Amélie (2001)

Sometimes it is what happens to others that has a profound impact on our place in the world. It can show us that there is magic all around us or we can play a part in making others think that it exists. Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a waitress in a small Montmartre café in Paris when she learns of the death of Princess Diana and she decides it’s time for her to intervene in the lives of those around her. She becomes a guardian angel and a secret matchmaker by working out complex but secret schemes. She leads a blind man to the Metro station, giving him a vivid description of the street he passes along. She persuades her dad to follow his dream of a world tour by stealing his garden gnome and having a flight attendant send pictures of it from all over the world. She convinces her unhappy building concierge that the husband who abandoned her had in fact sent her a final love letter just before his death. She helps Lucien (Jamel Debbouze), a young man who works for Mr. Collignon (Michel Robin) who is the bullying neighbourhood green grocer by playing practical jokes on Collignon that undermines his confidence and eventually has him questioning his own sanity.

Director:  Jean-Pierre Jeunet Writer:  Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast:
Audrey Tautou -  Amélie Poulain Mathieu Kassovitz -  Nino Quincampoix Rufus -  Raphaël Poulain, Amélie’s Father Lorella Cravotta -  Amandine Poulain Serge Merlin -  Raymond Dufayel aka Glass Man Jamel Debbouze -  Lucien Clotilde Mollet -  Gina, Two Windmills waitress Claire Maurier -  Suzanne, Owner Two Windmills bar		Isabelle Nanty -  Georgette, Two Windmills Cigarette counter girl Dominique Pinon -  Joseph Artus de Penguern -  Hipolito, The Writer Yolande Moreau -  Madeleine Wallace, concierge Urbain Cancelier -  Collignon, The Grocer Maurice Bénichou -  Bretodeau, The Box Man Michel Robin -  Mr. Collignon Andrée Damant -  Mrs. Collignon