This film is stunning! A talented but angry young female prisoner and her elderly piano teacher slowly build a friendship while preparing for an important competition. Don't miss this one! (Germany)

Talk about the human struggle to find happiness in life, this film left me dazzled by its true-to-life emotions. (Denmark)

For romance and the difficulties in reaching a happy conclusion, this film delivers! Visually beautiful, psychologically satisfying! (Sweden)

I was fortunate to see this in the theater, and it is beautiful! Gorgeous filming with a love story that satisfies, this film is a must-see for romantics! (USA)

Dynamite story of 1930's Chinese street performer and the child he adopts so he can keep his mask-changing art alive. Amazing story, well done! (China)

Won the Oscar in 1963, this delightfully risque romp based on Henry Fielding's novel and starring a really cute, young Albert Finney and the beautiful Suzanna York was simply great! (Side note: this was the last movie JFK ever saw) (UK)

Wild and wacky Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland in a French Revolution farce that will have you doubled up laughing. A cult classic that never disappoints! (USA)

A truly unique comedy that has entertained for decades! Great anti-war message as well. A cult classic not to be missed! (USA)

So much was going on in this story I wouldn't know where to begin! A lush, powerfully done period piece that left me simply wowed. (UK)

This will be a "wow" especially if you have not read the book! I hadn't read the book, and I thought the film was amazing. (US, Afghanistan)

Another Deepa Mehta film powerfully showing how cultural traditions affect real people's lives, in this case widows, old or young. Her other film in the series, Earth, is also excellent. (India)

Another amazing Czech film that left me blown away by the stunning story telling. Check this one out! (Czech Republic)

Want a vacation from the shopping mall? This film transports you to a different time and place in a wondrous way! Expect something different! (Russia/Finland)

Sheer, wacky fun with a fond look into another culture, the African Bushmen. Both films are great viewing! (in English)

This film moves from romantic comedy to spiritual (yet hilarious) meditation on the meaning of life and how to live it. Amazing and unexpected. (USA)

A truly beautiful film, uplifting in its deeply human stories. It stayed with me for days. (Vietnam)

Totally engrossing film of epic stature, about the lives of people residing in the beautiful, old Yacoubian building. (Egypt)

Excellent story-telling in this beautifully done film that takes place in Budapest during WWII. (in German, Hungarian)

A remarkable story based on true events about a boy in a Russian orphanage who has the opportunity to be adopted by an Italian couple. Hence, his nickname, "the Italian." This film highlights the difficulties in poverty-ridden societies, but also the strength of the human will to love. (Russia)

A perhaps too real depiction of an actual Auschwitz rebellion by the Jews given the work of extermination, from gas chamber "showers" to the crematoria, so they could live an extra three months themselves. Horrifying, but educational, and vouched for its realistic atmosphere by an Auschwitz survivor I know. Not for children or the faint-hearted. (in English)