Spotlight: Films from Down Under
Australia Day is January 26th, and a fine occasion to celebrate the cinema of a country that has produced so many great films, directors, and actors. From beloved gems of independent cinema to a franchise which has spanned four decades, here are some of our favorite Aussie movies.
Japanese Story
Two people who hate each other become stranded in one of the most remote regions of the earth.
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- Australia • 2003
- Director Sue Brooks
- Cast Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski, Lynette Curran, Yumiko Tanaka, Kate Atkinson
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Follow Your Heart, Follow The Fence
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- Australia • 2002
- Director Phillip Noyce
- Cast Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Action, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Hoopla
The Year of Living Dangerously
A love caught in the fire of revolution.
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- Australia, United States • 1982
- Director Peter Weir
- Cast Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Plex, Plex Channel
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Three drag queens journey through the Australian outback in a lavender tour bus named Priscilla.
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- Australia • 1994
- Director Stephan Elliott
- Cast Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick, June Marie Bennett
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Mad Max: Fury Road
In an apocalyptic future, two rebels join forces.
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- Australia, United States • 2015
- Director George Miller
- Cast Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones
- Genre Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
My Brilliant Career
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- Australia • 1979
- Director Gillian Armstrong
- Cast Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, TCM, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV
Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.
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- United Kingdom, Australia, United States • 2016
- Director Garth Davis
- Cast Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Abhishek Bharate
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Great Gatsby
Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
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- Australia, United States • 2013
- Director Baz Luhrmann
- Cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
The Year My Voice Broke
It was the year that changed everything. Forever.
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- Australia • 1987
- Director John Duigan
- Cast Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran, Malcolm Robertson
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Muriel's Wedding
A young social outcast steals her parents' money to finance a vacation to Sydney.
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- Australia, France • 1994
- Director P.J. Hogan
- Cast Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond, Belinda Jarrett
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Pluto TV, Hoopla
The Castle
Ordinary Family. Extraordinary Story.
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- Australia • 1997
- Director Rob Sitch
- Cast Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe, Sophie Lee, Wayne Hope
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Hoopla
Australia
Welcome to Australia!
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- United Kingdom, Australia, United States • 2008
- Director Baz Luhrmann
- Cast Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Sweet Country
Justice itself is put on trial.
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- Australia • 2018
- Director Warwick Thornton
- Cast Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Thomas M. Wright, Ewen Leslie, Matt Day
- Genre Drama, History, Western
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VIX , Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Moulin Rouge!
An English poet falls in love with the star courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, but she hides a dark secret
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- Australia, United States • 2001
- Director Baz Luhrmann
- Cast Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Lantana
Sometimes love isn't enough.
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- Australia, Germany • 2001
- Director Ray Lawrence
- Cast Anthony LaPaglia, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong, Manu Bennett, Melissa Martinez, Owen McKenna
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock ... Some were never to return.
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- Australia • 1975
- Director Peter Weir
- Cast Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Spotlight: Sundance Film Festival Winners
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States, is coming right up (January 23rd – February 2nd). In this week's Spotlight we look back at some of the past winners of World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and World Cinema Audience Award.
Sand Storm
(Sufat Chol)
When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's worlds are shattered.
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- Israel, Germany, France • 2016
- Director Elite Zexer
- Cast Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Shaden Kanboura, Khadija Al Akel, Jalal Masrwa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Red Chapel
(Det røde kapel)
Two Korean-Danish comics accompany the director on a trip to satirize North Korea, disguised as a vaudeville tour.
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- Denmark • 2009
- Director Mads Brügger
- Cast Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell, Mads Brügger
- Genre Comedy, Documentary
- Available on Fandango At Home, VUDU Free, Kanopy
The Law in These Parts
(Shilton Ha Chok)
Explores the history of Israel's military legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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- Israel • 2011
- Director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Return to Homs
Filmed over three years in Homs, this film accompanies two young men as the war alters their lives.
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- Syria, Germany • 2013
- Director Talal Derki
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
A River Changes Course
A poignant exposé of the dark underbelly of rapid development in Cambodia.
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- Cambodia • 2013
- Director Kalyanee Mam
- Cast
- Genre Drama, Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Happy, Happy
(Sykt lykkelig)
Kaja escapes her loveless marriage in an affair with the husband of a new couple who moves in next door.
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- Norway • 2010
- Director Anne Sewitsky
- Cast Agnes Kittelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Oskar Hernæs Brandsø, Ram Shibab Ebedy
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex Channel
Slow West
A 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman he loves.
