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Amélie - (2001 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/amelie/

A quirky young woman crushes on a weird artsy guy.

This is quirkier than it's characters, and is worthy of earning seventeen times its budget.

  • Original title: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain



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La Femme Nikita - (1990 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/

A woman is swept into the life of an assassin.

A classic, and really awesome, movie.

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Cyrano de Bergerac - (1990 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099334/

A Beauty and the Beast story about a warrior poet man who feels unworthy of love because of his appearance.

It's absolutely no comparison to Cyrano de Bergerac - (1950 movie), so much so that I have to flag this as disliked!



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L'Immortel - (2010 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1167638/

The past returns to haunt a retired crime boss.

Quite watchable. I think it's trivially surpassed by a lot of movies, but this has a reasonable simplicity without creating too much of a superhuman protagonist.



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AKA - (2023 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27197387/

A special forces undercover guy is sent as himself to rapid-infiltrate a group of bad guys to stop a terrorist plot, but he's s nice guy deep down (or something).

Very watchable, and very French. If you know and like your French military/police type movies, you'll like this.



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War of the Worlds - (2019 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9686194/

Aliens wipe out most of humanity for some reason, then they choose to not wipe out the rest of humanity for some reason, then stragglers struggle to survive and such.

Really really awkward writing. There is so much that makes no sense whatsoever, even in the context of the show itself. It has snippets of potential but it's overall torturous for anyone who tends to pay attention; not recommended.



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District 13꞉ Ultimatum image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247640/

Bad Guys want to blow up a shithole to make money in rebuilding.

It's okay I guess, but the writing is off and it's frequently a tired revisitation of the earlier movie.

  • Trailer
  • Properly titled District 13꞉ Ultimatum
  • Original title: Banlieue 13: Ultimatum



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Ares - (2016 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4216902/

In a downtrodden future France, a washed-out fighter struggles to raise money until he is offered a combat performance drug.

Very nice all around. Highly recommended.



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Alone - (2017 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3838034/

People vanish.

There are a bunch of areas where it might have shined, but it falls flat, and hard. It has a particularly unsatisfying ending.



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Le Samouraï - (1967 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies > samurai >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/

A hitman is witnessed just after a job, and becoming a suspect pushes his employers put a hit out on him.

While I can imagine this being really cool at the time, it certainly isn't any more. It has a slow moody atmosphere with a main character stiff enough to be a walking corpse. It's also just shy of being a silent film.

I only finished watching it because of the similarity Ghost Dog - (1999 movie) has with it, because I like that movie.



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