Amélie

Watch the French romantic comedy Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001) online at iFILM. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, it is a bright fairy tale about a shy Parisian who quietly decides to make strangers a little happier.

Amélie Poulain waits tables at a Montmartre café and lives inside a private world of small delights. One day she finds a hidden box of a boy's childhood treasures and returns it to its now-grown owner. After that she cannot stop. She nudges lonely people together, gets even with a bullying grocer, and looks after an eccentric neighbor. The one person she dares not help is herself, until an odd young man who collects discarded photo-booth pictures crosses her path.

Audrey Tautou turned the title role into her signature performance, with Mathieu Kassovitz alongside her. Warm colors, Yann Tiersen's score, and a humor all its own. Stream Amélie online at iFILM.