Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager (Apti Magamaev) who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. While all signs point to the boy being the killer, one juror (Sergei Makovetsky) votes for aquittal. With the knowledge that they hold a life in their hands, the jurors review every detail of the case to see if they can come to a unanimous decision. Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. With Mikhail Yefremov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Aleksei Petrenko, Yuriy Stoyanov, Sergei Gazarov, Valentin Gaft, Mikhail Yefremov, Aleksey Gorbunov, Sergei Artsybashev, Viktor Verzhbitsky and Roman Madyanov. Categories: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
12
After finding a set of instructions intended for someone else, the normally unadventurous Sebastian (George Babluani) decides to follow them, even though he's not sure where they will lead. Trailed by policeman, Sabastian eventually makes it to his destination and finds himself in the middle of an sinister underground society where men bet on the lives of other men. Directed by Géla Babluani. With Pascal Bongard, Aurélien Recoing, Fred Ulysse and Nicolas Pignon. Categories: Crime, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2005.
13 Tzameti
A writer (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) thinks he writes about the future but it turns out that it really is the past. In his novel, a mysterious train leaves for 2046 from time to time. Everyone who goes intends to recapture their lost memories because it is said that in 2046 nothing ever changes. But, no one knows if this is true because no one has ever returned -- until now. Directed by Kar Wai Wong. With Ziyi Zhang and Takuya Kimura. Categories: Drama, Romance, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
2046
In the process of coming to terms with the tragic loss of her only son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona to find the boy's father, a transvestite named Lola (Toni Cantó). But first, she finds her transvestite friend, Agrado (Antonia San Juan), meets Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), the actress her son admired. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 1999.
All About My Mother
Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is a waitress with a special imagination who creates a dream world full of mischief. She spends her time enjoying life's simple pleasures until she discovers that she has the ability to use her creativity to help others without them ever knowing. But Amelie's most difficult case turns out to be Nino Quicampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), a lonely young man who collects photos abandoned at coin-operated photo booths. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Nanty and Dominique Pinon. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Amelie
Octavio (Gael García Bernal) wants to run away with his sister-in-law (Vanessa Bauche), but after a dogfight goes bad he runs a red light and causes a violent accident. Octavio hits Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero), a businessman who has abandoned his family, and Valeria (Goya Toledo), a beautiful model who loses her leg in the accident. The collision is witnessed by El Chiro (Emilio Echevarría), a homeless former revolutionary who is trying to reconnect with his daughter. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Categories: Drama, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2000.
Amores Perros
Andre (Jamel Debbouze) gets a second chance to set his life right after saving a woman from a supposed suicide attempt in the Seine. Andre falls for his damsel-in-distress, Angela (Rie Rasmussen), yet, in an ironic twist, it is Angela who saves Andre. Angela, as her name suggests, is actually an angel sent to save Andre from his own fate. Directed by Luc Besson. With Gilbert Melki and Serge Riaboukine. Categories: Foreign Film, Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Comedy. Language: French. Year: 2005.
Angel-A
In the future, the nation of Japan is on the brink of collapse. As teenage violence climbs out of control, the government enacts a radical new plan to isolate select groups of students on a small island and force them to fight each other to the death. Shuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara), Noriko (Aki Maeda) and Taro Yamamoto) are three students forced to fight on the island. Together, they must defeat the evil overlord Kitano (Takeshi Kitano) and win their freedom. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Categories: Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Foreign Film. Year: 2000.
Battle Royale
The great Russian battleship Potemkin is gripped by a mutiny after a rebellious sailor named Grigory Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov) convinces his mates that the conditions on board are deplorable. Forced to eat rancid meat, the men kill the officers but lose Vakulinchuk in the process. As the survivors rouse the nearby port of Odessa into revolutionary fervor, the confrontation turns into a bloodbath with the arrival of Cossack troops. Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein. With Vladimir Barsky and Grigori Aleksandrov. Categories: Drama, History, War, Classic, Foreign Film. Year: 1925.
