Film Awards

1963 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films Winner8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Amazon8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.AmazonAny Number Can WinCharles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon)...AmazonThe Four Days of NaplesThe film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in just few hours...AmazonThe LeopardThe Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheav...

1962 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBarabbasBarabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.AmazonDivorce Italian StyleA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.AmazonSundays and CybèleAfter killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a...AmazonSundays and CybèleAfter killing a child when his plane crashes in a Vietnamese village, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amn...

1961 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerLa dolce vitaA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.AmazonSaturday Night and Sunday MorningA rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.AmazonSeryozhaThe mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.AmazonThe BridgeIn 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.AmazonThe BridgeIn 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.AmazonTwo WomenIn the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distanc...

1960 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerHiroshima mon amourA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.AmazonI'm All Right JackA naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.AmazonIl generale Della RovereBardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.AmazonThe Angry SilenceA young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.AmazonThe World of ApuThis final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu ...

1959 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerAparajitoFollowing his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.AmazonLook Back in AngerA disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.AmazonRoom at the TopAn ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.AmazonThe RoofUnder provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house ...AmazonWild StrawberriesAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his...

1958 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Night to RememberOn its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.AmazonMon oncleMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.AmazonPather PanchaliImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.AmazonPather PanchaliImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.AmazonThe Horse's MouthA somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to th...

1957 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerA Man EscapedA captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.AmazonGervaiseGervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer. After working ...AmazonOrdetFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.AmazonOrdetFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.AmazonThe Red BalloonA red balloon with a life of its own follows a little boy around the street...

1956 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerLa stradaA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.AmazonRichard IIIShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.AmazonRififiFour men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...AmazonThe Silent WorldThis pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn't shy away from the brutality present in the natural world, but it also ...AmazonThe Silent WorldThis pioneering nature documentary investigates aquatic habitats in various locations around the world. It doesn't shy away from the brutality present ...

1955 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerDiaboliqueThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while having the perfect alibi. They carry out the plan...but then his body disappears.AmazonThe Divided HeartA three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. On his tenth birthday, he is told that his mother, a Yugoslav refugee, is alive and wants him back. The ...AmazonThe End of the AffairIn wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in...AmazonThe Great AdventureA vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop unt...

1954 National Board of Review - Best Foreign Language Films WinnerBeauties of the NightA young composer has vivid dreams of the past that reflect, yet conflict with his waking life.AmazonBread, Love and DreamsWhen a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".AmazonDiary of a Country PriestA young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.AmazonGate of HellA samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.AmazonGenevieveIt's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. ...AmazonMonsieur Hulot's HolidayM...