Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
Alan RickmanSteven Spurrier
Chris PineBo Barrett
Bill PullmanJim Barrett
Rachael TaylorSam Fulton
Freddy RodríguezGustavo Brambila
Dennis FarinaMaurice Cantavale
Hal B. KleinShenky
Jean-Michel RichaudMaitre d'
Eliza DushkuJoe
Kirk BailyLoan Officer
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A woman in her early 50s who wants to open her own wine bar after being the head sommellière for a Michelin-starred restaurant.
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A mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing region in Spain.
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.
A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.
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After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
"Below the Belt" is a sensual fable about two friends at a restaurant, who meet a girl they both like.
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.