Subway (1985)
Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Luc Besson
Written By: Luc Besson
Starring: Michel Galabru, Jean Reno, Richard Bohringer, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean Bouise, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Isabelle Adjani
Genres: Romance, Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime
AKA: Metro
Country: France
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Subway belongs to 14 collections
1. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (collaborative: moderated by rant1229 - 20 stars)
2. Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own TSPDT 250 single cited films (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)
3. 500 essential cult films (not seen) (public: cayh - 5 stars)
4. French director (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)
5. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (public: Coheed - 1 star)
6. Cinetheque (public: allegreller - 1 star)
7. NME's 100 Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Films (collaborative)
8. Versátil Home Video (collaborative: moderated by allegreller)
9. Cinema du look (collaborative: moderated by Veterini)
10. The DVD collection of sjostrand (public: sjostrand)
11. BF-80 (public: caffe)
12. HDD 151029 (public: caffe)
13. Djross French feature films I've seen (public: djross)
14. Jobsbronson-Fantasporto (public: Jobs-Bronson)
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| Nov 09, 2021 |  |
SheWas | 55 49th |
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Solid 55
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| Jan 06, 2020 | Lonewolf2003 | 65 28th |
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Besson's sophomore movie is at it best when it just focus on the life in the subway community, creating an energetic offbeat cool mood while doing so, but is way less in the more dialogue-heavy plotdriven scenes. It feels like Besson after having introduced his lead characters and set up the basic plot and his subterranean world doesn't know what to really do with them, making the movie loses momentum more and more. The lack of chemisty between between Lambert and Adjani doesn't help either.
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| Jun 10, 2015 | glm01 | 83 75th |
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82.500
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| Feb 27, 2015 |  |
TamCam | 70 52nd |
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"Subway" is full of weird, but endearing characters and it creates this strange underground world. And on the other hand there is this super cheesy 80ies flair and story. I found it pretty hard to decide, but I think I like this movie. Yes.
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| Aug 28, 2014 |  |
JakeAesthete | 50 47th |
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I kind of hate to admit it, but this was pretty entertaining in an endearingly cheesy '80s kind of way. Obviously not dissimilar to Beineix's Diva but i liked this just a little bit more, as it almost has a certain kinship with Alan Rudolph's neon-drenched cornball romanticism a la Trouble In Mind. It's completely style over substance but i sort of liked the style. Also, Adjani...
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| Jun 13, 2012 |  |
andagh | 73 40th |
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Jean Reno is the coolest dude ever. I kind of wish this movie was about his character instead of Fred who was pretty boring.
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| Jan 19, 2012 |  |
CCLZA | 80 77th |
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This film has enough style to fill in dozens of other movies, and is refreshingly cool and surprisingly funny.
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| Jan 19, 2010 |  |
chemical404 | 57 51st |
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This film made me fall in love with Isabelle Adjani. It's decent early 'weirdo' Besson effort, even though it doesn't compare to The Big Blue in maturity. Pop art.
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| Oct 01, 2008 |  |
irvinejump | 66 54th |
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Out there, but still worth a look
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
djross | 40 26th |
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Score based on distant memory.
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| Apr 14, 2007 |  |
Spunkie | 65 76th |
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More style than substance, one of the few good movies Besson directed.
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| Average Percentile 48.2% from 361 Ratings |  |