What are some good French movies? And why?
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Here are a few films I suggest. These were all films I enjoyed watching and found stimulating when I was a teenager(which I am guessing your class are as well)\n\nLA HAINE (hate)1996...\nI loved watching this film....And one of the most memorable I have ever seen.. Really you must watch  it if you haven't already. This film is especially relevant to the current situation in France. It gives a real inside view to life in the suburbs. I think this is a topic  that a young audience will be able to connect with, and great for discussions.\nHere is a brief outline about the film....\nIt is a dark urban thriller which has been called France's answer to Do the Right Thing. It explores themes of racism, violence and disaffected youth in modern suburban Paris. A riot has broken out in a suburban ghetto, and been quelled by the police. The film depicts 24 hours in the lives of three teenage friends in that suburb.\n\n\nOr what about...... \n (LA VIE RÊVÉE DES ANGES)  THE DREAM LIFE OF ANGELS(1998)\nWhich I think will really captivate a teenage class because it is about being young and feeling isolated from society......\n In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go? \n\n\nor...\n\nUN HEROS TRES DISRET (A SELF MADE HERO) (1996)\nWhich is a lighter film that deals with important questions of identity and truth, and is set post war.\nFew liars have the ability to deceive their way through life. Even fewer can maintain the charade with dignity. Their fabrications may seem convincing at first, but eventually the lies catch up and there's a lot of red-faced explaining to do. Albert (Kassovitz) not only has a talent for deception, but he also becomes another person — exactly the person he longs to be. Sheltered by his mother during the Nazi occupation of France, Albert never got to join the Resistance. When he finally does break free of his mother's hold, he runs away to seek out adventure. He meets a gay resistance hero, the Captain (Dupontel), who painstakingly educates Albert about the minutiae of the war. Albert does his homework, too, memorizing names, numbers, stories, biographies, and places himself among the right people. His savvy lands him a high-ranking position in France's peacetime military. The film skillfully urges us to admire Albert's cunning and loathe his chicanery.\n\n\nIf it doesn't have to be from France...I suggest this Belgium film...\nROSETTA(1999)\nWhich shows the struggle of a young girl from a poor family trying to survive and keep a job. It really deals well with the hardships young peopple can face.\n It is about a girl of 17 trying desperately to escape her depressing life. In this effort she tries to find and keep a job that will allow her to move out of the caravan and away from her alcoholic mother. In Belgium the film inspired a new law prohibiting employers from paying teen workers less than the minimum wage,\n\n\nHere are a couple of older films I would also reccomend....\n\n400 BLOWS(1959)\nA new wave film that grimly shows how a young boy can descend into a life of crime.\nFrancois Truffaut's first feature was this 1959 portrait of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a boy who turns to petty crime in the face of neglect at home and hard times at a reform school. Somewhat autobiographical for its director, the film helped usher in
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The last good movies I saw were comedies. If you like to laugh, I'd recommend "Borat", "Clerks 2" (but you'll have to wait for video for this one), and "Jackass 2". The stuff that Hollywood has been cranking out haven't been that good.
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if you like action: the prestige\n\nif you like horror/thrillers: saw 3, the grudge 2\n\ncomedies: borat, a good year, employee of the month,
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What a movie in your language that is sub-titled in English.
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There all pretty fucking good!  I can't pick just one!\nThe best one I've seen is the Lion King.  That's a oldie, but goodie.
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Sorry, that's illegal. ;)\nThere was a French site that had excellent versions of films, though... until I found out they were all translated into French, that is. Never downloaded a film from the internet ever since...\nSorry I can't be of any more help. Perhaps you should just buy the DVDs of those you really want to see xD...
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I like les miserables a lot!  The story is very good and I just love the music - Stars, On My Own, Do You Hear The People Sing..... You can also watch Miss Saigon... the music is also awesome.  Rent has some good stuff in there too!
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Well I have to agree. Just about every movie by Kurosawa is INCREDIBLE. I LOVE "Seven Samurai." But probably my favorite Kurosawa movie is "Ran". As far as other foreign flicks:\nLe Trou - French\nInsomnia - The original Norwegian version\nThe 39 Steps - UK\nM - Germany\nThe Killer - Hong Kong\nBattleship Potemkin - USSR (when it still was USSR)
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- Shawshank Redemption (because a person CAN watch it on TBS 20 times in a row and not say to themselves why am I watching this again?)\n\n- Team America (always a good laugh, F@#% Yeah!)\n\n- Pirates of the Caribbean (just a good time - and it's Jonny Depp in all his brilliance!)\n\n- Shindler's List (what a way to remind one's self that your life does not suck comparatively - plus it's a chubby Ralph Fiennes ... odd)\n\n- Amelie ( one of the greatest fictional character ever created ... what a joy of a movie!)
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"The Way of the Gun" is a good one; Benicio Del Toro, Ryan Phillipe and lots of shooting!\n"Traffic" is brilliant\n"The Score" (Edward Norton is amazing in this),  "Ronin",  "Jackie Brown" and "Cop Land" are all exciting films, especially if you like De Niro. \nI particularly recommend "Cop Land".\nThe old Richard Gere film "Primal Fear" has a real twist at the end.\nThe serial killer movies: "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss The Girls" are both really good; then again most of Morgan Freeman's movies are.\nFunny, I read the book "Blood Work" and about two weeks ago I sat down (half way through) to watch a Clint Eastwood film and what do you know?\nYou know the writer (Michael Connelly) killed off that character (Eastwood portrayed) in a later book.
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all of the live manga films story of Ricky(i recommend alot),crying freeman,robot jox,volcano high(i think),razor blade smile,city hunter (funny film with Jackie Chan),dragon from Russia. \n\nTheres loads more, some are good some arent but if you like anime and hong kong cini they are worth a watch.
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Escape from Sobibor is a good one.\n\nLittle Dieter Needs To Fly is also worth seeing.
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Definately Moulin Rouge, beautiful movie all around. (Musically, visually,etc.!!)
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I Like Resivoir Dogs, True Romance, and Heat, all three are clever movies, and have great actors in them as well !
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I saw this back around the same age. I searched for it some time ago on Netflix and asked them to add it to their catalog. Your question reminded me to check, and it seems that they've added it. So if you get Netflix, you can get it on there, or you can just go to the link to see some info on it anyway:\n\nhttp://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60020426&trkid=189530&strkid=71631941_0_0\n\nThey may sell it on Amazon.com as well. I haven't seen it since I was little, but I'm guessing it's not as exciting as it was then. It's a French film, and only 34 minutes long.
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I want to talk about which movie is good cause i wonder for the last six hours what exactly to watch.
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"Baise-Moi"\n\nThis is a fairly mediocre porn film dressed up as art. Extremely violent, and border line hardcore. \n\nStanley Kubrick talked for years about wanting to make a porn film for mainstream audiences, but I doubt even he could have got this past the censors.\n\nThe plot(which has been likened to Thelma and Louise) concerns two French girls who go on a sex and murder spree after falling foul of a couple of degenerates. \n\nThey are fairly indiscriminate with their victims, both male and female. The film basically moves from one set piece to another; sex-murder, sex-murder, and thats it.\n\nInteresting (because it was banned in so many counties)\nbut not great film.\n\nWorth seeing if you are only interested in the real sex scene's