Best International Feature Movies Bucket List

Tornatore's tender love letter to cinema and a Sicilian boyhood — keep tissues nearby for the final reel

A novice nun in 1962 Poland learns she is Jewish and goes to find the graves.

Four teachers test the theory that life is better at 0.05% blood alcohol.

A year in the life of a domestic worker in 1970 Mexico City, in black-and-white 65mm.

A Tehran couple staging Death of a Salesman, and an assault in their new flat.

A Roman socialite turns 65 and looks past the parties; Sorrentino's La Dolce Vita.

A widowed theatre director and his young driver, three hours in Hiroshima from a Murakami story.

The German remake: the trenches of 1917 without a frame of glory.

Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.

A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.

Four people on a Baltic island and a woman's descent into schizophrenia.

A Tehran couple divorce, and every decision afterwards is morally impossible.

Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.

Benigni's bittersweet fable of a father shielding his son from the horror of a concentration camp

Bong's razor-sharp class thriller and Best Picture winner (2019).

A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.

A dying Montreal professor is gathered up by his son, his friends and his ex-lovers.

A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.

A trans singer in Santiago is shut out of her partner's death by his family.

Javier Bardem as the quadriplegic who fought for thirty years for the right to die.

A German-Jewish family flees to a Kenyan farm in 1938 and the daughter grows up African.

A bailiff in 1920s Rotterdam sets out to break the illegitimate son he refuses to acknowledge.

A mother loses her son and goes to Barcelona to find his father; Almodovar's women.

A Danish doctor commutes between a refugee camp and a schoolyard where his son is bullied.

Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.

A womanising Prague cellist is stuck with a five-year-old Russian boy in 1989.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

A cellist takes a job preparing the dead for burial in rural Japan.