This Taiwanese film tells the story of an extended family living in modern-day Taipei. Its central character is a middle-aged businessman with an absent wife, a teenage daughter, a pint-size son with a camera, and a comatose mother suffering from a severe stroke.

Already told before in "The Official Story," this Argentine film revisits the fate of families with "adopted" children born to "disappeared" political dissidents in the 1970s. This time it is a child's version of that story.

This Israeli film, based on the novel by the same name, tells of a contingent of soldiers based at a mountaintop fort in the final months before withdrawal of the IDF from southern Lebanon in 2000.

This inventive, funny and scary Hungarian film takes place entirely underground in a subway system. Kontroll is the force of ticket inspectors who roam the platforms and the trains, on the look out for a killer, but mostly just trying to keep sane themselves.

French director Claude Chabrol departs from his usual portrayal of suspense and bourgeois melodrama in this fascinating study of one public investigator's attempt to expose corruption in high places. Isabelle Huppert is superb.

This film, set in Buenos Aires, is a loving story of father, son, and grandson. Recently wed young lawyer and university teacher lives a buttoned down life that works as regular as clockwork until his kindergarten-aged son and aging father help him break out of the mold. Sweetly told "coming of age" story, for a man who sleeps with his suit on.

This English-language film with an international cast and directed by Hungarian director Istvan Szabo is based on a play by South African-born playwright Ronald Harwood. Set in post-war Germany, the story tells of an American officer who interrogates a Nazi-era orchestra conductor played wonderfully by Stellan Skarsgard.

This German-language film by German-Turkish director Fatih Akin is a romantic comedy and road movie about a young man who travels from Hamburg to Istanbul to meet a girl he's fallen in love with, while another girl who is smitten with him tags along. Sexy, funny, and fairly full of surprises.

Set in war-time Japan, this story of a doctor literally on the run in his efforts to unravel the mystery of an epidemic of hepatitis among his patients, could be taking place anywhere in this war-torn world today. A challenging and thought-provoking mixture of film genres.

Academy-award winning film from Germany recounting the true story of concentration camp inmates selected by the Nazis to counterfeit British pounds and American dollars to fund the war effort. Gripping portrayal of a little known episode of the Holocaust.

Comic in its vision of young men and women caught in the absurdities of orthodox Islam's rigid segregation of sexes, this film from Iran uses a World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain to argue for equal rights for women.

An enjoyable ensemble cast in this Argentine film finds grief, comedy, hope, and love in the aftermath of an economic downturn. While a jobless bank employee courts a train station restroom attendant, a young man looks gamely for love in even less likely places.

Two dysfunctional middle-class families weather a sultry summer in this Argentine film, where nothing ever really happens but the gradual disintegration of purpose and boys roam in the woods with shotguns. Accidents waiting to happen.

Martial arts style action adventure about a work-obsessed Paris cop who discovers that he's the father of a 19-year-old girl in Tokyo and gets mixed up with the Japanese mafia.

This Norwegian film, set in 1959, concerns the coming of age of a girl whose father is a Lutheran pastor in a small town. Bergman lite maybe, but touching and sometimes humorous in its portrayal of breaking free from a rigid religion's mind-forged manacles.

Heartfelt film from Uruguay about a handful of older men, with the help of a boy, who kidnap a locomotive and take it on a long cross-country ride with the police in hot pursuit. A road movie on rails.

This 1994 film from Hong Kong is inspired by early Jean Luc Godard, in its playful use of camera and editing to tell two tales of falling in love that demonstrate the folly of romantic attraction.

This Danish film about a coalition soldier in Afghanistan deftly portrays the impact of combat on noncombatants far from the battlefield, while it represents very plausibly the unexpressed anguish of returning soldiers who have witnessed or been a part of horrific, soul-shattering experiences.

Set in the present and the 1950s, this beautifully photographed film from China tells a simple story about a young woman's devotion to the man who has come from the city to commit his life to being the school teacher in a remote village.

This feel-good movie from Sweden is set in a left-of-center urban commune in the 1970s. A configuration of idealistic characters is joined by a woman who has just left her abusive husband.