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- United Kingdom, New Zealand • 2015
- Director John Maclean
- Cast Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, Rory McCann, Brooke Williams
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
The Russian Woodpecker
As his country is gripped by revolution, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret.
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- Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States • 2015
- Director Chad Gracia
- Cast Fedor Alexandrovich, Andrei Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich, Natalia Barabovskaya, Andrei Bilyk
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla, Plex Channel
The Nile Hilton Incident
A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
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- Morocco, Sweden, Denmark • 2017
- Director Tarik Saleh
- Cast Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Slimane Dazi, Hania Amar
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Violeta Went to Heaven
(Violeta se fue a los cielos)
This portrait of famed Chilean poet, singer, and folklorist Violeta Parra explores her hopes, dreams, memories, loves, and, of course, her music.
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- Chile, Argentina, Brazil • 2011
- Director Andrés Wood
- Cast Francisca Gavilán, Gabriela Aguilera, Stephania Barbagelata, Thomas Durand, Roberto Farías, Vanesa González
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
(Показательный процесс: История Pussy Riot)
A group of radical-feminist punk rockers protested Putin's reelection in 2011. Now they are victims of a show trial.
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- Russia, United Kingdom • 2013
- Director Maxim Pozdorovkin
- Cast Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Andrey Tolokonnikov, Pussy Riot, Petr Verzilov
- Genre Documentary, Music
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Cineverse
To Kill a Man
(Matar a un hombre)
Jorge, a hardworking family man, tries to keep the peace when he’s attacked by a local gang led by Kalule.
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- Chile, France • 2014
- Director Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Cast Daniel Antivilo, Daniel Candia, Ariel Mateluna, Alejandra Yañez, Jennifer Salas
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Animal Kingdom
J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns his family upside down.
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- Australia • 2010
- Director David Michôd
- Cast James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Last Men in Aleppo
(De sidste mænd i Aleppo)
A documentary about the White Helmets, ordinary citizens who rush towards military strikes in the hope of saving lives.
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- Denmark, Syria • 2017
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Khaled Umar Harah, Batul
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Souvenir
A young film student struggles to find her voice while navigating a relationship with a troubled man.
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- United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Director Joanna Hogg
- Cast Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, Jaygann Ayeh
- Genre Romance, Mystery, Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova, one of the last "bee hunters" in Europe, raises bees based in a sustainable and minimally invasive manner.
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- Macedonia • 2019
- Director Tamara Kotevska
- Cast Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Spotlight: Directors: Federico Fellini
January 20th marks the centenary of the birth of Federico Fellini, who had such a profound impact on not only the cinema of Italy, but also the cinema of the entire world. Here is our tribute to the maestro and his prodigious legacy.
City of Women
(La città delle donne)
A businessman follows a woman to a feminist conference and then tries to escape.
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- Italy, France • 1980
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani, Ettore Manni, Jole Silvani
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
And the Ship Sails On
(E la nave va)
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo.
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- Italy, France • 1983
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Fred Williams, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi, Pina Bausch
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
- Available on Criterion Channel
Roma
A gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of a young character based on Fellini himself.
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- Italy, France • 1972
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Marne Maitland, Renato Giovannoli, Elisa Mainardi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
I Vitelloni
(I vitelloni)
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village.
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- Italy, France • 1953
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Plex Channel
La Dolce Vita
(La dolce vita)
A paprazzo's search for love and happiness through booze and sex.
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- Italy, France • 1960
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Amarcord
In an Italian seaside town, Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various eccentrics as they engage in absurd behavior.
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- Italy, France • 1973
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Fellini's Satyricon
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
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- Italy, France • 1969
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli, Magali Noël
- Genre Drama, Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Juliet of the Spirits
(Giulietta degli spiriti)
The inhibitions... the desires... the obsessions... of a jealous woman held prisoner by her own dreams
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- Italy, France • 1965
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, Valeska Gert, José Luis de Villalonga
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Amazon Video
8½
A film director suffers creative block as he prepares his next movie and navigates the relationships of his life.
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- Italy, France • 1963
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Ginger and Fred
(Ginger e Fred)
After thirty years apart, two impersonators of iconic dance duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair reunite in this homage to 1930’s Hollywood.
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- Italy, France, West Germany • 1986
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi, Friedrich von Ledebur, Augusto Poderosi, Martin Maria Blau
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
La Strada
(La strada)
Gelsoma, a circus performer, endures her husbands coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.
