Best Foreign Language Films

1977 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Special DayTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.AmazonCría cuervosIn 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?AmazonThat Obscure Object of DesireRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.AmazonThat Obscure Object of DesireRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen y...

1939 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAlexander NevskyThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.AmazonHarvestHe rebirth of a dead village and the love of the last inhabitant for a wandering girl.AmazonLa fin du jourAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of ...AmazonPort of ShadowsA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.AmazonPort of ShadowsA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.AmazonRobert Koch, der Bekämpfer des TodesThe young country doctor Dr. Robert Koc...

1929 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerArsenalSet in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His arrival coincides ...AmazonHomecomingFollowing World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by ...AmazonOctober (Ten Days that Shook the World)A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.AmazonPiccadillyA young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murde...

1930 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerEarthIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.AmazonHigh TreasonWomen unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war.AmazonOld and New100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.AmazonStorm Over AsiaIn 1918 a simple Mongolian herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the...AmazonZwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-TaktToni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are...

1931 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerDas Lied vom LebenAmazonLe millionAn impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.AmazonThe 3 Penny OperaIn London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.AmazonUnder the Roofs of ParisAlbert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.AmazonWestfront 1918A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the...

1932 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerÀ nous la libertéSeeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.AmazonComradeshipPlea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.AmazonDer AndereAmazonGolden MountainsSoviet proletarian film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor ...AmazonMädchen in UniformAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.AmazonReserved for LadiesAmazonRoad to LifeYoung hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and ...

1933 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner44026Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. But he is still thinking to Pola, who just left him. Jean asks her to the bal. Many events (Pola's come back,...AmazonDawnIn 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers...AmazonHell on EarthAmazonIvanAfter the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms ...AmazonMWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.A...

1934 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerMadame BovarySoon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home,...AmazonMan of AranIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.AmazonMan of AranIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.AmazonThe Blue LightWhen ...

1935 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerChapayevThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a ...AmazonChildren of MontmartreWhen her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving ...AmazonCrime and PunishmentAmazonMaria ChapdelaineA young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an ...AmazonPeasantsThe struggle of farmers against the "kulaks" on collective farms. The ruth...

1936 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAtarashiki tsuchiTeruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.AmazonCarnival in FlandersTells the story of the Spanish invasion of FlandersAmazonCarnival in FlandersTells the story of the Spanish invasion of FlandersAmazonLes MisérablesIn early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman.AmazonNine Days a QueenA dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted), to her brief reign as monarch of England, and finally to her beheading. T...