Tag Archives: france

Around the World in 80 Days

IMDB Rating: 5.60
8951 votes

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This version of the classic novel set in 1872 focuses on Passepartout (Chan), a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemens' club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the "around the world" trip as an excuse to escape.. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and USA...
Actors
John Cleese
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kathy Bates
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

EuroTrip

IMDB Rating: 6.20
20568 votes

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When Scotty's German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she's gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures.
Actors
Rade Serbedzija
Joanna Lumley
Scott ThomasScott Mechlowicz
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Le Divorce

IMDB Rating: 4.80
3932 votes

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 Actors
Isabel WalkerKate Hudson
Immigration OfficerJean-Marie Lhomme
Roxeanne de PersandNaomi Watts
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Secondhand Lions

IMDB Rating: 7.50
10138 votes

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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he's going to do with it.
Actors
GarthMichael Caine
HubRobert Duvall
WalterHaley Joel Osment
Also posted in 2003, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Just Married

IMDB Rating: 5.00
7189 votes

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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage.
Actors
Tom LeezakAshton Kutcher
Sarah McNerneyBrittany Murphy
Peter PrentissChristian Kane
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Romance | Comments (4)

Johnny English

IMDB Rating: 5.60
14198 votes

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Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Actors
Johnny EnglishRowan Atkinson
Countess AlexandraTasha de Vasconcelos
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Comments (2)

The Transporter

IMDB Rating: 6.30
20472 votes

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Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his "package" is moving. Violating his own personal rules, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman.
Actors
Frank MartinJason Statham
LaiQi Shu
Darren 'Wall Street' BettencourtMatt Schulze
Also posted in 2002, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (5)

Catch Me If You Can

IMDB Rating: 7.60
70535 votes

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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
Actors
Frank Abagnale Jr.Leonardo DiCaprio
Carl HanrattyTom Hanks
Frank Abagnale, Sr.Christopher Walken
Also posted in 2002, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (15)

The Château

IMDB Rating: 5.50
279 votes

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When two American brothers, Graham and Allen Granville, learn that they have inherited a chateau in France, they cannot believe their luck. However, when they arrive, the brothers find themselves completely ill-equipped to communicate with the chateau's staff (even with the help of a pocket dictionary). With no hope of paying off the chateau's enormous debt, the pair are forced to sell the chateau, leaving a bewildered staff resorting to desperate and hilarious measures to keep their home. Through a series of comedic misunderstandings, the film's stars not only uncover they're not as distant from the staff as they might think, they also discover something about the importance of family.
Actors
IsabelleSylvie Testud
SebastienBenjamin Tessier
PierrePhilippe Nahon
Also posted in 2001, Comedy | Comments (0)

Moulin Rouge!

IMDB Rating: 7.70
69224 votes

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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
Actors
SatineNicole Kidman
ChristianEwan McGregor
Toulouse-LautrecJohn Leguizamo
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Musical, Romance | Comments (22)