I saw bits and pieces of these two movies and have no idea of the actors involved or any other details. If any of you recognize the scene/story, please tell me so I can search more. I know I am providing ridiculously small amount of detail, but that is all I remember

1)It is probably a French movie(or some European language that I don't understand). There is a daughter of some important person in a village/small town (probably set in Vienna). She is physically handicapped, lame I believe. She loves a general(I think. He rides on those horses they have in army) working in the army, but he is not interested in her. He probably pities her. They also talk about some new cure for her problem that some doctor has found. The movie does not resolve anything at the end, she joins in the singing and dancing and it ends beautifully.

2)This is even more vague. All I remember is this one scene. This is a hollywood movie. A old man and relatively young man are going in a boat and they ask each other what they are most afraid of in their lives. The old man replies that he once came face to face with a lion and kept still and the lion went away. He says he is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of facing himself someday. BTW the lion thing he mentions is shown on screen.

OK guys, capo, RRA, vercetti, 24fps, irishman, all you movie gurus, bail me out

Sorry mate, you're on your own.

I've tried, but I can't place either.

Any idea of when it was made, decade-wise?

1) Fame the general.

2) Fame the lion.


I'm very happy to read that you loved those films, svsg.

No RRA, I have no clue. The first one I saw on a TV channel called TV5Asie in a hotel room 2 years ago. The other one I saw on TV maybe 5 or 6 years ago. Both are made in color, but that gives us a narrow choice of maybe a million movies

Thanks Fame, I searched on the net and found that Fame the general is an acclaimed French porn movie and Fame the lion is a little known cartoon movie. I am going to buy the DVDs soon

Do you have any clue what the European language you don't understand was?
What did it sound like for example?

OK the only thing I remember of the sound was hearing something like "excOOse MAA" instead of the "excuse ME" in english. I was reading the sub-titles all the time and never listened to the actual dialogue which I didn't understand.

Ahh yes...back in the days when I did porn...I must say tho, the first scene "babe's got a fever" is kinda weak...I strongly suggest you skip to "3 blondes in the van" or my favorite scene "the candyshop" (and yes, that is my real popsicle there...how do u think I got the part?)

As for the 2nd film, while it is little known, some fellas in Hollywood did like it and came up with a remake called "The Lion King".

svsg, make sure to write full reviews when you're done watching, you know how much I value your opinion

Then it was Danish, Swedish, Dutch, or French.

I don't know about the first movie, but the second is almost certainly "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052027/

Thanks a lot Turnbull, you are a good man

Unfortunately it seems like I won't be able to view it now. Though I have netflix trial at this point, I am going to India on tuesday for a 40 day vacation!!! I'll come back and watch it. But thanks again, this has been bothering me for a long time. Hope that is the same one

Enzo, I found out that TV5 Asie is a french TV channel. The language part is certain, my next mission is to find out the film itself

I guess it's a beautiful French movie called Un long dimanche de fiançailles , aka "A Very Long Engagement" (2004), starring Audrey Tautou.

Thanks Lavi, but I checked at IMDB, it is not the one I feel

sorry SVSG, I was almost sure it was the right one! French movie, lame female lead loving a soldier....

I finally found the movie. I can't believe how helpful people can be. I emailed the TV channel TV5 ASIE and asked them to provide me the programming guide from july last year. Though they said they do not have it on their website, they asked me to provide details of the day of broadcast and movie description. I provided the details and they immediately found it out for me. This is what they provided:

La pitié dangereuse (Dangerous Pity)
Movie Director : Edouard Molinaro, 1979
Writter : Stefan Zweig
Cast : Mathieu Carrière, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Jean Desailly, Sylvia Reize
Genre : Drama

I could not find the movie on IMDB or anywhere else. It seems that the movie is not popular, but the original novel is a very good one.
These are the links for the novel and its theater adaptation:

French Site <---> English Translation

Theater Adaptation

If any of you know anything further about this novel/movie, please comment.

svsg, did u find out the name of the 2nd film? you remember on which channel it was? MGM? TCM?

EDIT: its probably what Turnbull suggested if hes almost certain...did u like that film, Turnbull?