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 Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, The Documentary | 2013 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Royal Affair, A (En kongelig affaere) Drama | 2012 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Headhunters Thriller | 2011 
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Cast: Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Director: Morten Tyldum
Genre: Thriller
Language: Norwegian (English subtitles)
 Separation, A Drama | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Women On the 6th Floor, The (Les femmes du 6eme etage) Comedy | 2011 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 22 Bullets (L'immortel) Crime | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Carlos Thriller | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Dhobi Ghat Drama | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Human Resources Manager, The Dark Comedy | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Incendies Drama | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Mozart's Sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart) Drama | 2010 
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Cast: Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, Delphine Chuillot
Director: Rene Feret
Genre: Drama
Language: French (English subtitles)
 My Name Is Khan Dark Comedy | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Peepli Live Dark Comedy | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Screaming Man, A (Un Homme Qui Crie) Drama | 2010 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
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Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost
Director: Asif Kapadia
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
 Snowman's Land Dark Comedy | 2010 
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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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, dupa craciun) Drama | 2010 
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Cast: Dragos Bucur, Maria Popistasu, Mirela Oprisor
Director: Radu Muntean
Genre: Drama
Language: Romanian (English subtitles)
 Ajami Drama | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Amreeka Drama | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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
 Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, The (Luftslottet Som Sprangdes) Thriller | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
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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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 John Rabe Thriller | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Lebanon (Levanon) Drama | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Pour Elle Drama | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Soul Kitchen Comedy | 2009 
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Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu
Director: Fatih Akin
Genre: Comedy
Language: German (English subtitles)
 White Material Drama | 2009 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Gomorrah Crime | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Il Divo Drama | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Max Manus Drama | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Patrick, Age 1.5 Dark Comedy | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Redbelt Drama | 2008 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Counterfeiters, The (Die Falscher) Drama | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Diving Bell And The Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et le papillon) Drama | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Lives Of Others, The (Das Leben der Anderen) Thriller | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Pool, The Dark Comedy | 2007 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Shootout At Lokhandwala Crime | 2006 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Sophie Scholl - The Final Days Drama | 2005 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Black Friday Drama | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Downfall (Der Untergang) Drama | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Motorcycle Diaries, The (Diarios de Motocicleta) Drama | 2004 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Inheritance, The (Arven) Drama | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Monsieur Ibrahim Drama | 2003 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Crime Of Padre Amaro, The (El Crimen del Padre Amaro) Drama | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Sex And Lucia Drama | 2002 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Amelie Comedy | 2001 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Happenstance (Le Battement D'Aile du Papillon) Romance | 2000 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) Drama | 2000 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Time For Drunken Horses, A (Zamani baraye masti asbha) Drama | 2000 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Dinner Game, The (Le diner de cons) Comedy | 1998 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) Thriller | 1998 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Before The Rain (Antes da Chuva) Drama | 1994 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Le colonel Chabert Drama | 1994 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Germinal Drama | 1993 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Like Water For Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate) Romance | 1992 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Monsieur Hire Thriller | 1989 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Cinema Paradiso Drama | 1988 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Babette's Feast (Babettes gaestebud) Drama | 1987 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Betty Blue (37,2 Le Matin) Drama | 1986 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Manon Of The Spring (Manon des sources) Drama | 1986 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Diva Crime | 1981 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Tin Drum, The Drama | 1979 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Barocco Drama | 1976 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Monsieur Klein Drama | 1976 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Gentlemen Of Fortune Comedy | 1971 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 La Dolce Vita Drama | 1960 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Mr Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de M. Hulot) Comedy | 1953 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
 Bicycle Thief, The Drama | 1948 
Buy this movie CHEAP at Amazon.com! 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)
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