1. Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) France/Germany Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) France/USA
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed
3. La Haine France
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot
4. Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Italy
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp
5. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del Circulo Polar) Spain/France
In Lapland, under the midnight sun, Otto and Ana reunite once again after a long period of time apart, in hope of rekindling their unrequited teenage love
6. Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) Germany/Turkey In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life
7. Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) Spain/France/Italy
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured
8. The Intouchables (Intouchables) France
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver
9. Léon: The Professional (Léon) France
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade
10. Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) Germany
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks