Yi Yi

$34.95 | 173 minutes

Critics Award-Best Foreign Film

Focusing on a typical family - parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother - living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of&hellip…

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Yi Yi (2000)

$34.95 | 173 minutes

Best Foreign Film

Focusing on a typical family--parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother--living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family&hellip…

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Fireworks

$23.95 | 103 minutes

Best Foreign Film

A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…

Man Bites Dog

$25.95 | 92 minutes

Best Foreign Film

A mock black comic documentary that spoofs reality TV, and questions the media's role in perpetuating and abetting violence. A homicidal maniac, serial-killer, Ben Patard, is accompanied on his killing sprees by a film crew who document, then later participate in, even as they question, his activities&hellip&hellip…

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Un Coeur En Hiver

$21.95 | 101 minutes

Best Film

Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing Maxime. But Camille finds herself&hellip…

Therese

$11.95 | 90 minutes

Critics Award, Best Film

Catherine Mouchet stars in this film as St. Therese de Lisleux, the Carmelite nun who died young from tuberculosis. Dreaming to become a Carmelite nun since she was a child, Therese was at first denied admission to the strict order. However, after taking her case all the way to the pop, Therese finally&hellip…

Au Revoir, Les Enfants

$25.95 | 101 minutes

Critics Award

Louise Malle's award-winning drama historical drama is a meditative coming of age tale set during the rise of the Nazi Party. Based loosely on Malle's own boyhood at a private boarding school, AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS tells the story of the sad-eyed 12 year old, Julien Quentin (a captivating Gaspard Manesse. Returning&hellip…

Vagabond

$25.95 | 105 minutes

Best Film

A powerful, poignant study of the last few months in the life of a female vagabond, Mona Bergeron, played in an early and coldly powerful performance by Sandrine Bonnaire. After she's discovered frozen to death at the start of the film, the story flashes back to examine Mona's effect on the people she encountered during&hellip…

Dersu Uzala

$23.95 | 140 minutes

Best Foreign Film

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced, naive eccentric&hellip…

Lacombe, Lucien

$25.95 | 138 minutes

Best Film

This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident a year after the movie was made)&hellip…

Fellini's Roma

$11.95 | 119 minutes

Best Foreign Film

ROMA, the Federico Fellini-directed benchmark of the Italian New Wave, explores the city of Rome from several different perspectives, giving it a mystical life of its own that hangs in the balance between its rich history and its modern identity. With no real chronology, ROMA is a tapestry of bizarre scenes and&hellip…

La Guerre Est Finie

$19.95 | 121 minutes

Best Film

For an aging friend of the revolution, it seems time to hang up the combat boots and let the new generation have their turn. When he meets a student involved in terrorist activities, it re-ignites the flame of fight until he meets catastrophe. This film is an exciting example of the French New Wave from the director&hellip…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

$17.95 | 92 minutes

Best Film

In the innovative film THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Jacques Demy pays loving homage to the Hollywood musical as well as the French melodrama. The film is shot in Cherbourg, France, using inventive cinematography and blazing colors and textures. Local life is rendered in pink, orange, green, and blue. Wallpapers and umbrella&hellip…

Le Trou

$25.95 | 131 minutes

Best Film

The story of five prisoners who meticulously plan their escape, only to learn that one of them is scheduled to be pardoned a few days before the jail-break. One of the "prison" genre's most unforgettable films&hellip&hellip…

Breathless

$34.95 | 90 minutes

Best Film

Former "Cahiers du Cinma" critic Jean-Luc Godard threw everything he had learned from years of movie watching into his debut feature--creating an enormously influential film and a seminal study of existential longing and betrayal. Within the first few minutes, Michel (Belmondo), a foul-mouthed Parisian who idolizes Humphrey&hellip…

The 400 Blows

$17.95 | 99 minutes

Best Film

Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him for his love and his promises to work harder in school. Meanwhile, his schoolteacher&hellip…

The Wages of Fear

$34.95 | 147 minutes

Critics Award, Best Film

Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer&hellip…

La Bataille du Rail

$23.95 | 85 minutes

Best Film

From the mind of French director René Clément (GERVAISE) comes LE BATAILLE DU RAIL, a tale of heroic struggle by members of the French Resistance. Created during the last years of World War II, this part-documentary style feature required bravery and risk-taking just in order to be made. A moving portrait of the&hellip…

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