Deep within a forest, at the summit of a volcano, there is an extraordinary world - a world where something else is possible. A world called VAREKAI. From the sky falls a solitary young man, and the story of VAREKAI begins. Parachuted into the shadows ...
Cirque Du Soleil - Varekai (2002)
Dominic Champagne
Foreign,General Foreign,Performance Dance,Music & Performance
Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barman Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for one of her usual prey, she is abhorred to discover his lowly status and flees t...
Priceless (2006)
Pierre Salvadori
Annelise Hesme,Gad Elmaleh,Audrey Tatou,Charlotte Vermeil,Claudine Baschet,Marie-Christine Adam,Jacques Spiesser,Vernon Dobtcheff
General Comedy,French,Foreign,Comedy
Lukas Moodyson's eagerly awaited third feature, following his hugely successful hit Together and his moving debut Show Me Love, is a touching and tender insight into the life of Lilya who lives in a poor suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union.Lilya's...
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Lukas Moodysson
Liliya Shinkaryova,Oksana Akinshina,Artyom Bogucharsky,Tomas Neumann,Elina Benenson,Pavel Ponomaryov,Lyubov Agapova
General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Drama
Life's little turning points often come in the plainest forms. A casual encounter, a little oversight, a strange coincidence, a twist of fate. When a tour bus leaves without bored housewife and dutiful mother, Rosalba, during a family holiday and not ...
Bread and Tulips (Pane e Tulipani) (2000)
Silvio Soldini
Licia Maglietta,Giuseppi Battiston,Bruno Ganz,Marina Massironi
Italian,Romantic Comedy,Foreign,Romance,Comedy
After over 100 years under British rule, India is awakening to the revolutionary prospect of change and self rule. A friendship between a British officer William Gordon and Mangal, an Indian infantryman, forged in the battle field, transcends race and ran...
Mangal Pandey (2005)
Ketan Mehta
Toby Stephens,Rani Mukherjee,Amisha Patel,Tanveer Habib,Amin Hajee,Ben Nealon,Shahbaaz Khan,Rani Lakshmibai,Mukesh Tiwari,Tom Alter,Coral Beed,Aamir Khan,Kenneth Cranham
Drama,Military & War,Military Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Action & Adventure
The year is 50 B.C. and at of Gaul has been conquered by the Romans. All? No! One tiny village continues to resist the Roman occupation with the help of a magic potion which turns its inhabitants into invincible warriors.When their arch-enemy Julius Caesa...
Asterix and Obelix - Take on Caesar (1999)
Claude Zidi
Marianne Sagebrecht,Jean-Pierre Castaldi,Christian Clavier,Roberto Benigni,Daniel Prevost,Gottfried John,Claude Pieplu,Pierre Palmade,Laetitia Casta,Arielle Dombasle,Michael Galabru,Jean-Roger Milo,Gerard Depardieu
General Comedy,Foreign,French,Comedy
This last truly great religious epic is the story of Islam.It is the 7th Century and the city of Merra is alive with intrigue. The powerful leaders including Bu-Sofyan, his wife Hind and the wealthy aristocrat Umaya, are in bitter conflict with one man, M...
The Message (1976)
Moustapha Akkad
Irene Papas,Michael Ansara,Garrick Hagon,Anthony Quinn
Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,General Drama,Military & War,Action & Adventure
Lumumba is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba. Called "the plitico of the bush" by journalists of his day, the brilliant and charismatic Lumumba rose rapidly to the office of...
Lumumba (2000)
Raoul Peck
Thiophile Moussa Sowie,Pascal N'Zonzi,Maka Kotto,Eriq Ebouaney,Dieudonni Kabongo,Alex Descas
Military Drama,Political Drama,Foreign,French,General Drama,Drama
Filmed fittingly in the city of love, this Parisian romance centres on Camille (Audrey Tautou),a melancholic artist who works as a cleaner to pay the rent of her ice-cold attic apartment. Also living in her apartment block is Philibert, an aristocratic hi...
Hunting and Gathering (2007)
Claude Berri
Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Francoise Bertin
Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Foreign, French
Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day. the mother leaves behind a litt...
