Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's KING LEAR magically mixes Japanese history, Shakespeare's plot and Kurosawa's own feelings about loyalty in the epic masterpiece,... more
In the early '80s twilight of Argentine autocracy, privileged Buenos Aries school teacher Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez (Norma Aleandro) began to question the evasive half-explanations of her functionary... more
Penelope Cruz, Jorge Sanz, Fernando Fernan Gomez. A young deserter from the Spanish Civil War finds shelter with a friendly recluse whose four beautiful daughters enchant him in their own unique... more
Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo. Sophia Loren delivers an Oscar®-winning performance as Cesira, an Italian widow who escapes from Rome with her teenage daughter during the horrors of WWII. Believing... 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
Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse. Uniquely told with music and no dialogue, this renowned children's film tells the story of a lonely French boy who befriends a wondrous red balloon which seems to... more
Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo. A poor unemployed family of four slowly ingratiates themselves into the lives of a similar—but extremely wealthy—family of four by posing as four unrelated... 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
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira. Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director and Best Foreign Film, this breathtakingly photographed and superbly acted period film recreates the early... more
Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca. Since his devoted wife would never hear of a divorce, a middle-aged Italian man decides to murder her so that he can be with his teenage cousin. In Italian with... more
Kira Ivanova-Golovko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva. Russia and her people during the Napoleonic wars are eternally etched in Tolstoy's brilliant novel War and Peace and many times over on... more
This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodovar's most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the... more
Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale. Trying to bounce back from overwhelming stress, a filmmaker checks into a rehab hospital. But his troubled childhood, difficult producers and his passion for... more
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director's youth and turns daily life into a circus of social... more
Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the... more
David Bennent, Mario Adorf. This Oscar-winning new-wave film tells the story of a three-year-old boy who stops growing the year Nazis gain power in Germany and takes out his anger by beating a drum.... 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
Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb. Academy Award® Winner for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa follows the life of a French Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and now resides in Paris. She ruffles... more
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyo, Yataro Kurokawa. As payment for providing an escape for a Japanese lord under attack, an 11th-century samurai warrior asks for the hand of a lady-in-waiting. Although the... more
Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivkova. A truly compelling and humorous tale of a lowly Czech man who is appointed by the occupying Nazis to be the "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's shop.... more
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere. Unconventional and sophisticated comedy about two men who try everything to satisfy an insatiable woman, only to lose her to a precocious 13-year-old boy. In French... more
Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan. This film dramatizes four women's search for spiritual peace in a world that seems to offer only disorder and despair. Directed by Ingmar... more
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Three comic tales about a trio of women (all played by Loren) who use their sexuality to get what they want from the men in their lives. Directed by Vittorio De... more
Max Von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske. The Oscar® for Best Foreign Film went to this touching story of a young boy who dreams of breaking out of his back-breaking servant status on an 1800s... more
Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna. After crossing South America on a motorcycle with his friend, a young Argentinean medical student makes the determination to become a revolutionary. His name... more