Film Awards

2004 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBad EducationAn examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.AmazonMaria Full of GraceA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.AmazonThe ChorusThe new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music.AmazonThe Motorcycle DiariesThe dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.AmazonThe Sea InsideThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.AmazonThe Sea InsideThe factual story of Spani...

2003 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAutumn SpringTerminal prankster Frantisek Hána refuses to grow up and take certain responsibilities, despite his wife Emilie's constant badgering to do so. Even faced with his own looming death and an ...AmazonMan on the TrainA bank robber arrives to do a job in a small French town and strikes up a friendship with a retired poetry teacher.AmazonMonsieur IbrahimIn Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.AmazonThe Barbarian InvasionsDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.AmazonThe Barbarian InvasionsDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.AmazonThe Be...

2002 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner8 WomenOne murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman!AmazonCity of GodIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.AmazonTalk to HerTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.AmazonTalk to HerTwo men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.AmazonThe Crime of Padre AmaroPolitics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.AmazonY tu mamá tambiénIn Mexico, two teenage boys and an ...

2001 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAmélieAmélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.AmazonAmores perrosA horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.AmazonAmores perrosA horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.AmazonBehind the SunWhen ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.AmazonDark Blue WorldThe friendship of two men becomes tested when they...

2000 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Time for Drunken HorsesYoung Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.AmazonButterflyFor Moncho, it's an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older ...AmazonCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.AmazonCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.AmazonMalenaAmidst...

1999 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAll About My MotherYoung Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.AmazonAll About My MotherYoung Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.AmazonCabaret BalkanRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.AmazonEast/WestJune 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or ...AmazonRun Lola RunAfter a botched money delivery, ...

1998 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeyond SilenceSince the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice...AmazonCentral StationAn emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.AmazonCentral StationAn emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.AmazonLife Is BeautifulWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture...

1997 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeaumarchais the ScoundrelThe life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.AmazonMa vie en roseLudovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in her community when she dresses in girls clothes and insists she's a girl.AmazonPonetteA four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.AmazonShall We Dance?A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.AmazonShall We Dance?A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he...

1996 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAzúcar amargaGustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his ...AmazonKolyaFranta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing ...AmazonLa cérémonieA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.AmazonRidiculeTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.AmazonRidiculeTo get royal backi...

1995 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerFarinelliFarinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes a very famous ...AmazonIl postinoSimple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.AmazonLamericaTwo Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. ...AmazonLes misérablesA variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean ...