Alien: Resurrection / Alien 4 (1997)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The City of Lost Children / La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
On a futuristic oil rig, a man has aged prematurely because he has lost the ability to dream. To reverse the ageing process he kidnaps children from the local harbor town so that he can steal their dreams.
Starring: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Judith Vittet, Geneviève Brunet
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Micmacs / Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009)
Action | Comedy | Crime
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.
Starring: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet / L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (2013)
Adventure | Drama | Family
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Kyle Catlett, Julian Richings, Judy Davis, Niamh Wilson, Robert Maillet
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amélie is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in a Montmartre bar run by a former dancer. Amelie enjoys simple pleasures until she discovers that her goal in life is to help others. To that end, she invents all sorts of tricks that allow her to intervene incognito into other people's lives, including an imbibing concierge and her hypochondriac neighbor. But Amélie's most difficult case turns out to be Nino Quicampoix, a lonely sex shop employee who collects photos abandoned at coin-operated photobooths.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Artus de Penguern, Urbain Cancelier
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Delicatessen (1991)
Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
In a burnt-out city on the verge of collapse, a canny butcher employs various young handymen, kills them, and then sells them as meat. When ex-circus performer Louison arrives looking for work, it seems that his head will be the next on the block. But Louison falls in love with Julie, the butcher's daughter, and together they join forces with an underground vegetarian group who plan to bring an end to the butcher's cruel regime.
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
A Very Long Engagement / Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | War
Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Marion Cotillard, Jodie Foster
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
