André Wilms

The True Story of Puss'n Boots (2009)

Tags: Children's Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Family Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 80min

For generations, children around the world have enjoyed the classic fairy tale of Puss 'n' Boots (or, in France, Le Chat botté), the endlessly clever granary cat who uses a wealth of clever ploys (and a magic spell or two) to help his master gain...

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Les Derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (1994)

Tags: Biopic Drama 

Length: 70min

This French drama, based on an 1850s essay by Thomas De Quincey, examines a brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at...

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L'Enfer (1994)

Cast: Claude Chabrol Emmanuelle Béart Henri-Georges Clouzot Jean-Pierre Cassel Marin Karmitz   

Tags: Psychological Drama Marriage Drama Drama 

Length: 105min

This French drama about the relationship between an insanely jealous man and his wife took 30 years to make. Since its inception by the late director Henri-Georges Clouzot the film was plagued with bad luck. He began filming it in 1964. There are only...

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Juha (1999)

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 

Length: 77min

Aki Kaurismaki's Juha is the fourth adaptation of this love triangle involving a woman and two men. The original story took place in the 18th century and revolved around a former servant girl, Marja, who is married to plain, simple-minded and older...

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Coupable d'innocence (1992)

Tags: Comedy Drama 

Length: 110min

In the late-18th century, it was unusual for anyone to become a master craftsman before the age of twenty, much less a master clockmaker. In this story, eighteen-year-old master clockmaker Max Bardo (Jonathan Zaccai) has come to the attention of a...

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La Vie De Bohème (1992)

Cast: Louis Malle Aki Kaurismäki Kari Väänänen   

Tags: Satire Comedy Drama Romance Urban Drama 

Length: 100min

This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera ~La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel ~Scènes de...

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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 91min

This comedy is a sequel to Aki Kaurismaki's successful Leningrad Cowboys Go America. The Lennigrad Cowboys are billed as the "worst rock'n'roll band in the world." In the last film they went to the U.S. In this film they travel from Mexico back to...

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Sexes Faibles! (1992)

Cast: Michel Aumont   

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 87min

One would think that Maud could divorce her completely unamorous husband: in ten years of marriage, they have never once had sex. In this comedy, based on Tom Sharpe's novel ~Blott on the Landscape, Maud's husband is the mayor of the town they live...

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Missa On Musette? (1992)

Cast: Samuel Fuller Jean-Pierre Léaud Matti Pellonpää   

Length: 50min

The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and his brother Mika have, between them, completely revitalized Finland's native film industry, and their wild, anarchic films have...

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