In 1974, in Enghien in the northern suburbs of Paris, the girl Amélie Poulain was born and raised alone by her cold hearted father and her stressed mother due to a mistake of her father's evaluation of her heart conditions. Her mother dies in a weird accident and when the shy and daydreamer Amélie Poulain becomes a young woman, she moves to central Paris and works as waitress in the café Deux Moulins in Montmartre. On 30 August 1997, Amélie finds a child treasure hidden behind the wall that belonged to a dweller from the 50's, and she decides to anonymously return it to the owner. He seeks out the man and when she witnesses his happiness, she decides to become the "godmother of the rejected", anonymously helping people that are her acquaintances using her fantasy and little tricks. She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome; she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband; she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid; she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship. When Amélie finds the album of photos of an intriguing collector that collects rejected photos in the Photomaton of the Gare de l'Est, she seeks him out and falls in love with him. On 28 September 1997, Amélie Poulain finds love.

Starring:

Alain Floret, Andre Dussollier, Andree Damant, Armelle, Artus de Penguern, Audrey Tautou, Christiane Bopp, Claire Maurier, Claude Perron, Dominique Bettenfeld, Dominique Pinon, Eugène Berthier, Fabien Behar, Fabienne Chaudat, François Viaur, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Frankie Pain, Frederic Mitterrand, Guillaume Viry, Isabelle Nanty, Jacques Thebault, Jacqu

Genre:

Comedy, Romance