Oscar-winning Iranian film of a marriage in turmoil when a wife wishes to leave Iran with her family, but her husband refuses because his father has Alzheimer's disease.
A new prison officer reports for his first day at work, but inmates hijack the prison and he pretends to be a prisoner to bargain with the group's leader.
A group of friends meets each year at a beach house, but this time the serious illness of one of them brings lies and deception to the surface. Featuring Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin.
24 hours in the life of Anders, a gentle, recovering addict who is allowed out from his rehab centre to attend a job interview, and takes the opportunity to visit friends from his past in attempt to find some direction to his life.
Based on Lucie Aubrac's own book detailing her experiences in occupied France during World War II. The film shows the lengths she and other resistance fighters went to in order to rescue her husband from the Gestapo.
A present day Kristin Scott Thomas stumbles across the wartime history of her Parisian apartment block's original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942.
Different types of conflict, in a war-torn refugee camp and a calm Danish setting and linked by a Danish doctor and his family, result in a search for justice - or is it revenge? Oscar and Golden Globe winner.
There's a mole in the police department, and there's an undercover police officer who has infiltrated a criminal gang. Each group tries to filter out the person who doesn't belong. This film was the inspiration behind the Hollywood film The Departed.
How funny that the English title for this film is in French! Needing no introduction, here's Marion Cotillard winning an Oscar for her performance as Édith Piaf.
More or less autobiographical account of director Giuseppe Tornatore's life as a young boy and man growing up in the Sicilian town of Bagheria, known locally as Baarìa
Gentle and engaging story of disgraced business man Daniel Auteuil and his West Indian cleaning lady, who is the one person who seems to be able to help him with his problems.
A man is elected pope, but first sees a therapist and then absconds before he is presented to the public, as he doubts his ability to take on the role. Serious and funny, directed by Nanni Moretti.
Account of true events in Chile in 1988, when international pressure forced dictator Augusto Pinochet into a referendum on whether his dictatorship should continue. Gael Garcia Bernal plays the advertising executive who agrees to manage the anti-Pinochet No campaign in the face of threats from the government’s lackeys.
During Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, a middle-aged man becomes obsessed with Tony Manero, the character from the film Saturday Night Fever. Worth looking at Post Mortem and No, also directed by Pablo Larraín.
It's the last few days of Salvador Allende's presidency of Chile, and morgue worker Mario goes in search of a cabaret dancer who has mysteriously disappeared. Members of her family, who are Allende supporters, have also been arrested. Worth looking at Tony Manero and Notoo, also directed by Pablo Larraín. and also with a take on Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, which followed Allende's removal as president.
Rural Denmark in 1925, and three sons, one of whom believes he is Jesus Christ, another who has lost his faith completely, face the tragedy of the death of a loved one. Examining religion, dogma and love, this is a classic of Danish cinema.
Drama focussing on five months in the life of an unassuming office worker who is keeping a 10 year old boy locked in his basement. With a quietly chilling ending.
Denis Lavant is an alcoholic would-be circus performer who sleeps under the Pont-Neuf in Paris. Juliette Binoche is an artist who is going blind. Their relationship is kindled among the insecurities and hardships they face.
What starts out as 24 hours of police procedural drama in the beautiful countryside of Anatolia actually evolves into much more, with the main characters (including the police inspector, lawyer and doctor) indulging in a spot of soul searching. Gently paced, and not without humour.
On an isolated Canadian island in 1850, Daniel Auteuil is convicted of murder. While he waits for the guillotine to arrive from France, Juliette Binoche gives him an opportunity to redeem himself.