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Best foreign films from Lovefilm (74 titles)

Foreigners do films better - here are some examples

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Shockingly good

4 Months, 3 weeks And 2 Days on DVD (2007)
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov
Director: Cristian Mungiu
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Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania.
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- 70
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classic spanish film

Talk To Her on DVD (2002)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Rosario Flores, Elena Anaya
Director: Pedro Almodovar
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Following the success of his 1999 film, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar presents TALK TO HER. Driven by similar themes of fate, destiny, magic, and chance happenings, TALK TO HER is the tale of two men whose lives intertwine unpredictably. Benigno (Javier Camara) is a ..read more »
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- 70
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Has one of the best leading female performances

La Vie en Rose on DVD (2007)
Starring: Clot, Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu
Director: Oliver Dahan, Olivier Dahan
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Biography of French singer Edith Piaf (Cotillard). Neglected by her mother, Edith is brought up by her grandmother and then by her father, a travelling acrobat. The street singer is discovered and rises to fame, determined to work even when dying.
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- 70
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Spell Bounding

Pan's Labyrinth on DVD (2006)
Starring: Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Spanish fantasy story directed by Guillermo del Torro ('Cronos') with stunning sets, shocking scenes and effects - set in the mind's eye of a lonely young girl. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is a young girl in a remote mountain village in Spain in 1944 after Franco's ascension to power. To escape the ..read more »
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- 80
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Great gay Argentina film

A Year Without Love on DVD (2005)
Starring: Mimi Ardu, Carlos Echevarria, Juan Minujin
Director: Anahi Berneri
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A writer infected with AIDS searches for love in the Buenos Aires club scene. As his condition worsens, he begins looking simply for sex.~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
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- 50
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original WWII film

Un Secret on DVD (2007)
Starring: Cecile De France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier
Director: Claude Miller
Certificate:
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The discovery of a deep family secret and and a passionate story, as seen through the eyes of Francois, an only child who invents an imaginary brother and imagines his parents' past. The day he reaches 15, a family friend reveals an upsetting truth to the young Francois, but one that will make him ..read more »
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- 70
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decent coming of age story

Summer Storm on DVD (2004)
Starring: Robert Stadlober, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Tristano Casanova
Director: Marco Kreupainter
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Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the countryside. But, this trip is no summer camp and the first problems soon arise. As Achim's relationship with ..read more »
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- 70
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simple but effective

Private Property on DVD (2006)
Starring: Patrick Descamps, Raphaelle Lubansu, Raphaëlle Lubansu
Director: Joachim Lafosse
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A beautiful old farm in Belgium is home to Pascale and her twin sons Thierry and François . Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Now in their late teens, the boys, to some extent, have begun to ..read more »
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- 60
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a crime thriller with a lot of twists

Nine Queens on DVD (2002)
Starring: Gaston Pauls, Tomas Fonzi, Graciela Tenembaun
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
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Early one morning Juan is pulling a bill-switching scheme in an all-night deli when Marcos, an apparently innocent bystander, pretends to whisk him off to the police. But Marcos is a con artist, just helping out a new recruit, and he enlists Juan in a plot that he claims will set them up for early ..read more »
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- 70
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worthy oscar winner

The Lives of Others on DVD (2006)
Starring: Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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East Berlin, 1984. State Security begins surveillance on playwright and, on the surface at least, good socialist Georg Dreyman (Koch). But as the operation progresses, Stasi Captain Wiesler (Mühe) discovers compassion in his stony soul.
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- 80
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