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- Italy • 1954
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Lidia Venturini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Fandango At Home, Kanopy
Nights of Cabiria
(Le notti di Cabiria)
The story of a betrayed but unquenchable little Roman street-walker.
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- Italy, France • 1957
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Amedeo Nazzari, Dorian Gray, Aldo Silvani
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Spotlight: Golden Globe Award Winners
On the occasion of 77th Golden Globes Awards ceremony, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, we look back at the winners of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture in a Foreign Language over the last twelve years.
A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین)
Simin wants to leave Iran to give her daughter, Termeh, a different kind of life outside the country. But Nader, Termeh’s father, refuses to leave his ailing father behind.
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- Iran, France • 2011
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Roma
A meditative portrait of a domestic worker's journey through adversity in turbulent 1970s Mexico City.
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- Mexico, United States • 2018
- Director Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Son of Saul
(Saul fia)
Humanity isn't something you can take away.
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- Hungary • 2015
- Director László Nemes
- Cast Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Sándor Zsótér
- Genre Drama, Thriller, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
In the Fade
(Aus dem Nichts)
A woman seeks justice for the death of her husband and son.
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- Germany, France • 2017
- Director Fatih Akin
- Cast Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar, Johannes Krisch, Ulrich Brandhoff, Hanna Hilsdorf
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex Channel
The White Ribbon
(Das weisse Band)
In rural Germany just before World War I, strange things are happening to a once-ordinary, authoritarian village society.
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- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Burghart Klaußner, Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Susanne Lothar
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Le scaphandre et le papillon)
The true story of a man who suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body except for his left eye.
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- France, United States • 2007
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
Leviathan
(Левиафан)
A universal parable about the individual versus the might of a corrupt state.
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- Russia • 2014
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
In a Better World
(Hævnen)
When we are pushed to the edge, we discover the difference between justice and revenge.
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- Denmark, Sweden • 2010
- Director Susanne Bier
- Cast Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, William Jøhnk Nielsen, Markus Rygaard, Martin Buch
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Waltz with Bashir
(Vals Im Bashir)
When a young soldier has trouble accessing memories of a massacre, conversations with others help piece his memories together.
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- Israel, France, Germany • 2008
- Director Ari Folman
- Cast Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Dror Harazi, Ronny Dayag
- Genre Animation, Documentary, Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Elle
A businesswoman decides not to report her assault by a masked intruder due to her past experience with police.
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- France, Germany, Belgium • 2016
- Director Paul Verhoeven
- Cast Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Judith Magre
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
The Great Beauty
(La grande bellezza)
A colorful, enchanting tale of one man's search for grand beauty and purpose in the majestic city of Rome.
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- Italy, France • 2013
- Director Paolo Sorrentino
- Cast Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Amour
Love never ends.
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- Austria, France, Germany • 2012
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell, Ramón Agirre, Rita Blanco
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Spotlight: Our Favorite Films of 2019
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory are on many critics’ year-end lists of the best films of 2019, but we wanted to draw your attention to titles you may have missed. Here are some of our favorite films released in the US in 2019 and now available for streaming. Happy viewing!
Ash Is Purest White
(江湖儿女)
The violent love story of a young dancer and a mobster spanning from 2001 to 2017.
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- China, France, Japan • 2018
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Zheng, Zhang Yibai, Diao Yi'nan
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Two men investigate the killing of the secretary general of the United Nations, and discover a secret far worse.
