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    Toto the Hero 1991 POSTER

    Toto the Hero

    1991

    French

    7.4

    8

    85%

    92%

    Action

    childhood

    Comedy

    Drama

    Fantasy

    flashback

    future

    magic realism

    switched at birth

    unreliable narrator

    Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael Director Joël Delsaut Joël Delsaut as First Musician Ryan Pethrow Ryan Pethrow as Kid in the bus Alexandre von Sivers Alexandre von Sivers as Office Boss Michel Bouquet Michel Bouquet as Old Thomas / Voice of Adult Thomas
    80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
    The Eighth Day 1996 POSTER

    The Eighth Day

    1996

    French

    7.5

    5

    67%

    88%

    Action

    Comedy

    down syndrome

    Drama

    Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael Director Daniel Auteuil Daniel Auteuil as Harry Miou-Miou Miou-Miou as Julie Dominic Gould Dominic Gould as le collègue de Harry Gérard Hernandez Gérard Hernandez as (voice)
    Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
    Mr. Nobody 2009 POSTER

    Mr. Nobody

    2009

    English

    180

    64%

    76%

    Action

    choice

    Drama

    Fantasy

    free will

    life choice

    Romance

    Sci-Fi

    surrealism

    time

    time travel

    Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael Director Diane Kruger Diane Kruger as Anna Adult Juno Temple Juno Temple as Anna age 15 Natasha Little Natasha Little as Mother Nemo Jared Leto Jared Leto as Nemo Adult / Old Nemo
    Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
    The Brand New Testament 2015 POSTER

    The Brand New Testament

    2015

    French

    21

    82%

    69%

    Action

    Comedy

    Drama

    Fantasy

    god

    surreal

    Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael Director Benoît Poelvoorde Benoît Poelvoorde as Dieu François Damiens François Damiens as François David Murgia David Murgia as Jésus Christ Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve as Martine
    God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
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