The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (
2013) | IMDb:
7
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Starring:
Kyle Catlett
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Judy Davis
,
Callum Keith Rennie
,
Niamh Wilson
,
Jakob Davies
Directed by:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Micmacs (
2009) | IMDb:
7.1
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
Starring:
Dany Boon
,
Dominique Pinon
,
André Dussollier
,
Jean-Pierre Marielle
,
Julie Ferrier
,
Yolande Moreau
Directed by:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (
2004) | IMDb:
5
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
Starring:
Gabriel Byrne
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Kathy Bates
,
Robert De Niro
,
Harvey Keitel
,
Pilar López de Ayala
Directed by:
Mary McGuckian
Produced by:
Sharon Howard-Field
A Very Long Engagement (
2004) | IMDb:
7.6
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Starring:
Audrey Tautou
,
Gaspard Ulliel
,
Dominique Pinon
,
Chantal Neuwirth
,
André Dussollier
,
Ticky Holgado
Directed by:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Alien Resurrection (
1997) | IMDb:
6.2
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Starring:
Sigourney Weaver
,
Winona Ryder
,
Dominique Pinon
,
Ron Perlman
,
Gary Dourdan
,
Michael Wincott
The french revolution: Years of rage (
1989) | IMDb:
7.6
Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Starring:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
,
François Cluzet
,
Marie Bunel
,
Jane Seymour
,
Jean-François Balmer
,
Andrzej Seweryn
The french revolution: Years of hope (
1989) | IMDb:
0
First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
Starring:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
,
Klaus Maria Brandauer
,
François Cluzet
,
Marie Bunel
,
Jean-François Balmer
,
Jane Seymour
Directed by:
Robert Enrico
Frantic (
1988) | IMDb:
6.9
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Starring:
Harrison Ford
,
Emmanuelle Seigner
,
Betty Buckley
,
Dominique Pinon
,
Jacques Ciron
,
John Mahoney
Directed by:
Roman Polanski