The Battleship Potemkin
In the Brazilian badlands of 1910, two families are locked in a deadly feud. Tonho Breves (Rodrigo Santoro) is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. He knows that if he abides by the code of vengeance that goes with defending one's land, he will surely be hunted and killed by a member of the rival family. Urged by his younger brother Pacu (Ravi Ramos Lacerda), Tonho begins to question the logic of this tradition before meeting with two performers from a small traveling circus. Directed by Walter Salles. Categories: Drama, Based on a Novel, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Behind the Sun
Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani), a struggling, unemployed father, gets work posting flyers in Rome, Italy during the depression that followed World War II. Trying to make ends meet for his wife and young son, Antonio buys his bike back from the pawn shop, only to have it stolen on the same day. The remainder of the film revolves around Antonio and his son searching for the bicycle in vain. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Categories: Drama, Based on a Novel, Foreign Film. Year: 1948.
The Bicycle Thief
At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at a posh hotel. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. Amidst all of this, a young man (Grégori Derangère) must choose between a beautiful diva (Isabelle Adjani) and an impassioned student (Virginie Ledoyen), between politicians and hoodlums, between carefree youth and adulthood. Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. With Gérard Depardieu, Yvan Attal and Peter Coyote. Categories: Comedy, Drama, War, Foreign Film. Year: 2003.
Bon Voyage
In the Sydney suburb of Maroubra, a notorious gang known as the Bra Boys combine surfing, hard partying, rebellion and brotherhood to deal with the realities of larger society. This documentary chronicles the evolution of the gang's tough, close-knit culture and how the stigma of their surf community has contributed to their social displacement. The film focuses on the Abberon brothers (Koby Abberton, Sunny Abberton, Jai Abberton), who pursue their dream of professional surfing while one of their own is on trial for murder. Directed by Sunny Abberton and Macario De Souza. Narrated by Russell Crowe. Categories: Documentary, Foreign Film, Independent Film. Year: 2007.
Bra Boys
Francis (Friedrich Feher) narrates the story of his friend Alan (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), the victim of a brutal murder. Earlier, his death is foretold by the mysterious Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss), a traveling scientists with a clairvoyant somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt). Soon after Alan is murdered, the beautiful Jane (Lil Dagover) is kidnapped by Cesare. Suspicious of Caligari, Francis tracks him to a mental asylum he apparently directs. But what is really happening? Directed by Robert Wiene. With Rudolf Lettinger and Ludwig Rex. Categories: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Classic, Foreign Film. Year: 1920.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Parisian talk-show host Georges Laurent's (Daniel Auteuil) comfortable life with his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) is threatened when they begin to receive videos of their most private moments filmed with a hidden camera. With the police of little help, George and Anne must follow the clues in the tapes to find out who is behind the surveillance and what their motives might be. Directed by Michael Haneke. With Daniel Duval. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2005.
Caché
When struggling singer Marc Stevens' (Laurent Lucas) car breaks down in an isolated woods, he's helped by an innkeeper (Jackie Berroyer) who starts out kind but quickly reveals that he is a true psychopath. Directed by Fabrice Du Welz. Categories: Drama, Horror, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
Calvaire
Mark "Chopper" Reed (Eric Bana) is an insanely violent small-time criminal who becomes a celebrity in Australia after writing an exaggerated account of his exploits. Chopper's gift for storytelling is shown as he relates trumped-up confessions of the crimes he has committed, which are interspersed with vivid flashbacks to his dirty deeds. Directed by Andrew Dominik. Categories: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Foreign Film. Year: 2000.
Chopper
Junon (Catherine Deneuve) and Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon) welcome their three grown children home for a crowded family Christmas. Joining them are Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a melancholic playwright, Ivan (Melvil Poupaud), the young peacemaker, and Henri (Mathieu Amalric), the self-destructive black sheep who was banished from family five years earlier. With a history of leukemia in the family, the disease has returned, further complicating the already uncomfortable reunion. Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. With Chiara Mastroianni and Emmanuelle Devos. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
A Christmas Tale
In a small Sicilian village, Salvatore (Jacques Perrin), returns to his home after many years as a prominent Roman movie director. There to attend the funeral of the town's former film projectionist, he remembers his boyhood just after WWII spent in the dark, cramped theater learning about life, loss and love from his mentor. And, not incidentally, is reminded of his lost teenage love. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Philippe Noiret and Agnese Nano. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 1988.
