In this Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film (1994), little things mean a lot in the world of 10-year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a house servant in 1950s Vietnam. As Mui grows up in... more
Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Yannis Fertis. The original epic retelling of Euripides' classic play about siblings who band together to seek revenge on their their mother whom they believe killed... more
Stephane Audran, Jean-Phillipe Lafont. A delicious Isak Dinesen tale about two pious Danish sisters who take a mysterious Parisian woman into their home to be a maid. Winner of the Best Foreign Film... more
Three-disc set includes: Emitaï (1971)During World War II, Vichy France wasn't shy about conscripting soldiers from it's colonies, or levying oppressive taxes upon them. As the residents of a Jola... more
Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
On an abandoned tanker In the Persian Gulf city of Abadan, 11-year-old orphan Amiro (Madjid Niroumand) got by on his wits, bottle-picking and shining shoes for change when not in playful competition... more
Having rejected a marriage proposal and now facing limited options after graduation, Indonesian high-school student Yuni (Arawinda Kirana) finds herself having to define her desires within a society... more
There's never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker... more
Irene Pappas, Costa Kazakos, Tatiana Papamoskou. Landlocked by miserable weather at the beginning of the Trojan War, Agememnon must decide whether sacrificing his beautiful daughter to the gods is... more
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and... more
Having met in Dakar and fallen deeply in love, cycle-riding cowherd Mory (Magaye Niang) and university student Anta (Myriam Niang) dreamed of fleeing Senegal and starting afresh in Paris. As the... more
Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in... more
Starring 17-year-old beauty-contest winner Ewa Aulin and Jean-Louis Trintigant, this film is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the... more
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and... more
Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova. This poignant drama tells the story of a young Czechoslovakian train dispatcher learning about life and love during WWII. In Czech with English subtitles. 1966/color/89... more
Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director's turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on... more
One of the most important artists on the international film scene today, Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties.
Having borrowed a car, an Iranian family-nurturing mom (Pantea Panahiha), gruff, cast-hobbled dad (Hassan Madjooni), pensive eldest son (Amin Simiar), rambunctious 6-year-old (Rayan Sarlak), and pet... more
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a... more
On the news of her last child's passing, 80-year-old Lesotho widow Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo) resignedly went about wrapping up her affairs and waiting for the end. Upon finding that a governmental... more
Aging Helsinki salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) grabbed at a chance to ditch wife and career when he sank gambling winnings into a failing restaurant. Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) was... more
With this harrowing and lyrical debut, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers of the Czech New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arnost Lustig,... more
Situated in an Amsterdam brothel, two whores rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers, a serial killer, kidnaps a housewife. This portrait of sexual power is the second film... more
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all it's subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary... more