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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...