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Foreign Cinema > War: 174 Films to Buy & Rent

 
Trilogy 1: The Weeping MeadowTrilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou dakryzei) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
The first part of an intended trilogy of films dealing with 20th century Greece, this monumental epic depicts the travails of a Greek refugee family…
Turtles Can FlyTurtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
Very Long Engagement, AVery Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac…
Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
As Far as My Feet Will Carry MeAs Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
Dir. Hardy Martins
Based on the novel by Josef Martin Bauer, this film recounts the harrowing true story of Clemens Forell, the German POW who escaped a Siberian labour…
Bon VoyageBon Voyage (2003)
Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen…
A plushly–mounted, grander–than–life romantic farce from director of "Cyrano De Bergerac". It's June 1940, when a group of…
Triple AgentTriple Agent (2003)
Dir. Eric Rohmer
A measured and discrete exercise in espionage cinema from octagenrian dir. Rohmer (AN AUTUMN TALE), eschewing his usual air of cordial romance for an…
ZelaryZelary (2003)
Dir. Ondrej Trojan
Feat. Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi
A layered tale of war and romance set around the 1943 purge of the Czech resistance by the occupying Nazis, and a young nurse's flight to…
Cuckoo, TheCuckoo, The (Kukushka) (2002)
Dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Feat. Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov
An earthy drama of non–communication set amid the frozen WW2 battleground of Lapland, where a pacifist Finnish soldier, a survivalist Russian…
House of FoolsHouse of Fools (Dom Durakov) (2002)
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Based around the true story of a Chechen mental hospital which was abandoned by staff during the recent civil war, with patients left to fend for…
Yossi and JaggerYossi and Jagger (2002)
Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller
Subversive, sweetly–natured gay drama set amid the close–quarters comraderie of the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) where a commanding…

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