Cinema Paradiso
In one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest neighborhoods, Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues) grows up in a violent environment filled with guns and drugs. With the keen eye of a self-taught photographer, Buscapé narrates a true-life tale of a street war fought between Li'l Zé (Leandro Firmino) and Knockout Ned (Seu Jorge). Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. Categories: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2002.
City of God
To make sure his son Dicky (Min Hun Fung) can attend his private school, Ti (Stephen Chow), a poor widower, leads a grueling life as a construction worker. Despite his father's best efforts, Dicky still sticks out from his wealthier classmates and, with his worn clothes and lack of the coolest new toys, he feels like an outcast. To try and cheer Dicky up, Ti heads to the junk yard, looking for a toy. Instead, he finds an alien with extraordinary powers that changes their lives forever. Directed by Stephen Chow. With Chi Chung Lam and Kitty Zhang Yuqi. Categories: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
CJ7
Francois Pignon (Daniel Auteuil), a forty-something accountant for a contraceptive manufacturer, becomes suicidal when he learns he is about to lose his job. With a wife who left him and a 16-year-old son who avoids him, work is the center of Francois' sad, boring life. But things change when his psychologist neighbor persuades him to masquerade as a gay man to save his job. Directed by Francis Veber. With Gérard Depardieu. Categories: Comedy, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
The Closet
After being arrested by Berlin Police in Nazi Germany, Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a man with a talent for forging documents and counterfeiting money, is sent to a hard labor camp. Years later, after being recognized by Sturmbannführer Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow), the man who arrested him, Salomon is moved into better living conditions so that he and a group of imprisioned professionals can produce fake foreign currency for Operation Berhard. While Salomon follows orders to help weaken the economies of Germany's enemies, fellow forger Adolf Burger (August Diehl) realizes the true nature of their work and refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit, forcing Salomon to reconsider his actions. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. With Martin Brambach, August Zirner and Veit Stübner. Categories: Crime, Drama, War, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
The Counterfeiters
Following the discovery of several communal gravesites filled with children's bodies in Ecuador, Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo), a reporter for a Miami-based tabloid television show, flies down with his crew to cover the story. Manolo is convinced that it is the work of a single, monstrous serial killer. Tension in the town reaches a boiling point when Vinicio Cepeda (Damián Alcázar) accidentally runs over a child, and an angry mob led by the child's father, Don Lucho (Henry Layana), tries to burn him alive. Directed by Sebastián Cordero. Categories: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
Cronicas
The delicate power balance between the king (Yun-Fat Chow) and queen (Li Gong) of the Tang Dynasty becomes unstable as the king stuggles to control his empire and his family. The ailing queen has been carrying on an illicit affair with her stepson while the king works on an insidious plot. As the Chong Yang Festival commences, a revolt ensues, spilling blood all over the golden blossoms of the Imperial Palace. Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Ye Liu, Jin Chen, Jay Chou, Junjie Qin and Man Li. Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Foreign Film. Year: 2006.
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Santa Lucia School shelters orphans and other abandoned childre, during the final days of the Spanish Civil War. Upon his arrival, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is confronted with the hostility of the other children and the adults who run the school. Gradually, Carlos uncovers the dark ties that bind the Saint Lucia's inhabitants, including the secret that haunts them all. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Categories: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
The Devil's Backbone
In 2010, Paris's most dangerous ghetto is controlled by a ruthless crime lord named Taha (Bibi Naceri). But, Leito (David Belle) is determined to make his neighborhood safe and bring Taha down. After Leito disrupts his business and breaks into his compound, Taha retaliates by kidnapping his sister, Lola (Dany Verissimo). After a failed rescue attempt and six months in jail, Leito teams up with an undercover cop named Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) to defuse a neutron bomb and save Lola before everyone in District B13 is killed. Directed by Pierre Morel. Categories: Action, Comedy, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
District B13
Looking for a neverending party, seven British tourists who meet at a Mediterranean nightclub board a luxury yacht and set out into the ocean. But, when a freak accident leaves one of them dead, the survivors must decide who they trust and fight for their lives. Directed by Oliver Blackburn. With Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor and Jaime Winstone. Categories: Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
Donkey Punch
In Lille, Isa (Élodie Bouchez) and Marie (Natacha Régnier), two penniless young women with few prospects, become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Living on the fringes of society, the girls develop an intense emotional bond which profoundly affects both their lives. Directed by Erick Zonca. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 1998.
