European Film Festival 2003
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1. Occident (2002)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Occident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the amicable Luci (Alexandru Papadopol) and his beautiful lover Sorina ... See full summary »
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Anca Androne, Samuel Tastet, Tania Popa
Votes: 2,636
2. Talk to Her (2002)
R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Votes: 117,522 | Gross: $9.36M
3. Paszport (2001)
71 min | Drama
In a small village in Eastern Hungary, Jóska is on his way home from the pub. Behind Jóska's back, Mari, his spinster sister, sends love-letters in his name to Yelizaveta, the daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Gothár | Stars: Enikö Börcsök, Gergely Kocsis, Éva Fehér, Mari Nagy
Votes: 40
4. Výlet (2002)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A dark and absurd road-movie comedy in which the grandmother fulfills a dream, the mother stops treating her daughters like kids, the daughters stop treating their husbands like idiots, and... See full summary »
Director: Alice Nellis | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Theodora Remundová, Igor Bares, Sabina Remundová
Votes: 407
5. Love Street (2002)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Patrick Timsit, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Elbaz, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 805
6. Klassikko (2001)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen
Director: Kari Väänänen | Stars: Martti Suosalo, Janne Hyytiäinen, Matti Onnismaa, Pertti Sveholm
Votes: 859
7. Les convoyeurs attendent (1999)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.
Director: Benoît Mariage | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Lanners, Dominique Baeyens
Votes: 1,344 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Bænken (2000)
93 min | Drama
Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.
Director: Per Fly | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Marius Sonne Janischefska, Stine Holm Joensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus
Votes: 4,428
9. To monon tis zois tou taxeidion (2001)
85 min | Biography, Drama
As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings... See full summary »
Director: Lakis Papastathis | Stars: Ilias Logothetis, Fragiski Moustaki, Lazaros Andreou, Ali Emre Ates
Votes: 176
10. Corto Maltese: Secret Court of the Arcanes (2002)
92 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In 1918, civil wars are tearing Russia and China apart. Laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is hired by a Chinese secret society to capture a train that's taking Tzar's gold abroad. His friend Rasputin joins him, but only hell awaits them.
Director: Pascal Morelli | Stars: Richard Berry, Patrick Bouchitey, Barbara Schulz, Marie Trintignant
Votes: 1,455
11. Grill Point (2002)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Two couples, each married for quite a long time, live in a small East German town. The film focuses on the relationships between each of the four people and what happens when an affair ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Axel Prahl, Steffi Kühnert, Thorsten Merten, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Votes: 1,667
12. Emmauksen tiellä (2001)
80 min | Musical, Comedy
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Director: Markku Pölönen | Stars: Puntti Valtonen, Peter Franzén, Lotta Lehtikari, Katariina Kaitue
Votes: 516
13. Der Überfall (2000)
84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Looking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the ... See full summary »
Director: Florian Flicker | Stars: Roland Düringer, Josef Hader, Joachim Bißmeier, Birgit Doll
Votes: 522
14. Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002)
80 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.
Director: Solveig Nordlund | Stars: Margarida Marinho, Miguel Guilherme, Rui Morisson, Rita Só
Votes: 292
15. En construcción (2001)
125 min | Documentary
An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Guerín | Stars: Juana Rodríguez Molina, Iván Guzmán Jiménez, Juan López López, Juanma López
Votes: 852
16. One Day in August (2001)
106 min | Drama
Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Eleni Kastani, Akilas Karazisis, Amalia Moutousi, Emilios Chilakis
Votes: 1,194
17. Quo vadis (2001)
165 min | Drama, History, Romance
Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Pavel Delong, Magdalena Mielcarz, Boguslaw Linda, Michal Bajor
Votes: 2,287
18. Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman (1999)
91 min | Drama, Family
Little Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms ... See full summary »
Director: Ella Lemhagen | Stars: Samuel Haus, Alexandra Rapaport, Jacob Ericksson, Jonas Karlsson
Votes: 2,825
19. L'appuntamento (2000)
76 min
Director: Veronica Bilbao La Vieja | Stars: Gianna Breil, Francesco Cabras, Alessia Fugardi, Alberto Molinari
20. The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
150 min | Drama, Fantasy
God is disappointed with the human race and wants His stone tablets back. An angel is given the assignment and, with Gabriëls help, tries to manipulate several humans on earth to get his job done. But humans have a will of their own.
Director: Jeroen Krabbé | Stars: Maureen Lipman, Will Bowden, Jeroen Krabbé, Stephen Fry
Votes: 3,857
21. Torzók (2001)
100 min | Drama
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best... See full summary »
Director: Árpád Sopsits | Stars: Tamás Mészáros, Szabolcs Csizmadia, Attila Zsilák, Péter Müller
Votes: 614
22. Der Felsen (2002)
122 min | Drama, Thriller
Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen's company who suddenly remembers he's married -- but not with Kathrin. So ... See full summary »
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Karoline Eichhorn, Antonio Wannek, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ralph Herforth
Votes: 365
23. Thomas est amoureux (2000)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the near future, a man confined to his apartment for eight years by agoraphobia and fear of human contact is prescribed remote sex therapy.
Director: Pierre-Paul Renders | Stars: Benoît Verhaert, Aylin Yay, Magali Pinglaut, Micheline Hardy
Votes: 2,048 | Gross: $0.04M
24. The Quiet American (2002)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 29,748 | Gross: $12.99M
25. Szczesliwy czlowiek (2000)
84 min | Drama
A slacker in his thirties, a would-be writer living with his mother, decides to mend his ways when he discovers she may be terminally ill. To make her happy, he decides to settle down and get married
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Malgorzata Hajewska, Piotr Jankowski, Roman Gancarczyk
Votes: 121
26. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Votes: 912,821 | Gross: $32.57M
27. Love Songs (2007)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 10,157 | Gross: $0.10M
28. Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld
Votes: 11,611 | Gross: $2.82M
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