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- Denmark, Norway, Sweden • 2019
- Director Mads Brügger
- Cast Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, Göran Björkdahl, Hilding Björkdahl, Charles Southall
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Xumo Play, DistroTV, Plex, Plex Channel
Tel Aviv on Fire
A wry, insightful comedy about a hapless production intern on a Palestinian soap opera.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Luxembourg, Belgium, Israel • 2018
- Director Sameh Zoabi
- Cast Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadim Sawalha
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Firecrackers
When an ex-boyfriend violates a woman, he leaves her no choice but revenge.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2018
- Director Jasmin Mozaffari
- Cast Michaela Kurimsky, Karena Evans, Callum Thompson, David Kingston, Tamara LeClair
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2019
- Director Céline Sciamma
- Cast Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Christel Baras, Armande Boulanger
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
The Cave
(غار)
The patriarchy has no place in a war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Syria, Denmark, Germany • 2019
- Director Feras Fayyad
- Cast Amani Ballour, Salim Namour
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandango At Home, National Geographic
The Wild Pear Tree
(Ahlat Ağacı)
A son returns home to only to be met with his father's debt.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, Macedonia, France • 2018
- Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast Aydın Doğu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yıldırımlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin, Tamer Levent
- Genre Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
3 Faces
(سه رخ)
Actress Behnaz Jafari and director Jafar Panahi take a road trip to rural Iran in hopes of saving a missing girl.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2018
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei, Narges Del Aram
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Souvenir
A young film student struggles to find her voice while navigating a relationship with a troubled man.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Director Joanna Hogg
- Cast Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, Jaygann Ayeh
- Genre Romance, Mystery, Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Third Wife
In 19th-century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Vietnam • 2019
- Director Ash Mayfair
- Cast Nguyễn Phương Trà My, Trần Nữ Yên Khê, Lê Vũ Long, Mai Thu Hường, Như Quỳnh
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Atlantics
(Atlantique)
When one comes back to claim what was left behind, what are the consequences?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Senegal, Belgium • 2019
- Director Mati Diop
- Cast Ibrahima Traore, Mame Bineta Sane, Aminata Kane
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The Chambermaid
(La Camarista)
A chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 2019
- Director Lila Avilés
- Cast Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sánchez, Agustina Quinci
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
An Elephant Sitting Still
(大象席地而坐)
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2018
- Director Hu Bo
- Cast Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang, Wang Yu Wen, Congxi Li, Xiang Rong Dong
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, OVID, AsianCrush, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Honeyland
Hatidze Muratova, one of the last "bee hunters" in Europe, raises bees based in a sustainable and minimally invasive manner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Macedonia • 2019
- Director Tamara Kotevska
- Cast Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
Transit
Georg, after assuming the identity of a dead writer, meets Marie — the wife of the man whose identity he stole.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France • 2018
- Director Christian Petzold
- Cast Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, OVID, Chai Flicks, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Cold War
(Zimna wojna)
Two performers find and lose love in Cold War Poland — only to find it again years later.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland, United Kingdom, France • 2018
- Director Paweł Pawlikowski
- Cast Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar
- Genre Drama, Music, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Freevee
Spotlight: The Migrant Experience
International Migrants Day is this week (December 18th) and it seems like a good time to remember the importance of protecting migrants and their political rights. These excellent films provide some insight into what migrants across the globe go through in the hope of finding a better life.
Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia—the pathological fear of interaction with men.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1965
- Director Roman Polanski
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, Renée Houston
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Plex, Plex Channel
Sunday God Willing
(Inch'Allah dimanche)
One woman's escape from tradition into the modern world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Algeria • 2001
- Director Yamina Benguigui
- Cast Fejria Deliba, Zinedine Soualem, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi, Marie-France Pisier, Anass Behri
- Genre Family, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Since Otar Left
(Depuis qu'Otar est parti...)
For a mother, a sister and a niece, nothing is the same... Since Otar Left
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Georgia • 2003
- Director Julie Bertuccelli
- Cast Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomassouridze, Dinara Drukarova, Temur Kalandadze, Rusudan Bolkvadze, Sasha Sarishvili
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
God's Own Country
A young farmer numbs his frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2017
- Director Francis Lee
- Cast Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones, Patsy Ferran, Naveed Choudhry
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Fire at Sea
(Fuocoammare)
More than 17,000 people were reported to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the last 15 years...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 2016
- Director Gianfranco Rosi
- Cast Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Giuseppe Fragapane
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Biutiful
You don't choose your family. We all belong to somebody, but to belong to Uxbal and Marambra, is both a blessing and a curse.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico, Spain • 2010
- Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Cast Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Class
(Entre les murs)
Based on his real life, a teacher must deal with the challenging dynamics of his multicultural classroom.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2008
- Director Laurent Cantet
- Cast François Bégaudeau, Franck Keïta, Louise Grinberg, Rabah Nait Oufella, Esmeralda Ouertani, Rachel Regulier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Brooklyn
Two countries. Two loves. One heart.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland • 2015
- Director John Crowley
- Cast Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Jessica Paré
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Three Colors: White
(Trois couleurs : Blanc)
After his wife divorces him and frames him for arson, a Polish expatriate plots his revenge.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France, Poland • 1994
- Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Aleksander Bardini, Grzegorz Warchoł
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Maria Full of Grace
(María, llena eres de gracia)
Stuck in a low-paying job with an unexpected pregnancy, seventeen-year-old Maria decides to work as a drug mule to make money.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Colombia, Ecuador, United States • 2004
- Director Joshua Marston
- Cast Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Yenny Paola Vega, John Álex Toro, Virgina Ariza, Rodrigo Sánchez Borhorquez
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States • 2016
- Director Garth Davis
- Cast Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Abhishek Bharate
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Secret of the Grain
(La graine et le mulet)
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker, assisted by his partner's daughter, pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2007
- Director Abdellatif Kechiche
- Cast Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Alice Houri, Bouraouïa Marzouk
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Spotlight: Winter Inspiration
As we approach the first day of winter – and the shortest, darkest day of the year – let’s face it, the only good thing about this season is staying inside to watch movies. Check out Snowpiercer, Force Majeure, Winter Sleep, and other movies that make you glad you're indoors.
