Top 100 Foreign Movies of 2024
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The 12th Man
May 4, 2018This breathtaking action adventure tells an incredible true-life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi s...
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Kiss Me Kosher
April 12, 2024A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, Kiss Me Kosher is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli ...
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Sin Nombre
March 20, 2009Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American coun...
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Delicatessen
April 3, 1992From the director of Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) comes a post-apocalyptic comedy that’s both bitingly hilarious and absolutely one-of-a-kind. When meat become...
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Audition
October 2, 1999One of the most notorious J-horror films ever made, Takashi Miike’s Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awar...
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Volver
November 3, 2006Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (Coming Back) is set in Madrid's lively working-class neighborhoods, where three generations of women survive wind, fire and even deat...
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
February 14, 2020France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride...
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Ip Man
January 1, 2010Behind every great man there lies a teacher, and this was certainly true of Bruce Lee, who claimed as his mentor a martial arts expert named Ip Man (1893-1972)....
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The Conformist
October 22, 1970In Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – joins the Fascists in a ...
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Alienoid
August 26, 2022While seeking a legendary, time-bending blade, two Goryeo-era shamans cross paths with modern-era people hunting down a dangerous alien concealed inside a human...
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La haine
May 31, 1995Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in moder...
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Coco Before Chanel
September 25, 2009This is the story of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier w...
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Shin Godzilla (Dubbed)
July 25, 2016When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep, a rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster’s weakness and its my...
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The Teachers' Lounge
December 25, 2023Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) is a dedicated, idealistic young teacher in her first job at a middle school. Her relaxed rapport with her seventh-grade students i...
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Incendies
April 22, 2011In the highly-acclaimed suspense thriller Incendies, a mother's dying wish creates a painful puzzle her children are forced to solve. At the reading of their mo...
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Monster
November 22, 2023From Academy Award-nominee Hirokazu Kore-eda—After learning a teacher is bullying her son, a mother demands answers, eventually resorting to legal action. But...
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Anselm
December 8, 2023In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 3D and 6K-resol...
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One Cut of the Dead
December 10, 2019An eccentric and determined director sets out to shoot a low-budget zombie film at an abandoned warehouse. Suddenly the cast and crew find themselves in the mid...
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The Three Musketeers Part I: D'Artagnan
December 8, 2023D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He ali...
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Dogtooth
July 25, 2010Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propellin...
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The Others
August 2, 2001A remote manor; hushed, candlelit atmosphere; and shivery, supernatural menace. With his first English-language feature, Chilean Spanish writer-director-compose...
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Hell (El Infierno) (Subtitled)
September 3, 2010This dark comedy is about a man who gets involved in the wildly dangerous and bloody narco business after being deported from the United States.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
September 24, 2004Based on a true life story, The Motorcycle Diaries is an inspiring and thrilling adventure that traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary spirit. The film ...
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Police Story
December 14, 1985The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of ...
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The Quake
December 14, 2018After surviving The Wave, Kristian Eikjord (Kristoffer Joner, Mission: Impossible – Fallout) and his family find themselves at the center of another natural d...
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Harakiri
January 1, 1962Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on ...
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Corsage
December 23, 2022Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her le...
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Re:Born
July 21, 2020Toshiro, a former special forces operative, now lives a quiet life in the Japanese countryside. Despite his seemingly peaceful existence, Toshiro struggles to c...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
October 25, 2013The sensation of the Cannes Film Festival and the most controversial film of the year, Blue is the Warmest Color made cinema history as the first film ever awar...
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The Wailing
June 3, 2016In this unbelievably tense supernatural thriller, a foreigner’s mysterious appearance in a quiet, rural village causes suspicion among the locals - suspicion ...
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Parallel Mothers
January 28, 2022Two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by ...
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Pokémon 4Ever
August 21, 2003Forty years ago, the Mythical Pokémon Celebi fled from a vicious hunter, and a young Trainer named Sammy rushed to protect it. Sammy and Celebi vanished in the...
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The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
June 7, 2019After barely surviving a violent attack by an elusive serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su (Don Lee) finds himself forming an unlikely partnership with local ...
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Persepolis
December 25, 2007The coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the funda...
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Labyrinth of Lies
September 30, 2015Germany 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will o...
