Olson | Gabriel Basso | Beau Bommarito | Parker Donovan | Anthony Engle | Joe Hammerstone | Boris Kodjoe | Jacob Massa | Brian Mayer | Aleh Neliubin | Jackson Newton
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Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, ALICE McKINLEY finds her life seriously disrupted when her father BEN buys a store and moves her and her older brother LESTER to a new town. In the painful throes of adolescence, Alice has a rough time adjusting to her new school, especially after she gets the stern MRS. PLOTKIN as her core teacher. Feeling shy and isolated, Alice frequently escapes into a vivid fantasy life that occasionally gets her into hot water. But with a little unexpected help from Mrs. Plotkin, Alice learns not to judge by appearances or jump to conclusions. More importantly, she confronts her father over his inability to accept their loss and move on into the future…