the notes need to be cleaned up
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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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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/
A woman is swept into the life of an assassin.
A classic, and really awesome, movie.
See also:
Point of No Return - (1993 movie) is the English-language remake.
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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!
Watch Cyrano de Bergerac - (1950 movie) instead.
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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.
aka 22 Bullets
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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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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.
Original title: Banlieue 13: Ultimatum
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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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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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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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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405809/
A woman in a wheelchair goes on vacation alongside various religious tourists.
I couldn't get to the half-way point without succumbing to boredom. This movie has a kind of absence of flavour that drones on like one unwavering tone. I don't know how the hell this movie got into my inbox, perhaps as a reality-questioning movie. Maybe it got into interesting things later, but I was unwilling to give it that chance.
It had no explosions or lasers.
