Best Foreign Language Films

1937 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBaltic DeputyA film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few ...AmazonBehold the ManAmazonDie ewige MaskeAmazonDie ewige MaskeAmazonElephant BoyThis black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.AmazonJánosikThe story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.AmazonMayerlingRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry.....

1938 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerChristineChristine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.AmazonGrand IllusionDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.AmazonGrand IllusionDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.AmazonLa guerre des gossesSeparated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engaging in war, while the teacher...

1978 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Slave of LoveOlga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the ...AmazonAutumn SonataA married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.AmazonAutumn SonataA married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.AmazonBread and ChocolateItalian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.AmazonDear InspectorRomance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 ...

1940 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerThe Baker's WifeA small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.Amazon

1941 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerPépé le MokoA wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.Amazon

1946 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerRome, Open CityDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.Amazon

1950 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerKind Hearts and CoronetsA distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.AmazonParis mil neuf centDocumentary limning the life of Paris and its citizens during "La Belle Epoque," the years between 1900 and 1914. Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the completion of the ...AmazonThe Third ManPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.AmazonThe Titan: Story of MichelangeloThe life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins wi...

1951 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerKon-TikiA documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.AmazonMiracle in MilanAn open hearted and unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best out of his life on the streets of Milan.AmazonRashomonThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.AmazonRashomonThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.AmazonThe Browning VersionForced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and husband.AmazonThe RiverTh...

1952 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeauty and the DevilThe Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.AmazonForbidden GamesA young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.AmazonIvory HunterA true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them. He...AmazonThe Man in the White SuitAn altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.AmazonT...

1953 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Queen Is CrownedA lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.AmazonA Queen Is CrownedA lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.AmazonMoulin RougeFictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.AmazonThe Conquest of EverestDocumentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.AmazonThe Forbidden ChristBack in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to...AmazonThe Little World of Don CamilloA determined priest and a Commu...