Werner Herzog's film depicting the Conquistidors in the Amazonian rain forest with Klaus Kinski in the lead. You believe you are there.

Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini's film and again as Fellini's alter ego as he revisits his childhood among the warm, vital world of women. Clearly Fellini owes his creativity and artistry to the anima side of his personality.

Lars Von Trier's first smash hit is a dream like meditation narrated by Max Von Sydow about an American German descendant Leopold who goes to Frankfurt in 1945 and becomes a sleeping car conductor. It is a fitting occupation because there is a dream like essence to the movie.

Alain Resnais's film written by Marguerite Duras about a French woman in 1959 Hiroshima having a present day one night stand with a Japanese man and recalling her earlier lover, a German. All this while she makes a film about peace.

One drag queen and his lover have to clean up their camp act and appear as a normal husband and wife to their son's fiancee's parents. Won César Award Best Actor for drag queen performance by Michel Serrault. Remade in USA as Bird in Cage with Robin Williams.

Francois Truffaut's film stars Catherine Deneuve who hides her husband in the basement because he is Jewish and they are in Nazi occupied Paris. She takes over running his theater.

Alain Resnais's film written by Alain Robbe-Grillet about the nature of time when a woman can't remember the affair she had with a stranger a year ago in Marienbad.

The marquise gets pregnant and does not know who impregnated her. As the evidence mounts up, Bruno Ganz appears as the Count who is willing to do the right thing. A very droll fairy tale delivered in deadpan, clever style. Eric Rohmer's film.

Franka Potente is run over by a bus and almost dies but her rescue by a young man. She tracks him down and he wants nothing to do with her. Tom Twyker's German film.

Kurosawa's masterwork about perspective on the truth of a matter. 4 different people have varying accounts of a crime, each influenced by the way he sees the world around him. A favorite film for artists.

Lina Wurtmueller's film starring Giancarlo Giannini is a poor young communist working aboard a wealthy Italian woman's yacht. They are both swept away to a desert island where they fight, make love, claim love and then are found. Remade in the USA by Guy Ritchie with Madonna.

Pedro Almodóvar's film stars Antonio Banderas as a young man released from a mental hospital who promptly hunts down a porn star he wants to marry and ties her up in her apartment.