Feature Film Collection

The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions. Rated PG-13. In Arabic with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-2005.

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically skilled, adolescent nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life. Rated PG-13. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-2000.

One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China. Starring Jet Li. In Chinese with English subtitles.

During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Rated PG-13. In Mandarin with English subtitles.

Love story set in the 1920's in China's remote northwestern desert, this is the story of a young man who falls in love with the bride he has been hired to transport to her arranged marriage. She is kidnapped on the way to the wedding. Her intended husband dies while preparing to rescue her. The young man she loves does rescue the bride, but her mother-in-law says she must honor her agreement by "marrying" a wooden replica of the dead man, and remaining chaste. Not Rated. In Mandarin with English subtitles.

The passionate and forbidden romance between Johann Friedrich Struensee, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen Caroline Mathilda, wife of the mad Danish king Christian VII, leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation. Rated R. In Danish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-2012.

A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahra's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents. Rated PG. In Farsi or French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-1998.

Forced to leave their apartment due to a dangerous construction project in a neighboring building, a young Iranian couple moves to the center of Tehran where they become embroiled in a life-altering situation involving the previous tenant. Rated PG -13. In Farsi with English subtitles.

A drama set in 1986 Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant had a tragic ending. Rated R. In Farsi with English subtitles.

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-2003.

Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles.

A satire on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a group of French colonials learn that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up the river. Rated PG. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-1976.

Unemployed music teacher Clement Mathieu becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. Dismayed by the repressive administration, he works to positively transform the students' lives through music. Rated PG-13. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-2004.

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy. Rated PG. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-1990.

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Nominee-2006.

Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. Not Rated. In French with English subtitles.

A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her. Rated R. In French with English subtitles.

Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. Rated R. In French with English subtitles.

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. An unmarried French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French army officer, which will change both their lives significantly. Rated PG-13. In French with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-1992.

Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Rated PG-13. In French, English and German.

Tells the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, a swindler who made a name for himself as Berlin's "King of the Counterfeiters." However, his life of women and easy money is cut short when he's arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp. With the German army on the verge of bankruptcy, Sorowitsch makes a sobering deal with his captors: in exchange for a comfortable bed, good food and fair treatment, Sorowitsch, along with the other hand-picked specialists, must counterfeit bank notes to fund the Nazi War effort. If he does as they say, he lives another day. If he rebels, he faces the same fate as the rest of the camp's prisoners. But if he lives, will he be able to live with himself? Rated R. In German with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-2007.

The true story of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as a Nazi for 7 years. Rated R. In German, Russian and French, with English subtitles.

A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. In German with English subtitles. Rated R.

Jankowski, a Polish prisoner from Auschwitz, arrives at the Buchenwald concentration camp hiding a little boy inside a suitcase. When the prisoners and members of the camp's covert resistance group discover the boy, his innocence moves many, yet his possible discovery by the camp guards threatens them all. Not Rated. In German with English subtitles.

In this pulse-raising thriller, time is running out. Lola has just received a frantic call from her boyfriend Manni, who's accidentally lost a small fortune he was to deliver to his mobster boss. If they cannot find a way to replace the money within 20 minutes, Manni will suffer severe consequences. Rated R. In German with English subtitles.

The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century is told. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel. Rated R. In Italian with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-1994.

In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left. In Japanese with English subtitles. Not Rated.

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits. The inspiration for the Magnificent Seven. Not Rated. In Japanese with English subtitles.

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. In Mayan with English subtitles. Rated R.

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. Rated R. In Polish with English subtitles.

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206. Rated R. In Mongolian with English subtitles.

Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era. Rated PG-13. In Dari/Pushto with English subtitles.

When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. Rated R. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-1998.

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. Rated R. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American ambassador. Now the diplomat's life hangs in the balance-- helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate-- and his fear of the captors themselves. Rated R. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-1997.

A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen. Rated R. In Tsotsi-Taal with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-2005.

A car crash draws the very different lives of three Mexico City inhabitants into a strange and dangerous triangle in this acclaimed drama from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-2001.

Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love? Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film 1993.

A portrait of the man who overthrew a dictatorship and became a revolutionary before his life was ended. Includes both Che Part One: The Argentine and Part Two: Guerrilla and bonus features. Not Rated. In Spanish with English subtitles.

When news of his son's death returns proud, old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he's pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But he also carries the burden of a newly discovered family secret: one of the girls is not his son's daughter ... and therefore not his true heir. Rated PG. In Spanish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-1998.

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film Nominee-2006.

Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) delivers a powerful and sensitive portrayal of a quadriplegic who fights to win the right to end his life with dignity. Based on a true story. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles. Best Foreign Language Film-2004.

In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Rated PG-13. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Penelope Cruz earned an Academy Award-® nomination for Best Actress for her role in this charming and touching story of two feuding sisters whose mother comes back from the dead to help them settle a lifetime of unfinished business. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Six stories about people crossing the line into madness when face with perceived injustice. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles.

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them. Not Rated. In Swedish with English subtitles.