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22 Bullets (L'immortel)

Crime | 2010

Charly Mattei (Jean Reno) hasn't been in the killing business for years. But when he narrowly survives a hit on his own life, he comes out of retirement to exact revenge against the unscrupulous gangster (Kad Merad) he suspects committed the crime. It's one thing to dodge a bullet; it's quite another when you dodge 22 of them. Richard Berry directs this high-action adaptation of Franz-Olivier Giesbert's novel

Cast: Jean Reno, Kad Merad

Director: Richard Berry

Genre: Crime

Language: French (English subtitles)

Ajami

Drama | 2009

When their uncle wounds an important clan member, 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) and his older brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), fear he has put their whole family in terrible danger in this moving, Oscar-nominated drama set on the West Bank. A truce is arranged, but Omar must start selling drugs to pay the fine he now owes. Meanwhile, a number of other locals struggle to negotiate the political and social tinderbox of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood.

Cast: Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan

Director: Scandar Copti

Genre: Drama

Language: Arabic, Hebrew (English subtitles)

Amelie

Comedy | 2001

When impish gamine Amelie (Audrey Tautou), who lives alone, finds a long-hidden trove of toys behind a baseboard in her apartment, she's inspired to repatriate the items, an impulse of generosity that sparks more benevolent acts. A celebration of life and love, French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Oscar-nominated charmer stresses the importance of small wonders that surround us, if only we paused to look.

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Genre: Comedy

Language: French (English subtitles)

Amreeka

Drama | 2009

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcee Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois - just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda (Hiam Abbass), and brother-in-law, Nabeel (Yussuf Abu-Warda). Cherien Dabis writes and directs.

Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem

Director: Cherien Dabis

Genre: Drama

Language: English, Arabic

Babette's Feast (Babettes gaestebud)

Drama | 1987

Philippa (Hanne Stensgaard) and Martina (Vibeke Hastrup) turn down a chance to leave their Danish town, instead staying to care for their pastor father and his small church. Thirty-five years later, a French woman (Stephane Audran) seeks refuge, and Philippa and Martina (now Bodil Kjer and Birgitte Federspie) take her in. The feast the woman prepares in gratitude is eclipsed only by her secret in director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning drama.

Cast: Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel

Director: Gabriel Axel

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Barocco

Drama | 1976

In this suspenseful tale of blackmail, deception and murder, a young woman convinces her boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she's racked with guilt until she meets the killer - a dead ringer for the murdered man - who's now hiding from the police. Will the woman successfully "reinvent" the killer as her dead boyfriend? Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani co-star.

Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu

Director: Andre Techine

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Before The Rain (Antes da Chuva)

Drama | 1994

Set against a background of political turbulence in Macedonia and contemporary London, three love stories intertwine to create a powerful portrait of modern Europe in Milcho Manchevski "Before the Rain". When a mysterious incident in the fabled Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, it threatens to start a civil war, and brings together a silent young monk, a London picture editor, and a disillusioned war photographer in a tragic tale of fated lovers.

Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Gregoire Colin

Director: Milcho Manchevski

Genre: Drama

Language: Macedonian (English subtitles)

Betty Blue (37,2 Le Matin)

Drama | 1986

A woman who is prone to irrational bouts of fury begins a steamy romance with a handyman and writer in this Oscar-nominated drama. Eventually, her psychological scars begin to wreak havoc on their relationship.

Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Beatrice Dalle

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Bicycle Thief, The

Drama | 1948

Widely considered a landmark Italian film, Vittorio De Sica's tale of a man who relies on his bicycle to do his job during Rome's post-World War II depression earned a special Oscar for its devastating power. The same day Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) gets his vehicle back from the pawnshop, someone steals it, prompting him to search the city in vain with his young son, Bruno (Enzo Staiola). Increasingly, he confronts a looming desperation.

Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Drama

Language: English (dubbed)

Black Friday

Drama | 2004

In this intense docudrama based on the book by the same name by S. Hussain Zaidi, director Anurag Kashyap tracks the aftermath of a 1993 mass bombing in Bombay through the eyes of a journalist covering the story. As the tragedy unfolds, police investigators discover that the 12 bombings set off in the short span of just two hours were the work of Muslim terrorists who were acting out against the city's Hindu majority.

Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Genre: Drama

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Carlos

Thriller | 2010

Edgar Ramirez stars as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - aka Carlos the Jackal - an elusive Venezuelan terrorist who executed scores of assassination plots, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East. This biopic follows Sanchez from 1973 to 1994 as he and his cohorts wreak havoc on the Left Bank in Paris, storm OPEC headquarters in Vienna and carry out other devastating acts of politically motivated violence. This is the 165-minute theatrical cut.

Cast: Edgar Ramirez , Alexander Scheer

Director: Olivier Assayas

Genre: Thriller

Language: French (English subtitles)

Cinema Paradiso

Drama | 1988

Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning film follows Salvatore, a Sicilian boy who is mesmerized by the movies shown at the local theater. He befriends projectionist Alfredo, who mentors him and ultimately tells him to leave home to pursue his dreams. Now a famous film director, Salvatore returns home for the first time 30 years later for Alfredo's funeral and is overcome with warm memories of his childhood even as the town has changed.

Cast: Pupella Maggio, Antonella Attili

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Counterfeiters, The (Die Falscher)

Drama | 2007

Facing an ethical quandary, Jewish master forger Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) must choose between abetting the Nazis and saving his own skin in this taut, Oscar-nominated drama based on actual events during World War II. Assembled at a death camp, a cadre of printers, artists and chiselers is tasked with counterfeiting currencies to weaken Allied economies. But will Sorowitsch's conscience begin to gnaw at him as the war draws to a close?

Cast: Karl Markovics, Dolores Chaplin

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Crime Of Padre Amaro, The (El Crimen del Padre Amaro)

Drama | 2002

Recently ordained priest Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to a small town to help Padre Benito (Sancho Gracia), only to discover that he's following neither church nor local laws. But Amaro's shock is countered by his own actions when he falls in love with sensual, young Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon). Carlos Carrera directs this drama, based on Eca de Queiros's novel, that earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Gracia

Director: Carlos Carrera

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Dhobi Ghat

Drama | 2010

Taking its name from the Mumbai neighborhood where much of the city's washing is done - traditionally by members of the Dhobi caste - this ensemble film represents the directorial debut of Kiran Rao, wife of Bollywood star Aamir Khan. The intimate social drama focuses on a quartet of individuals from different castes - a situation that would normally preclude them from forming friendships. Unique circumstances, however, draw them together.

Cast: Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar

Director: Kiran Rao

Genre: Drama

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Dinner Game, The (Le diner de cons)

Comedy | 1998

Writer-director Francis Veber's clever comedy shadows a group of French intellectuals who gather each Wednesday night for a dinner game, in which the challenge is to bring along the most idiotic guest. Pierre (Thierry Lhermitte) thinks he's found a ringer in Francois (Jacques Villeret), a civil servant whose passion is making architectural models out of matchsticks. But Pierre gets more than he bargained for when Francois becomes his houseguest.

Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Daniel Prevost

Director: Francis Veber

Genre: Comedy

Language: French (English subtitles)

Diva

Crime | 1981

When 18-year-old Jules (Frederic Andrei) secretly tapes the concert of a superstar diva who refuses to be recorded, he accidentally winds up with another tape that identifies a top mobster involved in an international sex and drug ring. Suddenly, Jules is being chased through the streets of Paris by blackmailers, hit men and the police. Action, arias and assassins all collide in this romantic thriller directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix.

Cast: Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Genre: Crime

Language: French (English subtitles)

Diving Bell And The Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

Drama | 2007

Mathieu Amalric stars as author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - who suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him mute and completely paralyzed - in this adaptation of Bauby's autobiography, which he dictated by blinking his left eye. Julian Schnabel was nominated for the 2008 Best Director Oscar (and won the Golden Globe in the same category) for his poignant docudrama about the strength of the human spirit.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow

Director: Julian Schnabel

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Downfall (Der Untergang)

Drama | 2004

After introducing audiences to Adolf Hitler's stenographer, Traudl Junge, in the gripping documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, director Oliver Hirschbiegel brings Junge to life in this Oscar-nominated drama. With painstaking realism, Hirschbiegel's Best Foreign Language Film contender adopts Junge's (Alexandra Maria Lara) point of view to recreate Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) final 12 days in his Berlin bunker.