The Dreamlife of Angels
The King of Qin (Daoming Chen) is the target of several assassins who find defeat at the hands of Nameless (Jet Li), an unassuming official whose extraordinary fighting skill inspires the King to bring him to his court to hear the tale of his battles. Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Maggie Cheung as Flying Snow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai as Broken Sword, Ziyi Zhang as Moon and Donnie Yen as Sky, the elite assassins. Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama. Year: 2002.
Hero (2002)
Marie (Cécile De France) and Alexa (Maïwenn Le Besco) set off from college to Alexa's parents' country home to relax and study. But, when a mysterious killer breaks in and kills Alexa's family and Alexa is captured by the killer, Marie is left alone to elude the killer and try to save her friend. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Categories: Crime, Horror, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2003.
High Tension
When a giant, hideous creature emerges from Seoul's Han River, Gang-du (Kang-ho Song), an immature and unmotivated father watches helplessly as his daughter, Hyun-seo (Ah-sung Ko) is captured by the monster and taken back to its lair. With the help of his strict father (Hie-bong Byeon), grumbling younger brother (Hae-il Park) and talented archer sister (Du-na Bae), Gang-du searches for his lost daughter while the creature devastates the city and its people. Directed by Joon-ho Bong. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2006.
The Host
During the rule of the Tang dynasty in China, the "House of the Flying Daggers" is a secret society dedicated to overthrowing the government. When two local captains, Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro), are ordered to capture a blind dancer named Mei (Ziyi Zhang), they think her ties to the organization will help them bring it down. Instead, they uncover a plot more complicated than they ever imagined. Directed by Yimou Zhang. Categories: Action, Drama, Romance. Year: 2004.
House of Flying Daggers
Sofie (Sofie Grabol is a lonely girl working in her family's hat shop when an encounter with the handsome but mysterious wizard Howl (Christian Bale) leads to her transformation into a tired, old woman by the jealous Witch of the Waste (Lauren Bacall). With the burden of her new physical form too much to bear, Sofie sets out to find a way to reverse the curse. After finding Howl's magical floating castle and befriending his apprentice, Markl (Josh Hutcherson), and the fire demon, Calcifer (Billy Crystal), Sofie learns of Howl's deepest secret discovers what it will take to set her free. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Categories: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi. Year: 2004.
Howl's Moving Castle
After serving a 15 year prison sentence during which her family barely visited her, Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) finds herself welcomed into the crowded home of her younger sister Léa (Elsa Zylberstein). Initally uncomfortable with her new living arrangements, Juliette slowly opens up to her sister as she begins to feel a part of the family. Directed by Philippe Claudel. With Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
I've Loved You So Long
Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret), a renowned Chilean poet and diplomat forced into exile, is granted sanctuary by the Italian government. Arriving on the isle of Capri, he hires an uneducated man named Mario (Massimo Troisi) to be his personal postman. Mario slowly gains Pablo's confidence and develops an appreciation for poetry, which he uses to win the heart of a beautiful waitress named Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta). Directed by Michael Radford. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Based on a Novel, Foreign Film. Year: 1994.
Il Postino
Laura (Goya Toledo), a beautiful psychiatrist, is locked in a basement and forced to watch a video confession made by the man that kidnapped her. When the tape is finished, Ramon (Darío Grandinetti), a seemingly mild-mannered man who is, in fact, a serial killer, challenges Laura to a word game. If she wins, her life continues, but if she loses she will face horrible consequences. Directed by Laura Mañá. Categories: Crime, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2003.
