Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 2006 • Spain
Starring Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Yohana Cobo
Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER is set in Madrid’s lively working-class neighborhoods, where three generations of women survive wind, fire, and even death, thanks to goodness, audacity, and a limitless vital...
Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud • 2007 • France, United States
Starring Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve
Growing up in 1970s Iran, Marjane, the daughter of Tehran intellectuals, is rebellious, outspoken, and enamored with Bruce Lee, Iron Maiden, and punk...
Directed by Zhang Yimou • 2004 • China, Hong Kong
Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Yimou combines breathless wuxia action and rapturous romance into a dazzling visual spectacle. The year is 859 AD, and China’s once-flourishing Tang Dynasty is in decline. Unrest is raging th...
Directed by Mike Mills • 2005 • United States
Starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D’Onofrio
Meet Justin Cobb (Lou Taylor Pucci, winner of the Best Actor prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival), a teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing this is totally disrupting his home, l...
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • 2006 • Germany
Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
Set in East Berlin in the early 1980s, this acclaimed debut feature from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck focuses on GDR’s pervasive and chilling surveillance state. The successful ...
Directed by Phil Morrison • 2005 • United States
Starring Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Ben McKenzie
Amy Adams (in her Academy Award–nominated breakthrough performance) shines in this bittersweet comedy about love, family, ambition, and the choices that come with each. When Madeleine (Embeth Davidt...
Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2006 • Japan
Starring Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Furuya, Koichi Yamadera
The final feature directed by anime legend Satoshi Kon is a dizzying, dazzling tour through the unconscious that takes the genre to new heights of giddy imagination. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who has ...
Directed by Ari Folman • 2008 • Israel
Through innovative, hallucinatory animation, filmmaker Ari Folman delves into the darkest corners of his past in this powerfully cathartic exploration of war, trauma, and memory. One night at a bar, an old friend tells Ari about a recurring nightmare in whi...
Directed by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, and Michel Debats • 2001 • France
Each spring, millions of birds take to the skies to embark on incredible odysseys over land and sea, and each fall they fly back on the same route. Four years in the making, Jacques Perrin’s stunning documentary—made ...
Directed by Lone Scherfig • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper
From acclaimed director Lone Scherfig and writer Nick Hornby comes this captivating coming-of-age tale sparkling with the charm and style of 1960s Britain. When Jenny (Carey Mulligan in her...
Directed by Mike Leigh • 2010 • United Kingdom
Starring Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen
Mike Leigh traces four seasons in the lives of a contented, happily married couple (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) and the troubled, significantly less stable friends and family who surround them. E...
Directed by Ed Harris • 2000 • United States
Starring Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower
An Academy Award–nominated Ed Harris directs and stars in this stunning immersion into the life of legendary American painter Jackson Pollock, whose bold and radical style changed the course of modern a...
Directed by Chris Smith • 1999 • United States
It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the results are bizarre, comical, and quintessentially American. With the help of his mother, his eighty-two-year-old uncle, and a local cast of oddballs, DIY f...
Directed by Asghar Farhadi • 2011 • Iran
Starring Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Asghar Farhadi’s masterful family drama explores social and class divisions within contemporary Iranian society via a gripping, morally complex po...
Directed by Jacques Audiard • 2009 • France, Italy
Starring Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
It’s every man for himself in Jacques Audiard’s riveting crime drama, in which a young Algerian man (Tahar Rahim) must navigate the tensions and conflicting loyalties between Muslim and Corsic...
Directed by Tom Tykwer • 1998 • Germany
Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Two star-crossed lovers have only minutes to change the course of their lives in this electrifying art-house smash hit. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She’s just received a frantic ph...
Directed by Denis Villeneuve • 2010 • Canada, France
Starring Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
A mother’s dying wish creates a painful puzzle her children are forced to solve in this shattering thriller from acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve. At the reading of the will t...
Directed by Gillian Grisman • 2000 • United States
Starring Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Jerry Garcia was the leader of one of the most popular rock bands of all time, the Grateful Dead. Of the busy musician's numerous side projects, none lasted longer or was more creatively fruitful than his duo...
Directed by Fred Schepisi • 2001 • United Kingdom, Germany
Starring Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings
Covering nearly half a century in the lives of a group of South London buddies, LAST ORDERS follows four men—played by the dynamic ensemble of Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoski...
Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet • 1995 • France, Spain, Germany
Starring Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Judith Vittet
One of the most unique and visually imaginative films of the 1990s, this stunning steampunk fantasy from visionary directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (DELICAT...
Directed by Sally Potter • 1992 • United Kingdom
Starring Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
Based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 classic “Orlando: A Biography,” Sally Potter’s sumptuous fantasy stars a sublime Tilda Swinton as the eponymous seventeenth-century nobleman who, commanded by Queen E...
Directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • 2005 • Belgium, France
Starring Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, L’ENFANT stars Jérémie Renier as twenty-year-old Bruno, who lives with his girlfriend Sonia (Déborah Fra...
Directed by David Michôd • 2010 • Australia
Starring James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton
Evil is relative in this chilling tale of betrayal and blood set in the Melbourne underworld, where tensions are building between dangerous criminals and equally dangerous police. After his moth...
Directed by Fabián Bielinsky • 2000 • Argentina
Starring Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Two small-time con artists become partners in a high-stakes scheme in this twisty, stylishly entertaining caper. Petty swindlers Marcos (Ricardo Darín) and Juan (Gastón Pauls) meet while trying ...