Distant
(Uzak)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey • 2002
- Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kirilmis, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Shining
A masterpiece of modern horror.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1980
- Director Stanley Kubrick
- Cast Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone
- Genre Horror, Thriller
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
How I Ended This Summer
(Как я провёл этим летом)
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2010
- Director Aleksei Popogrebsky
- Cast Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Artyom Tsukanov, Igor Chernevich, Ilya Sobolev
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In Order of Disappearance
(Kraftidioten)
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway, Denmark, Sweden • 2014
- Director Hans Petter Moland
- Cast Stellan Skarsgård, Pål Sverre Hagen, Bruno Ganz, Kristofer Hivju, Jakob Oftebro, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
- Genre Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy, Plex Channel
The Sweet Hereafter
A small Canadian mountain community is devastated after an accident leaves a number of its children dead.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 1997
- Director Atom Egoyan
- Cast Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
A Time for Drunken Horses
(Zamani barayé masti asbha)
Courage and hardships of a family of Kurdish orphans forced to support themselves.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2000
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini, Kolsolum Ekhtiar-dini, Karim Ekhtiar-dini
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Kanopy, Eventive
Winter Solstice
The healing power of love is magical.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany • 2003
- Director Martyn Friend
- Cast Sinéad Cusack, Jan Niklas, Geraldine Chaplin, Jason Durr, Sophie Schütt, Ralf Bauer
- Genre
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Hoopla
Stalingrad
(Сталинград)
The epic battle that turned the tide of World War II.
- ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2013
- Director Fyodor Bondarchuk
- Cast Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Heiner Lauterbach, Mariya Smolnikova, Andrey Smolyakov
- Genre War, Action, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Desiderium
(Sooteh Delan)
Is love the solution to all the problems?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1978
- Director Ali Hatami
- Cast Behrouz Vossoughi, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Akbar Meshkini
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Snowpiercer
In 2031, the passengers aboard the Snowpiercer are the only survivors on Earth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea, Czech Republic • 2013
- Director Bong Joon-ho
- Cast Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell
- Genre Action, Science Fiction, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Force Majeure
(Turist)
A family drama in the midst of a natural disaster.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, France, Norway • 2014
- Director Ruben Östlund
- Cast Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex Channel
Winter Sleep
(Kış Uykusu)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, France, Germany • 2014
- Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbağ, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Spotlight: Directors: Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, the legend behind the French New Wave, turns 89 this year on December 3rd! Celebrate his long career and his singular influence with this wide-ranging selection of his work from Breathless (1960) to The Image Book (2018).
