Amélie (2001)
IMDB Rating: 8.5
Storyline:
Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was
suppressed by her Father’s mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With
these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other
people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and
dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves
to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost
treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides
to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found
perspective – she decides to devote her life to the people around her.
Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed
writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the
“ghost”, a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose
bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these
escapades – she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and
damaging her quest for love. Amélie then