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Gentlemen Of Fortune

Comedy | 1971

Alexander the Great's helmet has been stolen, and a meek kindergarten teacher named Troshkin finds himself chasing after the robbers in this wacky Russian comedy. Troshkin discovers he's a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed Docent, who stole the priceless headpiece during an archaeological expedition. When Troshkin joins Docent's band of thieves covertly, his kindly nature soon forces the thieves to change their minds about a few things.

Cast: Saveli Kramarov, Georgi Vitsin

Director: Aleksandr Seryj

Genre: Comedy

Language: English (Dubbed from Russian)

Germinal

Drama | 1993

Set in the nineteenth century, this film closely follows the plot of the novel by by Emile Zola, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Renaud

Director: Claude Berri

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, The (Luftslottet Som Sprangdes)

Thriller | 2009

Third in a trio of films inspired by Swedish author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," this thriller follows feisty computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) as she finds herself hospitalized, suspected of murder and targeted for death by thugs. Meanwhile, Lisbeth's journalist pal, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), crusades to prove her innocence. Daniel Alfredson directs this film that also stars Lena Endre and Jacob Ericksson.

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Director: Daniel Alfredson

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Girl Who Played With Fire, The (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)

Thriller | 2009

Tech expert Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) becomes the prime suspect when two journalists, including Dag Svensson (Hans Christian Thulin), die after Millennium magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) launches an expose of the Swedish sex trade. In Part 2 of the trilogy based on the action novels of Stieg Larsson, the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist

Director: Daniel Alfredson

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The (Man Som Hatar Kvinnor)

Thriller | 2009

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and rebellious computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's (Sven-Bertil Taube) teen niece (Ewa Froling), only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family. Niels Arden Oplev directs this Swedish thriller based on the first novel from Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy.

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Genre: Thriller

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Gomorrah

Crime | 2008

The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two cocky teenagers form the fabric of this gritty and lyrical examination of the influential Neapolitan mob known as the Camorra. Peering into a multitude of social strata within present-day Naples, director Matteo Garrone's film - a hybrid of melodrama, crime and art-film genres - was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe and a Best Documentary Independent Spirit Award.

Cast: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino

Director: Matteo Garrone

Genre: Crime

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Happenstance (Le Battement D'Aile du Papillon)

Romance | 2000

When wide-eyed Irene (Audrey Tautou), a horoscope-believing, hopeless romantic, exchanges glances with a young restaurateur on a train, it's love at first sight. But they'll continually intersect - through dozens of other people's lives - before they meet. French writer-director Laurent Firode's fanciful, "What if?" film co-stars Faudel, Eric Savin, Lysiane Meis, Eric Feldman and Nathalie Besancon.

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Faudel

Director: Laurent Firode

Genre: Romance

Language: French (English subtitles)

Headhunters

Thriller | 2011

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Cast: Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Director: Morten Tyldum

Genre: Thriller

Language: Norwegian (English subtitles)

Human Resources Manager, The

Dark Comedy | 2010

This beautifully shot film combines comedy and tragedy in the tale of a workaholic human resources manager (Mark Ivanir) who neglects his family to further his career. But when an employee at his bakery is killed, he begins an odd journey toward self-realization. Offering to escort the woman's body from Israel back to her Eastern European homeland, the manager is puzzled by eccentric characters along the way but begins to understand the importance of family.

Cast: Mark Ivanir, Reymond Amsalem

Director: Eran Riklis

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: Hebrew (English subtitles)

Il Divo

Drama | 2008

Paolo Sorrentino directs this superbly entertaining docudrama about the colorful life and political career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's decades-long throttlehold on Italian politics. Highlighting accusations of mafia ties, Sorrentino pulls no punches as he lays any number of corruption scandals and even political assassinations at the politician's feet, all with a sly sense of humor. Toni Servillo stars as Andreotti.

Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Incendies

Drama | 2010

When their mother's will implores them to deliver letters to the father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew about, twins Jeanne (Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) journey to the Middle East and attempt to reconstruct their family's hidden history. Adapted from a Wajdi Mouawad play, director Denis Villeneuve's Oscar-nominated drama flashes back to intense scenes set during the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s.

Cast: Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Inheritance, The (Arven)

Drama | 2003

After his father's suicide, Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen), at the behest of his domineering mother, leaves his contented life in Stockholm and returns home to assume control of the failing family business and toils to turn around the foundering steel works company. In the process, the dutiful sons learns hard lessons about competition, sacrifice and the conflict between corporate values and personal needs. Per Fly directs this unsettling parable.

Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Werlinder

Director: Per Fly

Genre: Drama

Language: Danish (English subtitles)

John Rabe

Thriller | 2009

Florian Gallenberger directs this gripping drama about John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), a German businessman living in Nanking, China, who in 1937 used his Nazi party affiliation to save some 200,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter at the hands of the Japanese army. As Rabe labors to establish an official safety zone to shelter the innocent, he forms an unlikely friendship with an American doctor (Steve Buscemi). Anne Consigny and Daniel Bruhl co-star.

Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Steve Buscemi

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

La Dolce Vita

Drama | 1960

Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. He sleeps with the beautiful Maddalena (Anouk Aimee), alienating and driving his lover, Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), to attempt suicide. When he meets an elusive actress, Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), he dives deep into the abyss.

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg

Director: Federico Fellini

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Le colonel Chabert

Drama | 1994

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini

Director: Yves Angelo

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Lebanon (Levanon)

Drama | 2009

In this claustrophobic drama by first-time director Samuel Maoz - a veteran of the early '80s Israel/Lebanon conflict in which the film is set - four Israeli soldiers command a tank in a situation that becomes increasingly tense and chaotic. Like Das Boot before it, most of the action is confined to the stark interiors of that tank, as the men wrestle with fear, anger and their own consciences in the face of possible death and worse.

Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran

Director: Samuel Maoz

Genre: Drama

Language: Hebrew (English subtitles)

Like Water For Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate)

Romance | 1992

Passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. So when Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking -- and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares. A feast for the senses, this magical romance from director Alfonso Arau was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe.

Cast: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos

Director: Alfonso Arau

Genre: Romance

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Lives Of Others, The (Das Leben der Anderen)

Thriller | 2007

Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family - and even those doing the watching - find their lives forever changed.

Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

Manon Of The Spring (Manon des sources)

Drama | 1986

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Cast: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil

Director: Claude Berri

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Max Manus

Drama | 2008

Dismayed by Norway's swift capitulation to Nazi Germany during World War II, Max Manus (Aksel Hennie) - who would become one of Norway's greatest war heroes - immediately joined the Resistance. This biographical drama tells his story. From his audacious escapes from German captivity (one from a military hospital) to his bold acts of sabotage (which included blowing up warships), the film chronicles all Manus's derring-do.

Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch

Director: Espen Sandberg

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Monsieur Hire

Thriller | 1989

Reclusive middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc) spies nightly on his seductive neighbor, Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), through her undraped windows. She seems to welcome the attention... until a 22-year-old woman's nude corpse turns up in the vicinity. Suspicion quickly falls on the voyeuristic Hire, and an erotic game of cat and mouse unspools - with a twist - in this spellbinding French thriller from director Patrice Leconte.

Cast: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire

Director: Patrice Leconte

Genre: Thriller

Language: French (English subtitles)

Monsieur Ibrahim

Drama | 2003

1960s Paris serves as the backdrop for Francois Dupeyron's heartwarming drama. Momo (Pierre Boulanger), a teenage orphan, lives in a working-class neighborhood and has very few friends - save for the kindly local prostitutes, who adore him. Momo soon befriends the older and wiser shopkeeper Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), who soon becomes a father figure for Momo and takes him on a journey of self-discovery that will change both of their lives.