Nobody Knows (2004)
Hirokazu Koreeda
Drama, General Drama, Foreign, Japanese
The first international film ever made in the Zulu language, Yesterday is a story of courage, compassion and hope, set in contemporary South Africa ten years after the arrival of democracy. With little money and no modern conveniences, Yesterday finds joy...
Yesterday (2004)
Darrell Roodt
Leleti Khumalo,Camilla Walker,Lihle Mvelase,Kenneth Khambula,Harriet Lenabe
General Drama,General Foreign,Foreign,Drama
On the desolate coast of Denmark live Martina and Philippa, the beautiful daughters of a devout clergyman who preaches salvation through self-denial. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their father's dea...
Babette's Feast (1987)
Gabriel Axel
Birgitte Federspiel,Bibi Andersson,Bodil Kjer,Jarl Kulle,Stephane Audran
Foreign,General Foreign,General Drama,General Comedy,Drama,Comedy
The Counterfeiters is the incredible true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1942. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of the counterfeiters. He Jives a bourgeois life of cards, booze and women...
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Stefan Ruzowitsky
Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow
Drama, Military Drama, Foreign, General Foreign
The Spanish Apartment, which became an instant hit around the world, followed the riotous adventures of a group of European students in Barcelona. Now Russian Dolls reunites the friends five years later for a Russian wedding in beautiful St Petersburg.Wi...
The Russian Dolls (Les Poupees Russes) (2005)
Cedric Klapisch
Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly, William Bishop
Romantic Comedy,Foreign,General Foreign,Romance,Comedy
SHALL WE DANCE? is the irresistible romantic comedy that's charmed audiences and impressed critics everywhere! Mr. Sugiyama is an awkward and painfully shy middle-aged workaholic leading a mind-numbingly dull existence - until the day he catches a gli...
Shall We Dance (Shall We Dansu? - The Original) (1996)
Masayuki Suo
Koji Yakusho,Akira Emoto,Hideko Hara,Tamiyo Kusakari,Naoto Takenaka,Eriko Watanabe
Music & Performance,Romantic Comedy,Performance Dance,Foreign,Japanese,Romance,Comedy
A widow should be long suffering until death, self restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A women who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 ...
Water (Hindi Version) (2005)
Deepa Mehta
Vinay Pathak,Waheeda Rehman,Kulbhushan Kharbanda,Lisa Ray,Rishma Malik,John Abraham,Raghubir Yadav,Seema Biswas
Foreign,General Foreign,Romantic Drama,Romance,Drama
In the tradition of Big Night and Chocolat comes this delicious romantic comedy! that won over 10 international film awards and captured the hearts of moviegoers around the world.Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef a...
Mostly Martha (2002)
Romance,Family,Foreign,General Foreign,Romantic Comedy,Comedy,Children & Family
August 1572 - France is torn apart in bitter religious wars. Marguerite, known as Margot, is proud and beautiful; the Catholic sister of King Charles IX, she is forced to marry the Protestant Henri de Navarre in an effort to reconcile her native France. ...
Queen Margot (1994)
Patrice Chereau
Jean-Hugues Anglade,Virna Lisi,Pascal Greggory,Dominique Blanc,Daniel Auteuil,Isabelle Adjani,Vincent Perez
Political Drama,Romance,General Drama,General Romance,Foreign,French,Romantic Drama,Drama
Following in the footsteps of the German hit "Downfall" is the extraordinary film "The Lives of Others". Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of three prestigious European Film Awards including Best Film, it goes to ...
The Lives of Others (2006)
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Ulrich Muhe,Sebastian Koch,Thomas Thieme,Martina Gedeck,Ulrich Tukur
General Drama,General Foreign,Foreign,Drama
The Netherlands, 1944 -the final years of World War II find beautiful Jewish singer Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten) and her family's attempt to escape occupied Holland thwarted by a Nazi ambush. Rachel alone survives the attack and joins the Dutch Re...
Black Book (2006)
Paul Verhoeven
Hailna Reijn,Derek De Vries,Thom Hoffman,Peter Blok,Waldemar Kobus,Carice Van Houten,Sebastian Koch
Drama,Suspense & Thriller,Military Drama,General Thriller,Military & War,General Foreign,Foreign,Action & Adventure
Together is a coming-of-age tale interwoven with the harmony and intensity of a complex musical orchestration. Xiaochun is a 12-year-old boy, a talented violinist who lives with his father in a small, provincial Chinese city. Shy and sensitive, music is h...
