Directed by Pierre Morel. With John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Categories: Action. Year: 2010.
Paris in From Paris with Love
This drama with a documentary feel was the surprise winner of the top award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Based on the memoirs of François Bégaudeau, a high school teacher in a Paris suburb where most students are minorities, it stars François Bégaudeau himself. He tries to keep order and teach in a school where most students don't feel any connection to the country where they live and rebel against him constantly. Directed by Laurent Cantet. Categories: Drama. Year: 2008.
Paris in Entre les murs
The story of a bunch of unemployed workers in 1930s Paris banding together to put on a show and save a historic theater, this period musical stars (Gérard Jugnot) as a father who loses custody of his accordion-prodigy son to his cheating wife when the theater closes down. It also features a love triangle involving a Communist stagehand, an ingenue (Nora Arnezeder), and a loan shark. And there's a lonely orchestra conductor and a failed comic who begins performing for the newly popular fascist party. Directed by Christophe Barratier. With Maxence Perrin, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad and Pierre Richard. Categories: Drama. Year: 2008.
Paris in Faubourg 36
In Paris, a young man who works as a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) meets a young woman who pretends to Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton). She invites him to come to the commune in Scotland where she lives, and meet her husband, who impersonates Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, who pretends to be Shirley Temple. He comes and falls in love with Marilyn. He also finds his life changed as he becomes a part of this gentle community. Directed by Harmony Korine. With Werner Herzog, Anita Pallenberg, Denis Lavant and Esme Creed-Miles. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2007.
Paris in Mister Lonely
A coming-of-age drama about Tommy (Anton Yelchin), a boy growing up in New York City in the Seventies whose best friend is Pappass (Robin Williams), a retarded man. Tommy rebels against his mother (Téa Leoni), who worries that this friendship will jeopardize Tommy's scholarship to an exclusive private school. Erykah Badu plays an inmate at a local prison who gives Tommy advice, and David Duchovny (who also directed) portraysTommy as an adult. Directed by David Duchovny. Categories: Comedy, Drama. Year: 2004.
Paris in House of D
Daniel Ocean (George Clooney) is forced to regroup his team of con artists and thieves in order to pull off three major European heists and pay back his debt to Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). Adding to their trouble is a dedicated Europol agent (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and a mysterious rival known as the "Night Fox." To come out on top, Ocean's team will have to prove that they are the best by executing their most difficult heist ever. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and Elliott Gould. Categories: Comedy, Crime, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Paris in Ocean's Twelve