Taxi
Dir. Jafar Panahi
What does a filmmaker do when you’re banned from making movies? For their safety, they might move abroad or switch…
Delicatessen
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
From the brilliant minds of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Jano comes a utopian vision for the ages. After having worked…
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Dir. Jacques Audiard
The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a remake of 1978 American film Fingers, but reversed– The film brings a…
Mustang
Dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven & Female director
Five orphaned sisters are put under house arrest by their uncle and grandmother after they are seen horsing around with…
Rust and Bone
Dir. Jacques Audiard
This is the type of movie I completely fell in love with but cannot articulate exactly why. Maybe it’s the…
La Haine
Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
At the risk of being cliché, I’m going to state that only the French could have made a movie about…
The Ghost Writer
Dir. Laurent Bouzereau & Roman Polanski
Craving mystery? This is the film for you. A writer (Ewan McGregor) is given the lucrative task of bringing to life the…
Tell No One
Dir. Guillaume Canet
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically…
Three Colors: Blue
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes…
Winged Migration
Dir. Jacques Perrin
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back,…
With a Friend Like Harry…
Dir. Dominik Moll
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take…
The Bear
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
If you enjoy wondering aloud to yourself how filmmakers were able to make a movie at all, 1988’s almost wordless…