Best Foreign Language Films

1995 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerFarinelliFarinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes a very famous ...AmazonIl postinoSimple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.AmazonLamericaTwo Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. ...AmazonLes misérablesA variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean ...

1996 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAzúcar amargaGustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his ...AmazonKolyaFranta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing ...AmazonLa cérémonieA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.AmazonRidiculeTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.AmazonRidiculeTo get royal backi...

1997 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeaumarchais the ScoundrelThe life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.AmazonMa vie en roseLudovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in her community when she dresses in girls clothes and insists she's a girl.AmazonPonetteA four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.AmazonShall We Dance?A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.AmazonShall We Dance?A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he...