Best Foreign Language Films

1954 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeauties of the NightA young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.AmazonBread, Love and DreamsWhen a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".AmazonDiary of a Country PriestA young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.AmazonGate of HellA samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.AmazonGenevieveIt's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. ...AmazonMonsieur Hulot's HolidayM...

1955 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerDiaboliqueThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while having the perfect alibi. They carry out the plan...but then his body disappears.AmazonThe Divided HeartA three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. On his tenth birthday, he is told that his mother, a Yugoslav refugee, is alive and wants him back. The ...AmazonThe End of the AffairIn wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in...AmazonThe Great AdventureA vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop unt...

2009 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA ProphetA young Arab man is sent to a French prison.AmazonRevancheEx-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.AmazonThe MaidA drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.AmazonThe Song of SparrowsWhen an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ...AmazonThe White RibbonStrange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?AmazonThree MonkeysA fa...

1999 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAll About My MotherYoung Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.AmazonAll About My MotherYoung Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.AmazonCabaret BalkanRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.AmazonEast/WestJune 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or ...AmazonRun Lola RunAfter a botched money delivery, ...

2000 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Time for Drunken HorsesYoung Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.AmazonButterflyFor Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older ...AmazonCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.AmazonCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.AmazonMalenaAmidst...

2001 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAmélieAmélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.AmazonAmores perrosA horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.AmazonAmores perrosA horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.AmazonBehind the SunWhen ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.AmazonDark Blue WorldThe friendship of two men becomes tested when they...

2002 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner8 WomenOne murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman!AmazonCity of GodIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.AmazonTalk to HerTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.AmazonTalk to HerTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.AmazonThe Crime of Padre AmaroPolitics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.AmazonY tu mamá tambiénIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an ...

2003 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAutumn SpringTerminal prankster Frantisek Hána refuses to grow up and take certain responsibilities, despite his wife Emilie's constant badgering to do so. Even faced with his own looming death and an ...AmazonMan on the TrainA bank robber arrives to do a job in a small French town and strikes up a friendship with a retired poetry teacher.AmazonMonsieur IbrahimIn Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.AmazonThe Barbarian InvasionsDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.AmazonThe Barbarian InvasionsDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.AmazonThe Be...

2004 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBad EducationAn examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.AmazonMaria Full of GraceA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.AmazonThe ChorusThe new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.AmazonThe Motorcycle DiariesThe dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.AmazonThe Sea InsideThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.AmazonThe Sea InsideThe factual story of Spani...

2005 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner2046Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.AmazonBalzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressTwo youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.AmazonDownfallTraudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.AmazonParadise NowTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.AmazonParadise NowTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.AmazonWalk on WaterFollowing the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned t...