Cast: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger

Director: Francois Dupeyron

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Monsieur Klein

Drama | 1976

It's 1942, and the Nazis have begun their reign of terror in Europe. In Paris, Monsieur Robert Klein (Alain Delon), a French-Catholic art dealer, takes no issue with making a profit by buying up the valuables of Jews who are in a hurry to escape to safety. But when a package arrives at his doorstep addressed to a Jewish man who bears his name, Robert is pulled into a mystery that hits much closer to home than he suspects.

Cast: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau

Director: Joseph Losey

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Motorcycle Diaries, The (Diarios de Motocicleta)

Drama | 2004

This foreign-language drama tells the incredible true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina - future revolutionary Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) - who motorcycled across South America with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) beginning in 1951. Walter Salles's film is based on Guevara's diaries of the trek, a deeply personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man's budding political beliefs.

Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna

Director: Walter Salles

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Mozart's Sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart)

Drama | 2010

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Cast: Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, Delphine Chuillot

Director: Rene Feret

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Mr Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de M. Hulot)

Comedy | 1953

Jacques Tati followed his acclaimed directorial debut Jour de Fete with this gently satirical comedy that introduced Tati's alter ego, Monsieur Hulot. When Hulot spends a holiday at a seaside resort, he accidentally (but good-naturedly) wreaks havoc wherever he goes. Falling all over himself to impress a beautiful girl, Hulot inadvertently crashes a funeral, topples a priceless vase and ignites fireworks with his pipe - all to hilarious effect.

Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud

Director: Jacques Tati

Genre: Comedy

Language: French (English subtitles)

My Name Is Khan

Dark Comedy | 2010

Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome, lives happily with his wife, Mandira (Kajol), in San Francisco until a tragedy drives her away after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now he is on a quest to recapture the heart of the woman he loves. Traveling across America, Rizwan faces prejudice because of his religion and unusual behavior, but he also inspires the people he meets with his unique outlook on life.

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol

Director: Karan Johar

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Nine Queens (Nueve reinas)

Drama | 2000

Two small-time grifters (Ricardo Darin and Gaston Pauls) endure a series of tense negotiations when they attempt to sell a sheet of counterfeit stamps for a hefty sum, but the process is made more stressful when one of the con men's estranged sister (Leticia Bredice) becomes involved. Fans of American writer David Mamet will appreciate the twists in this Argentinean caper from writer-director Fabian Bielinsky.

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Gaston Pauls

Director: Fabian Bielinsky

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Patrick, Age 1.5

Dark Comedy | 2008

After moving from the city to a small town, gay couple Sven (Torkel Petersson) and Goran (Gustaf Skarsgard) adopt a child. But when Patrik (Thomas Ljungman) arrives in their lives, it turns out he's not 1.5 years old as they were told by the adoption agency - he's a rebellious, homophobic 15-year-old. While the couple houses the angry boy until the mix-up is resolved, his presence causes them to reassess their lives.

Cast: Gustaf Skarsgard, Torkel Petersson

Director: Ella Lemhagen

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Peepli Live

Dark Comedy | 2010

When indigent farmers Natha (Omkar Das) and Budhia (Raghuvir Yadav) stand to lose their land over a loan they can't repay, a government official comes up with a modest proposal: Commit suicide and collect a subsidy that's paid to the relatives of deceased farmers. As Natha weighs his options, a journalist learns of his predicament and the media circus begins. Anusha Rizvi directs this satirical take on a real-life crisis afflicting India's underclass.

Cast: Omkar Das, Raghuvir Yadav

Director: Anusha Rizvi

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, The

Documentary | 2013

An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe - the media industry.

Cast: Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij

Director: Simon Klose

Genre: Documentary

Language: Swedish (English subtitles)

Pool, The

Dark Comedy | 2007

In this seriocomic study of class differences in India, a young hotel worker becomes obsessed with a swimming pool at an opulent mansion in Panjim, Goa. His life takes a wild turn when he meets the mysterious family that arrives at the house. The film, a World Cinema Dramatic Competition entry at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, is the narrative feature debut of director and co-writer Chris Smith, who helmed the famed documentary American Movie.

