Best Foreign Language Films

2006 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerCurse of the Golden FlowerDuring China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.AmazonDays of GloryDuring WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.AmazonPan's LabyrinthIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.AmazonVolverAfter her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.AmazonVolverAfter her ...

2007 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysA woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.AmazonLa Vie En RoseBiopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.AmazonLust, CautionDuring World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.AmazonThe Band's VisitA band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.AmazonThe CounterfeitersTh...

2008 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA SecretA 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.AmazonLet the Right One InOskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.AmazonMongol: The Rise of Genghis KhanThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.AmazonRoman de gareA popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.AmazonThe Edge of HeavenA Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.AmazonWaltz with BashirAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in tha...

1998 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeyond SilenceSince the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice...AmazonCentral StationAn emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.AmazonCentral StationAn emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.AmazonLife Is BeautifulWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture...

2011 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner13 AssassinsA group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.AmazonA SeparationA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.AmazonElite Squad: The Enemy WithinAfter a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.AmazonFootnoteEliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complic...

2012 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAmourGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.AmazonBarbaraA doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.AmazonNoAn ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.AmazonThe IntouchablesAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.AmazonThe Kid with a BikeAbandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town h...

2013 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA HijackingThe crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.AmazonBeyond the HillsThe friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.AmazonGloriaA story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.AmazonThe GrandmasterThe story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.AmazonThe HuntA teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's cus...

2014 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerForce MajeureA family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.AmazonGettAfter a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.AmazonLeviathanIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.AmazonTwo Days, One NightLiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She ha...

2015 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerGoodnight MommyTwin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don't recognize.AmazonMediterraneaTwo men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.AmazonPhoenixA disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.AmazonSon of SaulA Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.AmazonThe Second MotherWhen the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barrier...