Together (He Ni Zai Yi Qi) (2002)
Kaige Chen
Zhiwen Wang,Hye-ri Kim,Kaige Chen,Qiang Chen,Qing Zhang,Peiqi Liu,Hong Chen,Yun Tang,Bing Liu
General Drama,Foreign,Chinese,Drama
Directed by Danny Boyle, this Academy Award winning film tells the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a young orphan from the slums of Mumbai who is one question away from the 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' jackpot.Arrested on suspicion of cheatin...
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Danny Boyle
Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Frieda Pinto
Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, General Drama, General Romance, Foreign, General Foreign
No one is immune to the power of the seasons and their yearly cycle of birth, growth and decay. Not even the two monks who share a hermitage floating on a pond that is surrounded by mountains. As the seasons unfold, every aspect of their lives is infused ...
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring (2003)
Ki-Duk Kim
Young-min Kim,Jae-kyeong Seo,Ki-duk Kim,Young-soo Oh
General Foreign,Foreign,General Drama,Drama
Summer, 1954. The Soviet Union is sending its prisoners of war home. Among them is the father of quiet, football-loving 11 year old, Matthias, who lives with his mother, sister and brother in a West-German mining town. The boy has long found a surrogate f...
The Miracle Of Bern (2003)
Sonke Wortmann
Birthe Wolter,Peter Lohmeyer,Johanna Gastdorf,Louis Klamroth,Mirko Lang
Drama,General Drama,Sports Comedy,General Foreign,Foreign,Comedy
This epic film from China's most renowned director, Zhang Yimou, (Ju Dou and Raise The Red Lantern), with Gong Li, the acclaimed star of Farewell My Concubine, unveils an epic story of one family's survival. Set against four decades of Chinese po...
To Live (1994)
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong,Ben Niu,You Ge
General Drama,Chinese,Foreign,Drama
Friends since childhood, young Palestinians Khaled and Said are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. After a last night with their families without being allowed to say goodbye, they are taken to the border with bombs strapped to their bo...
Paradise Now (2005)
Hany Abu-Assad
Hiam Abbass, Lubna Azabal, Ali Suliman, Kais Nashef, Amer Hlehel, Asaad Dwikat, Mohammad Bustami, Mohammad Kosa, Waleed On-Allah, Imad Saber, Ahmad Fares, Nour Abd El-Hadi
Drama,Suspense & Thriller,Crime,General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Action & Adventure
An intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina. Buenos Aires schoolteacher Alicia (Norma Aleandro, in a masterclass performance that won her best actress at the Cannes Film Festival) lives in middle-class comfort with her entr...
The Official Story (1985)
Luis Puenzo
Chunchuna Villafane,Hector Alterio,Hugo Arana,Norma Aleandro
General Drama,General Foreign,Foreign,Drama
Beginning in Paris the 22-year-old Jean Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliere, is not yet the writer that history recognises as the father and true master of comic satire. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor. Director Laurent Tirard roots the ...
Moliere (2007)
Laurent Tirard
Ludivine Sagnier, Fabrice Luchini, Romain Duris, Laura Morante, Fanny Valette, Edouard Baer
Comedy, General Comedy, Foreign, French
Trouble is cooking for widower and master chef Chu who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A mast...
Eat Drink Man Woman (Yin Shi Nan Nu) (1994)
Ang Lee
Sylvia Chang,Yu-Wen Wang,Sihung Lung,Kuei-Mei Yang,Chien-Lien Wu
Drama,Romance,Chinese,Foreign,General Drama,Romantic Comedy,Comedy
Following the life of an Ethiopian boy passed off as an African Jew to escape his ravaged country, Live and Become is a lush, moving and epic drama which spans two continents and two decades. Directed by Radu Mihaileanu (Train Of Life), the film blends re...
Live And Become (2005)
Radu Mihaileanu
Raymonde Abecassis,Yael Abecassis,Moshe Agazai,Sirak M. Sabahat,Mimi Abonesh Kebede,Roni Hadar,Yitzhak Edgar,Meskie Shibru Sivan,Roschdy Zem,Rami Danon,Moshe Abebe
General Drama,Foreign,French,Drama
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