Cast: Jehangir Badshah, Venkatesh Chavan

Director: Chris Smith

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Pour Elle

Drama | 2009

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger

Director: Fred Cavaye

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Prophet, A (Un Prophete)

Crime | 2009

After refusing to snitch, 18-year-old Arab Malik (Tahar Rahim) is thrown into a French prison, where the Corsican mafia rules with a firm fist. The obedient newcomer slowly rises through the organization's ranks but soon begins to double-cross his superiors. A follow-up to his 2005 gem The Beat My Heart Skipped, French director Jacques Audiard's A Prophet was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

Director: Jacques Audiard

Genre: Crime

Language: French (English subtitles)

Redbelt

Drama | 2008

In director David Mamet's riveting character study, jujitsu master Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) - who's in a financial bind - considers entering the arena to compete for cash, which goes against his philosophy and his integrity. With his dojo foundering, a pistol mishap puts Mike further in debt, leaving him at the mercy of gangland creeps, including a shady fight promoter (Ricky Jay). Tim Allen and David Paymer also star.

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Martini

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Royal Affair, A (En kongelig affaere)

Drama | 2012

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Genre: Drama

Language: Danish (English subtitles)

Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)

Thriller | 1998

A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

Director: Tom Tykwer

Genre: Thriller

Language: German (English subtitles)

Screaming Man, A (Un Homme Qui Crie)

Drama | 2010

Adam (Youssouf Djaoro) was a security guard at a posh Chad hotel until its new owners replaced him with his son (Dioucounda Koma). In this nation torn apart by civil war, citizens are called upon to help. But Adam only has one thing to give, forcing him to make a devastating choice. Emile Abossolo M'bo and Djeneba Kone co-star in this powerful drama, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast: Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Secret In Their Eyes, The (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)

Drama | 2010

A startling discovery comes to light for retired Argentine criminal investigator Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin) as he pens a biographical novel about the unsolved case of a young newlywed's brutal rape and murder years ago. Past and present intertwine for Esposito and colleague Irene Menendez Hastings (Soledad Villamil) in director Juan Jose Campanella's Oscar-winning character study in which justice, pain and love collide.

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Guillermo Francella

Director: Juan Jose Campanella

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Senna

Documentary | 2010

This fast-paced documentary profiles Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One racing, and a hero in his native Brazil. Using only archival footage, director Asif Kapadia examines the idealistic Senna's inspiring legend. Charismatic, compassionate and a dedicated risk-taker, Senna was known for his integrity in a sport often fraught with cutthroat politics, and also for the deep religious faith that gave him purpose.

Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost

Director: Asif Kapadia

Genre: Documentary

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Separation, A

Drama | 2011

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimers.

Cast: Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Genre: Drama

Language: Farsi (English subtitles)

Sex And Lucia

Drama | 2002

In an attempt to get over losing her boyfriend (Tristan Ulloa), Lucia (Paz Vega) retreats to a quiet Mediterranean island. It's there, in the sun-soaked refuge, that the erstwhile waitress begins to examine the passionate beginning and darker details of their relationship. Fact blends with fiction and time bends in unexpected ways as Lucia's memories unfold in this romantic drama nominated for 11 Goya Awards (Spain's version of the Oscar).

Cast: Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa

Director: Julio Medem

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Shootout At Lokhandwala

Crime | 2006

Based on a true story, this action film follows an incident that stunned a nation in the early 1990s. In Mumbai, India, the notorious gangster Maya (Vivek Oberoi) holds off veteran cop Khan (Sanjay Dutt) and a force of more than 200 policemen in a six-hour bloody gunfight. In the wake of the violent shootout, Khan faces an internal investigation and charges of human rights violations.

Cast: Shabbir Ahluwalia, Abhishek Bachchan

Director: Apoorva Lakhia

Genre: Crime

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Snowman's Land

Dark Comedy | 2010

While protecting a crime boss's home in the Carpathian Mountains, a contract killer and his old friend get into a dangerous situation when the boss's wife is accidentally killed.

