I love Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I have seen almost all of his films and each one is a jewel of cinema. Bazil (Danny Boon) has had a rough experience with the arms trade. When he was a little boy, his father was killed by a landmine and, as an adult, he was shot in the head by a stray bullet, which caused him to lose his apartment and his job. He is adopted by a family of misfits living in a salvage yard and finds his purpose: to bring down the two arms companies that made the landmine and the bullet.
If you've seen Amelie a dozen times but never checked out any of the director's other work, this will move you in the right direction. It's almost a primer for some of his darker (but still whimsical) films like Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children. Jeunet actually seems to be moving to progressively more lighthearted fare with each passing year. His most recent feature is called The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet, which I have not seen yet, but is centered around a ten-year-old genius.
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