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
C.R.A.Z.Y. tells the story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on 25th December 1960, different from all his br...
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy) (2005)
Jean-Marc Vallee
Michel Cote,Danielle Proulx,Felix Antoine Despatie,Maxime Trembley,Alex Gravel,Marc-Andre Grondin,Pierre-Luc Brilliant
Foreign,General Comedy,General Drama,Drama,General Foreign,Comedy
France's favourite literary character, the long-nosed romantic poet and dauntless officer, is brought to life through the award winning performance of Gerard Depardieu. Cyrano de Bergerac knows no fear. He is a Gascon army officer and a swordsman who...
Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Josuane Stolers,Pierre Maguelon,Vincent Perez,Jaques Weber,Anne Brochet,Roland Berton,Philippe Volter,Gerard Depardieu
Romance,Foreign,Romantic Drama,French,Drama
Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati's eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his sister and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati directs and stars in the second entry of the Hulot series, a deli...
Mon Oncle (1958)
Jacques Tati
Betty Schneider,Jacques Tati,Lucien Fregis,J.F. Martial,Jean-Pierre Zola,Adrienne Servantie
General Comedy,Foreign,French,Comedy
This smash hit futuristic comedy is a fresh and sublimely entertaining tale from French filmmakers Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) anr Marc Caro. In a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies. But...
Delicatessen (1991)
Marc Caro
Anne-Marie Pisani,Pascal Benezech,Jean-Claude Dreyfus,Karin Viard
Comedy, Romance, Sci-fi, Black Comedy, General Sci-Fi, General Comedy, General Romance, Foreign, French
Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends m...
Volver (2006)
Pedro Almodovar
Lola Duenas,Carmen Maura,Yohana Cobo,Maria Lampreave,Blanca Portillo,Penelope Cruz
General Drama,Spanish,Foreign,General Comedy,Drama,Comedy
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
In 1971 China, in the lingering of the cultural revolution, two university student Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their re-education duty to purge them of their classical western orientated education. Amid he backbreaking wo...
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2003)
Dai Sijie
Zhou Xun,Liu Ye,Chen Kun
General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,General Comedy,Romantic Drama,Romantic Comedy,Romance,Drama,Comedy
City-dweller Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac, Green Card) moves his family to the Provence countryside in the 1920's to forge a new life as a farmer. But his proud, cocky neighbouring rival Le Papet (Yves Montand - Wages Of Fear, ...
Jean De Florette (1986)
Claude Berri
Daniel Auteuil,Yves Montand,Gerard Depardieu
General Drama,French,Foreign,Drama
The story of Krishna, a 10 year-old boy who comes to Bombay dreaming of making 500 rupees to take home to his mother in the village. Once in the city, he is immediately surrounded by its madness and cacophony, policemen, madmen, middlemen, the trading of ...
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Mira Nair
Shafiq Syed,Raghubir Yadav,Chanda Sharma,Raju Barnad,Nana Patekar,Aneeta Kanwar,Hansa Vithal
General Foreign,Foreign,General Drama,Drama
Welcome to the happiest wedding of the year... This splashy, noisy audience pleaser from Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!) is a chaotic comedy of manners. As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe, for a last-m...
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Mira Nair
Lillete Dubey,Tilotama Shome,Vijay Raaz,Vasundhara Das,Naseeruddin Shah,Shefali Shetty
Romance,Drama,General Comedy,General Romance,General Foreign,Foreign,General Drama,Comedy
Winner of 9 awards internationally, including Best Movie Made for Television at the German Television Awards.The Berlin Wall inspired some of the most daring escape attempts. This is the true story of one of them.It is 1961, the same year that Communist E...
The Tunnel (2001)
Roland Suso Richter
Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sebastian Koch
Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense & Thriller, Action Thriller, General Drama, Foreign, General Foreign
The year is 1989 and East and West Germany are still divided. Alex (Daniel Bruhl) and his sister Ariane (Maria Simon) live in East Germany with their single mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass) who is a staunch Socialist. When Alex's mother witnesses his ...
