Movies : Foreign

La Traviata was recorded at what was one of Venice's most exquisite 18th-century opera houses, La Fenice, tragically destroyed by fire in 1996, and now rebuilt. This glorious house is where La Traviata was premiered in 1853. In this memorable performance with the orchestra and chorus of La Fenice an...

A love triangle set in the days just before the communist uprising in Indochina. A plantation owner finds that her adopted daughter has fallen in love with the owner's secret lover....

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engin...

A police officer makes a terrible discovery during the investigation of a series of murders: Each victim has a transplanted organ from the same man......

A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one year...

A small village in Vaestergoetland. Everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She comes riding on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. The farmer Flogfaelt had expecte...

In this light romantic comedy, Tommaso is a charming restaurant owner with a roving eye and a similarly roving hand. He just can't keep away from the ladies, even when he is engaged to a woman he loves very much. When she discovers this, she tries to give him a chance to straighten out, but eventual...

I'm a huge fan of Godfrey Ho films. I love how he would take older...

Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Veronique's life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a singer......

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox and feeds it to his wife and baby daughter. No-one suspects anything until the meat is finished and Helge tries to sell the hide at a local market. He is spotted by the local vicar and, wracked with guilt, confesses. The ...