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The Man from Nowhere
October 1, 2010Tae-Sik is a widower with a mysterious past. When a young girl he befriends is kidnapped by a vicious drug gang, Tae-Sik rushes to save her. Hell-bent on justic...
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Shin Godzilla (Subtitled)
October 11, 2016When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep, a rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster’s weakness and its my...
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Seven Samurai
January 1, 1954One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabita...
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Rurouni Kenshin - Part III: The Legend Ends (Dubbed)
September 13, 2014With the world closing in on him, the legendary ex-assassin Kenshin will have to look inside himself and revisit his roots to find the strength he needs to prot...
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The Kid With The Golden Arm
November 1, 1979When directors in the late '70s began jumping on the kung-fu comedy bandwagon renowned director Chang Cheh stuck to his guns of traditional brotherhood and mora...
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La Cage Aux Folles
May 13, 1979Two of Europe's most virile male stars, Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi, portray two very flamboyant, aging gay gentlemen. Togazzi is the owner of a St. Tropez...
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Run Lola Run
June 18, 1999This multiple award winner from Tom Tykwer (The Princess And The Warrior) stars Franka Potente as Lola, the orange-haired punk girlfriend of Manni (Moritz Bleib...
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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
August 21, 2020Four years after South Korea's total decimation in TRAIN TO BUSAN, the zombie thriller that captivated audiences worldwide, acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho brin...
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A Royal Affair
November 9, 2012A Royal Affair is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen’s heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love triangle between the ...
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All About My Mother
November 24, 1999Pedro Almodovar is at the top of his game with "All About My Mother," a poignant, at times comedic examination of women in intimate relationships. "All About My...
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Hard to Be a God
January 30, 2015A group of research scientists has been sent to the planet Arkanar, living under an oppressed regime in a period equivalent to Earth’s Middle Ages. The local ...
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Benedetta
December 3, 2021Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that t...
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Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla
October 15, 2013On May 5th, 1862, a few thousand Mexican soldiers put their lives on the line against the world's largest and most powerful army in one legendary battle for fre...
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Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
June 17, 2008Even across thousands of miles, the special bond between a mother and son can never be broken. It gives hope to Carlitos, a scrappy nine-year-old boy whose moth...
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Werckmeister Harmonies
October 10, 2001This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznah...
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Rurouni Kenshin– Part II: Kyoto Inferno (Dubbed)
August 1, 2014Former assassin Kenshin Himura and his friends are called back into action when a ghost from the past era rises to wreak havoc.
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The Skin I Live In
October 14, 2011Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a driven plastic surgeon haunted by personal tragedies. After many years of trial and error, he finally prefects a new ...
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Boy
November 5, 2013The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand“Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Boy, a young dreamer obsessed with Michael Jackson, lives ...
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Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
January 1, 2014Fifty years ago, the Japanese Defense Forces killed Godzilla or so they thought. When a series of terrifying natural disasters begin to plague Japan, including ...
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Loving Vincent
September 22, 2017The life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with...
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Eyes Without a Face
January 1, 1960At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of h...
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Lie With Me
February 15, 2024This powerful and emotional romance/drama centers on a middle-aged man who, when visiting his childhood town, is flooded with memories of his first gay love. Ce...
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The Quiet Earth
October 18, 1985In this sci-fi cult classic, Zac Hobson, a mid-level scientist working on a global energy project, wakes up to a nightmare. After his project malfunctions, Zac ...
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The Hunt
July 12, 2013The Hunt is a disturbing depiction of how a lie is taken as truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish and ignite a witch-hunt that soon threat...
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Train to Busan
July 22, 2016TRAIN TO BUSAN is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak, trapp...
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Another Round
December 4, 2020Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, are stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an au...
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Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
September 16, 2016Inventive and bold, this film shines with pristine picture and theater-quality sound on Blu-ray Disc. In an empire ruled by fear, the people's only hope is the ...
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Life Is Beautiful (Subtitled)
October 23, 1998An inspired motion-picture masterpiece,“Life Is Beautiful” (La vita è bella) was nominated in 1998 for 7 Academy Awards® – winning 3 Oscars®, including...
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The Roundup: No Way Out (Dubbed)
June 2, 2023Detective Ma Seok-do investigates a murder case uncovering a Yakuza drug operation in South Korea. Conflict arises with the DEA Captain Joo when Ma's squad cla...
