Foreign-Films-For-You: Blog

Oct 28, 2008, The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) is a really messed-up movie about a deeply repressed piano instructor with some really whacked-out sexual obsessions.

Oct 28, 2008, The Sea Inside

The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) is based on the true story of Ramón Sampedro, a quadriplegic who spent almost thirty years campaigning for the right to legally end his own life.

Oct 23, 2008, Paradise Now

Paradise Now (الجنّة الآن) is a story about two friends who become suicide bombers, then wonder if it's really worth it to be martyrs...

Oct 22, 2008, The Devils Backbone

The Devil's Backbone (El Espinozo del Diablo) is a about an adolescent boy, a ghost that won't leave him alone, and a host of other dark secrets in an orphanage that are scarier than puberty...

Oct 20, 2008, Sexy Beast

Sexy Beast is a gangster movie that tries too hard to be shocking. Who wants to sit around and watch the guy who played Gandhi drop the F-Bomb every couple of seconds?

Oct 16, 2008, The Valet

The Valet (La Doublure) is a romantic comedy about greed, lust, infidelity, and other things that are funny as long as they're happening to someone else...

Oct 16, 2008, Mostly Martha

Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) is about an uptight chef in a high-class German restaurant who encounters more than just trouble in the kitchen...

Oct 10, 2008, Nana

Nana (ナナ) is the film adaptation of the popular Japanese manga (comic book) series...

Oct 8, 2008, Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War

Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War is a harrowing drama about the Korean War, and you'll lose count of the number of Geneva Convention violations...

Oct 6, 2008, Netflix

Netflix is a convenient option for DVD rentals...read on for a simple, easy-to-understand overview of this online service...

Oct 6, 2008, Miss Potter

Miss Potter is a biopic about the adult life of writer/illustrator Beatrix Potter, the mastermind behind Peter Rabbit and other children's stories that you probably liked as a child...

Oct 2, 2008, The Band's Visit

The Band's Visit is about an Egyptian police band that gets lost in a small Israeli desert town..

Oct 1, 2008, A Dirty Carnival

A Dirty Carnival will make you wonder how gangsters ever succeeded without cell phones...

Sep 27, 2008, Insomnia

Insomnia is a psychological thriller that stars Stellan Skarsgard, whose constant glumness and scowling actually work...

Sep 24, 2008, Natural City

Natural City is a Korean science fiction movie that tries too hard to be Blade Runner, but at least avoids being like Waterworld.

Sep 20, 2008, Cache

Cache is a slow, yet emotional and unpredictable film by Michael Haneke. But it's reaaaaallly slow....

Sep 15, 2008, Kontroll

Kontroll is a strange tale that takes place in the Budapest metro system, and involves ticket inspectors, serial killers and people who go crazy after working too long at a crappy job...

Sep 15, 2008, Der Tunnel

Der Tunnel (The Tunnel) is based on the true story of a daring escape attempt from East Berlin that took place in 1961...

Sep 11, 2008, Lower City

Lower City (Cidade Baixa) is a 90-minute lesson on why you should never date a prostitute who moonlights as a stripper...

Sep 11, 2008, A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련) is a sufficiently creepy story that involves an evil step-mother and a ghost! Read on for Joe's review...

Sep 6, 2008, Blame it on Fidel

Blame it on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel!) is the story of a girl who's world gets turned upside down by her activist-minded parents in 1970s France...

Sep 5, 2008, Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse

In Crimson Rivers 2 Jean Reno returns and takes on a bunch of superhuman monks who want to kill a confused guy who looks like Jesus. This is not a comedy, by the way.

Sep 3, 2008, Water

Water is a powerful film detailing the plight of widows in 1930's India...

Sep 1, 2008, Foreign DVD's: General information for you

Some quick foreign DVD information that'll prove helpful...

Aug 31, 2008, Persepolis

Persepolis is a stylized, animated coming-of-age tale about a young Iranian trying to find her place in the world...

Aug 28, 2008, Goal

Goal! is an entertaining football (soccer) movie that follows a basic underdog storyline, and is the first of a trilogy...

Aug 28, 2008, Rabbit Proof Fence

Rabbit Proof Fence is about three displaced aboriginal youngsters in 1930's Australia who evade authorities and embark on a 1500 mile journey home...

Aug 25, 2008, Bread and Tulips

Bread and Tulips is a story about an under-appreciated housewife in Italy...

Aug 24, 2008, Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسما) is a fascinating film about the simple but important act of keeping promises...

Aug 23, 2008, Sex and Lucia

Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo) is a film about a writer, an island...oh who am I kidding? You people just want to know about the sex!

Aug 21, 2008, Central do Brasil (Central Station)

Central do Brasil (Central Station) is a road movie about how having a worthless, drunk for a father can really screw up your life...

Aug 21, 2008, The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The Cave of the Yellow Dog is an intimate docudrama about a girl, a dog, and a disappearing way of life in the Mongolian countryside...

Aug 18, 2008, The Page Turner

The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages) is a story about music, Bach, and revenge...

Aug 18, 2008, Them (Ils)

Them is a horror movie about senseless violence based on actual events that happened outside Bucharest, Romania.

Aug 16, 2008, Layer Cake

Layer Cake is a complicated, action-packed drug thriller starring a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig and a post-Star Trek Colm Meaney...

Aug 16, 2008, The Apartment

The Apartment (L'Appartement) is about twisted love triangles that quickly become more like love icosahedrons...

Aug 16, 2008, Whale Rider

Whale Rider is a family movie about an indigenous New Zealand tribe's clash with modernity...

Aug 11, 2008, Rabbit on the Moon (Conejo en la Luna)

Rabbit on the Moon (Conejo en la luna) is a harrowing tale of corruption, violence, and breast-feeding in Mexico...