Captain Corelli's Mandolin/Chocolat

Double bill featuring two popular drama movies. 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' (2001) is a big budget Hollywood adaptation of the novel set on the Italian-occupied Greek island of Cephalonia during the 1940s. Captain Corelli (Nicolas Cage), an opera-loving mandolin player, finds the population resentful when he first arrives on the island. But soon his involvement with local beauty Pelagia (Penelope Cruz) helps him form a bond with the local community and he starts to question his own involvement in the war. The tentative love affair between Corelli and Pelagia is then tested by the brutal arrival of the Germans in 1943. 'Chocolat' (2000) is set in a small old-fashioned French town which single-mother Vianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives in with her six-year-old daughter, and opens up a chocolate shop. Vianne creates some mouth-watering sweets which inspire the usually dull villagers to indulge their temptations and experience some true happiness. But it is only when handsome stranger Roux (Johnny Depp) arrives in the village that Vianne begins to recognise her own desires.

Actor: Judi Dench
Writer: Shawn Slovo
Actor: Lena Olin
Actor: Nicolas Cage
Actor: Leslie Caron
Actor: Patrick Malahide
Actor: John Wood
Actor: Mihalis Giannatos
Actor: Christian Bale
Actor: Juliette Binoche
Director: John Madden
Actor: Hugh O'Connor
Director: Lasse Hallström
Actor: Penélope Cruz
Actor: Peter Stormare
Actor: Alfred Molina
Producer: Tim Bevan
Actor: Carrie-Anne Moss
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Actor: Irene Papas
Producer: David Brown
Actor: Johnny Depp
Actor: David Morrissey
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs
Actor: Victoire Thivisol
Actor: David Morrissey
Actor: John Hurt
Music: Rachel Portman
Producer: Kit Golden
Producer: Leslie Holleran
Actor: Aurelien Parent-Koenig
Actor: Aspasia Kralli
Actor: Gerasimos Skiadaressis
Producer: Liza Chasin