Released Date:
1990-06-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (4126 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice LeconteGeorges Simenon (novel)
Patrice Leconte (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Patrick Dewolf (scenario
adaptation and dialogue)
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Released Date:
1993-07-29
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany, Sweden, Finland
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (2906 Reviews)
Director:
Aki KaurismèkiHenri Murger (based on the novel by: "Scènes de la vie de bohème")
Aki Kaurismèki
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a barmaid. The day he asks her to move in with him, he is deported. Six months later, he sneaks back to Paris, and Mimi leaves her new boyfriend to be with him. Conflicts arise, especially around their poverty, and soon Mimi and Rodolfo separate, as do Marcel and his Musette. The three men scrape together a meal to celebrate All Saints' Day, and Mimi arrives, ill. Can her friends bring her back to health? Can love rekindle?
Released Date:
2003-05-01
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
78 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(1651 Reviews)
Director:
Aki KaurismèkiJuhani Aho (novel)
Aki Kaurismèki (scenario)
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Released Date:
2011-09-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
Finland, France, Germany
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (14071 Reviews)
Director:
Aki KaurismèkiA dock worker in Le Havre hears a human sound inside one of the containers in port, that container which left Gabon three weeks ago and which was supposed to arrive in London five days after its departure from Gabon, which didn't happen. The Le Havre police and French border guards find a still alive group of illegal African immigrants inside. On the sign from one of his elders, a young teen boy among the illegal immigrants manages to escape, news of which hits the local media. The first friendly face that boy, Idrissa, encounters is that of former artist now aged shoeshine Marcel Marx. Marcel decides to help Idrissa by hiding him in his house, news which slowly trickles through his community of friends - most of whom he associates with at his local bar - and neighbors, most who assist Marcel in this task. Marcel goes to great lengths to find out Idrissa's story, which leads to Marcel's further task of trying to get Idrissa to London, his original end destination. The one neighbor who wants to turn Idrissa in and the authorities seem to be on to Marcel's activities, most specifically hard nosed police Inspector Monet, who may have his own private agenda. Through it all, Marcel has on his mind the health of his terminally ill and hospitalized wife Arletty, the terminal aspect being something of which he is unaware and which may in turn eventually kill him as Arletty is his life.
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