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Memories of Murder (Subtitled)
October 27, 2020Memories of Murder tells the harrowing true story of the hunt for a sadistic serial rapist and murderer terrorizing a small province in 1980s South Korea. Marki...
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My Life As a Dog
January 1, 1985My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) tells the story of Ingemar, a twelve-year-old from a working-class family sent to live with his uncle in a country village...
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Cinema Paradiso
February 23, 1990In this celebrated Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, a famous Italian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown a...
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Fallen Angels
January 30, 1998Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment...
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Raw
March 10, 2017At 16, Justine is a brilliant, promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless an...
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Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
November 11, 1988Creating "one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies" (Pauline Kael), Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's premiere writer-director, creates an off-kilter unive...
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The Dinner Game
April 15, 1998When Pierre decided to play a game to see who could bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party he never imagined he'd be the one playing the fool. But when Pierr...
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The Five Venoms
August 12, 1978The most prolific kung-fu director in Hong Kong martial arts cinema, Chang Cheh, ushered in a new phase of his career and a new generation of action stars with ...
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Monos
September 13, 2019On a faraway mountaintop, eight teenage guerrillas with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Playing games and initiating cult-like rituals, th...
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In the Mood for Love
March 9, 2001Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are...
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Come and See
February 6, 1987This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small vi...
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Water
August 29, 2006The story of Water begins in 1938 India as an 8 year old girl, who barely even remembers her wedding and has little comprehension of her marriage, has just been...
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The Crime Is Mine
December 25, 2023Paris in the 1930s — a playground for industrial heirs and debonair architects, but the City of Lights does not shine evenly for all. Struggling actress Madel...
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Betrayed
October 15, 2021During World War II, millions of Jews are deported and killed in German concentration camps. BETRAYED is based on the true story about the Braude family. An ord...
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The Vanishing
January 1, 1988A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-yea...
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Ju-On
July 23, 2004A house with a terrifying secret is the setting for this Japanese horror film. A young nurse arrives at a house to find that two brutal murders have taken place...
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Pokémon Heroes - The Movie
July 13, 2002Ash gets a special peek into the secret home of Latias and her brother, Latios, but this peaceful place is soon threatened by the thieves from before—Annie an...
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Decision to Leave
October 14, 2022What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Cannes Best Director in 2022, Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY, THE HANDMAIDEN) returns wi...
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Mongol
June 6, 2008Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, Mongol. Based on leading scholarl...
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Force Majeure
October 24, 2014This wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family—handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their t...
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The Secret In Their Eyes
April 16, 2010Ricardo Darín stars as Benjamín, a former criminal court employee who wants to write a novel about an Argentine case from the 1970s where a woman was raped an...
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Farewell My Concubine
October 15, 1993Chen Kaige emerged as a leading figure of China’s Fifth Generation of filmmakers with this landmark epic which introduced international audiences to an exciti...
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Drive My Car
November 24, 2021Now nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature. Two years after his wif...
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Amores Perros
March 30, 2001From the Academy Award®-winning director of THE REVENANT and BIRDMAN comes AMORES PERROS, the acclaimed director's first feature film, nominated for the Best F...
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13 Assassins
September 25, 2010Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a “master...
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The Lives of Others
February 9, 2007This critically-acclaimed, Oscar®-winning film (Best Foreign Language Film, 2006) is the erotic, emotionally-charged experience Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment...
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Lust, Caution
February 19, 2008Provocative, thrilling and sensual, Lust, Caution is the daring new film from acclaimed Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Ti...
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Purple Noon
January 1, 1960Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when Purple Noon (Plein soleil) was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Pa...
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Ennio
February 9, 2024Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the beloved CINEMA PARADISO, turns his camera on his longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020) in a moving and compreh...
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Fallen Leaves
November 17, 2023Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with Fallen Leaves, a timeless, hopeful and satisfying love ...
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City of God (2002)
January 1, 2002Celebrated with worldwide acclaim, this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous prestigious awards around the globe! The streets of the wor...
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Hannah Arendt
January 24, 2013In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant new biopic o...
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Cure
July 8, 2001Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the gen...
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Ip Man 4: The Finale
December 25, 2019Donnie Yen reprises his role as the legendary Wing Chun master in the grand finale of the revolutionary martial arts series. Following the death of his wife, Ip...
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