Rififi (1955)
Jules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
Genre: Foreign Movies (Page 2)
AnimatedMy Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 Studio Ghibli pastoral. Two girls discover forest spirits in rural Japan.
DramaChildren of Heaven (1997)
Majidi's 1997 Iranian family drama. A boy and his sister share one pair of shoes between school sessions.
DramaA Separation (2011)
Farhadi's 2011 Iranian domestic-legal drama. A middle-class couple's divorce becomes a moral procedural.
Foreign MoviesCome and See (1985)
Klimov's 1985 Soviet WWII drama. A teenage boy joins partisans in Nazi-occupied Belarus.
Foreign MoviesStalker (1979)
Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet SF film. Two and a half slow hours that justify every minute.
DramaBattleship Potemkin (1925)
Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet propaganda film. The Odessa Steps sequence remains the most-imitated montage in cinema.
DramaLeviathan (2014)
Zvyagintsev's 2014 Russian drama. A man fighting a corrupt mayor over his coastal property.
DramaTaste of Cherry (1997)
Kiarostami's 1997 Iranian drama. A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide.
Foreign MoviesThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Oplev's 2009 Swedish thriller. Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander.
DramaThe Hunt (2012)
Vinterberg's 2012 Danish small-town drama. Mads Mikkelsen as a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of child abuse.
Foreign MoviesLet the Right One In (2008)
Alfredson's 2008 Swedish vampire film. The American remake softened everything that worke.