Stunning production design, breath-stealing landscapes, and loads of horse-heaving battle sequences outfit Bodrov’s thrilling widescreen epic, which turns Genghis Khan’s early life into a screen legend worthy of David ...

Leconte's noir thriller takes on a quintessential Hitchcockian theme--voyeurism--but to entirely different ends. The director is mainly interested in helping us unravel the mystery of Hire, an inscrutable character ...

Part slapstick, part witty social critique, “Verdoux” might have been a bitter pill for postwar American audiences to swallow, especially with its courtroom speechifying on the hypocrisies of capitalist society, but in ...

This exhilarating Punjabi comedy of manners by the talented Mira Nair ("Salaam Bombay!") fuses Bollywood-style antics (and one extravagant dance sequence!) with crisp social observation. As chaos consumes the ...

This zany cult classic by the famed Monty Python troupe will leave you gasping for breath and occasionally howling at the hilarious bad taste of certain slapstick sequences. Cleese, Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, ...

The greatest comedy troupe of all time (in our view) offers a hilariously skewed take on fanaticism and proto-Christian hypocrisy in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent religious satire. All the bits are fiercely ...

Ousmane Sembene, one of cinema’s great treasures, brings his characteristically wry sensibility to this moral tale about men and women, tradition and progress. The story revolves around the practice of clitoridectomy, ...

Skolimowski’s bone-dry political satire features an inspired and atypical performance from Irons, still at an early point in his career. All eyes are on his character as he pushes his team to finish, while going to ...

Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and winning statuettes for co-stars Cher and Dukakis, this movie overflows with off-kilter charm and humor. Cher hits all the right notes as the bewildered Loretta, but Dukakis comes ...

Redgrave made her film debut in this wildly inventive black comedy by Czech director Reisz. Her magnetic performance as Leonie-continually torn between her more conventional side and the unhinged part of her nature - ...

Baker’s claustrophobic undersea drama, made decades before "Das Boot", toggles back and forth between the rescue efforts topside and the struggle for life in the depths, where a crew fights anxiety and deprivation in a ...

This Oscar-nominated drama from acclaimed director von Sternberg introduced Dietrich to American audiences (he had launched her career in Germany the previous year, in “The Blue Angel”). Not surprisingly, she was an ...

A slyly humorous Russian take on the "woman's film", Menshov's melodramatic "Tears" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. Told in two parts, the film establishes the personality and moral character of ...

Sokurov’s meditative and highly personal film is an elegant and elegiac valentine to one of world cinema’s most celebrated and uncompromising luminaries. We not only get a vivid sense of Tarkovsky’s life, process, and ...

This refreshingly down-to-earth romantic comedy from director Von Rompaey has the courage to affirm the messy, dysfunctional aspects of romantic love. Sarafian is the marvel here, playing a jilted, still vulnerable ...

This heartwarming story rings consistently true thanks to uniformly fine acting and a delicious atmosphere permeating the film. Authentic and would-be gourmets will delight in the comforting universe of aromatic ...

Pudovkin’s still vivid, powerful film leverages the innovative editing techniques of the time to convey an affecting human story. Images of a Russia in conflict come fast and furious, conveying the workers’ pent-up ...

In the wake of his ambitious creature-feature, The Host, master stylist Bong Joon-ho might seem as though he’s taken a step back with the smaller-scalled Mother, but think again. His latest is no less ambitious; it’s ...

Sokurov’s dreamlike, elegiac chamber drama has just the barest of narratives— a son ministers to his terminally ill mother in the countryside—but remains irresistibly hypnotic nevertheless. Bathed in the honeyed tones ...

Based on fact, this tale of war’s cruel impact on an innocent is nothing less than heartrending. Young Majaniemi, in his first screen role, telegraphs the wrenching pain of a boy torn from his home not once, but twice; ...