Crime and the law are examined in contemporary Romania, as a young police officer is reluctant to ruin the life of a teenager involved in a petty crime.
Swedish film which features a vampire girl, and a lonely boy but don't be fooled - it's not a horror film, and it's not actually about vampires. It's much deeper than any of that.
PS, don't even think about watching the Hollywood remake :-)
Alternating between her unpleasant home life during the Spanish Civil War and a fantasy world, a young girl's experiences and attempts to escape them reflect Spain's turmoil and choices in the 1930s.
A quiet truck driver gives a ride to a young woman as a favour to his boss on the long journey from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. Very few words are spoken, but a relationship slowly develops between the two.
Lovely story of an Algerian immigrant in Montreal who takes on a role as a substitute teacher following the suicide of a previous teacher, whilst keeping his own troubles hidden.
Pedro Almodóvar directs Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura and a host of his regular muses in a film which shared the Cannes prize for Best Actress with its entire female cast.
Daniel Auteuil and Juliet Binoche's settled middle-class life is thrown into turmoil when they begin to receive video tapes from someone who has been secretly filming their family in their daily lives. Undertones of racism pervade this Michael Haneke-directed film.
Kristen Scott Thomas is a bored, well-to-do housewife who falls passionately in lust with a builder working at her home. Her life will never be the same ...
Trophy wife Catherine Deneuve ends up running her husband's umbrella factory while he recuperates. It's 1977, and women should be looking after the home, not the factory ...
If you like The Killing, I think you'll like this. Icelandic police thriller, in which a worn-out detective begins to find links between two deaths which occurred 30 years apart.
Highly controversial, and in some countries banned as it was regarded as too pornographic for the censors. A story of sexual obsession in Japan in 1936, based on true events. Warning - it is very explicit.
The violence and 'family ethics' of The Godfather, but based on real organised crime families of the Camorra in Naples. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano, who is now under constant police protection following death threats after the book was published.
A magnificent Vincent Cassel plays French gangster Jacques Mesrine in his early years. For a look at what happened after this, see Mesrine: L'ennemi public n°1.
A group of monks in the mountains of North Africa must decide whether to accept protection from the army, or stay to face the threat of an Islamic fundamentalist group. Beautiful, contemplative, with a hint of menace. Cert: 15 UK Release: 2010 More info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588337/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Gentle (or slow, opinions vary) but insightful observation of the life of a widowed father and his student daughter. Also a good example of how not every Parisian is a skinny white woman in heels.