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
Wolfgang Becker
Daniel Bruhl,Alexander Beyer,Katrin Sass,Burghart Klaussner,Chulpan Khamatova,Florian Lukas,Maria Simon
Drama,Political Drama,General Comedy,General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Comedy
A group of actors staging an interpretive passion play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form, but against the growing opposition of the Catholic church. In his search for inform...
Jesus Of Montreal (1989)
Denys Arcand
Robert Lepage,Johanne-marie Tremblay,Catherine Wilkening,Lothaire Bluteau
General Drama,French,Foreign,Drama
A monumental film tracing the pre-history of man as he struggles to master the elements, acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Annaud goes to painstaking lengths to depict pre-civilized life with astonishing authenticity, the film deservedly winning the Oscar ...
Quest for Fire (1981)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Ron Perlman, Everett McGill
Action & Adventure, Drama, General Adventure, General Drama, Foreign, French
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
Eyal is a professional hit man for the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service. After successfully eliminating a Hamas leader, he is charged with tracking down an aged ex-Nazi officer, Alfred Himmelmann, rumoured to still be alive. Posing as a tourist guide, E...
Walk On Water (2004)
Eytan Fox
Knut Berger,Lior Ashkenazi,Hanns Zischler,Eyal Rozales,Carola Regnier,Ernest Lenart,Yousef Sweid,Gideon Shemer,Caroline Peters
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
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
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
Can single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city?Just a month and a day after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is erecte...
Building The Gherkin (2005)
Mijiam Von Arx
John R Coomber,Sara Fox,Ken Livingstone,Norman Foster,Peter Wynne Rees
General Foreign,General Documentary,Foreign,Documentary
Winner of the Academy Award and Golden Glove as Best Foreign Language Film, this irresistible comedy treat was embraced by critics and audiences everywhere! A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires... ...
Kolya (1996)
Jan Sverak
Zdenek Sverak,Stella Zazvorkova,Libuse Safrankova,Andrei Chalimon,Ladislay Smoljak,Ondrej Vetchy
Drama,General Comedy,General Drama,Foreign,General Foreign,Comedy
A gutsy little girl and a sentimental strongman (Ron Perlman) join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from a madman's master plan. Phenomenal French duo Jeunet and Caro deliver a fantastically-twisted fairy tale chock-full of curious ch...
The City Of Lost Children (Citi des enfants perdus) (1995)
Marc Caro,Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Claude Dreyfus,Dominique Pinon,Judith Vittet,Daniel Emilfork,Ron Perlman
Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi, Fantasy, General Adventure, General Sci-Fi, General Comedy, Foreign, French
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
Set in the final, dying days of French colonial rule in Indochina, this epic, Academy-Award winning period drama stars Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion, The Last Metro) as a rubber baroness caught in a love triangle between her daughter and a dashing naval of...
Indochine (1992)
Regis Wargnier
Jean Yanne,Linh Dan Pham,Vincent Perez,Catherine Deneuve
Military & War,Military Drama,Romantic Drama,Foreign,French,Drama,Romance,Action & Adventure
One night at a bar, an old director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Leba...
Waltz With Bashir (2008)
Ari Folman
Animated, Documentary, Animated Feature, Military and Political, Foreign, General Foreign
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
Inspired by a true story, this critically acclaimed and award winning drama was the first entirely Afghani film made after the rise and fall of the Taliban. After the brutal Taliban regime bans women from working and forbids them to leave their homes with...
Osama (2003)
Siddig Barmak
Mohamed Haref Harati,Arif Herati,Mohamed Nader Khadjeh,Marina Golbahari,Zubaida Sahar
Foreign,General Drama,General Foreign,Drama
Stephen Chow, director and star of hit Shaolin Soccer, is at it again with the action-packed, chop-socky extravaganza Kung Fu Hustle.In a town ruled by the Axe Gang, petty thief Sing (Stephen Chow) desperately wants to become a member. But when he stumbl...
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Stephen Chow
Zhi Hua Dong,Feng Xiao Gang,Wah Yuen,Stephen Chow
Drama,Suspense & Thriller,Action Comedy,Crime,Martial Arts,Foreign,Chinese,Comedy,Action & Adventure
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