Killing Words
In 1940s China, Sing (Stephen Chow), a small-time crook, is desperate to be accepted into the ranks of the Axe Gang, the most notorious band of thieves in Shanghai. As Sing sets out to prove his worth, the gang wreaks havoc on the city streets, disrupting the lives of the poor, hard-working citizens. But, when a group of kung fu masters living in hiding decide they have had enough, the Axe Gang finds more trouble than they can handle. Directed by Stephen Chow. With Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Kwok Kuen Chan and Hsiao Liang. Categories: Action, Comedy, Crime. Year: 2004.
Kung Fu Hustle
With the promise of a perfect job on the horizon, Xavier (Romain Duris) travels to Barcelona to hone his Spanish skills, leaving his girlfriend (Audrey Tautou) behind. Thrust into a truly international setting with an Italian (Federico D'Anna), a Brit (Kelly Reilly), a Dane (Christian Pagh), a German (Barnaby Metschurat), a Belgian (Cécile De France) and a Spaniard (Cristina Brondo), Xavier gets a crash course in cultural understanding as the crew romps through Spain, culture clashes, and life lessons. Directed by Cédric Klapisch. With Judith Godrèche, Xavier De Guillebon and Kevin Bishop. Categories: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2002.
L'Auberge Espagnole
Moctesuma Valdez (Saúl Lisazo), a TV infomercial guru, is the target of Emilio (Miguel Varoni) and Alejandro (Fernando Colunga), two former thieves who reunite to rob the man of the millions he made selling worthless health products to poor immigrants. But, when none of the members of their professional team want to go undercover as day laborers, Emilio and Alejandro hire real chauffeurs, gardeners, maids, and repairmen to pull off the heist. Directed by Joe Menendez. Categories: Action, Adventure, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
Ladrón que Roba a Ladrón
Sick of being bullied, Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a lonely, fragile 12-year-old, dreams of revenge, but can never work up the courage to confront his young tormentors. When Eli (Lina Leandersson), a pale, serious girl of his own age, moves into his apartment complex, Oskar believes that he has at last found a friend. But, when a series of murders, disappearances and attacks begin shortly after Eli's arrival, Oskar begins to suspect that Eli, who only comes out at night and seems unaffected by the freezing temperatures, is behind the killings. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Per Ragnar, Mikael Rahm and Pale Olofsson. Categories: Drama, Horror, Foreign Film. Year: 2008.
Let the Right One In
After Guido (Roberto Benigni), a carefree Jewish bookkeeper, marries his love Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) and has a child (Giorgio Cantarini), life is good until German forces occupy Italy. After Guido and Giosué are taken to a concentration camp, Dora voluntarily follows to keep the family together. Never giving up hope, Guido finds ways to communicate with Dora, is able to hide Giosué to prevent their separation and convinces his son that the entire ordeal is an elaborate contest to win a tank. Directed by Roberto Benigni. With Giustino Durano, Lidia Alfonsi and Sergio Bini Bustric. Categories: Comedy, Drama, War, Foreign Film. Year: 1997.
Life is Beautiful
In 1980s East Germany, Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), the Minister of Culture, eavesdrops on the lives of dramatist, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), and his girlfriend, the famous theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler hopes that his mission to weed out disloyal citizens will help boost his career, but he soon finds himself absorbed by the intrigue and ideals of the lives of those he watches. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. With Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer and Volkmar Kleinert. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Language: German. Year: 2006.
The Lives of Others
Two childhood friends, Deco and Naldinho (Lázaro Ramos and Wagner Moura) find themselves locked in a love triangle with a beautiful exotic dancer (Alice Braga). Soon, lust and jealousy rip their friendship apart and turn them against one another. Directed by Sérgio Machado. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2005.
Lower City
Lucia (Paz Vega) flees to a secluded island after she thinks she has lost her boyfriend, Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa, a tortured writer. On the island that Lorenzo often spoke of, Lucia meets Carlos (Daniel Freire) and Elena (Najwa Nimri), who unbeknownst to them all also share a connection to Lorenzo. As Lucia learns more about the past, she begins to remember the book Lorenzo was writing and fact and fiction begin to drift together. Directed by Julio Medem. Categories: Drama, Romance, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Lucia
In 1496, Juana de Castilla (Pilar López de Ayala) travels to Flandes to marry the Archduke Felipe de Austria (Daniele Liotti). Originally a political marriage, their relationship is eventually filled with passion and desire. When Juana later becomes Queen of Spain, the pressure of her duty and the discovery that her husband has many lovers injures her mental health, and Felipe decides to send her to a monastery, proclaiming himself the king. Directed by Vicente Aranda. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Mad Love
Dziga Vertov, one of the founding fathers of filmmaking, explores everyday Soviet life during one day in 1929. While exploring film techniques and the reaction of the public to the filmmaker among them, this movie is a celebration of the cinematic process, from shooting to editing to the reception of the audience. Category: Documentary, Classic, Silent Film. Year: 1929.
