Drama

Persepolis : Creative and Truthful

Jul 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Animation, Biography, Drama

Persepolis is one of the best theatrical foreign art films I think I have ever seen in my life. Marjane Satrapi, not only did the drawings for the movie but also for the books, has created a masterpiece.
The tale is about her life as a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Along with […]



La Femme Nikita , 1990

May 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Action, Crime, Cult French Movies, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Nikita is young and attractive, but has already gone to the bad. During a hold up of a pharmacy (drug store) with her drug-crazed criminal […]



Diva, 1981

Mar 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Action, Best Movies, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

One of the greatest French films of the 80s. Two Parisian mob killers, two tapes, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller. Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 […]



Delicatessen, 1991

Mar 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Comedy, Cult French Movies, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Is it horror? Yes and no. Is it a comedy? Yes and no. Is it brilliant? Oh yes definitely!
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher’s […]



Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel), 2005

Feb 27th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Drama, War

In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man’s Land to share a precious […]



Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), 1945

Feb 27th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Best Movies, Drama, Romance

A True Masterpiece! A film which regularly charts top in critics’ polls of the best films of all time, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert’s masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis is as solid a landmark in French film history as the Eiffel Tower is on the Parisian landscape. And at 187 minutes running time, […]



Le Mépris (Contempt), 1963

Feb 27th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Cult French Movies, Drama

French cult-director Jean-Luc Godard made this masterpiece way in 1963 but it is still as captivating as it was then. Featuring then superstar Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli as her husband- screenwriter who is hired to write a screenplay based on the ancient Greek myth “The Odyssey”. The story deals with the creative […]



Chocolat, 2000

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Best Movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Driven by fate, Vianne drifts into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk in the winter of 1959. Her newly opened chocolatier is a source of attraction and fear, since Vianne’s ability to revive the villagers’ passions threatens to disrupt their repressive traditions. The pious mayor sees Vianne as the enemy, and […]



The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain, 2001

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Best Movies, Comedy, Cult French Movies, Drama, Romance

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards and another 51 wins & 46 nominations including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amélie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping […]



Le Samourai, 1967

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Crime, Cult French Movies, Drama, Thriller

Alain Delon is the coolest killer to hit the screen, a film noir loner for the modern era, in Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 French crime classic. Delon’s impassive hit man, Jef Costello, is the ultimate professional in an alienated world of glass and metal. Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his […]