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2017 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Fantastic WomanMarina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.AmazonFoxtrotA troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.AmazonFrantzIn the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.AmazonLovelessA couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.AmazonSummer 1993After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds...

2016 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerElleA successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.AmazonJulietaAfter a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.AmazonLand of MineIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.AmazonNerudaAn inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.AmazonThe HandmaidenA woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heires...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...