Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming stones into the water, Amelie was raised by a pair of eccentrics who falsely diagnosed her with a heart problem at the age of six and so limited her exposure to the outside world. Now a free and independent woman, Amelie wears a bob that curls in every direction and dresses in red.

With a job in a cafe and an aptitude for spying on her neighbors, Amelie entertains herself by enacting a series of homemade, kindhearted practical jokes. She returns a long-forgotten box of childhood knickknacks to its proper owner, she sends her father's garden troll on a trip around the world, and she creates a love connection at the cafe between the hypochondriac druggist and a beer-drinking old grouch. But when the day is done, Amelie finds one stone unturned, and decides to work her magic on the quirky object of her affections, Nino Quincampoix (Matthieu Kassovitz), whom she has never met.

Directed by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast
Audrey Tautou - Amelie
Mathieu Kassovitz - Nino Quicampoix
Yolande Moreau - Madeleine Wallace--Concierge
Artus DePenguern - Hipolito--The Writer
Urbain Cancelier - Collignon--The Grocer
Dominique Pinon - Joseph
Maurice Benichou - Dominique Bretodeau--The Box Man
Claude Perron (II) - Eva--The Strip Teaser
Michel Robin - Old Man Collignon
Isabelle Nanty - Georgette
Claire Maurier - Suzanne

Production Co.
Victoires Productions
Tapioca Films
France 3 Cinema
MMC Independent GmbH

Produced by
Antoine Simkine
Claudie Ossard

Studio
Miramax Films

Writer
Guillaume Laurant
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Music
Yann Tiersen