The Man with the Movie Camera
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this incredible documentary follows the annual journey of the Emperor penguins of Antarctica as they travel to their mating grounds. Months of arduous travel and care by monogamous pairs of penguins brings new life into the world, captured for the first time in this gorgeous and moving tale of love and survival. Directed by Luc Jacquet. Categories: Documentary. Year: 2005.
March of the Penguins
Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is only seventeen years old when an unplanned pregnancy leaves her family in dire straits. Desperate to find a job, Maria agrees to transport cocaine to New York City as a drug mule. When she arrives, with seventy bags of cocaine in her stomach, trouble finds her almost immediately. Directed by Joshua Marston. With Virgina Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega and Wilson Guerrero. Categories: Drama, Thriller, Crime. Year: 2004.
Maria Full of Grace
Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir), an international hitman with Alzheimer's, is hired to eliminate two people in Belgium. After the first murder, the Antwerp police force puts Vincke (Koen De Bouw) and Verstuyft (Werner De Smedt), its top investigators on the case. When Ledda realizes that his second target is a twelve-year-old girl, he breaks his contract and turns his vengeance toward his boss, Gilles (Patrick Descamps), and the other men behind the plot. Directed by Erik Van Looy. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Based on a Novel, Foreign Film. Year: 2003.
The Memory of a Killer
Maria (Brigitte Helm) is the leader of the working class in a future society divided between workers and thinkers. After meeting Freder Fredersen (Gustav Frohlich), the son of Johhan Fredersen (Alfred Abel), who is the Lord of their city, Maria falls in love, playing into the hands of the heartless Lord Fredersen who wants to rid Metropolis of its poor working masses. Directed by Fritz Lang. With Fritz Rasp and Grete Berger. Categories: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Classic, Silent Film. Year: 1927.
Metropolis
Genghis Khan (Tadanobu Asano) rises from his early life as a slave boy to conquer nearly half the world. Known for his ruthlessness and cunning, Khan stops at nothing to crush his enemies and take rightful place in history. Directed by Sergei Bodrov. With Honglei Sun and Khulan Chuluun. Categories: Drama, History, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
Mongol
Ernesto Guevara (Gael García Bernal), a medical student, and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna), a biochemist, set out on a motorcycle road trip through the rural areas of Latin America to discover its land and its people. On the way to do their medical residency at a leper colony, Guevara and Granado encounter the poverty and suffering of the lower classes and indigenous peoples. Both Guevara and Granado are changed by their experiences, but it is clear that Ernesto has found a new direction for his life. Directed by Walter Salles. Categories: Adventure, Drama, Biography, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
The Motorcycle Diaries
In modern day Moscow, the forces of light and darkness have a long standing truce. But, peace between the two supernatural armies is put in jeopardy by a prophecy that a chosen warrior will chose one side over the other and tip the scales of power. Anton (Konstantin Khabensky), one of the forces of light, discovers that he has a son who is at the very center of the struggle. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. With Galina Tyunina and Dmitry Martynov. Categories: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller. Year: 2004.
Night Watch
Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is just a young woman when she commits robbery and murder while under the influence of drugs. Instead of being sent to jail, she is trained as a deadly spy and assassin, held by the hand until one day when she is suddenly given a gun and told to kill someone nearby in a restaurant. That single act throws her into a web of murder and conspiracy. Directed by Luc Besson. With Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana and Laura Chron. Categories: Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance. Year: 1990.
