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Do not worry about movies without interests that nobody ever heard of, and focus on the best films! Here are the top films to see :
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Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
, 1h57Directed by Dominic Sena
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Christopher Eccleston
Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi), an aspiring car thief from Long Beach, is cruising with Mirror Man (T.J Cros) and Toby (William Lee Scott), looking for a Porsche 911 Carrera to steal. After arriving at the showroom, Kip uses a brick to break in, and Mirror follows. Mirror reads the VIN number and Kip gets the keys, and smashes out of the showroom with the Porsche. After stealing it, they provoke another man in a Honda Civic to race them, but Kip attracts the attention of the police. They arrive at the local garage with more stolen cars, where Atley (Will Patton), Tumbler (Scott Caan) and Freb (James Duval). However, they are forced to flee when the police arrives, and the cars are seized by Det. Castleback (Delroy Lindo) and Det.
Seven Years of Marriage (2003)
, 1h37Directed by Didier Bourdon
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Didier Bourdon, Catherine Frot, Jacques Weber, Jacques Herlin, Claire Nadeau, Yan Duffas
Pour tenter de sauver son couple à la dérive tant sexuellement que sentimentalement après 7 ans de mariage, Alain, qui est médecin urgentiste dans une clinique parisienne, consulte un ami sexologue. Celui-ci, à force de grandes théories pseudo-freudiennes sur le point D (le point du Désir qui ne doit pas devenir le point de la Déprime) le persuade que la solution ne passe que par la réalisation des fantasmes refoulés et la libération des mœurs (sex-shops, échangisme, films porno...), et lui conseille de mettre ses fantasmes à exécution avec sa femme, Audrey, employée de banque, femme devenue froide et ayant totalement cessé d'aimer son mari, ne maintenant sa vie de couple que par habitude installée au fil des années et pour l'éducation de leur fille Camille.
Airport 1975 (1974)
, 1h46Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist II, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
8 Women (2002)
, 1h51Directed by François Ozon
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Comedy thriller, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, L'action se déroule en une journée, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen
The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas. When the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed with a dagger in his back, it is presumed that the murderer must be one of the eight women in the house. Over the course of the investigation, each woman has a tale to tell and secrets to hide.
8 Mile (2002)
, 1h50Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Taryn Manning, King Gordy
In Fall 1995 in Detroit, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. (Eminem), a young and unhappy blue-collar worker from a poor family, struggles with various aspects of his life. He has moved back north of 8 Mile Road to the rundown trailer home in Warren, Michigan of his alcoholic mother Stephanie (Kim Basinger), his little sister Lily (Chloe Greenfield), and Stephanie's abusive live-in boyfriend Greg (Michael Shannon). Although encouraged by his friends, who hail him as a talented rap music artist, Jimmy worries about his potential as a musician, particularly due to his lack of confidence. This caused him to panic during a rap battle one night at a club called The Shelter, and leave the stage humiliated.
8MM (1999)
, 2h3Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, BDSM in films, Films about pornography, Films about psychiatry
Actors Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Chris Bauer
Private investigator Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) is contacted by Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald), attorney for wealthy widow Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter), whose husband has recently died. While clearing out her late husband's safe, she and Longdale found an 8mm film which appears to depict a real murder of a girl, but Mrs. Christian wants to know for certain.
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
, 1h52Directed by Adrian Lyne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Erotic thriller films, Striptease
Actors Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Margaret Whitton, Christine Baranski, David Margulies, Karen Young
The title of the film refers to the duration of a relationship between Wall Street arbitrageur John Gray (Mickey Rourke) and divorced SoHo art gallery employee Elizabeth McGraw (Kim Basinger). John initiates and controls the various experimental sexual practices of this volatile relationship to push Elizabeth's boundaries. In doing so, Elizabeth experiences a gradual downward spiral toward emotional breakdown.
9 Month Stretch (2013)
, 1h17Directed by Albert Dupontel
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Pregnancy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Uchan, Nicolas Marié, Bouli Lanners, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. But even more surprising is the fact that, according to DNA tests, the father is no other than Bob, a criminal prosecuted for atrocious assault and battery. Ariane, who does not remember anything, tries to understand what happened.
99 Francs (2007)
, 1h39Directed by Jan Kounen
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Noir
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jean Dujardin, Vahina Giocante, Jocelyn Quivrin, Patrick Mille, Élisa Tovati, Nicolas Marié
The film is a satire on the modern advertisement business. The plot mainly concerns the story of a commercial advertisement designer, Octave Parango (Jean Dujardin), who has an easy-going, highly paid job, and an active free life mainly consisting of drugs and random one-time sexual relationships. However, he starts growing weary of his job, and after having his first ever long-time relationship with fellow worker Sophie (Vahina Giocante) fail miserably, he organises a revolt against the advertisement business and his own life.
G.I. Jane (1997)
, 2h4Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jim Caviezel, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen
A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy. Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being gender-neutral. Behind the curtains, a deal is struck: If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases, the military will integrate women fully into all branches of the Navy.
A Better Life (2011)
, 1h38Directed by Chris Weitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Demián Bichir, Joaquín Cosío, Nancy Lenehan, Dolores Heredia, Gabriel Chavarria, Rolando Molina
Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir) works as a gardener with Blasco Martinez (Joaquín Cosio) in Los Angeles, California. Blasco wants to return to Mexico and continually tries to persuade Carlos to purchase his business from him, which includes the work truck and gardening tools. Carlos's son Luis (José Julián) is in high school and is dating Ruthie Valdez (Chelsea Rendon), the niece of a local gang leader. Luis regularly goes to her house after school where gang members congregate. Luis is embarrassed by his father and, although he does not wish to follow in his footsteps, has a hard time committing himself to his education. However, his relationship with Ruthie and his friendship with Facundo (Bobby Soto) pushes him toward becoming a gang member.
Breathless (1960)
, 1h29Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about films, La provence
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a youthful criminal who is intrigued with the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest Patricia (Jean Seberg), a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. At one point, Patricia says she is pregnant with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually she betrays him, but before the police arrive she tells Michel what she has done. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street and, after a prolonged death run, he dies “à bout de souffle” (out of breath).
Point Blank (2010)
, 1h25Directed by Fred Cavayé
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Pérot
Samuel Pierret, a nurse's aide accompanies his pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya)
With Open Arms (2017)
Directed by Philippe de Chauveron
Origin Belgique
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about immigration, La culture tzigane, La précarité, Transport en Île-de-France, Métro parisien dans la culture populaire
Actors Christian Clavier, Ary Abittan, Elsa Zylberstein, Cyril Lecomte, Nanou Garcia, Marc Arnaud
Jean-Étienne Fougerole est un intellectuel bobo qui sort son nouveau roman intitulé À bras ouverts et qui appelle les personnes les plus aisées à accueillir chez elles les familles dans le besoin. Alors qu'il fait la promotion de son livre lors d'un débat télévisé, son contradicteur lui reproche de ne pas appliquer ce que lui-même préconise. Alors coincé, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepte le défi, de peur d'être discrédité. Le soir-même, une famille de Roms sonne à la porte de sa villa de Marnes-la-Coquette et l'écrivain se sent obligé de les héberger.
To Each His Own (1946)
, 2h2Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, John Lund, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Victoria Horne
In World War II London, fire wardens Josephine "Jody" Norris (Olivia de Havilland) and Lord Desham (Roland Culver) keep a lonely vigil. When Jody saves Desham's life, they become better acquainted. With a bit of coaxing, the ageing spinster tells the story of her life, leading to a flashback.