1977 National Board of Review – Best Foreign Language Films Winner

A Special Day
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler’s visit to Italy in May 1938.

Cría cuervos
In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?

That Obscure Object of Desire
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

That Obscure Object of Desire
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

The American Friend
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

The Man Who Loved Women
Bertrand Morane’s burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand’s life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an …