Nikita
Caught while pulling a bill-switching scheme at a deli, Juan (Gastón Pauls) is saved when fellow con-artist Marcos (Ricardo Darín) pretends to be a policeman and drags him out of the store. Once the two are acquainted, Marcos enlists Juan in a plot to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, the Nine Queens. Directed by Fabián Bielinsky. With Leticia Brédice, Tomás Fonzi and Graciela Tenenbaum. Categories: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Foreign Film. Year: 2000.
Nine Queens
The mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) seems like one more creepy eccentric in town, until his lust for the beautiful young Nina Harker (Greta Schroder) pushes her husband Jonathon (Gustav von Wangenheim) to desperation as the evil lord of darkness weaves a web designed to catch them all. Directed by F.W. Murnau. With Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell and Ruth Landshoff. Categories: Horror, Thriller, Classic, Silent Film. Year: 1922.
Nosferatu
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose as the thieves use the device to enter people's dreams and blur the line between reality and the unconscious. The authorities suspect that it was an inside job and enlist the help of a female therapist nicknamed Paprika to try to stop the machine before the world is sent into a permanent dream world. Directed by Satoshi Kon. With Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ôtsuka, Tôru Furuya and Daisuke Sakaguchi. Categories: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Foreign Film. Year: 2006.
Paprika
After mistaking Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a shy hotel worker, for a millionaire, beautiful seductress Irene (Audrey Tautou) abandons the love-struck man to pursue more lucrative options when she discovers his true identity. But, Jean won't let Irene get away so easily, and sets out to woo her by beating her at her own game. Setting himself up as a gigalo at a fancy hotel, Jean slowly wins Irene's heart with his persistent, comical overtures. Directed by Pierre Salvadori. With Vernon Dobtcheff, Marie-Christine Adam and Jacques Spiesser. Categories: Comedy, Foreign Film. Year: 2006.
Priceless
Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi), a young aborigine girl, her younger sister, Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), and their cousin, Gracie (Laura Monaghan), are taken from their homes by a heartless bureaucrat (Kenneth Branagh) and sent to a government-run camp to be trained as domestic workers. Trapped in in a compound meant to integrate aborigines into white society and wipe out their culture, the girls make the decision to escape and make the dificult trek back home across 1500 miles of desolate outback terrain. Directed by Phillip Noyce. With David Gulpilil, Deborah Mailman, Jason Clarke, Ningali Lawford and Natasha Wanganeen. Categories: Drama, Adventure, Foreign Film, Based on a True Story. Year: 2002.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Lola (Franka Potente) receives a frantic call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who is trying to prove his loyalty to his gang boss, Ronnie (Heino Ferch), by delivering a shipment of smuggled goods and returning with the payment. But, after Manni accidentally leaves the bag of cash on the subway, he explains to Lola that he has twenty minutes to get 100,000 Deutsche Marks, or Ronnie will kill him. The film plays out over three alternative-reality sequences: Lola dies trying to save Manni from the cops, Lola robs a bank and Lola wins the money gambling. Directed by Tom Tykwer. Categories: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 1998.
Run Lola Run
Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) has spent his young life sheltered from the outside world, including TV, music and movies, by his strict, religious family. But, when Lee Carter (Will Poulter), a school troublemaker and would-be film maker, introduces him to a bootleg copy of Rambo: First Blood, Will's eyes are opened and he becomes entranced with his new friend's exciting, forbidden world. Together, the pair set out to film a low-budget sequel to Rambo, with Will acting as stuntman, and end up becoming the most popular kids in school. Directed by Garth Jennings. With Neil Dudgeon, Jessica Hynes and Jules Sitruk. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Independent Film, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
Son of Rambow
Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darín) has many problems. He lives in the shadow of his father (Héctor Alterio), he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother (Norma Aleandro), his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways. Directed by Juan José Campanella. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Son of the Bride
Chihiro (Rumi Hiragi) is a young girl moving to a new town with her parents when a wrong turn takes them to a seemingly abandoned city full of mysterious and appetizing food. After stuffing themselves, Chihiro's parents (Takashi Naito and Yasuko Sawaguchi) are transformed into pigs, and Chihiro must set out with the help of a child named Haku (Miyu Irino) to rescue her parents and escape what turns out to be an enormous bath house for the millions of spirits and demons in the world. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Categories: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy. Year: 2001.
