Lovers of wire-fu and Indiana Jones rejoice! Finally, someone has made a movie combining the two! The main character is even a fedora wearing professor! Great martial arts action without tons of blood or corpses littering the ground.
Movie Genre: Foreign
Lily
17 Girls is the perfect mixture of teen rebellion and feminist unity. The film is a French take on the pregnancy pact trend in the United States. It follows a group of high school girls who attempt to reverse the stigmas of single motherhood and teen pregnancy by planning to raise their...
LisaB
Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders (1964) is at once a deconstruction of the codes of the classical Hollywood heist film, a melancholy love triangle, and a meditation on the star persona of his muse, Anna Karina. (In this respect, it can be ...
Michelle
The craziest Almodóvar film yet - really creepy good!
LisaB
Celebrated Taiwanese auteur, Hou Hsiao-hsien, created this low-key Japanese-language drama in honor of the centenary of the birth of Japanese golden-age filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. It charts a brief period in the life Yoko, a young Japanese writer and scholar of Taiwanese...
Michelle
Sweet French film about first love, abandonment and moving on (or not)
Michelle
Funny and sweet, this Norwegian crime caper will surprise you.
angela
Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back the gangster her boyfriend owes. This film is not only about Lola's frantic run through the city to try and find the money by any means possible, it is also about how decisions can affect the rest of your life. A fantastic...
angela
This 1959 French New Wave film used groundbreaking editing and hand-held camera work to show the story of a French criminal, who is obsessed with Humphrey Bogart, hiding out with his American girlfriend in Paris. This simple story becomes a revolution on the screen through Godard's pioneering...
Michelle
A spare, harsh film about two days in the lives of two young women in Ceauşescu's Romania.
Michelle
If you seek a meditative, calming film, let it be this. With no narration, this documentary beautifully captures the rituals and daily life of a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps.
Michelle
You don't have to be an Orthodox Jew in Israel to get the moral of this story. Live, love, and accept all challenges as gifts. If you need a little boost in your spirit, check this film out.
angela
A story of the unlikely friendship between two girls living in rural Japan. One is obsessed with the lifestyle and frilly dresses of 18th Century France while the other imagines herself as a tough biker, even though she's a teenage girl on a scooter. They are brought together by, get this,...
Michelle
This is one of those movies it's good to see on DVD so you can go back and try to figure out what the heck happened. Haunting and challenging, political and personal, the film makes you wonder from the very beginning who is behind the camera, what it is you should be watching, and why.
Michelle
This is darkly fun! Folks have to watch their backs in this post-apocalyptic society in which cannibalism reigns, at least in this delicatessen...
Michelle
One of the final scripts by Akira Kurosawa but directed by Kei Kumai after Kurosawa's death, this is beautifully filmed, very symbolic, and a more Japanese look at geisha than Memoirs of a Geisha.
Michelle
You'll need 6 extra hours to devote to this Italian family epic, well worth it. Two idealistic brothers and one incident that sends them on divergent paths resulting in a tale of love and loss that will grip you.
Michelle
While the acting caused me some pain, the story is moving and shattering, really bringing home the tragedy of the war in Iraq. The symbolism runs deep in this Kurdish film about children behaving in adult roles under both Saddam and Bush.
Michelle
This is a wild ride through the Budapest underground, a dark, sometimes comic, sometimes frightening, world of subway riders, ticket controllers, and other odd birds.
Michelle
This Spanish melodrama captures the intensity of adolescent passions, sexual, religious, and otherwise.
Michelle
Billed as a comedy but not very funny, this French film portrays family and social dynamics in a way that you've either experienced or witnessed.
Michelle
This movie doesn't move very quickly so you need to be in a patient mood to appreciate its depth and charm. Based on a true story, four young children are abandoned by their mother in Tokyo and figure out ways to get by while people right and left turn a blind eye. The child actors are...
Michelle
Such a magical, beautiful film. Two men travel to a remote part of China in search of jade and find themselves and life instead.
