Hey, Out of Africa is one of my favorite movies of all time. And Sophie's Choice is a great movie too.
And about French movies and bad ending, who said that movies had to have a good ending? That's what I don't like about Hollywoodien movies, you know how it's going to end. BTW, did you know that the classical Hollywood movie is modeled after the fairy tale? (I'm not kidding, it's true. I could develop more on this if anyone's interested) Personnally, I grew out of my fairy tale phase. 
As for the Disney cartoons. I find it horrible the way Disney takes a story and completely rewrites the story. The Hunchback and Esmeralda die in the end in the original story. And Phoebus is a bad guy not a hero.
I read that the real Pocahontas was a child, something like 12, I think.
Disney should write original stories and quit destroying the originals.
Anyway, that was off topic. Sorry.