Cast: Jurgen Richmann, Thomas Wodianka, Reiner Schone

Director: Tomasz Thomson

Genre: Dark Comedy

Language: German (English subtitles)

Somewhat Gentle Man, A (En Ganske Snill Mann)

Drama | 2010

With revenge on his mind, a gangster (Stellan Skarsgard) who spent 12 years in prison for murder sets out to kill the man (Henrik Mestad) who put him there. But the promise of a normal life - and news that he's on the brink of becoming a grandfather - proves a tempting distraction. Suddenly, seeking vengeance doesn't seem nearly as important. Hans Petter Moland directs this Norwegian drama about sons and second chances.

Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Bjorn Floberg

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Genre: Drama

Language: Norwegian (English subtitles)

Sophie Scholl - The Final Days

Drama | 2005

Arrested for participating in the White Rose resistance movement, anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) is subjected to a highly charged interrogation by the Gestapo, testing her loyalty to her cause, her family and her convictions. Based on true events, director Marc Rothemund's absorbing Oscar-nominated drama explores maintaining human resolve in the face of intense pressure from a system determined to silence whistle-blowers.

Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs

Director: Marc Rothemund

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Soul Kitchen

Comedy | 2009

Young restaurant owner Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) decides to revamp Soul Kitchen, his dumpy diner, but the customer response isn't what he was hoping for. To make matters worse, his girlfriend (Anna Bederke) flies off to Shanghai, and the tax collector comes knocking. But with the help of an inspired new chef (Birol Unel), Zinos still has a chance at redemption. German director Fatih Akin delivers a riotous modern romantic comedy.

Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu

Director: Fatih Akin

Genre: Comedy

Language: German (English subtitles)

Time For Drunken Horses, A (Zamani baraye masti asbha)

Drama | 2000

When the youngest boy of a destitute Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation, resorting to manual labor and smuggling to raise the funds. With both parents dead, the children's devotion to one another is unparalleled, but mere day-to-day survival is tenuous in the unforgiving, freezing mountainous terrain along the Iran-Iraq border.

Cast: Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Genre: Drama

Language: Persian (English subtitles)

Tin Drum, The

Drama | 1979

The Tin Drum stands as a monumental exception to the rule that a great novel rarely inspires a great film. Young Oskar Matzerath, who grows up witnessing the rise of Nazism at the eve of World War II, decides at age 3 to stop growing - effectively shutting out the world and communicating only by banging on his tin drum. Volker Schlondorff's epic unfolds with cinematic artistry, psychological insight, political vision and symbolic richness.

Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, dupa craciun)

Drama | 2010

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

Cast: Dragos Bucur, Maria Popistasu, Mirela Oprisor

Director: Radu Muntean

Genre: Drama

Language: Romanian (English subtitles)

White Material

Drama | 2009

Writer-director Claire Denis returns to Africa - her childhood home and the site of her 1988 film, Chocolate - to spin this tale of a country torn apart by civil war, as African soldiers force French nationals to abandon their land. At the center of the story is Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a white woman who ignores her family's fears and steadfastly refuses to leave her coffee plantation. Isaach De Bankole and Christopher Lambert also star.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert

Director: Claire Denis

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

White Ribbon, The (Das Weiss Band)

Drama | 2009

At a rural school in northern Germany in 1913, a form of ritual punishment has major consequences for students and faculty. But the practice may have bigger repercussions on the German school system - and maybe even on the growth of fascism. Celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke helms this Golden Globe-winning, sumptuously photographed black-and-white drama that stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur and Theo Trebs.

Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar

Director: Michael Haneke

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles)

Drama | 2009

When the bag of amateur pilot Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azema) is stolen and its contents are strewn over a parking lot, fate sets into motion an intriguing sequence of events involving the pilot, a dentist and a mysterious man (Andre Dussollier) who finds her wallet. French new wave pioneer Alain Resnais adapts the Christian Gailly novel into a stirring drama, which screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast: Andre Dussollier, Sabine Azema

Director: Alain Resnais

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Women On the 6th Floor, The (Les femmes du 6eme etage)

Comedy | 2011

Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria (Natalia Verbeke).

Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain and Natalia Verbeke

Director: Philippe Le Guay

Genre: Comedy

Language: French (English subtitles)