Jeanne and the Perfect Guy

Jeanne loves men. One day, she finds herself drawn to a man named Olivier. Olivier is a HIV positive patient and told that his life won’t last longer that 6 month. After she visits him in the hospital, Olivier decides to go home with his parents without telling Jeanne. Finding this out, Jeanne struggles hard to find him. She finds him though, but really late for Olivier.

Genre: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffe, Valerie Bonneton, Frederic Gorny
Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Release Date: April 16, 1999

Love's Labour's Lost

Kenneth Branagh continues to make sterling adaptations of classic William Shakespeare plays with this romantic musical-comedy. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST takes place in 1939, when the King of Navarre and his three best friends make a pact to remain celibate for three years. When the Princess of France arrives with her three beautiful companions, their will, and honor, is put to the test immediately. Their efforts to hide their true feelings provide the film with its most humorous situations. Featuring classic compositions by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, and Jerome Kern.

Genre: Art/Foreign, Musical, Comedy, PerformingArts
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Natascha McElhone
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Release Date: June 9, 2000 LA/NY

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig was born a boy named Hansel in Communist East Berlin who dreamed of finding his other half and becoming a big American rock star. When a handsome American GI promises love and liberation, it seems like a dream come true. But there's a catch-in order to marry and emigrate Hansel must 'leave a little something behind.' Hedwig survives a botched sex change operation that leaves her with an 'angry inch' only to be stranded in a Kansas trailer park the very day the Berlin Wall comes down. Undeterred, Hedwig dons immaculate makeup and a Farrah Fawcett wig and forms a rock band-The Angry Inch. While supporting herself with babysitting gigs, she falls for a 16-year-old Jesus freak she renames Tommy Gnosis. Tommy steals her songs and becomes the rock star Hedwig always dreamed she'd be. Refusing to be defeated, she fiercely performs in crumbling theme restaurants seeking recognition, retribution, and reconciliation with her other half.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, and Musical/PerformingArts
Starring: Michael Pitt, Alberta Watson, John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Release Date: July 20, 2001 Limited

Romance and Cigarettes (2005)

Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula (Kate Winslet). Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges. Like Oedipus at Colonus, he is sent into exile and searches to find his way back through the damage he has done. In an imaginative, humorous, and touching way, Romance and Cigarettes explores the cost and value of a relationship through life and death. When the characters can no longer express themselves with language, they break into song, lip-synching the tunes lodged in their subconscious. It is their way to escape the harsh reality of their world - to dream, to remember, and to connect to another human being.

Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Julia Stiles, Christopher Walken
Director: John Turturro
Release Date: August 19, 2005 Limited

8 Women

At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season, but there will be no celebration - their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife, his spinster sister-in-law, his miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries and encompassing musical interludes. Comic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. Eight women. Each is a suspect, each has a motive, each has a secret. One of them is guilty.

Genre: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Crime/Gangster, Musical, and Mystery
Duration: 1 hr. 43 min.
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Virginie Ledoyen, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert,
Director: Francois Ozon
Producer: Olivier Delbosc
Distributor: Focus Features (USA Films)
Release Date: September 20, 2002 (LA/NY).
Writer: Francois Ozon, Marina De Van, Robert Thomas

Disco! Disco! You Don't Mess With the Zohan

It was sexist, racist and politically incorrect, but what do you exactly expect from a comedy? It was hilarious and crazy. If you can't take wrong remarks and get isulted easily, do not watch it.