Spirited Away
When a revolver-weilding gunman (Hideaki Ito) crosses paths with two warring clans on the hunt of buried treasure in a remote western town, he offers his services to the highest bidder. But, as the battle unfolds, he eventually comes to the aid of the innocent townspeople. Directed by Takashi Miike. With Quentin Tarantino, Masanobu Ando, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi, Takaaki Ishibashi and Yoshino Kimura. Categories: Action, Western, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Months after attending the same dance performance, strangers Benigno (Javier Cámara) and Marco (Darío Grandinetti), a young nurse and a forty-something writer, meet again at the private clinic where Benigno works. Benigno is the personal nurse for Alicia (Leonor Watling), a beautiful dance student who he has become obsessed with while she lay in a coma. Marco is at the clinic to visit his girlfriend, Lidia (Rosario Flores), who is also in a coma after being gored while fighting a bull. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2002.
Talk to Her
Surveying a nearby hillside with a pair of binoculars, Hector (Karra Elejalde) spots a nude woman amidst the trees. While investigating, he is attacked by a man whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandages. Taking refuge in a laboratory atop the hill, Hector is ushered into a contraption that turns out to be a time machine by the laboratory's lone attendant (Nacho Vigalondo). Emerging moments later, Hector finds that he has traveled back hours in time, and ends up in a deadly confrontation with multiple versions of himself. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. With Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga and Juan Inciarte. Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Foreign Film. Year: 2007.
Timecrimes
Tony Takitani (Issei Ogata) is a successful artist and designer who has, nevertheless, been lonely all his life. When he falls in love with Eiko (Rie Miyazawa), his melancholy only increases, as her materialistic desires draw the couple further and further apart. Directed by Jun Ichikawa. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film, Based on a Novel. Year: 2004.
Tony Takitani
When her grandson, Champion, is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved dog Bruno travel across the Atlantic to Belleville and team up with an aged song-and-dance team to rescue him from the French mafia. Directed by Sylvain Chomet. Categories: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Foreign Film. Year: 2003.
The Triplets of Belleville
In France near the end of World War I, five soldiers are convicted of injuring themselves in order to escape their military service and sent into the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. Although the men appear to have been killed in the battle that followed, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) refuses to give up hope that her fiancé, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), is still alive. During her search for Manech, Mathilde begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Jodie Foster and Dominique Pinon. Categories: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War, Foreign Film. Year: 2004.
A Very Long Engagement
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas) lose both of their parents in a fire in La Mancha, the village of their birth. The two, along with Raimunda's daughter, Paula (Yohana Cobo), return home to visit their aging aunt (Chus Lampreave). The aunt speaks of their mother, Irene (Carmen Maura), as if she were still alive, yet the daughters brush it off as senility. However, it is only a matter of time before their mother visits them too. Director: Pedro Almodóvar. With Blanca Portillo and Antonio de la Torre. Categories: Foreign Film, Drama. Year: 2006.
Volver
Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is a young girl from a patriarchal Maori tribe in New Zealand who believes she is destined to be the new ruler of her people. The Whangaras believe that they descend from an ancestor named Paikea who escaped death by riding to shore on the back of a whale. Since then, all of the tribe's chiefs have been the first-born male. Unfortunately, Pai's twin brother, who would have been the next in line to be chief, died at birth, leaving only Pai. She must prove herself to be a worthy leader, fighting against her traditional grandfather, Koro (Rawiri Paratene), and centuries of tradition. Directed by Niki Caro. With Cliff Curtis, Vicky Haughton, Grant Roa and Rachel House. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2002.
Whale Rider
Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) are two teenage friends whose girlfriends leave Mexico City one summer to travel in Europe. Fresh with a new sense of freedom, the pair meet Luisa (Maribel Verdú) at a wedding. While trying to impress the beautiful older woman, they invent a mythical, secluded beach and invite her on a road trip. Reluctant at first, Luisa eventually agrees and the three embark on a journey of bonding and sexual discovery through Mexico's rural villages and countryside. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Categories: Drama, Foreign Film. Year: 2001.
Y Tu Mama Tambien