Amélie

'Amélie' is a French romantic comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with script by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant. It stars actress Audrey Tautou and is one of the most successful French movies of all time, grossing 174 million dollars worldwide of a budget of only 10 millions.

The movie has become a cult film thanks to its peculiar photography and particular way of telling and editing the story. Nominated to several Oscar and Bafta awards, it is considered one of the best film of the two-thousands.

Amélie Poulain (Tautou) is not an ordinary girl. His mother died in Notre Dame Cathedral when another person tried to kill herself and fall on her, which made his depressive father after that center on a garden gnome. Nevertheless, she remains positive and enjoying the small pleasures of life.

Amelie works in a cafe at Montmartre, "Les 2 Moulins", she is 22 years old and just realize that what she really wants to do in life is to help others. When she discovers this, Amélie begins to invent strategies to help her caretaker, who is depressed, Georgette working in the smoke shop there in the same cafe or the glass man, his neighbor who never leaves home. However, the world as the way Amelie sees it will change when she meets Nino Quincanpoix (Matthieu Kassowitz), a very peculiar guy and dreamy as she that works on the subway.