Some Well-Connected Movies
Amélie

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
2001
Audrey Tautou
actor
L'auberge espagnole

A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
2002
Audrey Tautou
actor
High Fidelity

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
2000
Stephen Frears
director
Dirty Pretty Things
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.
2002
Audrey Tautou
actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
actor
Sergi López
actor
Sophie Okonedo
actor
Stephen Frears
director
Steven Knight
writer
American Gangster

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
2007
Chiwetel Ejiofor
actor
Pan's Labyrinth

In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
2006
Sergi López
actor
Æon Flux

Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
2005
Sophie Okonedo
actor
Mrs Henderson Presents

Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.
2005
Stephen Frears
director
Eastern Promises

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
2007
Steven Knight
writer