Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucionotta. A beautiful woman won't give the local mailman a second glance until a famous poet helps him woo her with words. Troisi's last film. Directed... 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
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
Anne Parrillaud, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Jean Reno. A sexy junkie kills a police officer and avoids her death sentence by becoming a secret political assassin for the government. Directed by Luc Besson.... more
Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena. Erotic black comedy/melodrama of two families from different classes who interfere in the marriage plans of their daughter and son.... more
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
Echo Park, L.A. is the setting for a gang movie that beats the competition every way it knows how. Sad Girl and Mousie have fallen out over a guy. But when he's murdered by a rival gang-leader, it's... more
What one memory of your life would you want to live over and over? In this compelling and heartfelt fantasy from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Maborosi"), the newly dead are met in a "way... more
Ju Dou is a 1990 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang and starring Gong LI as the title character. It is notable for being shot in vivid three-strip Technicolor long after the... 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
Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Piccoli. His talent unused for years, a once-famous painter is inspired by a young woman to return to his craft. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jacques... more
Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas. A crazy but charming lunatic with dreams of marriage and children kidnaps a beautiful porn star, doing his best to inflict her with Stockholm syndrome. In Spanish... more
Benoit Poelvoorde, Remy Belvaux. A "reality-TV" crew follows the daily activities and murderous habits of a charming, poetry-reciting homicidal maniac in this bizarre comic spoof. In French with... more
Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjaerg makes his directorial debut with the psychological police drama Insomnia. Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engstrom Stellan Skarsgard and his partner, Erik Vik... more
Writer/director Olivier Assayas' satirical look at the French movie industry stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a once-hot filmmaker whose comeback attempt is a remake of the classic silent serial "Les... more
Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious, audacious feature debut with CRONOS, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jeszs Gris happens upon... more
As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various... more
Red alert! A wave of perversion has flooded the Tokyo train system and only a special all-female, undercover police task force can stop it! All of the victims see a strobing red light before they... more
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and... more
In the tradition of Life Is Beautiful comes a captivating comic adventure that the hearts of moviegoers around the world. The year is 1941, and a tiny Jewish community is France is faced with some... more
The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (THE KID WITH A BIKE) turned heads with ROSETTA, an intense viriti drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to... more
In late-19th-century Shanghai, the volatile lives of a group of concubines are detailed, as rich and privileged men try to keep the women subservient to them by creating a sheltered and decadent... more
Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne, Mario Ivan Martinez. By channeling her emotions through the sensuous power of cooking, a passionate woman uses food as a mystical form of communication... more