Cartagena(L'Homme de Chevet)
✭ ✭ ✭
France · 2009
1h 33m
Director Alain Monne
Starring Sophie Marceau, Christopher Lambert, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Rodolfo De Souza
Genre Drama, Romance
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
The Man Who Loved Women
(L'Homme qui aimait les femmes)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1977
- Director François Truffaut
- Cast Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Leslie Caron, Valérie Bonnier
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Tubi TV
Taken
An ex-spy must pull out all the stops to save his daughter after she is kidnapped by human traffickers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2008
- Director Pierre Morel
- Cast Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Mid-August Lunch
(Pranzo di ferragosto)
As his unpaid rent increases, a middle-aged man living with his mother finds creative ways to relieve himself of debt.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2008
- Director Gianni Di Gregorio
- Cast Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Maria Calì, Marina Cacciotti, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Luigi Marchetti
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Kanopy
Attention! Bandits!
(Achtung! Banditi!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1951
- Director Carlo Lizzani
- Cast Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Vittorio Duse, Lamberto Maggiorani, Maria Laura Rocca, Giuliano Montaldo
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Memoir of War
(La Douleur)
Evoking the spirit and voice of Marguerite Duras, this drama dives into the world of Resistance fighters during the German occupation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Switzerland • 2017
- Director Emmanuel Finkiel
- Cast Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Anne-Lise Heimburger
- Genre Drama
- Available on fuboTV, OVID, Chai Flicks, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Crackle, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Joker
A failed stand-up comedian is driven insane, turning to a life of crime in chaos in Gotham City.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2019
- Director Todd Phillips
- Cast Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham
- Genre Crime, Thriller, Drama
- Available on TNT, TBS, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Scribe
(La Mécanique de l'ombre)
Some things cannot be unheard.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France • 2016
- Director Thomas Kruithof
- Cast François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian, Alba Rohrwacher, Philippe Résimont
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
1917
Two British soldiers race to deliver a message that will stop over 1,000 men from walking into a German ambush.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Director Sam Mendes
- Cast George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq
- Genre War, Drama, Action
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand