The Intouchables
2011France★ 8.3subtitled
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
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Good Will Hunting, but for class and money colliding
One foreign film captures this hook with the same intensity as Good Will Hunting. Confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
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Samba
2014France★ 6.4subtitled
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.