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Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
The Tiger and the Snow is about a Roman poet and lecturer named Attilio (Benigni) who feels compelled to head to Baghdad when he discovers that the woman he loves, Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi) has been seriously injured during a bomb explosion. more...
Rarely is a documentary both as comedic and socially insightful at the same time as Czech Dream. What began as a film school project becomes a funny and provocative look at the changes of ambitions, desires and behaviors as old-fashioned Communism is more...
Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett shines in a brave performance as different from her nominated Elizabeth as we can imagine. VARIETY calls the film "superior," with "stellar performances."
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Isabelle Huppert's performance garnered the Best Actress awards in Cannes and in the French Cesar Awards. This Claude Chabrol classic is based on the true story that shocked France. The daughter of a respectable middle-class couple, Violette Noziere lea more...
A Cannes Film Festival award winner from the filmmakers who brought us CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho (CARANDIRU's Lazaro Ramos and Wagner Mou more...
Acclaimed master of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette (The Duchess of Langeais, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Va Savoir) helms this offbeat look at love and relationships. Marie (Emmanuelle Béart) is the object of affection for clock repairman Julien more...
A lower-caste girl sold into marriage by her parents escapes and joins a gang of bandits, ultimately overthrowing their power structure in a galvanizing, bloody coup. A critically acclaimed action picture from India. more...
Dreams and reality collide in a film by Alain Robbe-Grillet, the legendary French avant-garde novelist who wrote LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD and created L'IMORTELLE and TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS. Conjuring up a David Lynch-like world populated by mysterious women more...
Actress Maria de Madeiros (PULP FICTION, HENRY & JUNE) makes her directorial debut with the historical drama CAPITÃES DE ABRIL (CAPTAINS OF APRIL). The film dramatizes the 1974 people's revolt that overthrew Portugal's fascist dictatorship and ended more...
Critically acclaimed as the funniest film to come out of Poland in a decade! An incident that appears to be of no significance becomes the turning point in the career of Nikodem Dyzma, a funeral eulogist. When he embarrasses the vilified Vice Prime more...
After a two-year stint in a state home in which the shy, neurotic Elling and the loud, sex-obsessed Kjell Bjarne became close friends, the pair are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves placed in a state funded apartment where more...
Heaven has sent its best, and the devil has enlisted his worst - Victoria Abril and Penelope Cruz co-star as agents doing battle for ultimate supremacy. The winner is to be decided by whoever can secure the soul of a short-tempered, punch-drunk boxer on more...
In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten year old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, knows him and his brother s goal in life to make his parents happy and compensate for the grief and loss they had to suffer in the holocaust. Moishe, Hilik's father, chooses to more...
A critically acclaimed, contemporary tale from picturesque Istanbul, a city bordering the West and the Arab world; comes a timely tale about love and hope. Zeynep, a beautiful, young woman, dreams of a better life. Her days are spent cleaning hotel rooms more...
Every year 4,000 refugees take the arduous trek over the Himalayas to come to Dharamsala in northern India, the home of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. more...
Starring Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero), this film by Director Lou Ye allies a swooning, lyrical romanticism with tones of Western film noir mixing into a monumental, Leone-esque narrative sweep into an epic tale of more...
The winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, Springtime in a Small Town is based on a classic 1949 film of the same name, telling the story of a touching and complex love triangle just after the Second World War.
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France's master of suspense, Claude Chabrol, is back with one of his most accomplished films yet. THE FLOWER OF EVIL tells the story of a seemingly perfect family, whose distinguished facade starts to crack when the wife (Nathalie Baye) ventures into more...
An enormous hit at home in Cuba, this is a delightfully unexpected comedy treat. Who would have expected you could make a successful comedy about life recovering from hurricanes? This film is a charming and disarming look at the hardships of making life more...
Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film is a harrowing, realistic and unsentimental look inside the slums of Rome, where its dinizens the prostitutes, hustlers and petty thieve attempt to eke out an existence any way they can. more...
A gritty investigation of sex in Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini, the poet turned filmmaker, appears as the interviewer and asks a wide range of individuals to share their tales of love, prostitution, homosexuality, marital and non-marital liasions. more...
Natalya Negoda stars as Vera, a sultry and sullen woman, torn between her brooding lover and bitter parents. After meeting Sergei at an underground dance party, Vera's life is turned upside down. more...
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival! A naive boy tells his version of why daddy couldn't stay with his family in post-WWII Yugoslavia. In reality, the child's father has gone to prison for romancing the lover of a high-ranking party member. more...
A wonderful independent film from director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) that chronicles the relationships between three generations of a Chinese-American family living in San Francisco. more...
