Aro Favourite: Foreign Cinema
35 Foreign Cinema Films have attained the hallowed status of Aro Favourite
- Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
- An extraordinary, multi–layered dramatic thriller from France that deservingly won the Palm D'or at Cannes.
For the past year, Sandra, a…
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- Let the River Flow (2023)
- A superbly–crafted and moving indigenous rights drama about a young teacher whose repressed Sami heritage is awakened by a protest group who…
- DVD $29.95
- Holy Spider (2022)
- An astonishing new film from Ali Abbasi, who makes good on the promise of his head–turning Danish troll drama “Border” (2018). This one…
- DVD $29.95
- One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) (2022)
- Lea Seydoux is French movie star royalty but she keeps it real in this sublime film from Mia Hansen–Løve (Bergman Island), one of Europe’s…
- DVD $29.95
- Saint Omer (2022)
- Inspired by real events, this devastating fictional drama from French–Senegalese director Alice Diop delivers a formally brilliant treatise on…
- DVD $29.95
- Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- A cracker of a French drama that teeters on the edge of a thriller throughout because it’s all about the pressure cooker that is modern life.…
- DVD $29.95
- I'm Your Man (2021)
- A fabulously entertaining high concept comedy from Germany about a skeptical scientist who agrees to a three week product test of a humanoid robot…
- DVD $29.95
- Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades, Paris 13e) (2021)
- Jacques Audiard’s film charts the interwoven relationships between four twenty–somethings, beautifully played by Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba,…
- DVD $29.95
- Worst Person in the World, The (2021)
- Gloriously provocative and richly perceptive comedy drama from talented Norwegian director Joachim Trier (THELMA), which follows an unpredictable,…
- DVD $29.95
- Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)
- A devastating, personal account of a nightmarish dilemma for a wife and mother working as a translator between the UN, the Serbian aggressors and…
- DVD $29.95
- Monos (2019)
- A dark contemporary fable inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in a remote and mountainous region of Columbia, where a group of teenage…
- DVD $29.95
- Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes) (2019)
- A superb psychological thriller set in rural France that uncovers a twisted web of deceit concerning five people who are all linked to the…
- DVD $29.95
- Parasite (2019)
- An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Truth, The (2019)
- Dazzling modern family drama from master auteur Kore–eda Hirokazu (SHOPLIFTERS), pairing French screen icons Catherine Deneuve and Juliette…
- DVD $29.95
- Dogman (2018)
- The director of GOMORRAH and TALE OF TALES expertly helms this gripping urban Italian crime noir about a mild mannered and diminutive dog groomer who…
- DVD $29.95
- Woman at War (2018)
- A droll yet heroic tale of a fifty–year–old environmental activist who is secretly waging a one–woman–war on the local…
- DVD $29.95
- Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus) (2016)
- Another gem from husband–and–wife team, Abel & Gordon, featuring a roster of typically clever sight gags that follows the trail of a…
- DVD $29.95
- Odyssey, The (L'odyssée) (2016)
- A shimmering yet unvarnished biopic of pioneering Frenchman Jacques Cousteau, who invented the aqualung and went on to become a world–famous…
- DVD $29.95
- Heavy Water War, The (The Saboteurs) (2015)
- Thrilling Norwegian mini–series tells the story behind Hitler's plan for obtaining the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in…
- DVD $34.95
- Bridge, The - Series 2 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2013)
- Further episodes in this steely Danish–Swedish murder mystery, with series two investigating the mystery surrounding an abandoned coastal…
- DVD $39.95
- Bridge, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Bron/Broen) (2011)
- The Scandi–crime wave continues with this steely Danish–Swedish murder mystery, centred on the discovery of a body straddling the…
- DVD $99.95
- Separation, A (2011)
- Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this masterfully layered domestic drama sees the wheels of justice turn slowly against a…
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- Sleepless Night (2011)
- A stonking, white–knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to…
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- Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)
- An astringent, blackly comic tale of a modern Greek family whose adult children have been imprisoned in their home since birth.
Something of a…
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- I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (2008)
- Gratifying, melancholy French drama featuring a career–best performance by Kristen Scott–Thomas as an enigmatic woman struggling to fit…
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- Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) (2007)
- A genuine inductee to the 'Incredibly Strange' hall of fame, this gonzo monster mash bounds between deadpan mock–u–mentary following the…
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- Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon) (2007)
- Justly celebrated adaptation of the autobiography of the late Jean–Dominique Bauby, who enjoyed the high life as editor of Elle magazine before…
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- Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- DVD $44.95
- Ong-Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) (2003)
- A martial arts juggernaut from Thailand, in which a benign village kickboxer travels to big bad Bangkok in search of a sacred statue stolen from his…
- DVD $19.95
- Intacto (2001)
- A finely devised Spanish thriller, in which particularly obsessed gamblers contest their 'Luck' in various absurd, dangerous and creepy…
- DVD $19.95
- Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
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- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- A fantasy–fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw–dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a…
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- El Mariachi (1992)
- A cause celebre of low–budget film–making, this $7000 Tex–Mex wonder about a guitar–player mistaken for a gangster contains…
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- Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
- DVD $19.95
- Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963)
- An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
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