The French Dispatch

Oct 21, 2021

1h 48m

★ 7.0

Overview

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Indian Paintbrush

American Empirical Pictures

Studio Babelsberg

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Cast

Moses Rosenthaler

Benicio del Toro

Julian Cadazio

Adrien Brody

J.K.L. Berensen

Tilda Swinton

Simone

Léa Seydoux

Lucinda Krementz

Frances McDormand

Zeffirelli

Timothée Chalamet

Juliette

Lyna Khoudri

Roebuck Wright

Jeffrey Wright

The Commissaire

Mathieu Amalric

Nescaffier

Steve Park

Arthur Howitzer, Jr.

Bill Murray

Herbsaint Sazerac

Owen Wilson

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5.5

Dry Cleaning

Sep 24, 1997

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

6.5

MouseHunt

Dec 19, 1997

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.

6.6

Cocoon

Jun 21, 1985

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

6.5

True Crime

Mar 19, 1999

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

5.9

Volcano

Apr 25, 1997

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

7.7

Cousins

Dec 10, 2019

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

7.6

Being There

Dec 19, 1979

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

6.5

The Vets

Nov 4, 2019

In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?

7.8

Melody of a Great City

Oct 4, 1943

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

4.9

Meu Sangue Ferve por Você

May 30, 2024

In 1979, Brazilian singer Sidney Magal is at the peak of his career. On a TV show, he meets Magali and, enchanted by the young woman, decides to win her over. But, in order to do that, he will have to overcome the resistance of his manager, Jean Pierre, and the distrust of her family, friends and even Magali herself.

6.3

Enemies: Against the Clock

Jan 3, 2021

When a young girl is kidnapped, ruthless police inspector Peter Nadler embarks on a race against time to rescue her.

0.0

Please

Dec 16, 1933

Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please”, “You’re Getting To be A Habit With Me” and “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of a Chance”.

6.5

Kidnapped

Mar 18, 2021

Savannah Duke-Morgan realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband Brad and her five-year-old daughter Aria back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort’s Kidz Klub.

6.9

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Jun 24, 2015

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.

7.0

The Sainted Sisters

Apr 30, 1948

Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.

6.5

Tommy

Mar 19, 1975

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

7.5

Midnight Express

Aug 31, 1978

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".