For Ever Mozart
()
Four short films examine the war in Sarajevo.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France • 1996
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Madeleine Assas, Ghalia Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux, Vicky Messica, Frédéric Pierrot
- Genre Drama, Comedy, War
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Married Woman
(Une Femme Mariée)
Can one love more than one soul?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1964
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy, Christophe Bourseiller, Roger Leenhardt, Margareth Clémenti
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
Pierrot le Fou
(Pierrot le fou)
How is life going to look like if one is always on the run?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1965
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Jimmy Karoubi, Roger Dutoit
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Image Book
(Le livre d'image)
Social commentary and cinema’s depiction of the Arab World
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France • 2018
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Dimitri Basil
- Genre Drama, Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy, Plex Channel
First Name: Carmen
(Prénom Carmen)
When love and passion comes in the middle of a big plan.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1983
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard, Valérie Dréville
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Kanopy
Meetin' WA
Godard interviews Woody Allen
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1986
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard, Annette Insdorf
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Goodbye to Language
(Adieu au langage)
A 3-D experimental narrative essay film about a man whose wife is having an affair and the dissolution of their relationship.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France • 2014
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jessica Erickson, Héloïse Godet, Zoé Bruneau, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Alexandre Païta
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Alphaville
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
A spy journeys to a tyrannical space city to complete three secret missions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1965
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Christa Lang, Valérie Boisgel
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
(2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle)
A house wife turns to prostitution in difficult times.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1967
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph Gehrard, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Godard Mon Amour
(Le Redoutable)
A pivotal episode in the life of Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through the eyes of his wife, actress and writer Anne Wiazemsky.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Myanmar • 2017
- Director Michel Hazanavicius
- Cast Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot, Grégory Gadebois, Félix Kysyl
- Genre Drama, Romance, Comedy
- Available on MUBI, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Every Man for Himself
(Sauve qui peut (la vie))
The lives of a man and a woman and a prostitute intersect.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland, West Germany • 1980
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
A Woman Is a Woman
(Une femme est une femme)
Sometimes women can't escape what nature makes them desire.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1961
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Zardi
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Film Socialisme
()
A fragmented meditation on the themes of the nation state, justice, and history
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France • 2010
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Robert Maloubier, Alain Badiou
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Contempt
(Le Mépris)
A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1963
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Struggle in Italy
(Lotte in Italia)
A revolutionary Italian woman falls prey for bourgeois ideology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1971
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Anne Wiazemsky
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Breathless
(À bout de souffle)
When you discover the dirty truth about the person you love...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1960
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Spotlight: Wine and Winemaking
As the holiday season arrives, let's get into the festive mood with films that celebrate the miracle that is good wine, from documentaries about the winemaking process to narratives about the role of wine in life and love. Santé!
Natural Resistance
Wine expert Jonathan Nossiter follows four Italian winegrowers who are part of the rapidly growing natural wine revolution.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 2014
- Director Jonathan Nossiter
- Cast Stefano Bellotti, Elena Pantaleoni, Giovanna Tiezzi, Corrado Dottori, Gianluca Farinelli
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Red Obsession
A turn to a new wine market.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia, China, France • 2013
- Director David Roach
- Cast Debra Meiburg, Sara Eisen
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Barolo Boys
Friends begin producing a red wine in northern Italy, and 30 years later, their product has become famous the world over.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, United States • 2014
- Director
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Langhe Doc. Stories of Heretics in the Italy of Warehouses
(Langhe Doc - Storie di eretici nell'Italia dei capannoni)
A documentary about three “heretics” resisting the transformation of Italy into “the Italy of warehouses.”
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2011
- Director Paolo Casalis
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Video
Wine Calling
A small portion of wine producers in France ensure that their wine is made using natural methods.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2018
- Director Bruno Sauvard
- Cast Laurence Manya Krief, Stéphane Morin, Jean-François Nicq, Jean Sébastien Gioan, Michaël Georget
- Genre Documentary
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle
The Grapes of Death
(Les Raisins de la mort)
A young woman must survive a zombie outbreak at her boyfriend's vineyard.
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- France • 1978
- Director Jean Rollin
- Cast Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand, Brigitte Lahaie, Françoise Pascal, Evelyne Thomas
- Genre Horror
- Available on Kanopy
Back to Burgundy
(Ce qui nous lie)
Three siblings reconnect when their father is ill and must decide what the future looks like for their wine growing family.
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- France • 2017
- Director Cédric Klapisch
- Cast Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot, María Valverde
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
You Will Be My Son
(Tu seras mon fils)
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business
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- France • 2011
- Director Gilles Legrand
- Cast Lorànt Deutsch, Niels Arestrup, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Marivin, Nicolas Bridet, Valérie Mairesse
- Genre Drama
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Everybody Knows
(Todos lo saben)
Laura returns to her small Spanish for her sister's wedding, but an explosive crisis threatens to expose the family’s hidden past.
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- Spain, France, Italy • 2018
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Bárbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Mínguez
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
El Camino del Vino
Tragedy strikes when a world-famous sommelier suddenly loses his palate in the middle of the “Masters of Food and Wine” festival.
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- Argentina • 2010
- Director Nicolás Carreras
- Cast Pandora Anwyl, Charlie Arturaola, Susana Balbo
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on fuboTV, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, GlewedTV, Plex, Plex Channel
Sour Grapes
True story, fake wine
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- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Jerry Rothwell
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex Channel
Mondovino
The world of wine is ruled by few.
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- Argentina, France, Italy • 2004
- Director Jonathan Nossiter
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex Channel