Foreign Cinema

Films from corners of the world where the audio language track or original language track is other than English. English subtitles are customary, and denoted where applicable.

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Devil's Sword (1983): Dir. Ratno Timoer
Feat. Barry Prima; A villager must race a band of marauding psychopaths to find and acquire the legendary Devil's Sword. Unfortunately, the sword is no match for the cave-dwelling (sometimes-invisible) Crocodile Queen. Her lusty gaze hypnotises and ensnares men who are then compelled to roll around with her in a plushed-out…
Goodbye Julia (2023): An outstanding drama from Sudan about two women - a retired Muslim singer and a Southern Sudanese widow - who forge an unusual friendship across the class divide after a devastating event. Set during the last years of a united Sudan, the film illustrates the social dynamics tied to wealth, patriarchy,…
The Teachers' Lounge (2022): Dir. Ilker Catak
Feat. Leonie Benesch; A bracing drama about an idealistic maths teacher caught in the pressure-cooker environment of a contemporary German high school. Leonie Benesch plays a smart and compassionate woman fully in control of her faculties, if not her faculty or her students, when a scandal involving a petty theft becomes a…
Monster (2023): Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa; Director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns home with his first Japanese film since the Palm d'Or-winning "Shoplifters" (2018) with this intricate, affecting childhood drama that unravels its mystery from multiple perspectives. Typically gratifying and immersive in the details specific to the culture and…
Radical (2023): Dir. Christopher Zalla
Feat. Eugenio Derbez; A quality, engaging drama based on the true story of a teacher in a neglected Mexican border town that tries a radical new method to unlock his students’ curiosity, potential, and maybe even their genius. While the film doesn't reinvent the wheel, but there is great satisfaction in seeing someone…
Perfect Days (2023): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Koji Yakusho; The irrepressibly handsome Kôji Yakusho stars as a solitary man who cleans public lavatories for a living but seems to have a rich inner life nourished by observation, literature and the Western rock canon on cassette. It's a philosophical postcard to/from Japan that likely says more about 78-year-old…
Mars Express (2023): Dir. Jérémie Périn; A high-concept animated sci-fi from France that depicts an ultra-sleek 23rd Century future with far-out ideas that seems scarily not-so-distant. Planet Mars provides a colonized alternative to Earth where humans and androids co-exist, and where the deceased are replaced by 'back-ups'. It's an AI…